{"id":281904,"date":"2025-10-06T14:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281904\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:47:10","slug":"arca-takes-over-fox-again-to-kick-off-2026-season-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/281904\/","title":{"rendered":"ARCA takes over Fox again to kick off 2026 season schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img width=\"1056\" height=\"595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2212088221-e1759761347188.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy figure-img img-thumbnail img-fluid wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"false\" rel=\"preload\" importance=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>            Photo credit: Getty Images        <\/p>\n<p>The 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/nascar\/court-documents-show-nascar-boycott-contingency-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ARCA Menards Series<\/a> schedule is official, and it features some big changes. One thing remains the same, however, as the season-opening race returns to big Fox.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcaracing.com\/2025\/10\/04\/2026-arca-menards-series-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to the press release<\/a>, the Daytona 200 <a href=\"https:\/\/fanbuzz.com\/racing\/nascar-announces-date-of-2026-daytona-500\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Daytona International Speedway<\/a> will air on Fox on Saturday, Feb. 14. This continues the partnership between Fox Sports and the grassroots NASCAR series, which the two sides extended in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The main changes for the 2026 season include returns to Chicagoland Speedway and Pocono Raceway as ARCA accompanies two of the national NASCAR Series. Xfinity and Cup teams will also compete at Chicagoland and Pocono. The Truck Series teams <a href=\"https:\/\/altdriver.com\/racing\/truck-series-joins-forces-with-indycar-during-2026-season-st-petersburg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will not travel to either track in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The ARCA Menards Series will also cap off the season at Kansas Speedway for the first time since 2021.<\/p>\n<p>2026 ARCA Menards Series schedule<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Feb. 14 \u2014 Daytona International Speedway (Fox)<\/li>\n<li>March 5 \u2014 Phoenix Raceway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>April 18 \u2014 Kansas Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>April 25 \u2014 Talladega Superspeedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>May 8 \u2014 Watkins Glen International (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>May 16 \u2014 Toledo Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>June 5 \u2014 Michigan International Speedway (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>June 12 \u2014 Pocono Raceway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>June 20 \u2014 Berlin Raceway (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>June 27 \u2014 Elko Speedway (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>July 3 \u2014 Chicagoland Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>July 11 \u2014 Lime Rock Park (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>July 24 \u2014 Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 7 \u2014 Iowa Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 23 \u2014 Illinois State Fairgrounds (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 28 \u2014 Madison International Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 6 \u2014 DuQuoin State Fairgrounds (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 12 \u2014 Salem Speedway (FS2)<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 17 \u2014 Bristol Motor Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<li>Sept. 25 \u2014 Kansas Speedway (FS1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The 2026 ARCA Menards Series schedule will see long-term relationships with NASCAR national series tracks like Daytona International Speedway, Talladega Superspeedway, Kansas Speedway and Michigan International Speedway continue,&#8221; ARCA president Ron Drager said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll also return to traditional short-track venues like Toledo Speedway, Elko Speedway, Berlin Raceway and Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, in addition to the road courses at Lime Rock Park and Watkins Glen International and the two dirt tracks at the Illinois State Fairgrounds and the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a great mix of tracks across the country that will provide our teams and our fans one of the most diverse schedules in American motorsports.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo credit: Getty Images The 2026 ARCA Menards Series schedule is official, and it features some big changes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":281905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[52254,1406,6180,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-281904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-arca-menards-series","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-racing","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115327771825012136","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}