2022 ARCA Menards Series East
The 2022 ARCA Menards Series East is be 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 will end on September 15 with the Bush's Beans 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 Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 18 car in most of  the races after he turns 18 (the minimum age to race at all tracks) on June 4, 2022. Although he competed in the season-opener at New Smyrna, it is unclear if Smith will still run full-time in the East Series in the JGR No. 18. Schedule. Dover Motor Speedway announced their 2022 race date in a tweet on September 29. The rest of the schedule was announced on November 19. Note: Races highlighted in gold are combination events with the ARCA Menards Series. Broadcasting. 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. 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. Results and standings. Drivers' championship. Notes: () Bold – Pole position awarded  by time. "Italics" – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.