🇺🇸 Ryan Vargas

Ryan Vargas is an entry-level professional competing part-time in a national single-class stock car series. He races primarily in the ARCA Menards Series for Maples Motorsports, a small operation fielding the No. 34/91 Chevrolet and Ford, alongside occasional starts in the ARCA Menards East and West divisions and the NASCAR Canada Series. His career spans eight indexed seasons from 2019 to 2026, with 105 starts across multiple national championships.[1]

Vargas has competed predominantly on ovals throughout his record, with the bulk of his 71 NASCAR Xfinity starts coming on oval circuits; he has since moved to part-time ARCA competition. His single podium came in the NASCAR Canada Series. On the national stock car grid, he typically finishes behind established professionals including Justin Allgaier, a 2018 NASCAR Xfinity champion, and Brandon Jones, both regular opponents. He has finished ahead of elite professionals Chase Briscoe, the 2016 ARCA Menards Series champion, twice and Ty Gibbs, champion in 2020 and 2021, four times, though these remain isolated results against much stronger drivers rather than a consistent pattern.[2]

Vargas races in a field mixing amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals on equal machinery. His entry-level rating of 3,574 reflects a driver who competes regularly against the upper tier of that mixed field but does not sustain results there; he is mid-pack in a grid that includes established champions and professionals, with occasional finishes ahead of elite company that do not alter his overall standing.