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Nick Joanides
Joanides at Madera Speedway in 2023
Born	Nicholas Joanides (1970-06-17)June 17, 1970 (age 54) Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
NASCARXfinity Series career
0 races run over 1 year
Best finish	N/A (2009)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	107th (2024)
First race	2024General Tire 150 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series East career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	53rd (2006)
First race	2006New England 125 (Loudon)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series West career
36 races run over 8 years
Best finish	10th (2024)
First race	2004King Taco 200 (Fontana)
Last race	2024NAPA Auto Care 150 (Tri-City)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 14 1
Statistics current as of February 26, 2025.

Nicholas Joanides (born June 17, 1970) is an American professionalstock car racing driver who last competed part-time in theARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 71Ford forJan's Towing Racing. He has also competed in theNASCAR Xfinity Series (when it was the Nationwide Series),ARCA Menards Series East (when it was the NASCAR Busch East Series), and the now-defunctAutoZone Elite Division Southwest &Midwest Series in the past.

In 2009, Joanides became the first driver in the history ofToyota Speedway at Irwindale to win championships in the top two premier divisions, and he did so in the same season. 2009 saw Joanides win the NASCAR AC-Delco Super Late Model Championship, NASCAR Auto Club Late Model Championship, NASCAR Whelen All-American Series California State Championship, and theLucas Oil Slick Mist 200 Championship. He ended up third in the NASCAR All-American Series National standings. In total, Joanides competed in 42 races and scored 17 wins, 33 podiums, 37 top 5, and 41 top 10 finishes.^[1][2]

On October 17, Joanides announced that he would be joiningRick Ware Racing for his NASCAR Nationwide Series debut atMemphis Motorsports Park on October 24, 2009.^[3]

Joanides retired from full-time racing following the 2010 season. He came out of retirement late in 2015. Through the first 35 events, posted 15 wins and 26 top 5 finishes. In 2016, an engine failure in the third event of the 2016 season resulted in a 32 point loss. Joanides would go on to finish 2nd in the final point standings, 24 points shy of the championship.^{[citation needed]}

Joanides returned to Performance P-1 Motorsports in2018 for a part-time schedule inNASCAR K&N Pro Series West, scoring a top-5 finish atAll American Speedway in Roseville, CA.^[4]

He returned to the team in2021 for a one-race deal in the 4th of July weekend race atIrwindale Speedway, posting the team's only top-10 finish of the season.^[5]

Joanides had one scheduled start in 2022 for Performance P-1 Motorsports in the March Race at Irwindale. With no other race on his schedule, Joanides was called by team ownerLowden Motorsports late in the afternoon to fill in for their driver, who was suffering from food poisoning. Joanides arrived just before the race, with no practice, qualifying or power steering, brought home The Hard Charger award by passing the most cars in coming from last on the grid to finish 11th.^[6][7]On September 17, 2022, Joanides entered his first Spears SRL Pro-Late Model Series race and came away with the win. He nearly backed it up a year later, falling just short to finish 2nd in the same event.

In 2023, Joanides competed in five of the first eight ARCA West series races for #77 PP1M Team. On September 25, 2023, it was announced that Joanides would drive for the newly formed #71 Jan's Racing team owned by Jan Qualkenbush of Jan's Towing, beginning atAll-American Speedway, the site of his career best ARCA West Series finish. The team later announced that for the first time in Joanides' career, he will run the full West Series schedule in 2024.

In 2024, Joanides posted two top-5 and five top-10 finishes. He also won his first Pole Award at Irwindale Speedway on July 6th.^[8] Joanides would miss the final four races of the season due to health issues, but returned for the exhibition race atIrwindale Speedway in December.^[9]

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

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

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