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Jesse Love, the 2020 ARCA Menards Series West champion.
Blaine Perkins, driving the No. 9 car for Sunrise Ford Racing, finished second behind Love in the championship by 25 points.
Gracie Trotter finished third in the championship.

The 2020 ARCA Menards Series West was the sixty-seventh season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR. It began on February 20 at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring with the Star Nursery 150, and ended on November 6 at Phoenix Raceway with the Arizona Lottery 100.

2020 marked the first season of this series under the ARCA banner.

When the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drivers from all NASCAR series, including a few ARCA Menards series drivers, participated in the inaugural eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series during that time.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief
Ford Sunrise Ford Racing 6 Trevor Huddleston [1] Bill Sedgwick
9 Blaine Perkins Jeff Schrader
Toyota Bill McAnally Racing 16 Gio Scelzi (R) [2] John Camilleri [1]
19 Jesse Love (R) [2] Kyle Wolosek 7
Jason Dickenson 4
99 Gracie Trotter (R) [2] Roger Bracken [1]
Central Coast Racing 13 Todd Souza Michael Muñoz
Performance P-1 Motorsports 77 Takuma Koga Ron Norman 6
Gere Kennon Jr. 1
Will Harris 1
Chris Greaney 3
Toyota 3
Chevrolet 8 		Hillis Racing 27 Bobby Hillis Jr. Henry Manh 9
Ed Ash 2

Limited schedule

Manufacturer Team No. Driver Crew chief Rounds
Chevrolet Brian Kamisky Racing 80 Brian Kamisky Dereck Copeland 2
Chad Bryant Racing 22 Kris Wright [N 1] Paul Andrews 1
Fast Track Racing 10 Cody Erickson Mike Sroufe 1
GMS Racing 21 Sam Mayer Mardy Lindley 2 [3]
Kart Idaho Racing 11 Chris Lowden Sonny Wahl 1
Dustin Ash 1
Steve McGowan Motorsports 17 Zane Smith Sean Samuels 1
Win-Tron Racing 32 Howie DiSavino III Jamie Jones 1
Zach Telford Racing 17 Zach Telford Danny Christiani 1
Ford Borneman Motorsports 8 Johnny Borneman III Will Harris 1
DGR-Crosley 4 David Gilliland Derek Smith 1
17 Taylor Gray Blake Bainbridge 2
Seth Smith 2
Chad Johnston 1 		5
54 Todd Gilliland Chris Lawson 1
JP Racing [4] 7 Austin Reed Jerry Pitts 1
Kris Wright 2
Devin Dodson 2
Kyle Keller 2
Rette Jones Racing 30 Justin Lofton Mark Rette 1
Toyota Bill McAnally Racing 12 Lawless Alan (R) Gary Collins 4
Alex Sedgwick Kevin Bellicourt 1
50 Holley Hollan (R) [2] Henry Nascimento 10
Fast Track Racing 12 Chris Hacker [N 2] Kevin Cram 1
Joe Gibbs Racing 18 Ty Gibbs Mark McFarland 1
Naake-Klauer Motorsports 54 Joey Iest Mike Naake 4
Velocity Racing 78 Jack Wood Ty Joiner 8 [5]
Venturini Motorsports 15 Drew Dollar Shannon Rursch 1
20 Ryan Repko Kevin Reed Jr. 1
Corey Heim Billy Venturini 1 [6]
25 Mason Diaz Kevin Reed 2
Keith Rocco 1
Chevrolet 2
Ford 1 		Jefferson Racing [4] 42 Will Rodgers Jeff Jefferson 2
Brittney Zamora 1
Chevrolet 1
Toyota 8 		BMI Racing 88 Bridget Burgess Sarah Burgess 9

Notes

  1. ^ Entry was fielded in a collaboration with GMS Racing.
  2. ^ Entry was fielded in a collaboration with Cram Racing Enterprises.

Changes

Teams

  • On August 14, 2019, longtime West Series team Jefferson Pitts Racing announced that they would be splitting up into two teams, with Jeff Jefferson owning Jefferson Racing (and the new No. 42 car) and Jerry Pitts owning JP Racing (and the previously existing No. 7 car). [4] This continues into 2020, with both teams running part-time schedules.
  • Bill McAnally Racing announced that they would be fielding four full-time teams in 2020 (up from three in 2019), with their No. 50 Toyota, previously a part-time car, running full-time in 2020 along with the Nos. 16, 19, and 99. However, on January 31, 2020, they announced a fifth full-time car, the No. 12, for Lawless Alan, who drove the same car part-time last season. This brings BMR up to five full-time teams for five rookie drivers.
  • Venturini Motorsports will field a West Series team for the first time in 2020, with Corey Heim driving a car for them at Sonoma and the season-finale at Phoenix (as well as three races in the ARCA East Series and two in the big ARCA Menards Series). [6]

