The ARCA Racing Series powered by Menards is an American stock car series, the premier division of the ARCA. It is considered a minor, but professional, league of stock car racing, perhaps two steps down from the top-level NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and one step down from that series' minor league, the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Though some events occur the same weekend as NASCAR events, the Series is in no way affiliated with NASCAR.

The series started as a local touring group. Led by John Marcum, the Midwest Association for Race Cars was formed with drivers like Iggy Katona and Nelson Stacy being early drivers.

The series became a part of the Daytona Speedweeks in 1964. The same year, the series name was changed from MARC(Midwest Association for Race Cars) to the current ARCA(Automobile Racing Club of America) by John Marcum as a suggestion from Bill France, the founder of NASCAR.

The series races on tracks as varied as small ovals and as large as Daytona International Speedway during the Daytona Speedweeks. It is one of the last major oval track circuits to still compete on dirt tracks. In 2008 the series returned to racing on a road course.

Bradford Coleman (born February 26, 1988 in Houston, Texas) is an American stock car driver. He was a high school graduate of Carlisle School.

Coleman was discovered at an indoor karting center in Houston, TX by LeMans champion Price Cobb. He set a record at 16 years-old at the Rolex 24 at Daytona when he and his teammates finished 7th in the GT class driving a Porsche 911 GT3, making them the youngest team in history to drive and complete the famed race.

Following extensive training and racing in stock cars and formula cars, he made his big league stock car racing debut in the ARCA RE/MAX series at Nashville Superspeedway on April 15, 2006, where he finished second. In 9 starts, Coleman posted 8 top five finishes including 3 poles and 1 win. On June 10 of the same year, Coleman made his debut in the Busch Series the same week he graduated from high school. In 2007, Coleman ran 17 races for Joe Gibbs Racing in the #18 Carino’s Italian Grill Chevrolet in the NASCAR Busch Series with Aric Almirola, Kevin Conway, and Tony Stewart filling in the remainder. He put together 3 top 5 finishes, 5 top 10 finishes, 7 top 15 finished and 9 top 20 finishes in only 14 races, including back to back top 5 finishes at Milwaukee and Kentucky and another top 5 finish at Watkins Glen.