Monty Tipton | |||||||
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![]() Tipton at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2025 | |||||||
Born | Mill Valley, California, U.S. | January 18, 2007||||||
ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
4 races run over 2 years | |||||||
ARCA West no., team | No. 21 (Nascimento Motorsports) | ||||||
Best finish | 32nd (2023) | ||||||
First race | 2023 Star Nursery 150 (Las Vegas Bullring) | ||||||
Last race | 2025 Star Nursery 150 (Las Vegas Bullring) | ||||||
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Statistics up to date as of October 11, 2025. |
Monty Tipton (born January 18, 2007) is an American professional stock car racing driver who currently competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 21 Toyota for Nascimento Motorsports.
Tipton first started his racing career competing in go-karts at the age of ten before progressing up to the junior late model program at Madera Speedway at the age of fourteen.[ citation needed ]
Tipton has raced various late model events at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, having first competed at the track in 2022. [1] In 2023, he finished third in the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series standings in Nevada with thirteen top-tens in fifteenth starts. [2]
In 2023, it was revealed that Tipton would make his debut in the ARCA Menards Series West at the Bullring, driving the No. 49 Chevrolet for 3K Motorsports. [3] After placing tenth in the only practice session, [4] he qualified in seventeenth and finished in eighteenth due to transmission issues. [5] [6] Tipton returned with the team in the following race at Madera Speedway, where he practiced and qualified in seventeenth and finished in twelfth due to a crash with a handful of laps remaining. [7] [8] [9]
Outside of racing, Tipton is a participating Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America.[ citation needed ]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref | ||||
2023 | 3K Motorsports | 49 | Chevy | PHO | IRW | KCR | PIR | SON | IRW | SHA | EVG | AAS | LVS 18 | MAD 12 | PHO | 32nd | 58 | [10] | ||||
2025 | Nascimento Motorsports | 21 | Toyota | KER | PHO | TUC | CNS | KER | SON | TRI | PIR | AAS | MAD 15 | -* | -* | [11] | ||||||
4 | Chevy | LVS 11 | PHO |