Pinnacle Racing Group

Pinnacle Racing Group is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East. The team currently fields the No. 28 Chevrolet SS for Luke Fenhaus and Connor Zilisch in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East as well as the No. 24 Chevrolet Camaro for Connor Mosack, and the No. 28 Chevrolet Camaro for Landon S. Huffman and Ross Chastain in Late Model Stock Cars.

Pinnacle Racing Group
Owner(s)Mark Webb
Jerry Webb
Principal(s)Shane Huffman (Management)
Lorin Ranier (Driver dev.)
Josh Wise (Driver dev.)
BaseMooresville, North Carolina
SeriesARCA Menards Series
ARCA Menards Series East
Race driversARCA Menards Series:
28. Luke Fenhaus, Connor Zilisch, Carson Kvapil (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series East:
28. Luke Fenhaus (R)
Late Model Stock Cars:
24. Connor Mosack
28. Landon S. Huffman, Ross Chastain
SponsorsARCA Menards Series:
28. Chevrolet
ARCA Menards Series East:
28. Chevrolet
Late Model Stock Cars:
24. Chevrolet
28. Ambetter Health
ManufacturerChevrolet
Opened2023
Career
DebutARCA Menards Series:
2023 Sprecher 150 (Milwaukee)
ARCA Menards Series East:
2023 Sprecher 150 (Milwaukee)
Races competedTotal: 14
ARCA Menards Series: 6
ARCA Menards Series East: 8
Drivers' ChampionshipsTotal: 0
ARCA Menards Series: 0
ARCA Menards Series East: 0
Race victoriesTotal: 3
ARCA Menards Series: 1
ARCA Menards Series East: 2
Pole positionsTotal: 0
ARCA Menards Series: 0
ARCA Menards Series East: 0

History

Pinnacle Racing Group was founded on February 4, 2023 by Mark Webb and Jerry Webb in partnership with Shane Huffman and heads of Chevrolet's driver development program, Lorin Ranier and Josh Wise.[1] On March 1 they announced Shane's son, Landon S. Huffman (no relation to fellow driver Landon Huffman) would compete in their Late Model Stock Car for the season at Hickory Motor Speedway. Two days later on March 3, 2023 the team announced Luke Fenhaus would compete for the team full-time in the ARCA Menards Series East in 2023.[2]

ARCA Menards Series

2023

The team made its ARCA Menards Series debut in the 2023 Calypso Lemonade 150 in a combination race with the East Series where they were competing full-time with Luke Fenhaus. They won the race after it went into overtime marking their 1st win in the National Series and 2nd with the East Series.[3]

Car No. 28 results
ARCA Menards Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 AMSC Pts Ref
2023 Luke Fenhaus 28 Chevy DAY PHO TAL KAN CLT BLN ELK MOH IOW
1		 POC MCH IRP
2		 MLW
6		 DSF BRI
29		 SLM TOL -* -* [4]
Connor Zilisch GLN
2*		 ISF [5]
Carson Kvapil KAN
2		 [6]

ARCA Menards Series East

2023

The team made its debut in the ARCA Menards Series East in the 2023 Pensacola 200 with Luke Fenhaus behind the wheel, they would finish a strong 2nd to a debuting William Sawalich. The team would pick up another top 5 the next race at Dover with a 3rd and then in only their 3rd career start they won their first ever race at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in the Music City 200.[7] Two races later in a combination race with the East Series and the main ARCA Menards Series, marking their first start in that division, they won once again at Iowa Speedway in the Calypso Lemonade 150.[8]

Car No. 28 results
ARCA Menards Series East results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 AMSEC Pts Ref
2023 Luke Fenhaus 28 Chevy FIF
2		 DOV
3		 NSV
1		 FRS
5		 IOW
1		 IRP
2		 MLW
6		 BRI
29		 -* -* [9]

Late Model Stock Cars

2023

Landon Huffman, son of team manager Shane Huffman, would run the teams Late Model Stock Car for the entire season at Hickory Motor Speedway. Huffman and the team would pick up their first victory on March 12th at Hickory in the 1st twin 40 race of the night. The team would later pick up their 2nd win on July 2nd also at Hickory.[10]

Connor Mosack and Ross Chastain would also both race a LMSC for them at Hickory and North Wilkesboro respectively later in the season.[11][12]

References
  1. "Pinnacle Racing Group to Launch Motorsports Development Program in 2023". Speedway Digest. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  2. "Pinnacle Racing Group and Luke Fenhaus to contend for ARCA Menards Series East championship". ARCA Menards Series. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  3. "Luke Fenhaus Steals ARCA Iowa Win with Stellar Late Race Restart". Frontstretch. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  4. "Luke Fenhaus – 2023 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  5. "Connor Zilisch – 2023 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 15, 2023.
  6. "Carson Kvapil – 2023 ARCA Menards Series results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 8, 2023.
  7. "Luke Fenhaus Steals Music City 200 Victory from William Sawalich in Overtime". Toby Christie. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  8. "Luke Fenhaus steals dramatic ARCA victory at Iowa". Motorsport.com. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  9. "Luke Fenhaus – 2023 ARCA Menards Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved March 26, 2023.
  10. "Pinnacle Racing Group Tabs Landon S. Huffman for Late Model Competition". Speedway Digest. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  11. "Pinnacle Racing Group on Facebook". Facebook. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
  12. "Trackhouse drivers Ross Chastain, Daniel Suárez enter CARS Tour race at North Wilkesboro". Yahoo! Sports. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
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