does ARCA racing have any affiliate association with NASCAR at all?

Question

their both Nascar and ARCA have similar looking cars.

Answer 1

Nope, they are seperate entities.

They do, however, use similiar cars. Most NNC cars would pass an ARCA inspection, but there are a few rules that are different, thus, an ARCA car would not pass a NASCAR inspection.

This is actaully the second incarnation of the acronym ARCA (with the same name......Automobile Racing Club of America), and the original actually predates NASCAR (IMCA also predates NASCAR).

I have a few freinds that race (and have raced) ARCA. I love watching them run Springfield and DuQuoin (both in Illinois, and both 1-mile dirt tracks).

Answer 2

There was a time when NASCAR had almost no affiliates. About the only thing going other than NASCAR was ARCA. ARCA stuck to the small track and state fairs. Now NASCAR has all kinds of affiliates, all over America. And ARCA has to compete for racing dollars, so the race the big tracks, small tracks, dirt tracks and race more often and get smaller prize moneys.

I disagree, ARCA cars don't look anything like the CUP or Busch cars. After all, those guys don't have near the money to spend.

Here is an interesting story about ARCA racing.
http://www.circletrack.com/featuredvehicles/ctrp_0602_racing_budgets/index.html

Answer 3

These are two seperat racing series.
They both have simular rules.
The cars are former Cup cars.
Nothing official but several of the cupteams use ARCA as driver developement series.
Bill France and John Marcum were associates in NASCAR until 1952,then Marcum started MARC)Midweast Association for Race Cars)In the 60's the two (France and Marcum) had a hand shake agreement to use MARC(name changed to ARCA in the 60's) as companion events when the NASCAR Sportsman division(Later known as Busch) was not running.
In the 70's ARCA was using more stand alone events and using some of the older cup cars.ARCAs value increased whe teams started haveing their younger drivers to run ARCA to get racing expiriance which is what is going on today.

Answer 4

ARCA cars are usually built from old CUP chasis. But there is no actual affiliation. Many ARCA team owners do buisness with CUP owners. Its also a developmental league for getting a ride in NASCAR.

Answer 5

Sure! Arca racing is the baby of racing you know Arca, Busch, than Cup, that's way it is the way it is, Arca graduates to Busch series, Busch series graduates to Cup that why Busch drivers should only drive Cup not both series. (even though no one would go to the Busch race than)

Answer 6

At this point no and lets keep out fingers crossed that they never do. I would hate for NASCAR to screw there series up too.
It is a stock car series that are pretty fast and run many size tracks and even are on dirt every once in awhile too.

Answer 7

That's an interesting question

Answer 8

yes,nascar bought ARCA around 3 years ago!

Answer 9

i didn't know arca ran on dirt..... cool.