The 2022 General Tire 150 was the second stock car race of the

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, the first race of the

2022 ARCA Menards Series West The 2022 ARCA Menards Series West is the 69th season of the ARCA Menards Series West, a regional stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season began on March 11 at Phoenix Raceway with the General Tire 150 and wi ...

and the 2022 Sioux Chief Showdown, and the third iteration of the

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. The race was held on Friday, March 11, 2022, in

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, a 1-mile (1.6 km) permanent low-banked

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race track. The race was run over 154 laps due to an overtime finish. Taylor Gray of

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would win the race after leading 43 laps. This was Gray's first career

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win and his fourth career

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win. It was an emotional win, as Gray dedicated it to Steven Stotts, the DGR hauler driver who was killed following an accident in

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, on March 8. To fill out the podium,

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and

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would finish 2nd and 3rd, respectively.

Background

Phoenix Raceway is a 1-mile, low-banked

race track located in

, near Phoenix. The motorsport track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two

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race weekends annually. Phoenix Raceway has also hosted the

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, USAC and the

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. The raceway is currently owned and operated by NASCAR.

Entry list

**Withdrew prior to the event.

Practice/Qualifying

Practice and qualifying will both be combined into one 60-minute session, with a driver's fastest time counting as their qualifying time. The session was held on Friday, March 11, at 2:00 PM

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scored the pole for the race with a time of 26.912 seconds and a speed of .

Race results

References

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General Tire 150 (Phoenix) The General Tire 150 is a annual ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series West race held at Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. The inaugural event was held on March 6, 2020, and was won by Chandler Smith. In 2021, the ARCA Menards Series ...

2022 ARCA Menards Series West