The 2025 ARCA Menards Series season saw its fair share of dominance from Brenden Queen and his Pinnacle Racing Group team, winning 8 of the 20 races on the schedule. The 2026 season will surely look different with the rumored loss of Queen to one of NASCAR’s premier series, and the closing of long-time ARCA teams Venturini Motorsports and REV Racing. This leaves a new opportunity to lead the field at the top.

The Venturini team, will be back, but in a somewhat different capacity. Newcomer Toyota team Nitro Motorsports formed an alliance with the veteran Venturini team in late 2025, and has purchased the team as a whole for 2026.

With these wheels already in motion, these are three of the drivers that could make a big impact in 2026 if given a chance. 

**As of this writing, no formal details have been announced for these drivers**

Isabella Robusto:

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The 2025 ARCA Menards Series Rookie of the Year made a significant impact late in the season after a slow start. Competing in Venturini Motorsports’ #55 Toyota for the full schedule, Robusto quickly demonstrated raw potential. She collected 9 top-five finishes, 14 top-tens, and finished fourth in points to close out 2025. Robusto’s best runs came at Talladega and Dover, where she finished 3rd on both occasions.

Across 24 career starts from 2024 to 2025 with Venturini, the 2025 Rookie of the Year averaged a starting position of 7.3, and a finishing position of 10.7.

Taylor Reimer:

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 Already experiencing success on dirt, and short tracks in Late Models, Reimer also ran a partial schedule in 2025 with the new Nitro Motorsports and Venturini with their new alliance

Making three starts, Reimer demonstrated her ability to adapt to the new, heavier stock cars. Her debut came at Elko in Nitro Motorsports’ #70 Toyota, where she finished 8th.  Next on the schedule was Kansas, where Reimer returned with the Nitro team, finishing 5th. Capitalizing on the new alliance between Nitro Motorsports and Venturini for Toledo, Reimer got behind the wheel of Venturini’s #25 Toyota and finished 6th.

In six starts spread between 2023 and 2025, Reimer has finished in the top ten every race.

Andrew Patterson:

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Perhaps one of the more unique situations in ARCA garage in 2025 is Andrew Patterson. An employee with Jordan Anderson Racing’s successful NASCAR Xfinity team, Patterson has begun trading gloves for a steering wheel running his own car in five of his six starts in 2025.

While this is typically not a guarantee of success, Patterson showed speed quickly in his #40 Chevrolet. Debuting for the season in Charlotte, Patterson finished 6th in his own equipment. This was followed by finishes of 10th (Dover), 12th (IRP), 13th (Bristol), and 8th in Kansas. Patterson also got to jump in Nitro Motorsports’ #70 Toyota in Salem, where he finished 2nd. 

Patterson would finish his 2025 schedule collecting one top five and four top tens in six starts.