After an 11th-place run at Tucson Speedway, 24-year-old Mariah Boudrieau from Colorado Springs, Colorado, will race again in the ARCA Menards Series West at Colorado National Speedway, driving the #77 for Performance P-1 Motorsports owned by Joe Nava. All Phase Construction, like at Tucson, will serve as her primary sponsor with multiple associate sponsors jumping aboard, like Car Worx Warehouse, Highline Photography, Rex MD, and Wallace Sign Company. Boudrieau will be one of the home state drivers in Colorado’s first ARCA West race since 2021, joining fellow Coloradoan Holly Clark, who is driving for Strike Mamba Racing.
Boudrieau got her start racing at 11 years old in quarter midgets and is a two-time series champion in quarter midgets. She also races late models multiple times throughout the year at Colorado National Speedway, which will make her a well-known name to local fans attending the race. She has also raced late models at I-25 Speedway in Colorado. Last year, she also picked up her first-ever late model feature win at Colorado, which counted as a NASCAR Weekly Series win in the Division III Championship. She also made her ARCA Menards Series West debut at this track back in 2021, also driving the Joe Nava #77 Toyota, where she started in 11th and finished in 13th, two laps down after a spin on lap 61. She made two more starts that season, driving the #77 at Irwindale and The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
She had also finished 13th at Irwindale but unfortunately wrecked out at Las Vegas on lap 112 and finished 18th. She returned to the west series in 2023, reuniting with Nava’s team at Las Vegas, where she finished in 15th. She returned to Tucson after not running an ARCA West race in 2024. Boudrieau is hoping to score her first career top ten finish at Colorado in front of a home track crowd. Boudrieau has only raced for the California-based Performance P-1 Motorsports in ARCA competition, but did test at Daytona in 2021 driving the #12 Chevrolet for Fast Track Racing.
Performance P-1 Motorsports is one of the oldest teams in ARCA Menards Series West competition, having first formed in the 1970s before making the move to the series in the 1990s. 70-year-old Joe Nava from Southern California, who owns the team based in Azuca, Calif., has been involved in racing for over five decades now, and under his team’s time in the West Series, they’ve scored five wins. Last year, they competed in seven out of the tour’s 12 events on the schedule, with New York’s Garrett Zacharias giving them their best finish of the year with a 12th-place run at Irwindale. Boudrieau hopes to compete in more events after Saturday night’s race at Colorado, but any future races would depend on sponsorship. As previously mentioned, Colorado National Speedway is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. This will be the first ARCA West race at the track in four years, when Joey Iest scored the victory. Boudrieau, as mentioned earlier, debuted in that race as well. The ARCA Menards Series West will compete at Colorado National Speedway for the Colorado 150 on Saturday, May 24 at 10 PM ET/8 PM MT. The race will air on FloRacing and will be the fourth race on the 12-race west schedule this season.
Image From Mariah Boudrieau