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Toni Breidinger is one of the more influential women who has come up as a NASCAR racing driver. Breidinger is a woman of many interests apart from her racing endeavors. She is impressing the world not only with her racing career but also with her modeling side. However, amid her current racing struggles, people question whether the 26-year-old is a model turned racer or the other way around.

Toni Breidinger is running full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with Tricon Garage after making her debut in the sport a couple of years back. Breidinger has also proven to be a highly successful model off the track.

Notably, she is represented by IMG Models, Roman Empire Management, and Loop Legal. In addition to her professional achievements, she boasts a massive fan following of around six million fans across various social media platforms.

However, people still question her love for motorsports as she delves into various fields in her career. To this, Toni Breidinger has a sure-shot answer and is confident in her decisions. Breidinger recalled how people think about her path to NASCAR, noting that she woke up one day and decided to start racing. She explained that this thought process was because of her massive fan following before joining the motorsport.

Toni Breidinger accepted that people believed her to be a model first and everything else later. But, she clarified that this wasn’t truly the case, and her professional career started off much differently than what people believe. As such, Breidinger emphasized that her first love was indeed motorsports and racing cars, which was still the case as she soon completed her rookie season in the Truck Series.

I think a lot of times people think I just kind of woke up one day like a couple years ago and decided to do this because I had a social media following and I was a model before, but I’m like, ‘You know, this started with racing. This was my first love, and it still is.

Toni Breidinger said on the SpakeUp Podcast.

Toni Breidinger reveals her modeling side ‘not her space’

Toni Breidinger is a successful motorsport driver, but an even more successful model, as she collaborates with multiple massive lifestyle and luxury brands such as victoria’s secret, 818 Tequila and many more. This has also helped bring in unconventional sponsors to the world of NASCAR. However, despite being seemingly successful in both her endevaors, Breidinger inssits that modeling isn’t her true calling.

Speaking of her life off track, Toni Breidinger pointed out that whenever she was out on the set while modeling, people talked about who she truly was in her career. Breidinger explained that people believed her to be a driver first and then a model. The 26-year-old acknowledged that she led with the narrative of her being a race car driver first and then a model, as she believed that modeling wasn’t really her space.

Usually when I’m on set, everybody wants to talk about how I’m a race car driver, and it’s not seen as like, oh, she’s a model, I usually like to lead with that. I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m a race car driver. And you guys tell me what to do, like this (modeling) is not necessarily my space.

Toni Breidinger added

Despite having a deep sense of love and respect for motorsport racing and NASCAR, Toni Breidinger has endured a difficult outing in the 2025 season. She has yet to achieve her first top ten or top five finish in her rookie season.

Breidinger has a bright career in racing ahead if she manages to keep her driving clean and precise, minimize damage to her car, and continue to give it her all. It will be interesting to witness what the 26-year-old does with her modeling career and how she leverages it to benefit her NASCAR career.

This article first appeared on FirstSportz and was syndicated with permission.

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