The 2020 Star Nursery 150 was the first stock car race of the 2020 ARCA Menards Series West season and the third iteration of the event. The race was held on Thursday, February 20, 2020, in North Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, a low-banked permanent racetrack. The race took the scheduled 150 laps to complete. At race's end, Sam Mayer of GMS Racing would dominate the race to win his first and to date, final career ARCA Menards Series West win and his first and only win of the season. To fill out the podium, Jesse Love of Bill McAnally Racing and Blaine Perkins of Sunrise Ford Racing would finish second and third, respectively.
Background Las Vegas Motor Speedway, located in Clark County, Nevada outside the Las Vegas city limits and about 15 miles northeast of the Las Vegas Strip, is a 1,200-acre (490 ha) complex of multiple tracks for motorsports racing. The complex is owned by Speedway Motorsports, Inc., which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Entry list
(R) denotes rookie driver.
#DriverTeamMakeSponsor0Bobby Hillis Jr.Hillis RacingToyotaTucson Speedway, Hinkley's Lighting Factory6Trevor HuddlestonSunrise Ford RacingFordSunrise Ford7Austin ReedJP RacingFordApproved Memory08Travis Milburn*Kart Idaho RacingChevroletKart Idaho, Mitchell Industrial Park9Blaine PerkinsSunrise Ford RacingFordSunrise Ford11Chris LowdenKart Idaho RacingChevroletJust Ledook It12Lawless AlanBill McAnally RacingToyotaAUTOParkIt13Todd SouzaCentral Coast RacingToyotaCentral Coast Cabinets16Gio Scelzi (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyotaNAPA Auto Parts17Zach TelfordZach Telford RacingChevroletBuilders FirstSource19Jesse Love (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyotaNAPA Power Premium Plus21Sam MayerGMS RacingChevroletSpencer Clark Foundation38?*Kart Idaho RacingToyota50Holley HollanBill McAnally RacingToyotaJBL54Joey IestNaake-Klauer MotorsportsToyotaRichmond Meat Company, The Ag Center77Takuma KogaPerformance P-1 MotorsportsToyotaKoshi no Kanbai Brewery78Jack WoodVelocity RacingToyotaVelocity Racing88Bridget BurgessBMI RacingChevroletGear Off Road99Gracie Trotter (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyotaEneosOfficial entry list *Withdrew.
Practice
First practice The first practice session was held on Thursday, February 20, and would last for 45 minutes. Sam Mayer of GMS Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a time of 15.016 and an average speed of . Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed121Sam MayerGMS RacingChevrolet15.01689.904216Gio ScelziBill McAnally RacingToyota15.03089.820319Jesse LoveBill McAnally RacingToyota15.06289.630Full first practice results
Second practice The second and final practice session, sometimes referred to as Happy Hour, was held on Thursday, February 20, and would last for 45 minutes. Sam Mayer of GMS Racing would set the fastest time in the session, with a time of 14.731 and an average speed of . Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed121Sam MayerGMS RacingChevrolet14.73191.643219Jesse LoveBill McAnally RacingToyota14.98890.072316Gio ScelziBill McAnally RacingToyota15.03789.779Full Happy Hour practice results
Qualifying Qualifying was held on Thursday, February 20, at 5:00 PM PST. Each driver would have two laps to set a fastest time; the fastest of the two would count as their official qualifying lap.
Sam Mayer of GMS Racing would win the pole, setting a time of 14.611 and an average speed of .
Full qualifying results Pos.#DriverTeamMakeTimeSpeed121Sam MayerGMS RacingChevrolet14.61192.396219Jesse LoveBill McAnally RacingToyota14.74091.588354Joey IestNaake-Klauer MotorsportsToyota15.03489.796499Gracie TrotterBill McAnally RacingToyota15.05289.68959Blaine PerkinsSunrise Ford RacingFord15.10289.39266Trevor HuddlestonSunrise Ford RacingFord15.12389.268778Jack WoodVelocity RacingToyota15.14089.168813Todd SouzaCentral Coast RacingToyota15.14389.150916Gio ScelziBill McAnally RacingToyota15.14589.1381012Lawless AlanBill McAnally RacingToyota15.17688.956117Austin ReedJP RacingFord15.29088.2931217Zach TelfordZach Telford RacingChevrolet15.43787.4521377Takuma KogaPerformance P-1 MotorsportsToyota15.51387.0241450Holley HollanBill McAnally RacingToyota15.59786.5551511Chris LowdenKart Idaho RacingChevrolet15.76385.6441688Bridget BurgessBMI RacingChevrolet17.14278.754170Bobby Hillis Jr.Hillis RacingToyota17.58576.770WithdrewWD08Travis MilburnKart Idaho RacingChevrolet——WD38?Kart Idaho RacingToyota——Official qualifying results
Race results FinSt#DriverTeamMakeLapsLedStatusPts1121Sam MayerGMS RacingChevrolet150138running492219Jesse Love (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyota15012running43359Blaine PerkinsSunrise Ford RacingFord1500running414499Gracie Trotter (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyota1500running40566Trevor HuddlestonSunrise Ford RacingFord1500running3961012Lawless AlanBill McAnally RacingToyota1500running387778Jack WoodVelocity RacingToyota1500running378813Todd SouzaCentral Coast RacingToyota1500running369117Austin ReedJP RacingFord1490running3510916Gio Scelzi (R)Bill McAnally RacingToyota1480running34111377Takuma KogaPerformance P-1 MotorsportsToyota1470running33121450Holley HollanBill McAnally RacingToyota1470running3213170Bobby Hillis Jr.Hillis RacingToyota1370running3114354Joey IestNaake-Klauer MotorsportsToyota1050running30151511Chris LowdenKart Idaho RacingChevrolet980brakes29161217Zach TelfordZach Telford RacingChevrolet790brakes28171688Bridget BurgessBMI RacingChevrolet400rear gear27WithdrewWD08Travis MilburnKart Idaho RacingChevroletWD38?Kart Idaho RacingToyotaOfficial race results
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