ARCA MENARDS SERIES RETURNS – April 23rd

TOLEDO, Oh. – (Nov. 19, 2021) – The schedules for the ARCA Menards Series East and ARCA Menards Series West have been finalized, with seven races slated for the East and eleven set for the West.

The ARCA Menards East season will commence with the series’ ninth visit to New Smyrna Speedway on Tuesday, February 15. The ARCA Menards West season kicks off a month later with a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series at Phoenix Raceway on Friday, March 11.

The highlights:

• The East season will start with two consecutive races in Florida as Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola follows New Smyrna on Saturday, March 19.
• Dover International Speedway and Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway will once again host the series on April 29 and May 7, respectively. The concrete one-mile Dover oval will be the fastest track on the East schedule.
• The East season will conclude with three straight combination events with the ARCA Menards Series at Iowa Speedway on June 11, The Milwaukee Mile on August 28, and the season finale at Bristol Motor Speedway on September 15.
• Irwindale Speedway and Portland International Raceway will both host a pair of West events, with Irwindale’s set for March 26 and July 2, while the Portland road course events will be June 4 and September 3.
• Kern County Raceway Park returns to the schedule after a year’s absence on April 23, while Evergreen Speedway also returns on August 20. The race at Evergreen is slated to be the 1000^th race in West Series history dating back to 1954.
• Traditional events at Sonoma Raceway, All-American Speedway, and The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway all return.
• The West season finale remains at Phoenix Raceway on November 5, part of NASCAR Championship Weekend at the one-mile desert oval.
• The East races at Dover and Bristol will be part of conjunction weekends with the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
• West races at Phoenix will be in conjunction with the NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR Xfinity Series, and/or the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series; one race at Portland will be in conjunction with the NTT Data IndyCar Series and the other will be in conjunction with the NASCAR Xfinity Series; the Sonoma race will be in conjunction with the NASCAR Cup Series.

The complete 2022 ARCA Menards Series East schedule:

Feb. 15             New Smyrna Speedway                         New Smyrna Beach, FL

March 19          Five Flags Speedway                              Pensacola, FL

April 29            Dover International Speedway               Dover, DE

May 7               Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway            Nashville, TN

June 11             Iowa Speedway                                     Newton, IA

Aug. 28             The Milwaukee Mile                              West Allis, WI

Sept. 15            Bristol Motor Speedway                                    Bristol, TN

The complete 2022 ARCA Menards Series West schedule:

March 11          Phoenix Raceway                                  Avondale, AZ

March 26          Irwindale Speedway                              Irwindale, CA

April 23            Kern County Raceway Park                    Bakersfield, CA

June 4              Portland International Raceway             Portland, OR

June 11             Sonoma Raceway                                  Sonoma, CA

July 2                Irwindale Speedway                              Irwindale, CA

Aug. 20             Evergreen Speedway                             Evergreen, WA

Sept. 3              Portland International Raceway             Portland, OR

Oct. 1               All-American Speedway                         Roseville, CA

Oct. 14             The Bullring at LVMS                             Las Vegas, NV

Nov. 5              Phoenix Raceway                                  Avondale, AZ

All dates are tentative and subject to change.

Race start times and broadcast schedules will be announced at a later date.

About ARCA

The Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA), founded in 1953 by John and Mildred Marcum in Toledo, Ohio, and acquired by NASCAR in April 2018, is the leading grassroots stock car sanctioning body in the United States. Bridging the gap between NASCAR’s top three national touring series and weekly racing all across the country, the organization is scheduled to administer more than 100 events in multiple racing series in 2022, including the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, ARCA Menards Series West, the ARCA/CRA Super Series, and the ARCA Midwest Tour, plus weekly racing at Toledo and Flat Rock Speedways.  For more information about ARCA visit www.arcaracing.com, or follow ARCA on Facebook (@ARCARacing) and Twitter (@ARCA_Racing).

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Media contact: Charles Krall, Communications Manager, ARCA Menards Series   ckrall@arcaracing.com  (419) 262-0558