Grant Enfinger at Martinsville Speedway 2019 (cropped)

The 2015 ARCA Racing Series presented by Menards was the 63rd season of the

ARCA Racing Series The ARCA Menards Series is an American stock car series, the premier division of the Automobile Racing Club of America (ARCA). It is considered a minor, semi-professional league of stock car racing, used as a feeder series into the three national ...

. The season began on February 14 with the Lucas Oil 200 presented by Autozone and ended October 16 with the Full Throttle S'loonshine 98.9. The championship was won by

GMS Racing Petty GMS Motorsports, also known as GMS Racing in the Craftsman Truck Series, is an American professional stock car racing team formed by Richard Petty and Maurice J. Gallagher Jr. and operated by GMS Racing. In the NASCAR Cup Series they field t ...

driver

Grant Enfinger Grant McArthur Enfinger (born January 22, 1985) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 23 Chevrolet Silverado for GMS Racing. Before moving up to the Truck S ...

, who won a series-high six races during the season, including the first three of the season at

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and the

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. Enfinger finished 425 points clear of his nearest rival for the title, Mason Mitchell Motorsports'

Austin Wayne Self Austin Wayne Self (born March 5, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 22 Chevrolet Silverado for his family team, AM Racing and part-time in t ...

, who passed Josh Williams (Josh Williams Motorsports) for the runner-up position at the final race. Self finished outside the top fifteen on only two occasions, and won one race during the season, at

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; while Williams recorded no fewer than fifteen top-ten finishes but was unable to break into victory lane. The only other driver inside the top ten in the final championship standings to take a race victory was

Kyle Weatherman Kyle Jay Weatherman (born August 28, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 34 Chevrolet Camaro for Jesse Iwuji Motorsports. He has previously competed in the ...

, for the Cunningham Motorsports team. Weatherman was the race winner at the

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road course, and despite missing a quarter of the races in 2015, Weatherman was able to finish in tenth place in the final championship standings. Ten other drivers won races during the 2015 season;

Mason Mitchell Mason Mitchell (born June 25, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competed in the ARCA Racing Series as an owner/driver, driving the No. 98 for Mason Mitchell Motorsports. He is the 2014 ARCA Racing Seri ...

and

Ryan Reed Ryan A. Reed (born August 12, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver and driver coach who previously competed part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Reed previously competed full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series w ...

each won two races, while

A. J. Fike A. J. Fike (born December 29, 1980) is an American professional racing driver. He is the older brother of NASCAR driver Aaron Fike. Fike won the 1999 United States Auto Club (USAC) Midget Car rookie of the year title and his younger brother Aaro ...

Ken Schrader Kenneth Schrader (born May 29, 1955) is an American professional racing driver. He currently races on local dirt and asphalt tracks around the country while also competing part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 11 Ford for Fast Trac ...

Blake Jones Blake C. Jones (born January 12, 1997) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro (sixth generation)#ZL1, Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for S ...

Travis Braden Travis Donald Braden (born March 25, 1994) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He most recently competed full-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 27 Ford for RFMS Racing. He has also raced super late models, winning ...

Cole Custer Cole Matthew Custer (born January 23, 1998) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 00 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing. He previously drove for the team full-tim ...

Trevor Bayne Trevor Mitchell Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver, dirt racing driver, team owner, and businessman. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 18 Toyota Supra for Joe ...

Ross Kenseth Ross Kenseth (born May 25, 1993) is an American stock car racing driver who currently competes part-time in the Blizzard Series. He is the son of 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Series champion Matt Kenseth. He has competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity ...

and

Todd Gilliland Todd J. Gilliland (born May 15, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 38 Ford Mustang for Front Row Motorsports. He is the son of NASCAR driver and team owner Dav ...

all made one visit to victory lane.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Limited schedule

Notes

Changes

Thomas Praytor Thomas "Moose" Praytor IV (born February 28, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver who currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 9 Chevrolet for his family team, Max Force Racing. Racing career ...

ran a full season for his new family team, Max Force Racing, having been a driver with Hixson Motorsports for the prior two years. * Canadian female driver

Sarah Cornett-Ching Sarah Cornett-Ching (born May 8, 1991) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver. She most recently competed full-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 2 Chevrolet/Toyota for the RACE 101 team in 2015 and 2016. Since then, sh ...

