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Isabella Robusto won the pole position at Kansas Speedway earlier in the ARCA Menards Series. She clocked in at 174.780 mph in 30.896 seconds around the 1.5-mile circuit.
Venturini Motorsports signed Robusto in 2023 to run part-time in the ARCA Menards Series and the East Series. However, she was injured in her first race, and sustained a concussion. Ultimately, she was replaced. This year, she entered her first race driving the #55 Toyota at Phoenix. Her first race yielded a good result as she finished in sixth place.
Isabella Robusto was born in 2004 in South Carolina. Her career started off at the young age of 5, karting with her brother Will Robusto (who races in the GT4 America series). Three years later, she began racing in Bandolero. In 2016, she found her way around the Legend Cars, and two years later became the first female to win a national qualifier in the series.
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Her racing career has been promising since the start. She also started competing in Late Model Stock Cars in 2020 and then finally moved up to the ARCA Menards Series.
Other than racing, she is also pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering from Arizona State University. Robusto is also a part of the NASCAR Foundation, keeping her goals ahead of her but not forgetting to support the community.
She has so far taken part in 10 races this season in the ARCA Menards Series (East and West included) and has managed to finish eight times in the top 10.
"It kind of hurts": Isabella Robusto reacts to crashing out of Kansas on Lap 2
Despite starting on pole position, the race ended quite early for Isabella Robusto as she crashed out on the second lap. After the race started, she dropped a few positions and was stuck in traffic. As she tried to clear and move up, her car made contact with Andrés Pérez de Lara's #2 car and went into the wall.
Her race ended quite early given her pace. Talking about the incident, she expressed that it was disappointing to crash out early but at the same time satisfying to know that the car has competitive pace.
"It kind of hurts but we know that we had the speed and whenever I come back here we kind of know where to fire off, and I know kind of how to be and just need to kind of work on the air," Robusto told Frontstretch.
