In the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lanie Buice flipped a go-kart and suffered a damaged collarbone. 5 years later, the 18-year-old driver from Jackson, Georgia, credit her racing profession to that flip.
“My mother didn’t need me to race anymore,” Buice advised Yardbarker. “We got here to an settlement. We discovered Legend (Automobile) racing, which has a full roll cage.”
The transition to Legend Vehicles was step one in Buice constructing a racing profession that now sees her compete on a nationwide stage in each the zMAX CARS Tour and the ARCA Menards Sequence.
However in contrast to lots of her racing friends from the southeastern United States, Buice’s childhood wasn’t inundated with racing. If she was going to make a profession out of driving a race automotive, studying the ropes was going to be her duty.
“I don’t come from a racing household,” Buice mentioned. “I bought into (racing) on the age of 10. I’d at all times beloved four-wheelers, and my dad constructed me a racetrack out within the yard. I used to make him time me on a regular basis.”
“I went with my dad sooner or later to his work, and I noticed a go-kart observe out the window. I begged and begged him to take me. I’m tremendous relentless; I didn’t surrender on asking him to take me there.”
When Buice lastly bought behind the wheel of a go-kart, she started to win on a frequent foundation. That’s when the aforementioned flip and damaged collarbone paved the way in which for her to transition to totally different disciplines of racing, regardless of her mom’s makes an attempt to make her fall in love with totally different sports activities.
“She made me play each single sport you can ever think about,” Buice mentioned. “Racing is unquestionably what I really like. I’m positive of it as a result of I’ve accomplished all the things else. I’m tremendous grateful that my mother let me carry on making an attempt.”
In 2025, Buice is competing within the CARS Tour with Lee Pulliam Efficiency, the workforce she competed for within the 2024 South Carolina 400. Via three races within the 2025 season, Buice sits fifteenth within the standings.
Buice described the Lee Pulliam Efficiency workforce as “among the finest teams you’ll ever be round.”
The CARS Tour isn’t the one nationwide stage that Buice is racing on in 2025. Buice participated within the ARCA Menards Sequence take a look at at Daytona in January with Rev Racing and made her ARCA East debut for the workforce at Rockingham on April 19. She’ll additionally drive for Rev Racing within the ARCA Menards Sequence occasions at Kansas Speedway (Might 9) and Charlotte Motor Speedway (Might 23).
Buice began fifth and completed eighth at Rockingham in her ARCA East debut.
“It was a very cool expertise,” Buice mentioned of her ARCA debut. “I didn’t know I’d get that chance. Rockingham coming again, after which it being my first ARCA race, it was tremendous neat.”
Buice known as the expertise of racing on a nationwide stage “tremendous surreal,” a product of racing feeling like a world that was, at one level, out of attain.
“Pondering again to the place I used to be in and the place I’m in now could be unbelievable,” Buice mentioned. “All of the mentors, connections I’ve made, the onerous work on the racetrack, even going to NASCAR races and handing out enterprise playing cards — each little bit of networking I’ve accomplished has gone into this.”
“I don’t simply wish to be a racecar driver; I wish to be a winner,” Buice mentioned. “I additionally wish to be somebody who cares about others. I’m going to present again any method I can.”
