The 2022 ARCA Menards Series West is the 69th season of the

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, a regional

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series sanctioned by

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in the United States. The season began on March 11 at

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with the

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and will end with another race at Phoenix Raceway on November 5.

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, 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. Love will run the majority of the main ARCA Series season for

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, who he drove part-time for the team in 2020 and 2021. This season will also see a historic milestone, as the race at

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on August 20 will mark the 1,000th West Series race.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Limited schedule

Notes: * If a driver is listed as their own crew chief for a particular race, that means that their entry in that race was a

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. * If under "team", the owner's name is listed and in italics, that means the name of the race team that fielded the car is unknown.

Notes

Silly Season news and updates

Confirmed changes

Teams

* On January 4, 2022, Kyle Keller, who drove part-time for Jerry Pitts Racing in

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, 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

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uses the No. 12.) * On January 26, 2022, Chris Lowden, who drove part-time for Kart Idaho Racing in

, 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

uses the No. 11.)

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 run full-time in the West Series for them in 2022. 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

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and crew chiefs Henry and Mike) took over ownership of the car for 2022. * On January 3, 2022, it was announced that Austin Herzog would replace

in the

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No. 16 car. * On January 28, 2022, it was announced that Tanner Reif would replace

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in the

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No. 9 car. * On the Phoenix entry list, it was revealed that Eric Rhead would make his West Series debut in the No. 66 car for his own team, 66 Rhead Racing. * On April 1, 2022, it was revealed that Christian Rose would attempt 9 races in the main ARCA series, 5 races in the East Series, and 3 races in the West Series for

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. On the KCR entry list, it was revealed that Landen Lewis would make his debut with the No. 42 for Bruce Cook. * On the KCR entry list, it was revealed that Tripp Gaylord, the son of

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, would make his debut with the No. 77 for Joe Nava. On the Portland June entry list, it was revealed that Clark Lukens would make his debut in the car, but failed to do so. * On April 27, 2022, ARCA indefinitely suspended

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due to his arrest on a felony battery charge in

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. On May 13, ARCA announced that Dye would be reinstated after his charges were reduced by the Florida state attorney's office. * On May 12, 2022, Vincent Delforge from ''Kickin' the Tires'' revealed that Davey Magras would make his West Series debut in the No. 14 car for his own team, Davey Magras Racing, in the race at Portland in September.

Manufacturers

* On October 13, 2021,

announced that they would be switching from

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in 2022 and would have an alliance with

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. The team had been a Toyota team from 2008 to 2021 but was previously a Chevrolet team in 2007 and earlier.

Schedule

and

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announced their 2022 race dates in tweets on September 29. The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19. Note: The race at Phoenix in March was a combination race with the

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(highlighted in gold).

Schedule changes

The 2022 schedule features 11 races, which is the same number of races that there were on the

schedule. The 2021 schedule only had 9 races. *

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'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,

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and

were both added back onto the 2022 schedule. Their races will be in April and August, respectively. *

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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

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. *

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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

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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

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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,

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will be the channel that the NBC races are aired on instead of

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, which was shut down at the end of 2021.

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TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of races, lost the rights to

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Results and standings

Race results

Drivers' championship

Notes: * The pole winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR. * Additionally, after groups of 5 races of the season, drivers that compete in all 5 races receive 50 additional points. These points bonuses will be given after the races at Sonoma and the Las Vegas Bullring. (

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

References

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