The 2024 General Tire 150 was the fourth stock car race of the

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season, the second race of the 2024 ARCA Menards Series East season, and the inaugural running of the

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. The race was held on Friday, April 26, 2024, at

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, a 1-mile (1.6 km) permanent asphalt oval shaped speedway. The race took the scheduled 150 laps to complete. In an action-packed race, Connor Zilisch, driving for

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, would survive the chaos that occurred with the leaders, and dominated the final stages of the race, leading the final 42 laps to earn his first career

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win, his first career

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win, and his first career win in total. Pole-sitter

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and Gio Ruggiero dominated the majority of the race, with Sawalich leading a race-high 67 laps and Ruggiero leading 41 laps. Sawalich was involved in an incident with under 50 laps to go, and was unable to continue the race, finishing 17th. Ruggiero rebounded from a late-race penalty to finish in 2nd. To fill out the podium,

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, driving for

, would finish in 3rd, respectively.

Report

Background

is an oval

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, Delaware, United States that has held at least two

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races since it opened in 1969. In addition to NASCAR, the track also hosted USAC and the

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. The track features one layout, a concrete

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, with 24° banking in the turns and 9° banking on the straights. The speedway is owned and operated by

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. The track, nicknamed "The Monster Mile", was built in 1969 by Melvin Joseph of Melvin L. Joseph Construction Company, Inc., with an asphalt surface, but was replaced with concrete in 1995. Six years later in 2001, the track's capacity moved to 135,000 seats, making the track have the largest capacity of sports venue in the mid-Atlantic. In 2002, the name changed to Dover International Speedway from Dover Downs International Speedway after

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Gaming and Entertainment split, making Dover Motorsports. From 2007 to 2009, the speedway worked on an improvement project called "The Monster Makeover", which expanded facilities at the track and beautified the track. After the 2014 season, the track's capacity was reduced to 95,500 seats.

Entry list

* (R) denotes rookie driver.

Practice

The first and only practice session was held on Friday, April 26, at 12:40 PM EST, and would last for 45 minutes.

, driving for

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, would set the fastest time in the session, with a lap of 22.411, and a speed of .

Qualifying

Qualifying was held on Friday, April 26, at 1:40 PM EST. The qualifying system used is a multi-car, multi-lap based system. All drivers will be on track for a 20-minute timed session, and whoever sets the fastest time in that session will win the pole.

, driving for

, would score the pole for the race, with a lap of 22.248, and a speed of . Two drivers withdrew from the race: Brad Smith and

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Qualifying results

Race results

Standings after the race

;Drivers' Championship standings (ARCA Main) ;Drivers' Championship standings (ARCA East) *Note: Only the first 10 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

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