The 2022 ARCA Menards Series West was 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 ended with the Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100, also at Phoenix Raceway, on November 4.
Jesse Love, who won the championship for the last 2 years, did not go for a three-peat. Love revealed in an interview in October 2021 with Frontstretch that he would not return to the West Series full-time in 2022 [1] and he ran the majority of the main ARCA Series season for Venturini Motorsports. He had driven for the team part-time in that series in 2020 and 2021. [2]
This season also saw a historic milestone, as the race at Evergreen Speedway on August 20 marked the 1,000th West Series race. [3]
Manufacturer | Team | No. | Driver | Crew chief |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chevrolet | Bill McAnally Racing | 16 | Austin Herzog (R) 5 [4] | Charlie Wilson |
Landen Lewis 6 [5] | ||||
BMI Racing | 88 | Bridget Burgess |
Sarah Burgess 10 Victor Franco 1 [6] | |
Ford | Naake-Klauer Motorsports | 54 | Joey Iest | Mike Naake |
Sunrise Ford Racing | 6 | Jake Drew [7] | Bill Sedgwick [7] | |
9 | Tanner Reif (R) | Jeff Schrader | ||
Toyota | Jerry Pitts Racing | 7 | Takuma Koga | Jerry Pitts 6 Denny Moyer 5 |
Chevrolet 6 Toyota 3 TBA 2 |
Bill McAnally Racing | 99 | Cole Moore | Mario Isola |
Ford 5 Toyota 4 TBA 2 |
Central Coast Racing | 13 | Todd Souza | Michael Muñoz |
Note: If a driver is listed as their own crew chief for a particular race, that means that their entry in that race was a start and park.
Phoenix Raceway and Sonoma Raceway announced their 2022 race dates in tweets on September 29. [37] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19. [3] The date of the season-finale at Phoenix would later be moved from Saturday, November 5 to Friday, November 4. [38]
Note: The race at Phoenix in March was a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series (highlighted in gold).
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.
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. [40]
NBC Sports TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of races, lost the rights to FloRacing. [41]
Notes:
( 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 | 1* | 1* | 1** | 2 | 1* | 2 | 8 | 13 | 621 |
2 | Tanner Reif (R) | 16 | 1** | 4 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 568 |
3 | Cole Moore | 11 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 4* | 4 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 563 |
4 | Todd Souza | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 563 |
5 | Joey Iest | 13 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 518 |
6 | Takuma Koga | 18 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 490 |
7 | Bridget Burgess | 23 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 483 |
8 | Landen Lewis | 1 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 398 | |||
9 | Andrew Tuttle (R) | 35 | Wth | 15 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 22 | 26 | 285 | |
10 | P. J. Pedroncelli | 17 | 5 | 5* | 8 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 283 | ||||
11 | Kyle Keller (R) | 32 | Wth | 14 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 267 | |||
12 | Sebastian Arias | 25 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 254 | ||||
13 | Sean Hingorani | 14 | 12 | 15 | 25 | 23 | 231 | ||||||
14 | Austin Herzog (R) | 14 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 230 | ||||||
15 | Chris Lowden (R) | 31 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 216 | ||||
16 | Paul Pedroncelli | 38 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 206 | ||||
17 | Bradley Erickson | 20 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 180 | |||||||
18 | Nick Joanides | Wth | 11 | 11 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 178 | ||||
19 | Taylor Gray | 1 | 1* | 27 | 164 | ||||||||
20 | David Smith | 13 | 11 | 19 | 20 | 163 | |||||||
21 | R. J. Smotherman | 15 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 156 | |||||||
22 | Vince Little | 14 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 154 | ||||||
23 | Trevor Huddleston | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 152 | |||||||
24 | Sammy Smith | 3* | 1* | 143 | |||||||||
25 | Andrés Pérez de Lara | 2 | 3 | 134 | |||||||||
26 | Jesse Love | 6 | 2 | 130 | |||||||||
