🇺🇸 Austin Theriault

Austin Theriault is a former professional stock car racing driver who competed solo in four national-level NASCAR and ARCA championships between 2014 and 2019, driving for teams including Ken Schrader Racing, Young's Motorsports and Rick Ware Racing. He spent most of his career in the ARCA Menards Series, a national single-class championship that fields amateur and professional drivers together. His rating of 5,241 places him at established professional level.[1]

Theriault won the 2017 ARCA Menards Series championship driving the No. 57 for Federated Auto Parts and Ken Schrader, taking eight wins and thirteen podiums across his 22 starts in the series between 2014 and 2017. He was primarily an oval-track racer, with eighteen of his twenty-two ARCA starts on ovals and all thirteen of his NASCAR Truck starts on ovals as well. He also competed in NASCAR Xfinity and NASCAR Cup, taking six starts in the former across 2014 to 2016 and five in the latter in 2019. Across all four series he totalled 46 starts with 8 wins and 13 podiums.[2]

On the ARCA grid he regularly finished ahead of entry-level professionals Thomas Praytor and Dalton Sargeant, both of whom were frequent opponents. Against stronger professional competition he finished ahead of Tyler Reddick twice and outran elite professional Christopher Bell once. He has since stepped back from NASCAR-level competition and has been racing part-time in Asphalt Super Late Model events.