The 2022 ARCA Menards Series East was the 36th season of the ARCA Menards Series East, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began on February 15 with the Race to Stop Suicide 200 at New Smyrna Speedway and ended on September 15 with the Sioux Chief Showdown 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Sammy Smith entered the season as the defending champion. He moved up to the main ARCA Series to replace Ty Gibbs in the No. 18 car for Kyle Busch Motorsports (previously a Joe Gibbs Racing car in 2021) in most of the races after turning 18 (the minimum age to race at all tracks) on June 4, 2022. However, Smith continued to drive full-time in the East Series in the KBM No. 18. [1] [2]
The race at Milwaukee also featured six female drivers competing in the race (Amber Balcaen, Toni Breidinger, Mandy Chick, Stephanie Moyer, Amber Slagle, and Rita Thomason), a record for the East Series. [3]
Manufacturer | Team | No. | Driver | Crew chief |
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Chevrolet | Brad Smith Motorsports | 48 | Brad Smith [4] | Terry Strange 2 Jerry Willis 1 Leo Kryger 2 Carl Brown 1 Jeff Smith 1 |
Young's Motorsports | 02 | Leland Honeyman (R) | Andrew Abbott | |
Ford | David Gilliland Racing | 17 | Taylor Gray [5] | Chad Johnston |
Toyota | Kyle Busch Motorsports | 18 | Sammy Smith [1] [2] | Mark McFarland [2] |
Fast Track Racing | 01 | Stephanie Moyer [6] | Mike Sroufe 4 Tim Monroe 1 Dallas Frueh 1 | |
Toyota 7 [N 1] Ford 1 [N 1] | 10 | Ed Pompa 1 | Dick Doheny 2 Wayne Peterson 1 Tim Monroe 3 Jeremy Petty 1 Steven Barton 1 | |
Benny Chastain 1 | ||||
Nate Moeller 1 [N 1] | ||||
Tim Monroe 3 | ||||
Matt Wilson 1 [N 2] | ||||
Tanner Allen 1 | ||||
Toyota 3 Ford 3 Chevrolet 1 | 11 | Willie Mullins 2 [N 3] | Robert Bruce 2 Dick Doheny 2 Mike Sroufe 2 Andy Hillenburg 1 | |
Ed Pompa 1 | ||||
Ryan Roulette 1 [N 4] | ||||
Bryce Haugeberg 2 [N 5] | ||||
Zachary Tinkle 1 | ||||
Toyota 2 Chevrolet 4 Ford 1 | 12 | Tony Cosentino 2 | Tony Cosentino 1 Tim Monroe 2 Trey Galgon 1 Dick Doheny 3 | |
Tim Monroe 1 | ||||
Tommy Vigh Jr. 1 | ||||
D. L. Wilson 2 | ||||
Zachary Tinkle 1 [N 6] |
Dover Motor Speedway announced their 2022 race date in a tweet on September 29. [37] The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19. [38]
Note: Races highlighted in gold are combination events with the ARCA Menards Series.
No | Race title | Track | Date |
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1 | Race to Stop Suicide 200 presented by Place of Hope | New Smyrna Speedway, New Smyrna Beach, Florida | February 15 |
2 | Pensacola 200 | Five Flags Speedway, Pensacola, Florida | March 19 |
3 | General Tire 125 | Dover Motor Speedway, Dover, Delaware | April 29 |
4 | Music City 200 | Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Nashville, Tennessee | May 7 |
5 | Calypso Lemonade 150 | Iowa Speedway, Newton, Iowa | June 11 |
6 | Sprecher 150 | Milwaukee Mile, West Allis, Wisconsin | August 28 |
7 | Bush's Beans 200 | Bristol Motor Speedway, Bristol, Tennessee | September 15 |
The TV lineup is similar to what it looked like in 2021, with NBC airing all of the non-combination races on tape delay, MAVTV airing the combination races at Iowa and Milwaukee, and Fox airing the season-finale at Bristol (which is also a combination race). 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. [39]
NBC Sports TrackPass, which previously had the streaming rights to all of the NBC and MAVTV races, lost the rights to FloRacing. The Fox Sports App will stream the Bristol race. [40]
No. | Race | Pole position | Most laps led | Winning driver | Manufacturer | No. | Winning team |
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1 | Race to Stop Suicide 200 | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 18 | Kyle Busch Motorsports |
2 | Pensacola 200 | Leland Honeyman | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 18 | Kyle Busch Motorsports |
3 | General Tire 125 | Taylor Gray | Taylor Gray | Taylor Gray | Ford | 17 | David Gilliland Racing |
4 | Music City 200 | Jake Finch | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 18 | Kyle Busch Motorsports |
5 | Calypso Lemonade 150 | Jesse Love | Sammy Smith | Brandon Jones | Toyota | 81 | Joe Gibbs Racing |
6 | Sprecher 150 | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 18 | Kyle Busch Motorsports |
7 | Bush's Beans 200 | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Sammy Smith | Toyota | 18 | Kyle Busch Motorsports |
Notes:
(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.
