2022 ARCA Menards Series East

The 2022 ARCA Menards Series East is be the 36th season of the ARCA Menards Series East, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began on February 15 with the Race to Stop Suicide 200 at New Smyrna Speedway and will end on September 15 with the Bush's Beans 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway.

Sammy Smith, the current points leader and defending ARCA Menards Series East champion.

Sammy Smith entered the season as the defending champion. He moved up to the main ARCA Series to replace Ty Gibbs in Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 18 car in most of the races after he turns 18 (the minimum age to race at all tracks) on June 4, 2022. Although he competed in the season-opener at New Smyrna, it is unclear if Smith will still run full-time in the East Series in the JGR No. 18.[1][2]

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Chevrolet Brad Smith Motorsports 48 Brad Smith[3] Terry Strange 1
Carlos Leon 1
Leo Kryger 1
TBA 4
Josh Williams Motorsports
with Lira Motorsports[4]		 60 Logan Misuraca 1 Tony Furr 1
John Holmes 2
TBA 4
Daniel Escoto (R) 6[4]
Young's Motorsports 02 Leland Honeyman (R) Andrew Abbott
Ford David Gilliland Racing 17 Taylor Gray[5] Chad Johnston
Toyota Cook Racing Technologies 42 Christian Rose 5[6] Sean Samuels
TBA 2
Fast Track Racing[7] 01 Stephanie Moyer Mike Sroufe
Kyle Busch Motorsports 18 Sammy Smith[1][2] Mark McFarland[2]

Limited schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet Bret Holmes Racing 23 Bret Holmes[8] Shane Huffman[9] 1
Connor Mosack[9] 3
CCM Racing 22 Steve Austin (R)[10] Jeremy Petty 6
Costner Weaver Motorsports 95 Caleb Costner Brian Bibeau 1
Phoenix Racing 1 Jake Finch Johnny Allen 1
Rev Racing 2 Nick Sanchez[11] Matt Bucher 3
6 Rajah Caruth[11] Brad Parrott[12] 4
Ford CCM Racing TBA Matt Wilson[13] Colton Collins 1
Ferrier-McClure Racing 44 Mason Diaz Jeff McClure 1
Brandon Varney 1
Greg Van Alst Motorsports 35 Greg Van Alst Jim Long 3
Kaltreider Motorsports 07 Brian Kaltreider Keith Tibbs 3
Rette Jones Racing 30 Max Gutiérrez Mark Rette 1
Amber Balcaen[14] 3
Vanco Racing 66 Ron Vandermeir Jr. TBA 2
Wayne Peterson Racing 0 Zachary Tinkle Michael Peterson 1
06 Nate Moeller[N 1] Wayne Peterson 1
10 1
Toyota Fast Track Racing Ed Pompa Dick Doheny 1
Benny Chastain 1
Tim Monroe Tim Monroe 1
TBA TBA 3
ALH Motorsports 49 Ashton Higgins Tony Ponkauskas 1
MAN Motorsports 95 Tanner Arms[15] TBA 1
Richmond Motorsports 27 Tim Richmond Darrell Phillips 3
TC Motorsports 91 Justin Carroll[16] TBA TBA
Venturini Motorsports 15 Conner Jones[17] Kevin Reed 2
Landon Pembelton[18] 1
Parker Chase[19] 1
20 Jesse Love[20] Shannon Rursch[20] 4
25 Jake Finch[N 2] Kevin Reed Jr. 1
Toni Breidinger[21] 3
55 Jonathan Shafer[22] Dave Leiner 3
Visconti Motorsports 74 Donald Theetge[23] John Visconti III 2
TBA Clubb Racing Inc.[24] 03 Alex Clubb[24] TBA 2[24]
Josh White[25] 1
Toyota 2
Ford 1
TBA 3		 Fast Track Racing 11 Willie Mullins[N 3] Robert Bruce 2
Ed Pompa Dick Doheny 1
TBA TBA 3
Toyota 1
Chevrolet 2
TBA 3		 12 Tony Cosentino Tony Cosentino 1
Tim Monroe Tim Monroe 1
Tommy Vigh Jr. Trey Galgon 1
TBA TBA 3
Toyota TBA
Ford TBA		 Last Chance Racing 85 Ryan Roulette TBA 3

Notes
  1. Nate Moeller drove at Pensacola in March with the No. 10. Benny Chastain, the driver of the No. 10 Toyota for Fast Track Racing, crashed in practice and did not have a backup car. Moeller, who did qualify for the race, took over the No. 10 and was able to start with his (previously No. 06) Wayne Peterson Racing Ford.
  2. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Phoenix Racing.
  3. Entries were fielded in a collaboration with Mullins Racing.