27 | Jake Finch | 6 | 9 | 123 | |||||||||
28 | Buddy Shepherd | 5 | 11 | 122 | |||||||||
29 | Christian Rose | 27 | 16 | 21 | 118 | ||||||||
30 | Parker Chase | 20 | 8 | 110 | |||||||||
31 | Tyler Reif | 18 | 12 | 108 | |||||||||
32 | Katie Hettinger | 23 | 19 | 96 | |||||||||
33 | Amber Slagle | 10 | 9 | 20 | 93 | ||||||||
34 | Landon Pembelton | 4 | 90 | ||||||||||
35 | Bobby Hillis Jr. | 26 | 22 | 90 | |||||||||
36 | Daniel Dye | 2 | 4 | 84 | |||||||||
37 | Connor Mosack | 10 | 2 | 77 | |||||||||
38 | Zach Herrin | 18 | 76 | ||||||||||
39 | Dale Quarterley | 15 | 3 | 70 | |||||||||
40 | Eric Nascimento | 13 | 7 | 68 | |||||||||
41 | Conner Jones | 28 | 66 | ||||||||||
42 | Ryan Philpott | 17 | 6 | 65 | |||||||||
43 | Eric Rhead | 39 | Wth | 15 | 13 | 65 | |||||||
44 | Carson Hocevar | 29 | 65 | ||||||||||
45 | Tim Spurgeon | 19 | Wth | 9 | 60 | ||||||||
46 | Brian Kamisky | 24 | 9 | 55 | |||||||||
47 | Sarah Burgess | DNS | 17 | 55 | |||||||||
48 | Colby Howard | 2 | 42 | ||||||||||
49 | Rajah Caruth | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||
50 | Jack Wood | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||
51 | Nick Sanchez | 7 | 37 | ||||||||||
52 | Davey Magras | 7 | 37 | ||||||||||
53 | Josh Berry | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
54 | John Moore | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
55 | Derek Kraus | 9 | 35 | ||||||||||
56 | Jacob Smith | 9 | 35 | ||||||||||
57 | Stafford Smith | 14 | 30 | ||||||||||
58 | Toni Breidinger | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
59 | Dean Thompson | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
60 | Tripp Gaylord | 16 | 28 | ||||||||||
61 | Rodd Kneeland | 20 | 24 | ||||||||||
62 | Alex Clubb | 21 | 23 | ||||||||||
63 | Ryan Roulette | 22 | 22 | ||||||||||
64 | D. L. Wilson | 24 | 20 | ||||||||||
65 | Bryce Haugeberg | 28 | 16 | ||||||||||
66 | Zachary Tinkle | 29 | 15 | ||||||||||
67 | Amber Balcaen | 30 | 14 | ||||||||||
68 | Tim Monroe | 33 | 11 | ||||||||||
69 | Brad Smith | 34 | 10 | ||||||||||
70 | Greg Van Alst | 36 | 8 | ||||||||||
71 | Brian Kaltreider | 37 | 7 |
Mystic Motorsports Is in search of a new Motor after an engine failure at Talladega. Brian is currently seeking A D3 or an Ilmore motor
Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, let's go racin' out West for the @NASCAR Championship Weekend at @PhoenixRaceway
The 2022 ARCA Menards Series West was 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 ended with the Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100, also at Phoenix Raceway, on November 4.
Jesse Love, who won the championship for the last 2 years, did not go for a three-peat. Love revealed in an interview in October 2021 with Frontstretch that he would not return to the West Series full-time in 2022 [1] and he ran the majority of the main ARCA Series season for Venturini Motorsports. He had driven for the team part-time in that series in 2020 and 2021. [2]
This season also saw a historic milestone, as the race at Evergreen Speedway on August 20 marked the 1,000th West Series race. [3]
Manufacturer | Team | No. | Driver | Crew chief |
---|---|---|---|---|
Chevrolet | Bill McAnally Racing | 16 | Austin Herzog (R) 5 [4] | Charlie Wilson |
Landen Lewis 6 [5] | ||||
BMI Racing | 88 | Bridget Burgess |
Sarah Burgess 10 Victor Franco 1 [6] | |
Ford | Naake-Klauer Motorsports | 54 | Joey Iest | Mike Naake |
Sunrise Ford Racing | 6 | Jake Drew [7] | Bill Sedgwick [7] | |
9 | Tanner Reif (R) | Jeff Schrader | ||
Toyota | Jerry Pitts Racing | 7 | Takuma Koga | Jerry Pitts 6 Denny Moyer 5 |
Chevrolet 6 Toyota 3 TBA 2 |
Bill McAnally Racing | 99 | Cole Moore | Mario Isola |
Ford 5 Toyota 4 TBA 2 |
Central Coast Racing | 13 | Todd Souza | Michael Muñoz |
Note: If a driver is listed as their own crew chief for a particular race, that means that their entry in that race was a start and park.
Phoenix Raceway and Sonoma Raceway announced their 2022 race dates in tweets on September 29. [37] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19. [3] The date of the season-finale at Phoenix would later be moved from Saturday, November 5 to Friday, November 4. [38]
Note: The race at Phoenix in March was a combination race with the ARCA Menards Series (highlighted in gold).
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.