Pos | Driver | NSM | FIF | DOV | NSV | IOW | MIL | BRI | Points |
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1 | Sammy Smith | 1* | 1* | 5 | 1* | 2* | 1* | 1* | 375 |
2 | Taylor Gray | 2 | 3 | 1* | 3 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 335 |
3 | Leland Honeyman (R) | 4 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 28 | 296 |
4 | Stephanie Moyer | 9 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 21 | 24 | 21 | 248 |
5 | Brad Smith | 15 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 21 | 24 | 245 |
6 | Jake Finch | 8 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 185 | ||
7 | Christian Rose | 11 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 22 | 184 | |
8 | Rajah Caruth | 4 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 152 | |||
9 | Jesse Love | 2 | 13 | 7 | 10 | 147 | |||
10 | Donald Theetge | 5 | 9 | 8 | 110 | ||||
11 | Nick Sanchez | 7 | 5 | 12 | 108 | ||||
12 | Daniel Dye | 17 | 3 | 5 | 107 | ||||
13 | Greg Van Alst | 8 | 9 | 14 | 101 | ||||
14 | Ron Vandermeir Jr. | 9 | 13 | 11 | 99 | ||||
15 | Zachary Tinkle | DNS† | 22 | 20 | 20 | 98 | |||
16 | Conner Jones | 3 | 5 | 27 | 97 | ||||
17 | Toni Breidinger | 11 | 12 | 16 | 93 | ||||
18 | Tim Monroe | 13 | 14 | 26 | 30 | 93 | |||
19 | Brandon Jones | 1 | 2 | 90 | |||||
20 | Jonathan Shafer | 7 | 4 | 77 | |||||
21 | Amber Balcaen | 10 | 14 | 31 | 77 | ||||
22 | Connor Mosack | 3 | 9 | 76 | |||||
23 | Daniel Escoto (R) | 4 | 9 | 75 | |||||
24 | Willie Mullins | 8 | 5 | 75 | |||||
25 | Nate Moeller | 15 | DNS† | 27 | 75 | ||||
26 | Tanner Arms | 6 | 15 | 67 | |||||
27 | Steve Austin (R) | 12 | 11 | 65 | |||||
28 | Michael Lira | 7 | 17 | 64 | |||||
29 | Ed Pompa | 10 | 15 | 63 | |||||
30 | Ashton Higgins | Wth | 7 | Wth | 19 | 62 | |||
31 | Tony Cosentino | 14 | 14 | 60 | |||||
32 | Alex Clubb | 16 | 28 | 29 | 59 | ||||
33 | Mason Diaz | 6 | 25 | 57 | |||||
34 | Bryce Haugeberg | 14 | 19 | 55 | |||||
35 | D. L. Wilson | 19 | 18 | 51 | |||||
36 | Tim Richmond | 23 | 17 | 48 | |||||
37 | Max Gutiérrez | 3 | Wth | 41 | |||||
38 | Mason Mingus | 4 | 40 | ||||||
39 | Brandon Varney | 6 | 38 | ||||||
40 | Landon Pembelton | 6 | 38 | ||||||
41 | Parker Chase | 6 | 38 | ||||||
42 | Logan Misuraca | 7 | 37 | ||||||
43 | Andrés Pérez de Lara | 7 | 37 | ||||||
44 | Andy Jankowiak | 8 | 36 | ||||||
45 | Matt Wilson | 9 | 35 | ||||||
46 | Ryan Roulette | 10 | 34 | ||||||
47 | Matt Gould | 10 | 34 | ||||||
48 | Caleb Costner | 13 | 31 | ||||||
49 | Tommy Vigh Jr. | 13 | 31 | ||||||
50 | Mandy Chick | 16 | 28 | ||||||
51 | Amber Slagle | 18 | 26 | ||||||
52 | Tanner Allen | 20 | 24 | ||||||
53 | Eric Caudell | Wth | 22 | 22 | |||||
54 | Mike Goudie | 23 | 21 | ||||||
55 | A. J. Moyer | 23 | 21 | ||||||
56 | Rita Thomason | 25 | 19 | ||||||
57 | Justin Carroll | 26 | 18 | ||||||
Andrew Tuttle | Wth | ||||||||
Benny Chastain | Wth‡ | ||||||||
† – Zachary Tinkle received the points of a 16th place finish for not starting the race at New Smyrna in March because he did turn a lap in qualifying for the race. The same rule would apply to Nate Moeller, who turned a lap in qualifying at Nashville Fairgrounds in May but did not start the race. ‡ – Benny Chastain crashed in practice at Five Flags, meaning he was replaced by Nate Moeller. |
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