Nick Joanides

Nick Joanides
Joanides at Madera Speedway in 2023
Born	Nicholas Joanides (1970-06-17)June 17, 1970 Woodland Hills, California
NASCARXfinity Seriescareer
0 races run over 1 year
Best finish	N/A (2009)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Seriescareer
1 race run over 1 year
ARCA no., team	No. 71 (Jan's Racing)
First race	2024General Tire 150(Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series Eastcareer
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	53rd (2006)
First race	2006New England 125(Loudon)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series Westcareer
34 races run over 8 years
ARCA West no., team	No. 71 (Jan's Racing)
Best finish	13th (2023)
First race	2004King Taco 200(Fontana)
Last race	2024West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame 150(Irwindale)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 12 1
Statistics current as of July 17, 2024.

Nicholas Joanides(born June 17, 1970) is an American professionalstock car racingdriver who competes full-time in theARCA Menards Series West,driving the No. 71FordforJan's Racing.He has also competed in theNASCAR Xfinity Series(when it was the Nationwide Series),ARCA Menards Series East(when it was the NASCAR Busch East Series), and the now-defunctAutoZone Elite Division Southwest&MidwestSeries in the past.

Racing career

In 2009, Joanides became the first driver in the history ofToyota Speedwayat Irwindale to win championships in the top two premier divisions, and he did so in the same season. 2009 saw Joanides win the NASCAR AC-Delco Super Late Model Championship, NASCAR Auto Club Late Model Championship, NASCAR Whelen All-American Series California State Championship, and theLucas Oil Slick Mist 200Championship. He ended up third in the NASCAR All-American Series National standings. In total, Joanides competed in 42 races and scored 17 wins, 33 podiums, 37 top 5, and 41 top 10 finishes.

On October 17, Joanides announced that he would be joiningRick Ware Racingfor his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut atMemphis Motorsports Parkon October 24, 2009.

Joanides retired from full-time racing following the 2010 season. He came out of retirement late in 2015. Through the first 35 events, posted 15 wins and 26 top 5 finishes. In 2016, an engine failure in the third event of the 2016 season resulted in a 32 point loss. Joanides would go on to finish 2nd in the final point standings, 24 points shy of the championship.

Joanides returned to Performance P-1 Motorsports in2018for a part-time schedule inNASCAR K&N Pro Series West,scoring a top-5 finish atAll American Speedwayin Roseville, CA.

He returned to the team in2021for a one-race deal in the 4th of July weekend race atIrwindale Speedway,posting the team's only top-10 finish of the season.

Joanides's No. 77 ARCA car atSonomain 2023

Joanides had one scheduled start in 2022 for Performance P-1 Motorsports in the March Race at Irwindale. With no other race on his schedule, Joanides was called by team ownerLowden Motorsportslate in the afternoon to fill in for their driver, who was suffering from food poisoning. Joanides arrived just before the race, with no practice, qualifying or power steering, brought home The Hard Charger award by passing the most cars in coming from last on the grid to finish 11th. On September 17, 2022, Joanides entered his first Spears SRL Pro-Late Model Series race and came away with the win. He nearly backed it up a year later, falling just short to finish 2nd in the same event.

Joanides's No. 71 car atAll American Speedwayin 2023

In 2023, Joanides competed in five of the first eight ARCA West series races for #77 PP1M Team. On September 25, 2023, it was announced that Joanides would drive for the newly formed #71 Jan's Racing team owned by Jan Qualkenbush of Jan's Towing, beginning atAll-American Speedway,the site of his career best ARCA West Series finish. The team has since announced that for the first time in Joanides' career, he will run the full West Series schedule in 2024.

Thus far in 2024, Joanides has posted two top-5 and three top-10 finishes in each of the three short track races, including winning his first Pole Award at Irwindale Speedway on July 6th.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

(key) (Bold– Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Nationwide Series

NASCAR Nationwide Seriesresults
Year	Team	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	NNSC	Pts	Ref
2009	Rick Ware Racing	31	Chevy	DAY	CAL	LVS	BRI	TEX	NSH	PHO	TAL	RCH	DAR	CLT	DOV	NSH	KEN	MLW	NHA	DAY	CHI	GTY	IRP	IOW	GLN	MCH	BRI	CGV	ATL	RCH	DOV	KAN	CAL	CLT	MEM DNQ	TEX	PHO	HOM	N/A	0

Busch East Series

NASCAR Busch East Seriesresults
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	NBESC	Pts	Ref
2006	MacDonald Motorsports	72	Chevy	GRE	STA	HOL	TMP	ERI	NHA 20	ADI	WFD	NHA	DOV	LRP	53rd	103

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (Bold– Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Menards Seriesresults
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	AMSC	Pts	Ref
2022	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Toyota	DAY	PHO Wth	TAL	KAN	CLT	IOW	BLN	ELK	MOH	POC	IRP	MCH	GLN	ISF	MLW	DSF	KAN	BRI	SLM	TOL	N/A	0
2024	Jan's Towing Racing	71	Ford	DAY	PHO 26	TAL	DOV	KAN	CLT	IOW	MOH	BLN	IRP	SLM	ELK	MCH	ISF	MLW	DSF	GLN	BRI	KAN	TOL	107th	18

ARCA Menards Series West

ARCA Menards Series Westresults
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	AMSW	Pts	Ref
2004	Puskarich Racing	4	Chevy	PHO	MMR	CAL 29	S99	EVG	IRW	S99	RMR	DCS	PHO 16			IRW 24		23rd	523
			Pontiac											CNS 9	MMR 20
2005				PHO	MMR	PHO	S99	IRW	EVG	S99	PPR	CAL	DCS	CTS 13	MMR 23			34th	218
2018	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Toyota	KCR	TUS	TUS	OSS 9	CNS	SON	DCS	IOW	EVG 11	GTW	LVS	MER	AAS 4	KCR 13	19th	139
2019	DeLong Racing Inc.	64	Toyota	LVS	IRW 17	TUS	TUS	CNS	SON	DCS	IOW	EVG	GTW	MER	AAS	KCR	PHO	57th	27
2021	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Toyota	PHO	SON	IRW 9	CNS	IRW	PIR	LVS	AAS	PHO						49th	35
2022				PHO Wth	IRW 11			SON 22	IRW 17	EVG	PIR	AAS 10	LVS 15	PHO				18th	178
	Lowden Motorsports	11	Chevy			KCR 11	PIR
2023	Performance P-1 Motorsports	77	Toyota	PHO	IRW 16	KCR 10	PIR	SON 14	IRW 8									13th	277
			Ford							SHA 8	EVG Wth
	Jan's Towing Racing	71	Ford									AAS 11	LVS 17	MAD 8	PHO 27
2024				PHO 26	KER 5	PIR 14	SON 19	IRW 7	IRW 4	SHA 8	TRI 10	MAD	AAS	KER	PHO			10th	310

External links

• Official website
• Nick Joanidesdriver statistics at Racing-Reference