2022 ARCA Menards Series West

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

Jake Drew, the current points leader.

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 would not return to the West Series full-time in 2022.[1] Love will run the majority of the main ARCA Series season for Venturini Motorsports, who he drove part-time for the team in 2020 and 2021.[2]

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.[3]

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Chevrolet Bill McAnally Racing 16 Austin Herzog (R)[4] Charlie Wilson
99 Cole Moore Mario Isola
BMI Racing 88 Bridget Burgess Sarah Burgess
Lowden Motorsports[N 1] 11 Chris Lowden (R) 10[5] Tony Jackson[5]
Nick Joanides 1
Pedroncelli Motorsports 31 Paul Pedroncelli Rodd Kneeland
Ford Central Coast Racing 13 Todd Souza Michael Munoz
Naake-Klauer Motorsports 54 Joey Iest Mike Naake
Sunrise Ford Racing 6 Jake Drew[6] Bill Sedgwick[6]
9 Tanner Reif (R) Jeff Schrader
Toyota Jerry Pitts Racing 7 Takuma Koga Jerry Pitts
Pedroncelli Motorsports 33 P. J. Pedroncelli Ty Joiner

Limited schedule
Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet 66 Rhead Racing 66 Eric Rhead Roxi Gabbard 1
Bill McAnally Racing 19 Derek Kraus Shane Wilson 1
Jolynn Wilkinson TBA TBA
Brad Smith Motorsports 48 Brad Smith[7] Rand Bitter 1
Bret Holmes Racing 23 Connor Mosack[8] Shane Huffman[8] 1
Fast Track Racing 01 Tim Monroe Tim Monroe 1
11 Bryce Haugeberg[N 2] Mike Sroufe 1
12 D. L. Wilson Dick Doheny 1
Fierce Creature Racing 27 Bobby Hillis Jr. Ralph Byers 1
GMS Racing 43 Daniel Dye[9] Chad Bryant[1] 1
Kyle Keller Racing[10] 12 Kyle Keller (R) John Keller 10
Last Chance Racing 39 Andrew Tuttle (R)[11] Michael Parker[11] 10
McGowan Motorsports 17 Josh Berry Amber Slagle 1
Amber Slagle Sean Samuels 1
Rev Racing 2 Nick Sanchez[12] Matt Bucher 1
61 Rajah Caruth[12] Brad Parrott[13] 1
Ford Clubb Racing Inc.[14] 03 Alex Clubb[14] Brian Clubb 1[14]
David Gilliland Racing 17 Taylor Gray Chad Johnston 1
Greg Van Alst Motorsports 35 Greg Van Alst Jim Long 1
Huddleston Racing 50 Trevor Huddleston Travis Thirkettle 2
Kaltreider Motorsports 07 Brian Kaltreider Keith Tibbs 1
Kart Idaho Racing 21 Stafford Smith Mike Holleran 1
Rette Jones Racing 30 Amber Balcaen[15] Mark Rette 1
Toyota Fast Track Racing 10 Zachary Tinkle[N 3] Wayne Peterson 1
Kyle Busch Motorsports 18 Sammy Smith[16][1] Mark McFarland[1] 1
Last Chance Racing 85 Ryan Roulette Josh Fanopoulos 1
Nascimento Motorsports 4 Sebastian Arias[17] Henry Nascimento 7[17]
Performance P-1 Motorsports 77 Nick Joanides Dave McKenzie 1
Tripp Gaylord 1
Spurgeon Motorsports 04 Sarah Burgess Mike David 1
86 Tim Spurgeon 1
Venturini Motorsports 15 Parker Chase[18] Kevin Reed 2
20 Jesse Love[2] Shannon Rursch[2] 1
25 Toni Breidinger[19] Kevin Reed Jr. 1
Landon Pembelton[20] 1
Toyota 1
Chevrolet 1
TBA 2		 Cook Racing Technologies 42 Christian Rose Sean Samuels 3[21]
Landen Lewis Derek Peebles 1

Notes
  1. Entries are fielded in a collaboration with Kart Idaho Racing.[5]
  2. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Haugeberg Racing.
  3. Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Wayne Peterson Racing.