Silly Season news and updates

Teams
  • On August 30, 2021, Rev Racing confirmed that they will not field any full-time East Series cars in 2022 as they will now field 2 cars full-time in the main ARCA Series.[26]
  • On November 5, 2021, Alex Clubb announced that he would be starting his own ARCA team after having previously been a driver/co-owner of Tim Richmond's ARCA team until late in the 2021 season. His part-time schedule in his No. 03 car includes the combination races at Iowa and Milwaukee.[24]
  • On March 15, 2022, Phoenix Racing announced that Jake Finch will be making his ARCA Menards Series East debut at Five Flags Speedway. It would be the first time since 2013, that Phoenix Racing would compete in a NASCAR-sanctioned race.[27]

Drivers
  • On July 26, 2021, Taylor Gray stated to Mark Kristl from Frontstretch that he will return to the David Gilliland Racing No. 17 car full-time in 2022. Although he had plans to drive the car full-time in 2021, he only ran part-time after suffering an injury during the season.[5]
  • On August 30, 2021, it was announced that Rajah Caruth would drive full-time for Rev Racing in the main ARCA Series after driving full-time in the East Series in 2021.[11]
  • On October 29, 2021, GMS Racing announced that Daniel Dye would drive full-time in the main ARCA Series for the team after driving full-time in the East Series in 2021 for both them and Ben Kennedy Racing.[28] On April 27, 2022, ARCA indefinitely suspended Dye due to his arrest on a felony battery charge in Volusia County, Florida.[29]
  • On December 6, 2021, Steve Austin tweeted that he would be driving in the East Series for CCM Racing in the No. 22 car. He did not specify whether it would be full-time or part-time,[10] although he has indicated that he and the team are trying to find sponsorship for him to run full-time and for Rookie of the Year.[30][31]
  • On December 22, 2021, Stephanie Moyer will run the full season in the No. 01 for Fast Track Racing after competing in 2021 for a majority of the year with the team.[7]

Crew chiefs
  • On January 11, 2022, it was announced that Brad Parrott would be the crew chief for Rajah Caruth's No. 6 car for Rev Racing in 2022.[12]

Manufacturers
  • On October 7, 2021, a Frontstretch article revealed that Rev Racing will receive manufacturer support from Chevrolet in 2022, which they did not have in 2021 despite being a Chevrolet team.[2]

Schedule

Dover Motor Speedway announced their 2022 race date in a tweet on September 29.[32] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19.[33]

Note: Races highlighted in gold are combination events with the ARCA Menards Series.

No Race title Track Date
1 Race to Stop Suicide 200 presented by Place of Hope New Smyrna Speedway, New Smyrna Beach, Florida February 15
2 Pensacola 200 Five Flags Speedway, Pensacola, Florida March 19
3 TBA Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Delaware April 29
4 TBA Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Nashville, Tennessee May 7
5 Calypso Lemonade 150 Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa June 11
6 TBA Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin August 28
7 Bush's Beans 200 Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee September 15

Schedule changes

Broadcasting

The TV lineup is similar to what it looked like in 2021, with NBC airing all of the non-combination races on tape delay, MAVTV airing the combination races at Iowa and Milwaukee, and Fox airing the season-finale at Bristol (which is also a combination race). However, USA Network will be the channel that the NBC races are aired on instead of NBCSN, which was shut down at the end of 2021.[34]

NBC Sports TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of the NBC and MAVTV races, lost the rights to FloRacing. The Fox Sports App will stream the Bristol race.[35]

Results and standings

Race results
No. Race Pole position Most laps led Winning driver Manufacturer No. Winning team
1 Race to Stop Suicide 200 Sammy Smith Sammy Smith Sammy Smith Toyota 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports
2 Pensacola 200 Leland Honeyman Sammy Smith Sammy Smith Toyota 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports
3 General Tire 125 Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Ford 17 David Gilliland Racing

Drivers' championship
Further information: List of NASCAR points scoring systems

Notes:

  • The pole winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

Pos Driver NSM FIF DOV NSV IOW MIL BRI Points
1 Sammy Smith 1* 1* 5 136
2 Taylor Gray 2 3 1* 134
3 Leland Honeyman (R) 4 2 8 120
4 Christian Rose 11 10 10 101
5 Stephanie Moyer 9 12 12 99
6 Brad Smith 15 14 11 92
7 Daniel Escoto (R) 4 9 75
8 Willie Mullins 8 5 75
9 Donald Theetge 5 9 74
10 Jake Finch 8 6 74
11 Steve Austin (R) 12 11 65
12 Ed Pompa 10 15 63
13 Tim Monroe 13 14 61
14 Jesse Love 2 43
15 Max Gutiérrez 3 41
16 Conner Jones 3 41
17 Rajah Caruth 4 40
18 Mason Diaz 6 38
19 Brandon Varney 6 38
20 Logan Misuraca 7 37
21 Ashton Higgins 7 37
22 Jonathan Shafer 7 37
23 Caleb Costner 13 31
24 Tommy Vigh Jr. 13 31
25 Tony Cosentino 14 30
26 Nate Moeller 15 29
27 Zachary Tinkle DNS 28
Benny Chastain Wth

See also

References
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  2. Kristl, Mark (October 7, 2021). "Analyzing What We Know About ARCA's Silly Season". Frontstretch. Retrieved November 27, 2021.
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  31. "(Twitter post)". Steve Austin. December 11, 2021. Retrieved December 24, 2021. Talk about strange facts, it appears that I have the opportunity to become the oldest ROTY in the @ARCA_Racing east series in 2022 at 56
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  35. "NASCAR, FloSports announce landmark streaming partnership". ARCARacing.com. December 2, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
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