After trundling waves in ARCA Menards Series, Victoria’s Secret model Toni Breidinger has finally earned the call up to the NASCAR ladder. Tricon Garage signed up the 25-year-old as a full-time driver for the 2025 season after having run for the team on four different occasions in the last two years.
Toni Breidinger is one of the most revered female drivers in the stock-car racing scene. Moreover, while she is following her passion of racing, she has also worked as a model for multiple fashion brands, including infamous Victoria’s Secret.
Despite her success as a model, she remained focused on fulfilling her racing ambitions. Earlier this year, she had laid out the blueprint on how she will make the step up to the Cup Series and the first hurdle in the way of this dream has been cleared as she would race in the Truck Series while driving the No.5 Toyota truck for Tricon Garage.
She’s FULL-TIME‼️
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— TRICON (@TRICONGarage) November 26, 2024
On the other hand, this would result in Dean Thompson losing his seat in the Truck Series field. With no contract bounding him to any other team, the 23-year-old remains to be a free agent, while Breidinger gets a shot to complete her rookie season.
Toni Bredinger reflected on getting a full-time seat in the Truck Series
However, the Victoria’s Secret model does not have some great results backing her up despite earning the call up to the Truck Series. In her previous four outings, Breidinger has a solitary top 15 finish that does not mean much in the grand scheme of things. Also, she has never had a win in any of the ARCA series’ which makes her case even worse in front of the experts.
Regardless of this, the future No.5 truck driver was ecstatic to get the full-time seat with Tricon Garage. Bredinger further added that she was hoping to capitalise the most out of the chance that she has been provided with, which might be enough for her to get the big break she needs and get big teams’ eyes pointed towards her.
Racing full-time with Tricon is a dream for me. It’s been a 15-year process to get here, but I’m so excited for this moment and ready to capitalize on it.
Toni Breidinger said via NASCAR.com.
So Breidinger appears to be on track to become the next Danica Patrick in NASCAR. However, this entirely remains dependent on the success that she achieves and whether she is able to triumph the 42-year-old’s massive records in the field of racing.
