2022 ARCA Menards Series West

The 2022 ARCA Menards Series West will be the 69th season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season will begin on March 11 at Phoenix Raceway with the General Tire 150 and will end with another race at Phoenix Raceway on November 5.

2022 ARCA Menards Series West
Previous: 2021 Next: 2023
Champions | Seasons
Jesse Love, the defending ARCA Menards Series West champion.

Jesse Love, who has won the championship for the last 2 years, will not go for a three-peat, as he revealed in an interview with Frontstretch that he will not return to the West Series full-time in 2022. He will likely focus on running part-time again in the main ARCA Series with Venturini Motorsports.[1]

This season will also see a historic milestone, as the race at Evergreen Speedway on August 20 will mark the 1,000th West Series race.[2]

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Ford Sunrise Ford Racing 9 Jake Drew[3] Jeff Schrader[3]

Limited schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet Brad Smith Motorsports 48 Brad Smith[4] TBA 1
Fierce Creature Racing 27 Bobby Hillis Jr. TBA TBA[5]
GMS Racing 43 Daniel Dye[6] Chad Bryant[1] 1
Rev Racing 2 Nick Sanchez[7] TBA 1
6 Rajah Caruth[7] TBA 1
Toyota Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Sammy Smith[8][1] Mark McFarland[1] 1
TBA Clubb Racing Inc.[9] 03 Alex Clubb[9] TBA 1[9]

Silly Season news and updates

Manufacturers
  • On October 13, 2021, Bill McAnally Racing announced that they would be switching from Toyota to Chevrolet in 2022 and would have an alliance with GMS Racing.[10] The team had been a Toyota team from 2008 to 2021 but was previously a Chevrolet team in 2007 and earlier.

Drivers
  • On August 12, 2021, Bill McAnally Racing mentioned that it was possible that Sebastian Arias, one of the team's part-time drivers in 2021, could full-time in the West Series for them in 2022.[11]

Schedule

Phoenix Raceway and Sonoma Raceway announced their 2022 race dates in tweets on September 29.[12] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19.[2]

Note: The race at Phoenix in March will be a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series (highlighted in gold).

No Race title Track Date
1 General Tire 150[12] Phoenix Raceway, Avondale, Arizona March 11
2 TBA Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale, California March 26
3 TBA Kern County Raceway Park, Bakersfield, California April 23
4 TBA Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon June 4
5 General Tire 200[12] Sonoma Raceway, Sonoma, California June 11
6 TBA Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale, California July 2
7 TBA Evergreen Speedway, Monroe, Washington August 20
8 TBA Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon September 3
9 TBA All American Speedway, Roseville, California October 1
10 TBA Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas, Nevada October 14
11 TBA Phoenix Raceway, Avondale, Arizona November 5

Schedule changes

The 2022 schedule features 11 races, which is the same number of races that there were on the 2020 schedule. The 2021 schedule only had 9 races.

  • Irwindale Speedway's August date moves to March. (The track's other race remains on the 4th of July weekend.)
  • After being taken off the schedule in 2021, Kern County Raceway Park and Evergreen Speedway were both added back onto the 2022 schedule. Their races will be in April and August, respectively.
  • Portland International Raceway was given a second race to be held on the first weekend of June, which is the same weekend as the track's new Xfinity Series race. As a result, the race at Sonoma Raceway was pushed back a week to the second weekend of June.
  • Colorado National Speedway was taken off the schedule. This will be the first season since 2006 that the West Series will not have had a race at the track.
  • The race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring moves from September to October along with the weekend's Cup Series race at the big LVMS track.

See also

References
  1. Kristl, Mark (October 7, 2021). "Analyzing What We Know About ARCA's Silly Season". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  2. "ARCA Menards Series East and West schedules for 2022 announced". ARCARacing.com. November 19, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  3. Delforge, Vincent (November 14, 2021). "Drew Looking at Positives Despite Nail-Biting ARCA West Title Loss". Kickin' the Tires. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  4. Kristl, Mark (October 14, 2021). "ARCA Underdogs Brad Smith, Tony Cosentino, Andy Hillenburg Soldier On". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  5. "(Twitter post)". Twitter. Bobby Hillis Jr. November 20, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2021. Fierce Creature Racing and Bobby Hillis are looking for sponsors for the 2022 @ARCA_Racing West campaign. We have primary and associate packages available for your business at a great rate!
  6. Srigley, Joseph (October 29, 2021). "Daniel Dye Running Full ARCA Schedule for GMS Racing in 2022". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  7. Kristl, Mark (August 30, 2021). "Nick Sanchez, Rajah Caruth Running Full ARCA Schedule in 2022". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  8. Kristl, Mark (August 29, 2021). "Sammy Smith Leaves Milwaukee Wanting More". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  9. Kristl, Mark (November 5, 2021). "Alex Clubb Fielding His Own ARCA Team, Hopeful to Run Full Season". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  10. "McAnally-Hilgemann Racing to field Chevrolets in 2022; forming alliance with GMS Racing". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. October 13, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  11. "Colombian driver Sebastian Arias to make ARCA debut at Irwindale". ARCARacing.com. August 12, 2021. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
  12. Haislop, Tadd (September 29, 2021). "Multiple tracks announce ARCA Menards Series race dates for 2022 schedule". ARCARacing.com. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.