🇺🇸 Zachary Tinkle

Zachary Tinkle is an entry-level professional competing in a national single-class stock car championship. He races primarily in the ARCA Menards Series, driving the No. 19 Chevrolet for Maples Motorsports and the No. 53 Toyota for Tinkle Family Racing, alongside limited entries in the ARCA Menards East and West regional series. His career rating of 3,035 places him among drivers establishing themselves at the professional level.[1]

Across six seasons from 2021 to 2026, Tinkle has recorded 80 starts in ARCA competition: 47 in the national Menards Series, 31 in the East regional, and 2 in the West. He has raced primarily on ovals, with occasional road-course appearances. In 2026, his first season as an owner-driver, he sits 31st in the Menards Series standings through four rounds so far this season.[2]

Tinkle regularly finishes ahead of competitive amateur Brad Smith in head-to-head racing and runs closely matched with semi-professional Alex Clubb, a common opponent across the ARCA series. He has beaten established professional Giovanni Ruggiero twice and has three finishes ahead of Sean Hingorani, a two-time ARCA Menards West champion. These results against drivers with stronger credentials suggest Tinkle competes in a field mixing amateurs, semi-professionals, and graded professionals at the same level of the national ARCA grid.