STATESVILLE, N.C. — Argentine driver Baltazar Leguizamon is working toward making his NASCAR national series debut for with MBM Motorsports during the 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.
The 22-year-old has raced in both open-wheel and touring car series on his climb up the motorsports ladder, highlighted by winning the 2018 Atlantic Championship Series in dominant fashion and achieving a second-place championship finish in the inaugural season of F3 Americas.
Born in La Luisa, Leguizamon is poised to be the first driver from Argentina to race in NASCAR.
“I am really proud to be the first Argentinean with a NASCAR national series license. It’s been a long way on my career living my dream in international motorsports. All the hard work is paying off right now,” said Leguizamon.
“I am very thankful to everyone involved with this project: the NASCAR administration; my manager of eight years, Bruce Bohlander, and Carl Long of MBM Motorsports, who opened this door for me and is helping me to reach this level. We’ve won in seven different series, and we want to keep going at this very seriously. Still, we need to find sponsors.”
If Leguizamon can secure the financial backing he needs, there are a lot of opportunities in the NASCAR Xfinity Series championship. Of the 33-race calendar, a record-setting eight events will be contested on road and street courses. The first of these will take place on March 25 at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
“This is huge for us, for my country, and for South America. It’s my childhood dream beginning to come true,” reflected Leguizamon.