ran for rookie of the year in the No. 2, replacing Praytor. She drove for a new team, RACE 101, which was fielded in a partnership with Hixson. * Driver

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and crew chief Mark Rette formed a new team, Rette Jones Racing, that ran on a partial basis. * Josh Reeves was scheduled to run a full season for Carter 2 Motorsports as a development driver, but this did not occur. *

Brennan Poole Brennan Cole Poole (born April 11, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver, engineer, consultant, driver coach, spotter, and crew chief. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 6 Chevrolet Camaro f ...

was scheduled to drive a minimum of 10 races for Team BCR Racing, but those plans were called off once he was announced to run a partial Xfinity Series schedule for

HScott Motorsports HScott Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, the Xfinity Series, the K&N Pro Series East and the ARCA Racing Series. The organization was owned by North Carolina bus ...

with

Chip Ganassi Floyd Ganassi Jr. (born May 24, 1958) better known as Chip Ganassi, is a US businessman, former racing driver, current team owner and member of the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America. He has been involved with the North American auto racing scen ...

. His only ARCA attempt in 2015 (and for Team BCR) was a withdrawal at Daytona. *

Frank Kimmel Francis James Kimmel (born April 30, 1962) is an American former stock car racing driver. He competed primarily in the ARCA Racing Series, from 1990 through 2016. Kimmel is the most successful driver in ARCA history. He has won the ARCA champions ...

cut back his schedule after 18 full seasons in ARCA. Additionally, Kimmel moved from

Win-Tron Racing Win-Tron Racing (formerly known as Country Joe Racing) was an American professional stock car racing team that competed in both the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Menards Series. The team merged into Truck Series team AM Racing b ...

to the

Venturini Motorsports Venturini Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West. Founded in 1982 by Bill Venturini Sr., Venturini Motorsports is t ...

No. 25 car, sharing the ride with Brandon Jones. *

Bo LeMastus James "Bo" LeMastus (born January 8, 1963) is an American businessman, professional racing driver, and former team owner. He races in the Stadium Super Trucks and formerly competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and ARCA Racing Series. ...

ran full-time and for rookie of the year with his own team, the No. 42 Dodge/Toyota for Crosley Sports Group. * It was announced that Clay Campbell,

Matt Tifft Matthew Kenneth Tifft (born June 26, 1996) is an American former professional stock car racing driver, and current team owner. He last competed in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 36 Ford Mustang for Front Row Motorsports unt ...

, and Ross Kenseth would share

Ken Schrader Racing Ken Schrader Racing was an American professional stock car racing team that last competed part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, fielding the No. 52 for Natalie Decker. The team is owned by longtime NASCAR driver Ken Schrader. Over the years, Schra ...

's No. 52 car for the full season, along with Schrader himself. Hunter Baize would later join those four drivers in the car as well, making two starts. * It was announced that

Will Kimmel Will Kimmel III (born May 11, 1988) is an American stock car racing driver. He is the son of Bill Kimmel, Jr. and nephew of Frank Kimmel. He currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series for family-owned Kimmel Racing. He formerly co ...

would drive his family team's No. 69 Ford full-time again in 2015, although he did end up being replaced in two races by Matt Wallace and in one by James Swanson this season. * After driving at Daytona in the No. 68 for Kimmel Racing, it was announced that David Levine would run for rookie of the year and drive the No. 59 for

Lira Motorsports Lira Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that competes in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East. Owned by Carlos and Amanda Lira, the team made its debut in the ARCA Menards Series in 2015, fielding multi ...

for the remainder of the season. *

Bobby Hamilton Jr. Charles Robert Hamilton Jr. (born January 8, 1978) is an American former professional stock car racing driver. He formerly competed in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, Nationwide Series, and Camping World Truck Series. Early career When he was 15 ...

was set to run the full season for Carter 2 Motorsports in the No. 97 Dodge, but he left the team after ten races. *

' No. 55 Toyota was shared between drivers including

Cody Coughlin Cody Coughlin (born December 11, 1995) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 72 Ford Fusion, and part-time in the ARCA/CRA Super Series and CARS Pro Late Model Tour ...

, Dominic Ursetta, and

, who won in his series debut at Toledo just days after turning 15 and being eligible to race in ARCA.

Schedule

The 2015 schedule was fully released on November 26, 2014.

Results and standings

Races

Drivers' championship

(

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

References

External links

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