Venturini Motorsports

Venturini Motorsports provided me a chance to make a mark with veterans and future stars of the sport.

 
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Repping some VMS gear after joining VMS for the 2021 season.

2017 - 2018: Internship

In 2017 and 2018, I had the opportunity to work alongside Venturini Motorsports, one of the most competitive teams in the ARCA Racing Series. As an intern, I primarily worked with VK Sports Analysis, a sister company created by Billy Venturini (General Manager and Owner of VMS) and Frankie Kimmel (son of 10-time ARCA champion Frank Kimmel).

VKSA specialized in utilizing DartFish software in order to analyze the direct performance of racecars during a race weekend. While working with VKSA, I was able to directly help with collecting footage for DartFish analysis. In turn, this footage would be sent to the VMS teams, which helped the teams understand their vehicle performance.

In addition to this work, VMS enabled me to shadow their race teams during the race weekends that I was present at. As a result, I was given many opportunities to learn and understand the fundamentals, logistics, and challenges of stock car racing. Standing alongside the crews at the pit box provided me insight to the technical aspects of their vehicles and the underlying work that occurs during a race weekend.

I also voluntarily provided assistance to VMS with my photography skills. My photography not only helped them with content for social media and public articles but also assisted with further technical analysis of their vehicles on track.

2020: Coming Back to ARCA

As the 2020 Cup Series was winding down, Billy V called me up and asked if I would be interested in coming back to VMS to be an engineer. While ARCA is still considered to be one of the more “entry level” series for national stock car racing, the technical side has continued to develop significantly, and vehicle simulation and modelling has worked its way into it too. After finishing the 2020 season with Rick Ware Racing, I decided to join VMS again in order to become more immersed on the simulation side and work with some of the sophisticated tools and resources provided by Toyota Racing Development (TRD). Over the next few years, this decision to come back to ARCA proved its worth many times.

For more information about VMS, please visit venturinimotorsports.com.