As Venturini Motorsports handed over its reins to Nitro Motorsports, it closed a defining chapter in ARCA this year, leaving behind a 43-year legacy that was built on grit, loyalty, and love of the sport. And that kind of love for the sport makes even a small victory-lane ritual more than a ritual; it becomes part of the team’s DNA and a signal of what the program stands for.

Among those rituals is a simple, repeatable gesture that Bill Venturini has been using as a tradition since 2006. And that is a kiss to the driver in victory lane, which carried meaning inside a family team and beyond. What looks small on the surface is threaded through family, respect, and racing lore, and the origin behind it is worth unpacking.

Unpacking the victory lane embrace

On a recent episode of the Victor

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