Drivers

  • On January 14, 2020, Bill McAnally Racing announced their 2020 driver lineup, with all four of their drivers new to the team and running for rookie of the year. [2]
  • On January 16, 2020, Corey Heim was announced as the driver of Venturini Motorsports' new part-time ARCA West Series team. [6]
  • On January 29, 2020, it was announced that Blaine Perkins would be driving full-time for Sunrise Ford Racing in 2020, replacing 2019 rookie of the year and 2nd-place points finisher Jagger Jones as a driver on that team. Perkins was without a ride in any NASCAR or ARCA Series in 2019, and drove full-time for two years ( 2016 and 2017) in the West Series for Steve Portenga's team before running part-time in the ARCA Menards Series in 2018 for Mason Mitchell's team. Perkins will drive the No. 9, replacing Trevor Huddleston, who moves from the No. 9 to the No. 6 which was Jones' car in 2019.
  • On January 31, 2020, it was announced that Lawless Alan, who drove the No. 12 part-time for Bill McAnally Racing last year, would run full-time in the same car this season in addition to the other four drivers the team announced two weeks prior.
  • On March 16, 2020, Zamora, who had lost her ride in the McAnally No. 99 to Trotter, tweeted that she would be attempting the race at Irwindale in the No. 42 Ford for Jefferson Racing.

Schedule

On January 6, 2020, NASCAR released the schedule for the 2020 season. [7] As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the schedule decreased from fourteen races in 2019 to eleven races in 2020. The number of races was originally ten, however, an additional race at Utah Motorsports Campus was announced on March 3, 2020. [8]

As part of the unification of the East and West series with the ARCA Menards Series, the West will participate in the Sioux Chief Showdown, a ten-race series within the main ARCA series featuring drivers from each of the three branches. [9]

In terms of TV, NBC will continue to broadcast the West Series schedule on tape delay as they have in the past. [10]

No. Race title Track Date
1 Star Nursery 150 Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas February 20
2 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 [8] Utah Motorsports Campus, Grantsville June 27 [11]
3
4 ENEOS 125 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Irwindale Speedway, Irwindale July 4
5 ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 100 Evergreen Speedway, Monroe August 7
6 ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 150 Douglas County Speedway, Roseburg August 8
7 ENEOS 150 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Colorado National Speedway, Dacono August 22
8 General Tire 150 [N 1] Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Bullring), Las Vegas September 26
9 NAPA 125 presented by CashInTheCan.com All American Speedway, Roseville October 23
10 NAPA/ENEOS 125 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Kern County Raceway Park, Bakersfield October 25
11 Arizona Lottery 100 Phoenix Raceway, Avondale November 7
  1. ^ LVMS Bullring's second race replaced the Meridian Speedway race.

Schedule changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  • It was announced that all ARCA (and NASCAR) races would be postponed through May 3, which affects the race at Irwindale, which will need to be run at another time in the season. [12] That race was previously scheduled for March 28. The races at Douglas County, Utah Motorsports Campus, and Colorado would also end up being postponed from their original dates of May 16, May 23, and June 6, respectively.
  • The Procore 200 at Sonoma Raceway was cancelled and replaced by a second race at Utah Motorsports Campus [13] which was run as a doubleheader with their other race on the schedule, which was postponed from May 23 to June 27.
  • On July 14, 2020, it was announced that the race at Douglas County would be on Saturday, August 8, which was the date of the Evergreen race, which was bumped back one day to Friday, August 7. The two races will be run on back to back days. The tracks are a six-hour drive from each other and teams will travel from Evergreen to Douglas County in the night and morning between the two races. It was also announced that the race at Meridian would not be on August 29 as previously scheduled, and that the race would remain on the schedule but would have a different date later in the year after the month of August. [14] However, the race at Meridian Speedway was later cancelled and replaced with a race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring. [15]

Results and standings

Races

No. Race Pole Position Most laps led Winning driver Manufacturer No. Winning team
1 Star Nursery 150 Sam Mayer Sam Mayer Sam Mayer Chevrolet 21 GMS Racing
2 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 Blaine Perkins Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
3 ENEOS/Sunrise Ford Twin 30 Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
4 ENEOS 125 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Jesse Love Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
5 ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 100 Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
6 ENEOS/NAPA Auto Parts 150 Gio Scelzi Blaine Perkins Blaine Perkins Ford 9 Sunrise Ford Racing
7 ENEOS 150 presented by NAPA Auto Parts Jesse Love Jesse Love Jesse Love Toyota 19 Bill McAnally Racing
8 General Tire 150 Jesse Love Gracie Trotter Gracie Trotter Toyota 99 Bill McAnally Racing
9 NAPA 125 presented by CashInTheCan.com Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Gio Scelzi Toyota 16 Bill McAnally Racing
10 NAPA/ENEOS 125 presented by West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame Jesse Love Taylor Gray Taylor Gray Ford 17 DGR-Crosley
11 Arizona Lottery 100 David Gilliland Ty Gibbs David Gilliland Ford 4 DGR-Crosley

Drivers' championship

Further information: List of NASCAR points scoring systems

Note: The pole-winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.

