Joey Iest
Iest at Madera Speedway in 2025
Born	Joey Iest (2003-02-12)February 12, 2003 (age 22) Madera, California, U.S.
ARCA Menards Series career
5 races run over 2 years
Best finish	33rd (2021)
First race	2021General Tire 150 (Phoenix)
Last race	2022General Tire 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
ARCA Menards Series East career
8 races run over 1 year
Best finish	5th (2021)
First race	2021Jeep Beach 175 (New Smyrna)
Last race	2021Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 6 0
ARCA Menards Series West career
29 races run over 5 years
Best finish	5th (2021,2022)
First race	2020Star Nursery 150 (Las Vegas Bullring)
Last race	2025Madera 150 (Madera)
First win	2021NAPA Auto Parts Colorado 150 (Colorado)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 16 0
Statistics up to date as of September 28, 2025.

Joey Iest (born February 12, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in theARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 88Ford Fusion forNaake-Klauer Motorsports.

Iest started racing in 2012, at nine years old, after his grandfather bought him a usedquarter midget. He had raced at his local home track, Madera Speedway. He didn't have any background coming into racing but got help from trainer Rusty Lomier throughout his five years of racing in quarter midgets.

Throughout 2012 to 2016, Iest competed in Senior Honda, Light 160, and Light World Formula events, and finished off his quarter midget career with two national championships.

Iest moved up toUSAC HPD Focus Midget Series in 2017, racing at Madera Speedway. He would winRookie of the Year in his first season.

Iest returned to the HPD Focus Midget Series in 2018, competing on dirt and asphalt tracks. He was allowed to drive a juniorlate model race at Madera Speedway for Naake-Klauer Motorsports later in the year. He started in the back but managed to finish in sixth. He would go on to drive the final four races of the 2018 season and would go full-time racing for Naake-Klauer in 2019.^[1]

2019 would be a very successful year for Iest, as he won the 51FIFTY Jr. Late Model Series championship withNaake-Klauer Motorsports, along with winning the USAC Western Speed 2 Midget Series championship, getting seven wins in only seven starts.^[2]

For 2020, Iest competed full-time in theSRL Southwest Tour, where he won his first career race at Stockton 99 Speedway, finishing in front of two former SRL champions, Jeremy Doss, andCole Moore.^[3]

On February 11, 2020, one day before his seventeenth birthday, Iest made his first careerARCA Menards Series West start atThe Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway forNaake-Klauer Motorsports. He would start third and finish fourteenth.^[4] He was expected to make four more starts that season, but only made three after withdrawing from the ENEOS 125 atIrwindale Speedway. His best finish from that season would be eleventh at The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on September 26, 2020.

Iest returned to Naake-Klauer Motorsports for a full-time schedule in the2021 ARCA Menards Series West season. On July 31, 2021, Iest captured his first careerARCA Menards Series West win atColorado National Speedway, after leading the final eighteen laps.^[5]

On December 18, 2020, it was announced that Iest would be driving part-time in the2021 ARCA Menards Series East season forDavid Gilliland Racing. He was scheduled to run at least six races for the team but eventually announced he would be driving the full eight races of the season. He earned six top tens, with his best finish of second atSouthern National Motorsports Park.^[6]

Iest drove four races in the2021 ARCA Menards Series season, all of which had a collaboration withARCA Menards Series East, andARCA Menards Series West races. His best finish would be eighth at theMilwaukee Mile.

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

• Joey Iest driver statistics at Racing-Reference

• 2003 births
• Living people
• ARCA Menards Series drivers
• NASCAR drivers
• Racing drivers from Madera County, California
• 21st-century American sportsmen
• Sportspeople from Madera, California

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