Venturini Motorsports will cease to exist after the 2025 ARCA Menards Series season, selling its operation to Nitro Motorsports this October, Venturini announced April 18.
The sale will come on Oct. 15 after the conclusion of the 2025 season.
Venturini’s Billy Venturini will join Nitro as its general manager for the 2026 season.
“Nitro Motorsports foundation has been built on driver development, a pillar of what Venturini Motorsports has been known for and curated,” Nitro’s Nick Tucker said in a release. “My partner Joe (Tovo) and I understand the responsibility to carry on that legacy and the history that the Venturini family has poured their life’s work into and build on that for many years to come with Toyota GAZOO Racing.”
Added Tucker: “Billy and I are cut from the same cloth of being born into the sport with a racing family, working up through the ranks at all levels and seeing how to build a driver with an intimate view that very few have. I want to thank Toyota for believing in my vision to carry forward their goals and Billy for the forethought to bring us in to carry forward the torch.”
“I want to thank my wife, my parents, my team, Jack Irving, Tyler Gibbs and Ron Drager,” Billy Venturini said. “Each of them is what has made this journey so very special. The last 20 years have been very rewarding, but also incredibly demanding. I love what this sport has given to me, but in return I gave it everything I had. So the time has come to be able to prioritize other things ahead of racing. As a racer, nothing comes before the sport. I understood, I believed and lived by it. But it’s now time to prepare for my departure.
“I knew that the person who was to take this team over when the time came needed to be someone who carried that same passion and intensity that I did. Nick is that guy. Nick seems like the perfect fit to continue this program for the team and for Toyota with the same devotion to drivers development as I have.”
Venturini currently fields full-time ARCA entries for Lawless Alan and Isabella Robusto and has also entered the Nos. 15 and 25 in each main-series event so far this year.
The long-running organization began running ARCA races in 1982 after being founded by Bill Venturini. In addition to dozens of wins, the team has main-series championships with Christian Eckes in 2019 and Jesse Love in 2022. Sean Hingorani also won the ARCA Menards Series West titles in 2023 and 2024, the former full time with Venturini and the latter split between four teams, Venturini included.
Nitro, meanwhile, is in its first season in the series. Thad Moffitt drives the No. 46 for the team full time, while Amber Balcaen is part time in the No. 70.
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