2020 ARCA Menards Series

The 2020 ARCA Menards Series season is the 68th season of the ARCA Menards Series. It began on February 8 with the Lucas Oil 200 at Daytona International Speedway and will end on October 16 with the Kansas ARCA 150 at Kansas Speedway. It will be the first season as a NASCAR-sanctioned series and will be the first to include the Sioux Chief Showdown, a series of ten short-track and road course races within the season. 2020 will also mark the first year that cars from the ARCA Menards Series East and ARCA Menards Series West will be able to compete in the national series.
When the season was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, drivers from all NASCAR series, including some ARCA Menards Series drivers, participated in the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational Series during that time.

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Limited schedule

Notes: "E" stands for the ARCA East Series and "W" stands for the ARCA West Series

Manufacturer	Team		Driver	Crew chief	Rounds
Chevrolet	Brad Smith Motorsports	48	Brad Smith	Leo Kryger Terry Strange Jeff Smith Arlis Basham
Chevrolet	Charles Buchanan Racing	87	Chuck Buchanan Jr.	Craig Wood
Chevrolet	Cook-Finley Racing	42	Kyle Sieg	Sean Samuels
Chevrolet	CR7 Motorsports	97	Jason Kitzmiller	Doug George
Chevrolet	Empire Racing	82	Sean Corr	Mike Cheek
Chevrolet	John Ferrier Racing	01	John Ferrier	Jeff McClure
Chevrolet	GMS Racing	21	Sam Mayer	Mardy Lindley
Chevrolet	KBR Development	28	David Gravel	Frank Kimmel
Chevrolet	Max Force Racing	9	Thomas Praytor	Tevin Bair
Chevrolet	McGowan Motorsports Inc.	17W	Zane Smith	Bruce Cook
Chevrolet	Our Motorsports	02	Andy Seuss	John Merlo
Chevrolet	Our Motorsports	09	Benny Chastain	Bob Schacht
Chevrolet	Reeves Racing	88	Scott Reeves	Brian Finney
Chevrolet	Spraker Racing Enterprises	63	Dave Mader III	Jeff Spraker
Chevrolet	Win-Tron Racing	32	Gus Dean	Jamie Jones
Chevrolet	Win-Tron Racing	32	Howie DiSavino III	Jamie Jones
Chevrolet	Visconti Motorsports	74	Giovanni Bromante	Steven Keller
Chevrolet	Visconti Motorsports	74	Austin Green	Steven Keller
Ford	CCM Racing	7	Eric Caudell	Jeremy Petty
Ford	Chad Bryant Racing	77	Jacob Heafner	Chad Bryant
Ford	Ken Schrader Racing with Fury Race Cars	52	Natalie Decker	Tony Eury Jr.
Ford	Mullins Racing	3	Willie Mullins	Tony Furr
Ford	Rette Jones Racing	30	Dominique Van Wieringen	Logan Yiengst
Toyota	Bill McAnally Racing	12W	Lawless Alan	Gary Collins
Toyota	Bill McAnally Racing	16	Giovanni Scelzi	John Camilleri
Toyota	Bill McAnally Racing	19	Jesse Love	Kyle Wolosek
Toyota	Bill McAnally Racing	99	Gracie Trotter	Roger Bracken
Toyota	Hattori Racing Enterprises	1	Max McLaughlin	Dave McCarty
Toyota	J. J. Pack Racing	61	J. J. Pack	Dan Givins
Toyota	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Takuma Koga	Ron Norman
Toyota	Rev Racing	4E	Chase Cabre	Glenn Parker
Toyota	Rev Racing	6	Nick Sanchez	Steve Plattenberger
Toyota	TC Motorsports	91	Justin S. Carroll	Jim Long
Toyota	Venturini Motorsports	55	Corey Heim	TBA
Chevrolet Toyota	Empire Racing	8	Sean Corr	Derick Hartnagel Mike Cheek
Chevrolet Toyota	Empire Racing	8	Russ Lane	Derick Hartnagel Mike Cheek
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Fast Track Racing	01	Armani Williams	Dick Doheny Trey Galgon
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Fast Track Racing	01	Tommy Vigh Jr.	Dick Doheny Trey Galgon
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Fast Track Racing	01	Mike Basham	Dick Doheny Trey Galgon
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Kimmel Racing	69	Scott Melton	Bill Kimmel
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Kimmel Racing	69	Brian Finney	Bill Kimmel
Ford Toyota Chevrolet	Kimmel Racing	69	Eric Caudell	Bill Kimmel
Chevrolet TBA	Wayne Peterson Racing	0	Con Nicolopoulos	Michael Peterson