Silly Season news and updates

Teams
  • On January 4, 2022, Kyle Keller, who drove part-time for Jerry Pitts Racing in 2020 and 2021, announced that he would start his own team, Kyle Keller Racing, which would field one full-time car with himself driving it for the full season. The car number would be the No. 12 in all races except the season-opener at Phoenix, where it was the No. 70. (That race was a combination race with the main ARCA Series where Fast Track Racing uses the No. 12.)[10]
  • On January 26, 2022, Chris Lowden, who drove part-time for Kart Idaho Racing in 2020, announced that he would start his own team, Lowden Motorsports, which would field one full-time car with himself driving it for the full season. Lowden's team would also have an alliance with KIR. The car number would be the No. 11 in all races except the season-opener at Phoenix, where it was the No. 21. (That race was a combination race with the main ARCA Series where Fast Track Racing uses the No. 11.)[5]

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.[22] On March 25, 2022, it was announced that Arias would run seven races in the No. 4 car for Nascimento Motorsports in 2022. The No. 4 car was one of McAnally's part-time cars in 2021 but the Nascimento family (including 2021 BMR driver Eric and crew chief Henry) took over ownership of the car for 2022.[17]
  • On January 3, 2022, it was announced that Austin Herzog would replace Jesse Love in the Bill McAnally Racing No. 16 car.[4]
  • On January 28, 2022, it was announced that Tanner Reif would replace Trevor Huddleston in the Sunrise Ford Racing No. 9 car.
  • On April 27, 2022, ARCA indefinitely suspended Daniel Dye due to his arrest on a felony battery charge in Volusia County, Florida.[23]

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.[24] The team had been a Toyota team from 2008 to 2021 but was previously a Chevrolet team in 2007 and earlier.
  • With the return of Todd Souza to Central Coast Racing's No. 13 car, it was also announced that Ford would continue to be his primary manufacturer. However, Ford will now manufacture him for all races after previously manufacturing along with Toyota.

Schedule

Phoenix Raceway and Sonoma Raceway announced their 2022 race dates in tweets on September 29.[25] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19.[3]

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

No Race title Track Date
1 General Tire 150[25] Phoenix Raceway, Avondale, Arizona March 11
2 NAPA Auto Parts 150 presented by the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale, California March 26
3 Salute to the Oil Industry NAPA Auto Parts 150 Kern County Raceway Park, Bakersfield, California April 23
4 TBA Portland International Raceway, Portland, Oregon June 4
5 General Tire 200[25] 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 NAPA AutoCare 150 All American Speedway, Roseville, California October 1
10 Star Nursery 150 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. The race at Sonoma will also go back to using the chute instead of the carousel, which was used in 2019 and 2021.[26]
  • 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.

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 and MAVTV airing the combination race at Phoenix (which is also the season-opener). 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.[27]

NBC Sports TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of races, lost the rights to FloRacing.[28]

Results and standings

Race results
No. Race Pole position Most laps led Winning driver Manufacturer No. Winning team
1 General Tire 150 Sammy Smith Sammy Smith Taylor Gray Ford 17 David Gilliland Racing
2 NAPA Auto Parts 150 Tanner Reif Tanner Reif Tanner Reif Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
3 Salute to the Oil Industry NAPA Auto Parts 150 P. J. Pedroncelli P. J. Pedroncelli Landen Lewis Chevrolet 42 Cook Racing Technologies

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.[29]
  • Additionally, after groups of 5 races of the season, drivers that compete in all 5 races receive 50 additional points.[29] These points bonuses will be given after the races at Sonoma and the Las Vegas Bullring.

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

Pos Driver PHO IRW KCR PIR SON IRW EVG PIR AAS LVS PHO Points
1 Jake Drew 5 4 2 122
2 Tanner Reif (R) 16 1** 4 117
3 Cole Moore 11 2 3 116
4 P. J. Pedroncelli 17 5 5* 108
5 Austin Herzog (R) 14 3 8 107
6 Todd Souza 12 9 6 105
7 Takuma Koga 18 7 9 98
8 Joey Iest 13 10 17 92
9 Sebastian Arias 25 8 13 86
10 Bridget Burgess 23 12 12 85
11 Trevor Huddleston 6 7 75
12 Nick Joanides 11 11 66
13 Paul Pedroncelli 38 15 18 61
14 Taylor Gray 1 47
15 Landen Lewis 1 47
16 Sammy Smith 3* 44
17 Chris Lowden (R) 31 13 44
18 Daniel Dye 2 43
19 Kyle Keller (R) 32 14 42
20 Rajah Caruth 4 40
21 Jesse Love 6 38
22 Andrew Tuttle (R) 35 15 38
23 Nick Sanchez 7 37
24 Josh Berry 8 36
25 Derek Kraus 9 35
26 Connor Mosack 10 34
27 Amber Slagle 10 34
28 Stafford Smith 14 30
29 Toni Breidinger 15 29
30 Tripp Gaylord 16 28
31 Tim Spurgeon 19 25
32 Parker Chase 20 24
33 Alex Clubb 21 23
34 Ryan Roulette 22 29
35 D. L. Wilson 24 20
36 Bobby Hillis Jr. 26 18
37 Christian Rose 27 17
38 Bryce Haugeberg 28 16
39 Zachary Tinkle 29 15
40 Amber Balcaen 30 14
41 Tim Monroe 33 11
42 Brad Smith 34 10
43 Greg Van Alst 36 8
44 Brian Kaltreider 37 7
45 Eric Rhead DNS 5
46 Sarah Burgess DNS 3

See also

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