KLAS Motorsports will be at Daytona International Speedway (FL) this week for their fourth ARCA Menards Series race at the famed superspeedway. This time though, the team will be fielding a second entry for the first time at the track.
Andy Jankowiak returns to KLAS and will drive the #71 Hook’d Solutions entry while Glen Reen will make his Daytona stock car debut in the #07 entry.
The KLAS Motorsports team has been hard at work all winter to prepare for the season opening ARCA Menards Series event.
“It’s been quite an undertaking and there are a lot of people led, by our crew chief Mike Dayton, who have put in a lot of work to make this happen,” said KLAS Motorsports Managing Partner Andy Seuss. “It means a lot to have the support of both drivers and all of the partners that they bring to the team. It’s humbling. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to perform and the test that we had was very promising.”
KLAS Motorsports recorded two top ten finishes in their three previous starts at Daytona with Jankowiak. In each event, they fielded a racecar that was quick enough to contend in the lead pack, but luck has not always been on their side there. With tight pack racing being a given at Daytona, one wrong move by any competitor can lead to trouble for multiple other drivers. The KLAS team has not been immune to that in the past, but they hope to avoid it this time.
“Daytona is always a crapshoot for so many reasons,” said Seuss. “We’ve got the good part down, now we just have to be lucky.”
“It’s tough out there when you have 40 cars on the track,” said Jankowiak. “There will be cars out there that you don’t want to be around, so it does come down to luck a little bit. We can just try to give ourselves space when we can get it, we can try to protect the car. I think that will be the key in getting to the end. It’s about being patiently aggressive and knowing when to back off and when to force the issue.
“To get away from the back cars, you have to make some moves. But every time you make a move, you take a chance. You flip that coin every time. Once they start crashing around you, there’s not much that you can do.”
Meanwhile, Reen is about to experience a dream come true to be able to race at Daytona.
“It was 20 years ago that I started racing SK Lights (Modifieds),” said Reen. “If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that I’d be racing at Daytona now, I could only imagine the look on my younger self’s face! It has taken a lot of hard work to get to this point, but that is paying off. Every loss, every crash, every defeating moment has been worth it and makes a high like this even better.”
Jankowiak and Reen will also have the ability to draft with each other in this race, which is a new experience for KLAS Motorsports and could be the key to a pair of strong finishes.
“That will help,” said Jankowiak. “That will come into play more near the end of the race. We will see what happens. Last year, there was a lot of two groove racing and sometimes you can get boxed in doing that. When it comes down to ten laps to go, we know that we can both work together.”
“It’s a great feeling to know that you will have a teammate who is loyal and who you can work together with out there,” said Reen. “Working with Andy will push me to do better. Our goal is to give KLAS their best finish ever. The team deserves that much more than either of the drivers. There has been so much hard work that has gone into this race and now it’s time to capitalize on that.”
Hook’d Solutions will debut as the primary sponsor of the #71 KLAS Motorsports entry of Andy Jankowiak at Daytona. Hook’d is a broadband solutions provider with a focus and commitment to creating solutions that connect people and devices with fast, reliable and secure connectivity to the end user in rural and remote locations. Utilizing patented, proprietary technology such as the Cumulo A5, Hook’d delivers “Last Mile” broadband connectivity solutions.
Suntric Renewable Energy will also be returning the #71 as a prominent marketing partner for Daytona.
Additional partners for the #71 at Daytona include Dak’s Markets, Acacia Energy, Whelen Engineering, Automotive Consultants of Ithaca, Mike Sells Golf Carts, Rotti Transport, Florida Safety Systems, Yukon Creek, the Duet Dude and Schultz Engineered Products.
Partners for the #07 entry of Glen Reen at Daytona include New Wave Bath, Chesapeake Structures, Westfield Electric Motor Service, GOAT Racing Diecast, Leonard Motorsports Marketing, Charity Cup Series Racing and AA Plus Bonding Services.
The ARCA Menards Series will visit Daytona International Speedway on Saturday, February 14th for the ARCA Daytona 200. The race will kick off the 2026 season and will be televised live on the Fox television network starting at Noon ET.
KLAS Motorsports Heads to Daytona with Jankowiak and Reen – 2026 ARCA Menards Series Season Kicks off Live on FOX This Saturday