Changes

Teams

After not competing at all in ARCA for the past two years, Josh Williams announced he would bring his team back and field a Ford in the season-opener at Daytona. On January 19, 2020, he stated that his No. 60 car would run part-time with various drivers and sponsors that have yet to be determined. Despite this announcement, Williams' team did not end up attempting Daytona due to lack of sponsorship.
On November 20, 2019, it was announced that longtime East Series team Rev Racing would run in the ARCA Series for the first time, fielding two cars during the Showdown races.
On November 25, 2019, it was announced that longtime West Series team Performance P-1 Motorsports would run in the ARCA Series for the first time during the Showdown races.
On December 17, 2019, it was announced that DGR-Crosley would field an entry in ARCA full-time for the first time in 2020, which will be their No. 4 car. They had previously only run part-time in the series with their No. 54 in both 2018 and 2019 as well as the No. 4 in 2019.
On January 18, 2020, it was announced that driver Eric Caudell's team, CCM Racing, was interested in fielding a second car this season in at least some of the same races in which Caudell's No. 7 would be competing in if they could find a driver that brought sponsorship.
On January 23, 2020, it was announced that for the race at Daytona, Ken Schrader Racing would jointly field their No. 52 car with Fury Race Cars, a team that mostly runs in late models but did run a team in the Xfinity Series in 2018. Natalie Decker will be the driver at that race, and she has driven for Fury in the past.
On February 17, 2020, West Series team Velocity Racing announced plans to enter the race at Phoenix with their No. 78 car and driver Jack Wood, however, they ended up not attempting that race.
On May 9, 2020, KBR Development announced that the team had closed. The team fielded an entry for David Gravel in one of two 2020 races that occurred before the team's closure.
On June 18, 2020, it was announced that Willie Mullins would be attempting the rescheduled Talladega race on June 20 in Fast Track Racing's No. 11 car. He was going to attempt the race in his own No. 3, but cancelled those plans after his team encountered financial problems due to COVID-19. Not knowing this, Fast Track owner Andy Hillenburg gave Mullins a call asking why he was not on the entry list, and then he offered him that ride for the race.
Drivers
On November 14, 2019, it was announced that 2019 series champion Christian Eckes would move up to the Truck Series full-time for Kyle Busch Motorsports starting in 2020, a team he also drove for in that series part-time in 2018 and 2019. Eckes had driven in ARCA either full or part-time in the No. 15 Toyota for Venturini Motorsports for the last four years.
On November 20, 2019, it was announced that Chase Cabre and Nick Sanchez would drive the two cars for Rev Racing in the ARCA Showdown races. It will be both drivers' first starts in ARCA.
On November 25, 2019, it was announced that Takuma Koga would be driving for Performance P-1 Motorsports in the ARCA Showdown races. This will be his first time racing in ARCA, and he will become the first Japanese driver to run in the series since Hideo Fukuyama in 2003.
On December 10, 2019, it was announced that Ty Majeski, who drove part-time for Chad Bryant Racing last year, would be moving up to the Truck Series full-time in 2020 with Niece Motorsports, driving the No. 45 Chevrolet, so he will no longer drive for CBR or be part of Ford's driver development program.
On December 17, 2019, it was announced that Hailie Deegan would be driving the No. 4 Ford for DGR-Crosley full-time and for rookie of the year. She also has moved over from Toyota's driver development program to Ford's. Previously, Deegan drove full-time for two years in the West Series for Bill McAnally Racing.
On December 18, 2019, it was announced that Drew Dollar, who drove part-time in the East, West, and ARCA Series for DGR-Crosley in 2019, would replace Eckes in the No. 15 for Venturini, running the full season and for rookie of the year.
On December 18, 2019, it was announced that Taylor Gray would run all of the ARCA Showdown races for DGR-Crosley in the No. 17 Ford, with the exception of the first of those races at Phoenix Raceway because he will not have turned 15 and old enough to race in the series yet.
On December 20, 2019, it was announced that Ryan Repko would drive the No. 20 for Venturini Motorsports in five races, sharing the car with Chandler Smith. In 2019, he ran a few races in the Xfinity Series for JD Motorsports and prior to that, one ARCA race in both 2017 and 2018 for Mason Mitchell Motorsports.
On December 23, 2019, it was announced that Tim Richmond, who drove all but three races and for rookie of the year in the No. 06 for Wayne Peterson in 2019, would run full-time for the team in 2020. However, the plan of Richmond competing in every single race ended at the fourth race of the season at Pocono, where Richmond decided not to compete in the race due to the Peterson team suffering engine issues in their Toyota car at Talladega the week prior. After originally being on the Pocono entry list, Richmond was replaced by teammate Don Thompson in the No. 06, and the No. 0, the car Thompson was slated to drive, was withdrawn.
On January 2, 2020, Bobby Gerhart announced that he has decided to not drive this season after suffering a heart attack on Christmas. However, he did say that he would still like to field his team at Daytona with another driver in his Truck and ARCA rides. The Gerhart team ended up not even entering either race with someone else driving.
On January 5, 2020, Travis Braden revealed that he would not run full-time in the series in 2020. He instead will be focusing on running more late model races and debuting in NASCAR's top three series in select races if he is able to find a ride.
On January 9, 2020, it was announced that Thad Moffitt, Richard Petty's grandson, would drive a DGR-Crosley car at the season-opener at Daytona. He previously drove for Empire Racing part-time for three years.
On January 10, 2020, Chad Bryant Racing announced that Connor Hall and Jacob Heafner would drive their No. 22 and No. 77 cars at Daytona.
On January 10, 2020, it was announced that World of Outlaws driver David Gravel would run some ARCA races, including Daytona, in the No. 28 for KBR Development in addition to competing in the Truck Series part-time for GMS Racing this season.
On January 16, 2020, it was announced that Corey Heim would be driving for Venturini Motorsports in two races at DuQuoin and the season-finale at Kansas. He'll also run three ARCA East Series races and two ARCA West Series races, also with Venturini. Last season, he drove part-time in the No. 22 for Chad Bryant Racing and finished in the top-10 in points despite not running every race.
On January 18, 2020, it was announced that Scott Melton would not be running as many ARCA races in 2020 as he did in 2019 and has instead decided to focus on running late model races this season. He will return to Kimmel Racing for Daytona but has no other races in the series planned after that. Last year, he ran a chunk of the season for the Kimmel team in their No. 69, scoring two top-10 finishes.
On June 5, 2020, Chad Bryant Racing announced that Brandon Lynn would drive for the team in the No. 22 at Talladega and Watkins Glen. He has driven part-time in ARCA since 2015, and was the polesitter and finished third in the same race last year in the Venturini Motorsports No. 20.
Crew chiefs
On December 18, 2019, it was announced that Shannon Rursch would be the crew chief of the No. 15 Venturini team, replacing Kevin Reed. In 2019, Rursch crew chiefed Venturini's No. 25 car. On January 23, 2020, it was announced that Reed would be the crew chief of the Venturini Motorsports No. 25, making it a crew chief swap with Rursch.
Manufacturers
On December 11, 2019, DGR-Crosley announced that they would be switching from Toyota to Ford beginning in 2020.
Rule changes

