Toni Breidinger Reveals How Modeling Supports Her Life in Motorsports

Toni Breidinger earns her humble earnings from her modeling career and puts it all into funding her NASCAR Truck Series seat.

Toni Breidinger Reveals How Modeling Supports Her Life in Motorsports

Toni Breidinger (via Getty)

In Short
  • Toni Breidinger funds her NASCAR career through her modeling work, which she finds both enjoyable and necessary.
  • She has faced challenges in the Truck Series, achieving only two top-20 finishes and failing to qualify for a recent race.
  • Breidinger acknowledges the difficulty of balancing both careers, often feeling stretched thin while managing her commitments.

Toni Breidinger is one of the very few females in NASCAR currently. She is a well-rounded person apart from her racing skills on track. Breidinger is able to fund her career in motorsports via her modeling career, which seems to pay off well, given that she is racing in the pinnacle of stock racing. Now, the 26-year-old opens up on how managing both facets is harder than people believe it to be.

Following a strong showing in the ARCA Menards Series, Toni Breidinger bolted into the Truck Series as a full-time driver. Despite positive indicators early on, she faced a steep learning curve and cracked under pressure. She only achieved two top-20 finishes and only a P15 finish as her best result. Moreover, she failed to qualify for the recent Daytona race, thus causing people to doubt if she was giving it her all in her racing career alongside her modeling career.

Toni Breidinger has opened up on the situation and how managing both gets hectic at times. She claimed that both careers often went hand-in-hand. This was because she used all the funds from modeling to fund her motorsport seat, which certainly didn’t come cheap. Breidinger was delighted to have both careers, because she could work in a completely different world from racing as well.

For me, the modeling stuff kind of goes hand-in-hand with racing because I use that to help fund my racing career, because, as you probably know, it’s very expensive. So one, I do love it and it’s so fun to almost have like a different outlet that I could be like really creative with and kind of in a different just like a different world almost.

Toni Breidinger said on Samantha Busch’s Youtube.

As such, Toni Breidinger loved both careers equally. However, at times, she spreads herself too thin and has nothing left for herself after putting it all into NASCAR. Breidinger sometimes views her modeling career only as a way to fund her seat and not as a pure passion. Hence, it is fun to do both things at once, but there are occasional reminders of how difficult it can get for her.

So I love it, but at the same time, I will kind of spread myself thin to get it all done cuz I’m like, I need to do this so I can be able to go race. So, yeah, honestly, it’s so fun to kind of have both worlds to… I don’t think so either.

Toni Breidinger added.

Toni Breidinger reminds fans modeling career “not purely for fun”

Certainly, despite giving it her all to help fund her racing career, many people from the community frown upon her. She is used to the sexist comments and how she shouldn’t be in NASCAR. However, Toni Breidinger doesn’t care about the hatred and understands that people do not see the full picture while sitting at home.

Toni Breidinger
Toni Breidinger (Via IMAGO)

Toni Breidinger reminded the people that her modeling career was not purely for fun. Though she accepts that she found it enjoyable, and a great way to fund her career. Breidinger asserted that she needed to do it to fund her seat, and without it, she might not be in NASCAR. As such, the modeling career was more of a survival job as well.

And I feel like I’ll see stuff on social media. I try not to read comments, but I think people don’t get that. Like, yes, I like it, and I’m doing it for fun, but it’s not purely for fun. I quite literally need to go do this, or I can’t race.

Toni Breidinger noted.

The 2026 season is off to a rocky start for Toni Breidinger. Still, she is extremely motivated and isn’t going to give up anytime soon. The 26-year-old is looking forward to the challenge in the Truck Series and achieving the success she deserves.

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