( 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 LVS MMP MMP IRW EVG DCS CNS LVS AAS KCR PHO Points
1 Jesse Love (R) 2 1* 2 1* 4 3 1* 3 4 8 14 513
2 Blaine Perkins 3 11 1** 4 1** 1* 2 10 5 3 25 488
3 Gracie Trotter (R) 4 7 7 3 5 2 4 1* 10 5 9 482
4 Trevor Huddleston 5 13 5 2 2 5 6 12 3 4 7 472
5 Gio Scelzi (R) 10 3 4 14 3 4 3 2 1 9 27 460
6 Todd Souza 8 6 6 7 7 11 8 5 2 7 17 450
7 Takuma Koga 11 14 14 10 9 8 9 6 9 12 23 409
8 Bobby Hillis Jr. 13 10 13 16 10 10 11 8 13 11 20 399
9 Holley Hollan (R) 12 9 10 11 6 7 7 9 6 15 398
10 Bridget Burgess 17 12 11 9 10 7 11 14 22 283
11 Jack Wood 7 15 8 6 5 8 10 24 269
12 Taylor Gray 4 11 7* 1* 3 202
13 Lawless Alan (R) 6 12 12 9 137
14 Joey Iest 14 11 13 12 126
15 Kris Wright 2 3 18 109
16 Kyle Keller 4 6 78
17 Mason Diaz 12 2 76
18 Will Rodgers 5 8 75
19 Sam Mayer 1* 21 72
20 Brian Kamisky 8 9 71
21 Devin Dodson 5 16 67
22 David Gilliland 1 48
23 Ty Gibbs 2* 44
24 Todd Gilliland 4 40
25 Drew Dollar 5 39
26 Johnny Borneman III 6 38
27 Justin Lofton 6 38
28 Dustin Ash 8 36
29 Corey Heim 8 36
30 Austin Reed 9 35
31 Keith Rocco 10 34
32 Howie DiSavino III 11 33
33 Brittney Zamora 13 31
34 Alex Sedgwick 13 31
35 Chris Lowden 15 29
36 Chris Hacker 15 29
37 Zach Telford 16 28
38 Ryan Repko 16 28
39 Cody Erickson 19 25
40 Zane Smith 26 18

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c Christley, Jason (January 29, 2020). "New Faces Readying For West Coast Title Run". ARCARacing.com. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Seelman, Jacob (January 14, 2020). "Four Rookies Chasing ARCA West Title With BMR". Speed Sport. Turn 3 Media, LLC.
  3. ^ "Full Schedule-Sam Mayer". SamMayerRacing.com. December 18, 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "Jefferson Pitts Racing Taking Separate Paths". Newswire. August 14, 2019.
  5. ^ "Jack Wood announces ARCA campaign starting Thursday at Las Vegas". Speedway Digest. February 17, 2020. Retrieved February 29, 2020.
  6. ^ a b c Krall, Charles (January 16, 2020). "Corey Heim Joins Venturini Motorsports for Seven-race ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East/West Run". ARCARacing.com.
  7. ^ Krall, Charles (January 6, 2020). "ARCA Menards Series West 2020 Schedule Announced". ARCA Menards Series. Retrieved January 6, 2020.[ permanent dead link]
  8. ^ a b "West To Return To Utah Motorsports Campus". ARCARacing.com. March 3, 2020.
  9. ^ "10 Events For ARCA Menards Series West". Speed Sport. January 6, 2020. Retrieved January 6, 2020.
  10. ^ "NASCAR, ARCA announce framework for four championship series in 2020". NASCAR.com. NASCAR Digital Media Group, LLC. October 2, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  11. ^ Christley, Jason (June 5, 2020). "ARCA Menards Series West Returns To Racing at Utah & Irwindale". ARCARacing.com. Retrieved June 6, 2020.
  12. ^ "Statement From ARCA Racing". ARCARacing.com. March 16, 2020. Retrieved March 28, 2020.
  13. ^ Norris, Brad. "NASCAR realigns 2020 schedule, shifts events from Chicagoland, Richmond, Sonoma". NASCAR.com. Retrieved May 18, 2020.
  14. ^ "ARCA Menards Series Revises Schedule Through End of August". ARCARacing.com. July 14, 2020.
  15. ^ "ARCA Finalizes Remainder of 2020 Schedule" (Press release). ARCARacing.com. September 11, 2020. Retrieved September 11, 2020.
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