ARCA racing is in full force. On Saturday (April 22), both the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West held events at Talladega Superspeedway and Kern County Raceway Park, respectively. Both series have completed three races apiece. On Friday (April 28), the ARCA Menards Series East will contest the second event of its season.
Beginning on April 22, at least one of the three series will have a race every weekend through Sept. 14. That’s 22 straight weekends of ARCA racing, ranging from road courses to dirt tracks to intermediates.
While only seven of the 40 total ARCA events have been run thus far in 2023, there have only been two drivers with more than one victories on the ARCA circuit: Sean Hingorani and Tyler Reif, who won the combination race at Phoenix Raceway featuring the main and West series, thereby gaining a win in both series.
Nevertheless, as ARCA racing kicks into high gear, what statistics have stood out thus far?
2,100
Venturini Motorsports accomplished a historic first in ARCA history: it won two ARCA events on the same day at two different racetracks on Saturday. The approximate distance between the two: 2,100 miles.
To begin the day, Jesse Love won for the first time in 2023 as he led a race-high 35 laps to win at Talladega. That night, Hingorani fully recovered from a race-opening pass-through penalty which put him one lap down as he wound up winning at Kern County, giving him back-to-back West series wins.
This week, Hingorani is the only driver chasing two ARCA-sanctioned championships as it was confirmed that Reif will not contest for the East title.
Hingorani is part of a massive undertaking by VMS. It is seeking to win both the owners’ and drivers’ championships in all three ARCA series. Currently none of its teams nor drivers lead any of those standings, but as the VMS brigade showed on Saturday, the distance between racetracks is irrelevant. The organization is up to the task.
4.994
Despite Hingorani’s two West wins, Landen Lewis is the series points leader. Incredibly, Lewis has three straight runner-up finishes, by a combined 4.994 seconds.
In a collaboration between Bruce Cook and Steve McGowan, Lewis leads the series in top fives, laps led and unsurprisingly, average finish. Hingorani by the way trails Lewis by nine points.
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