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2010 ARCA Racing Series

Patrick Sheltra, driving the No. 60 car for his self-owned team, won the 2010 series championship.
Tom Hessert III, driving the No. 77 car for Cunningham Motorsports, finished third in the championship.

The 2010 ARCA Racing Series presented by Re/MAX and Menards was the 58th season of the ARCA Racing Series. The season began on February 6 with the Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 and ended on October 9 with the American 200 presented by Black's Tire and Auto Service. Patrick Sheltra, driving for his own team, Sheltra Motorsports, won the championship.

This season was notable for the season-opening race, the 2010 Lucas Oil Slick Mist 200 at Daytona, which had the largest audience of any ARCA event in the history of the series with 2.4 million viewers tuning in on the Speed Channel. The high viewership was due to the fact that Danica Patrick was competing in the event, which was her first stock car start as part of her move from the IndyCar Series to NASCAR.[1] This garnered a lot more media coverage for the ARCA Series and attention to the series as a whole by race fans starting that year.

Teams and drivers

Note: If under "team", the owner's name is listed and in italics, that means the name of the race team that fielded the car is unknown.

Complete schedule

Limited schedule

Danica Patrick made her stock car debut in the season-opener at Daytona with her Nationwide Series team JR Motorsports fielding a No. 7 car in the ARCA race in order for her to be approved to race in the Nationwide Series race at Daytona the next week.

Notes

  1. ^ It was a Hixson Motorsports entry using Bobby Gerhart Racing's owner points.
  2. ^ It was a K & K Racing entry using Bobby Gerhart Racing's owner points.
  3. ^ It was a K & K Racing entry using Mark Gibson Racing's owner points.
  4. ^ It was a Littleton Motorsports entry using Bobby Gerhart Racing's owner points.
  5. ^ It was a Mark Gibson Racing entry using Fast Track Racing's owner points.
  6. ^ The team's entry at Michigan was fielded in a collaboration with RAB Racing.
  7. ^ It was a Mark Gibson Racing entry using Roulo Brothers Racing's owner points.

Schedule

Changes

A second road course was added to the schedule with the February 27 race at Palm Beach International Raceway.

Results and standings

Races

Drivers' championship

(key) Bold – Pole position awarded by time. Italics – Pole position set by final practice results or rainout. * – Most laps led.

References

  1. ^ Demmons, Doug (2010-02-10). "Danica's ARCA race drew a record audience for Speed TV". AL.com. Alabama Live LLC. Retrieved 2010-08-22.

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