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The 2010 ARCA Racing Series presented by Re/MAX and Menards was the 58th 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 nationa ...
. The season began on February 6 with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 and ended on October 9 with the American 200 presented by Black's Tire and Auto Service. Patrick Sheltra of Sheltra Motorsports won the season championship. This season was notable for the season-opening race, the 2010 Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at
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, which had the largest audience of any ARCA event in the history of the series with 2.4 million viewers tuning in on the
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. The high viewership was due to the fact that Danica Patrick was competing in the event, which was her first stock car start as part of her move from the
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to
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. This garnered a lot more media coverage for the ARCA Series and attention to the series as a whole by race fans starting that year.


Teams and drivers

Note: 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.


Complete schedule


Limited schedule


Notes


Schedule


Changes

A second road course was added to the schedule with the February 27 race at
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.


Results and standings


Drivers' championship

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


References


External links


2010 ARCA Racing Series Results
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