(Concord, NC) – This weekend race fans will turn their attention to one of the greatest traditions in motorsports, NASCAR’s season opening weekend at Daytona International Speedway,
Highlighted by Sunday’s Daytona 500, the weekend will also feature season opening events for NASCAR’s support series’, the ARCA Menards Series, NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series and the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Entering their 43rd season, Venturini Motorsports (VMS) will kick off the ARCA Menards Series season when the cars fire up for Saturday’s running of the ARCA 200. Chasing an unprecedented eighth team victory at Daytona (five in a row 2018-2022), VMS will turn to a new generation of drivers to find success on the legendary 2.5-mile superspeedway.
VMS will field four entries at Daytona with drivers, Isabella Robusto, Lawless Alan, Jake Finch and Chase Pinsonneault. Serving as the team’s only full time drivers, both Isabella Robusto and Lawless Alan will compete in all twenty ARCA events during their individual quests to capture the series’ 2025 Driver Championship.
Isabella Robusto, driving the No.55 Mobil 1 Toyota Camry, will make her first ever start on Daytona’s iconic high banks. The highly touted, 20 year old Toyota Development Driver enters the season chasing history, looking to become the first female driver to win in any of NASCAR’s top four tiers.
Robusto broke onto the ARCA scene in 2024 with VMS competing in eleven races across all of ARCA’s platforms (Menards Series, East & West). Achieving early success, the Fort Mill, South Carolina native collected (5) top-five, (8) top-ten finishes including three runner-ups and a pole award at Kansas Speedway in her first ever speedway race.
Lawless Alan, 24, piloting the No.20 AUTOParkIt Toyota Camry, will make his first team start with VMS since signing during the offseason. Saturday’s ARCA start will mark his seventh overall restrictor plate race and his third career start at Daytona.
While competing mostly full time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series over the last four years, the Van Nuys, California native has also made seven career starts in ARCA’s top series since 2020. Six of Alan’s series starts came last season, earning a season high fifth-place finish at the Milwaukee Mile to accompany his five top-10 finishes.
Jake Finch returns to VMS, driving the No.25 Phoenix Toyota Camry in this weekend’s ARCA 200 at Daytona. Finch, 19, captured his first ARCA Menards Series win at Talladega driving for VMS last season. Saturday’s start will mark the teenager’s third career restrictor plate race and his second overall at Daytona. Last season the Florida native qualified third in the season opener and finished eleventh despite leading the entire race until the final laps.
In 2024, Finch competed in eleven events across all of ARCA’s touring platforms (ARCA Menards Series, ARCA East and ARCA West), tallying one win to go along with 7-top 10’s and 4 top-5 finishes.
Eighteen-year-old Rookie driver, Chase Pinsonneault, will make his first ever ARCA Menards Series start at Daytona driving the No.15 131MotorSports Park Toyota Camry. A third generation driver hailing from Belle River, Ontario, Pinsonneault was crowned last season’s CRA JEGS All-Stars Tour Rookie of the Year. The ARCA newcomer was impressive posting the second quickest speed out of 70 drivers during last month’s pre-season test at Daytona.
Competing in the ARCA Menards Series since 1982, Venturini Motorsports, paired with Toyota, is the premier driver development team with 107 all-time victories across all of ARCA’s race platforms.
Race fans can catch the season opener at Daytona live on FOX, MRN, arcaracing.com and the Fox Sports App at 12 p.m. ET Saturday, February 15.
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