Venturini Motorsports (VMS) has announced the sale of the team to Nitro Motorsports.
Nitro Motorsports will assume full ownership of the team and continue VMS’s longstanding partnership with Toyota Gazoo Racing beginning October 15, 2025. Billy Venturini, current team owner, will remain on board as general manager for one year concluding the 2026 race season.
Nitro Motorsports, founded by Nick Tucker, competes in a wide variety of racing disciplines including a US Go Karting program, the Trans Am Series, Toyota GR Cup North America and the ARCA Menards Series.
With the acquisition of Venturini Motorsports, Nitro becomes one of the most vertically integrated driver development programs.
“Nitro Motorsports foundation has been built on driver development; a pillar of what Venturini Motorsports has been known for and curated. 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,” said 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,” said Billy Venturini.
“The last 20 years [as owner and general manager] 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 driver development as I have.”
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