Beginning this season, NASCAR allowed ARCA teams in the East, West, and the big 20-race ARCA Menards Series to run the same car number in a race together like in lower levels of racing. The first time this occurred was in the East Series opener at New Smyrna when Chuck Hiers and Robert Pawlowski both used the No. 11, with Pawlowski as the No. 11E. In this series, the first time this happened was in the race at Phoenix, with Hailie Deegan and Chase Cabre sharing the No. 4, with Cabre as the No. 4E, Tom Berte and Lawless Alan sharing the No. 12, with Alan as the No. 12W and Tanner Gray sharing the No. 17 with Zane Smith, with Smith as the No. 17W. The reason for which teams had the letter "E" or "W" next to their number was because those teams come from the ARCA East and West Series. Previously, under the old format of the NASCAR K&N East and West Series, when teams from both of those series held combination races each year at Iowa Speedway, one team was forced to switch their car number after qualifying if they were slower than the other. For example, the No. 6 Rev Racing team in the East Series and the No. 6 Sunrise Ford Racing team in the West Series would race together, and one of those teams would usually use the No. 66 or No. 69 in the race.
Another rule change this season was the implementation of NASCAR's one-point per position point system for the ARCA standings. ARCA had previously used the point system that NASCAR used each year from 2010 on back. When NASCAR switched their standings to this system in 2011, ARCA was not owned by NASCAR, and ARCA decided to keep the old system in place for this series. Now that ARCA is owned by NASCAR, they decided to switch the point system to remain consistent with all of NASCAR's series which use it. There is one small difference that ARCA has, however. The pole winner gets one bonus point, which the NASCAR series do not have. This means the maximum number of points a driver can earn for one race is 49. Michael Self was able to accomplish this at Daytona and Chandler Smith did it at IRP.
Finally, composite bodies were made mandatory for all events. Previously, in 2018 and 2019, composite bodies were only mandatory for restrictor-plate races. This rule meant the end of the fourth-generation steel bodies, as well as the presence of Dodge in the ARCA Menards Series, as Dodge had pulled factory support from the series and all NASCAR series except for the Pinty's Series in Canada after 2012.