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. [40]
NBC Sports TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of races, lost the rights to FloRacing. [41]
Notes:
( 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 | 1* | 1* | 1** | 2 | 1* | 2 | 8 | 13 | 621 |
2 | Tanner Reif (R) | 16 | 1** | 4 | 6 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 568 |
3 | Cole Moore | 11 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 4* | 4 | 1 | 14 | 14 | 563 |
4 | Todd Souza | 12 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 563 |
5 | Joey Iest | 13 | 10 | 17 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 518 |
6 | Takuma Koga | 18 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 18 | 9 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 15 | 490 |
7 | Bridget Burgess | 23 | 12 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 19 | 10 | 10 | 19 | 12 | 17 | 483 |
8 | Landen Lewis | 1 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 398 | |||
9 | Andrew Tuttle (R) | 35 | Wth | 15 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 22 | 26 | 285 | |
10 | P. J. Pedroncelli | 17 | 5 | 5* | 8 | 16 | 11 | 16 | 283 | ||||
11 | Kyle Keller (R) | 32 | Wth | 14 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 267 | |||
12 | Sebastian Arias | 25 | 8 | 13 | 21 | 8 | 13 | 16 | 254 | ||||
13 | Sean Hingorani | 14 | 12 | 15 | 25 | 23 | 231 | ||||||
14 | Austin Herzog (R) | 14 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 230 | ||||||
15 | Chris Lowden (R) | 31 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 20 | 24 | 30 | 216 | ||||
16 | Paul Pedroncelli | 38 | 15 | 18 | 16 | 23 | 21 | 21 | 206 | ||||
17 | Bradley Erickson | 20 | 12 | 7 | 7 | 180 | |||||||
18 | Nick Joanides | Wth | 11 | 11 | 22 | 17 | 10 | 15 | 178 | ||||
19 | Taylor Gray | 1 | 1* | 27 | 164 | ||||||||
20 | David Smith | 13 | 11 | 19 | 20 | 163 | |||||||
21 | R. J. Smotherman | 15 | 7 | 22 | 26 | 156 | |||||||
22 | Vince Little | 14 | 11 | 11 | 14 | 16 | 154 | ||||||
23 | Trevor Huddleston | 6 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 152 | |||||||
24 | Sammy Smith | 3* | 1* | 143 | |||||||||
25 | Andrés Pérez de Lara | 2 | 3 | 134 | |||||||||
26 | Jesse Love | 6 | 2 | 130 | |||||||||
27 | Jake Finch | 6 | 9 | 123 | |||||||||
28 | Buddy Shepherd | 5 | 11 | 122 | |||||||||
29 | Christian Rose | 27 | 16 | 21 | 118 | ||||||||
30 | Parker Chase | 20 | 8 | 110 | |||||||||
31 | Tyler Reif | 18 | 12 | 108 | |||||||||
32 | Katie Hettinger | 23 | 19 | 96 | |||||||||
33 | Amber Slagle | 10 | 9 | 20 | 93 | ||||||||
34 | Landon Pembelton | 4 | 90 | ||||||||||
35 | Bobby Hillis Jr. | 26 | 22 | 90 | |||||||||
36 | Daniel Dye | 2 | 4 | 84 | |||||||||
37 | Connor Mosack | 10 | 2 | 77 | |||||||||
38 | Zach Herrin | 18 | 76 | ||||||||||
39 | Dale Quarterley | 15 | 3 | 70 | |||||||||
40 | Eric Nascimento | 13 | 7 | 68 | |||||||||
41 | Conner Jones | 28 | 66 | ||||||||||
42 | Ryan Philpott | 17 | 6 | 65 | |||||||||
43 | Eric Rhead | 39 | Wth | 15 | 13 | 65 | |||||||
44 | Carson Hocevar | 29 | 65 | ||||||||||
45 | Tim Spurgeon | 19 | Wth | 9 | 60 | ||||||||
46 | Brian Kamisky | 24 | 9 | 55 | |||||||||
47 | Sarah Burgess | DNS | 17 | 55 | |||||||||
48 | Colby Howard | 2 | 42 | ||||||||||
49 | Rajah Caruth | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||
50 | Jack Wood | 4 | 40 | ||||||||||
51 | Nick Sanchez | 7 | 37 | ||||||||||
52 | Davey Magras | 7 | 37 | ||||||||||
53 | Josh Berry | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
54 | John Moore | 8 | 36 | ||||||||||
55 | Derek Kraus | 9 | 35 | ||||||||||
56 | Jacob Smith | 9 | 35 | ||||||||||
57 | Stafford Smith | 14 | 30 | ||||||||||
58 | Toni Breidinger | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
59 | Dean Thompson | 15 | 29 | ||||||||||
60 | Tripp Gaylord | 16 | 28 | ||||||||||
61 | Rodd Kneeland | 20 | 24 | ||||||||||
62 | Alex Clubb | 21 | 23 | ||||||||||
63 | Ryan Roulette | 22 | 22 | ||||||||||
64 | D. L. Wilson | 24 | 20 | ||||||||||
65 | Bryce Haugeberg | 28 | 16 | ||||||||||
66 | Zachary Tinkle | 29 | 15 | ||||||||||
67 | Amber Balcaen | 30 | 14 | ||||||||||
68 | Tim Monroe | 33 | 11 | ||||||||||
69 | Brad Smith | 34 | 10 | ||||||||||
70 | Greg Van Alst | 36 | 8 | ||||||||||
71 | Brian Kaltreider | 37 | 7 |
Mystic Motorsports Is in search of a new Motor after an engine failure at Talladega. Brian is currently seeking A D3 or an Ilmore motor
Boogity, Boogity, Boogity, let's go racin' out West for the @NASCAR Championship Weekend at @PhoenixRaceway