KLAS Motorsports had a milestone race on Saturday in the ARCA General Tire Daytona 200 at Daytona International Speedway (FL). They started the 2026 ARCA Menards Series season in the year’s biggest race by earning two top ten finishes. Glen Reen finished fifth in the #07 New Wave Bath entry while Andy Jankowiak finished tenth in the #71 Hook’d Solutions entry.
It was only the second time in team history when two cars were fielded in one race. Both times, the team placed both cars in the top ten of the finishing order. This also occurred last season on the road course at Watkins Glen International.
To do so on the biggest stage of stock car race though was extra special to the young team.
“It’s pretty cool,” said KLAS Motorsports Managing Partner Andy Seuss. “It is a really good position to be in when there were 50 cars that showed up. It wasn’t the easiest of weekends. We knew that we had good cars and we both practiced in the top ten. Mike Dayton and the guys have been doing a great job with these cars for years and they keep making them better.”
“It was a great team day,” said Reen. “People know that KLAS is here. When you show up with two cars that run that well, it is great.”
Jankowiak, the team’s senior driver, was nearly identical in his praise for the team.
“It was a good team day,” said Jankowiak. “Everything going forward is good. I’m so happy for Glen. It’s great to see him up front.”
Jankowiak was not the only one happy for Reen.
“It was really cool,” said Reen. “I got in after the race and checked my phone and there were 175 text messages waiting for me! Carl Edwards and Bob Polverari were two of them. Carl has done more than he needs to over the past few days to help me with this race.”
The top ten finishes might have looked seamless if you watched the live broadcast of the event on FOX, but the results did not come easy.
“The biggest hurdle was just getting in the race with the group qualifying,” said Seuss. “We had speed in our cars, but the situation with the groups we were in was challenging. We qualified both cars though and then we probably played it a little too cautious at the beginning of the race. You don’t know what these superspeedway races will be like and in the past two years, we got bit in the first 20 laps.”
Reen was philosophical about the approach.
“You’ve got to make it to the end to have a shot at it,” said Reen.
Even with the day going as well as it did, the KLAS Motorsports team is made up of racers and they wanted to do even better.
“I want to win for these guys and I’ve got one less chance to do that now than when we started the day,” said Jankowiak. “We’ve been close here, it just seems like whichever path we choose here seems to bite us.
“We had a plan to be cautious and maybe it wasn’t the right plan for today. Every other time, we would get smashed up in the first ten laps. We probably needed to be more aggressive early, but we were all on board for saving the car and getting to the end. This was the one time that the ARCA guys figured out how to run three wide, block each other and not wreck. We just ran out of laps.”
“I was more on defense and Andy was more on offense,” said Reen. “When we come back, maybe we will have a slightly different strategy, but you’ve got to be there at the end to have a shot at it.”
Hook’d Solutions was 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 was also a prominent marketing partner for Daytona. Additional partners for the #71 included 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 included 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 now heads to Phoenix International Raceway (AZ) on March 5th for the General Tire 150. That event will be televised live on the Fox Sports 1 television network starting at 6pm ET.