Schedule

The complete schedule was released on October 10, 2019. That came after a soft reveal of some Showdown tracks on October 2. Five Flags Speedway, Fairgrounds Speedway, and Toledo Speedway were taken and moved from the ARCA schedule to the East Series schedule. Additionally, Salem Speedway and Pocono Raceway, which each had two ARCA races in 2019, were both reduced to have only one race in 2020. In their places, Phoenix Raceway, Bristol Motor Speedway and Memphis International Raceway were added to the schedule, and the series returned to road courses for the first time since Road America in 2017 with the addition of Watkins Glen International and Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course to the schedule. Watkins Glen, Bristol, and Memphis were all previously part of the East Series schedule.
The Sioux Chief Showdown is a ten-race series within the schedule, consisting mostly of short tracks, that will have a separate points tally and champion.

Sioux Chief Showdown events are in bold.
Broadcasting

and MAVTV will continue to share broadcasting rights of the 20 races of the schedule, consistent with previous years. MAVTV will broadcast 12 races, FS1 will broadcast seven races, and the remaining race will be broadcast on FS2.

Schedule changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic

It was announced that all ARCA races would be postponed through May 3, which meant that the races at Salem, Talladega, Mid-Ohio and Michigan had to be postponed to another time in the season. The series' first race back after the pandemic would later be Talladega's race, the General Tire 200, which was rescheduled to June 20 from April 24. That would be followed by the Pocono and IRP races, which kept their same dates and then a race at Kentucky Speedway on July 11, which replaced the cancelled Charlotte race. Additionally, the race at Chicagoland Speedway, which was scheduled for June 18, was cancelled and replaced by a second race at Kansas Speedway on July 24. The standalone race at Elko Speedway was previously scheduled for July 11 and had to be postponed to later in the season as well due to Kentucky now being on that day. The new date for Elko as well as the ones for Salem and Mid-Ohio.
On July 8, 2020, NASCAR announced the series' schedule in the month of August. This included the addition of a race at the Daytona infield road course which replaced the cancelled Watkins Glen International race, the Great Outdoors RV Superstore 100. The race will be held on August 14 and will be part of the Sioux Chief Showdown. In that announcement, it was also revealed the dates of Michigan International Speedway race, which was rescheduled to August 9 from June 5. Gateway remained on the schedule and now will be held on August 29 instead of August 1, the original date. Consequently, the race at Madison International Speedway scheduled to August 7 had to be postponed to later in the season as well as the race at Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack.
On July 14, 2020, it was announced that the races at Mid-Ohio and Elko would be cancelled and replaced with a two race doubleheader at Toledo. Both Mid-Ohio and Elko were going to be Showdown races, and as a result, their replacement races at Toledo races will be part of the Showdown. ARCA did say that Mid-Ohio and Elko would be put on the 2021 schedule after each track lost their race date for 2020, and that the races at Madison and Springfield would stay on the schedule but receive different dates later in the year after the month of August. Those races were originally scheduled for August 7 and 23, respectfully.
Results and standings

