2020 ARCA Menards Series West

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 ARCA Menards Series West

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Champions | Seasons

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.

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	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
	Legal Limit Motorsports	80	Brian Kamisky	Dereck Copeland	2
	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]
  • Gio Scelzi replaces 2019 champion Derek Kraus in the No. 16, who moves to the Truck Series full-time with the team.
  • Jesse Love replaces Hailie Deegan in the No. 19, who left BMR and Toyota's driver development program to compete in the 20-race ARCA Menards Series with DGR-Crosley as well as join Ford's driver development program.
  • Holley Hollan will drive the No. 50 full-time, which was run part-time in 2019.
  • Gracie Trotter will drive the No. 99, replacing Brittney Zamora, who started the 2020 season without a ride.
• 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

• 2020 NASCAR Cup Series
• 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series
• 2020 NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series
• 2020 ARCA Menards Series
• 2020 ARCA Menards Series East
• 2020 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour
• 2020 NASCAR Pinty's Series
• 2020 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
• 2020 eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series
• 2020 EuroNASCAR Esports Series

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