Races

Drivers' championship

Note: The pole-winner also receives 1 bonus point, similar to the previous ARCA points system used until 2019 and unlike NASCAR.
Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

	Driver	DAY	PHO	TAL	POC	IRP	KEN	IOW	KAN	TOL	TOL	MCH	DAY	GTW	DSF	BRI	MEM	KAN	SLM	MAD	ISF	Points
1	Michael Self	1*	2	5	5	8	3	6	6													374
2	Bret Holmes	9	15	3	4	7	2	3	1*													365
3	Drew Dollar '	3	14	1*	6	14	5	17	7													340
4	Hailie Deegan '	2	7	7	7	3	14	18	9													335
5	Thad Moffitt	5	18	6	20	5	15	10	10													313
6	Ryan Huff	21	24	12	9	16	8		13													255
7	Ty Gibbs		3*		1*	15	1*	1*														218
8	Tanner Gray	16	4	13	15		9		5													203
9	Sam Mayer		20		3	2	4	2														191
10	Chandler Smith		1		2	1*		4														180
11	Brad Smith	31		20	13	17	12	19	16													180
12	Scott Melton	10		11	10		17	15														157
13	Jason Kitzmiller	32		8	14		10		11													145
14	Ryan Repko	22		2			6		2													144
15	Derek Griffith				8	12	7		8													141
16	Riley Herbst	7		4					3													120
17	Sean Corr	4		9	12																	108
18	Tim Richmond	18	23	17		20		13														108
19	Willie Mullins	8		18			11															95
20	Eric Caudell	17		14					12													89
21	Howie DiSavino III		21			9		16														86
22	Con Nicolopoulos	14		21					15													82
23	Dick Doheny					18	13	21														80
24	Taylor Gray					4		5														79
25	Mike Basham					19		20	17													76
26	Max McLaughlin					6		7														75
27	Giovanni Scelzi		10					11														67
28	Ed Pompa			10	11																	67
29	Jesse Love		16					12														60
30	Gracie Trotter		22					9														57
31	Don Thompson				18		16															54
32	Russ Lane				17				18													53
33	Tommy Vigh Jr.			19	19																	50
34	Gus Dean	23		16																		49
35	Corey Heim								4													40
36	Zane Smith		5																			39
37	Jason White	6																				38
38	Nick Sanchez		6																			38
39	Chase Cabre		8																			36
40	Kody Swanson							8														36
41	Lawless Alan		9																			35
42	Kyle Sieg					10																34
43	Thomas Praytor	11																				33
44	Dawson Cram		11																			33
45	Brian Finney					11																33
46	David Gravel	12																				32
47	Christian McGhee		12																			32
48	Chuck Buchanan Jr.	13																				31
49	Takuma Koga		13																			31
50	Justin S. Carroll					13																31
51	Rick Clifton							14														30
52	Tyler Hill								14													30
53	Benny Chastain	15																				29
54	Brandon Lynn			15																		29
55	Clay Greenfield				16																	28
56	Armani Williams		17																			27
57	Chuck Hiers	19																				25
58	Tom Berte		19																			25
59	Connor Hall	20																				24
60	J. J. Pack	24																				20
61	Dominique Van Wieringen	25																				19
62	Natalie Decker	26																				18
63	Jacob Heafner	27																				17
64	Andy Seuss	28																				16
65	John Ferrier	29																				15
66	Dave Mader III	30																				14
67	Scott Reeves	33																				11

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2020 ARCA Menards Series

Teams and drivers

Complete schedule

Limited schedule

Changes

Teams

Drivers

Crew chiefs

Manufacturers

Rule changes

Schedule

Broadcasting

Schedule changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Results and standings

Races

Drivers' championship