CARS Tour West Champion Dylan Zampa Commits to Full-Time Super Late Model Campaign

Dylan Zampa fresh off his 2025 CARS Tour West Limited Late Model championship with five victories, is not defending his title.

The Napa, California native will run the full seven race CARS Tour West Super Late Model schedule in 2026, marking the first full-time Super Late Model campaign for the family owned No. 92 in twenty years.

Zampa is no stranger to Super Late Model competition. He finished fifth in the CARS Tour West Super Late Model standings last season, but mechanical issues limited his season efforts and shifted his focus to the Limited Late Model championship in 2025.

“We’ve run a Super the last couple years and tried to go full-time before, but we had a lot of mechanical failures,” Zampa said. “So this year we kind of took the step.”

His father, Joey Zampa, raced the No.92 in the Southwest Tour Series, winning multiple SRL events and won Late Model Rookie of the Year honors at Stockton 99 Speedway in 2001.

“The last time we owned a Super Late Model was my dad, 20 years ago. It’s pretty cool to have the No. 92 back on it.”

Zampa Motorsports works out of a two-car garage, competing against teams with full shop facilities across the West Coast.

“We just want to go out and show everyone what our little team’s about,” Zampa said. “We come out of a two-car garage where a lot of these guys are in a shop.”

The 21 year old wears a “Mighty Mouse” patch on his firesuit, harkening back to his time in the Alan Kulwicki Driver Development Program. The nickname stuck after a podium interview at Irwindale Speedway.

Kulwicki’s family started the program in 2014 to provide financial support and mentorship to developing short-track drivers while preserving the 1992 NASCAR champion’s legacy.

“The first time Tim Huddleston (co-owner of CARS Tour West) interviewed me, he looked at the patch and said, ‘Mighty Mouse, Dylan Zampa,’” Zampa said. “That’s kind of how it took off.”

Kulwicki, the 1992 NASCAR Cup Series champion, famously carried Mighty Mouse on his racecar, as the owner-driver saw it as a symbolic way of competing against the larger teams. Zampa sees similarities in his own team.

“Everything that he did is what our team does. We work out of a very small garage. Like Alan, I work on the race cars. I know every single nut and bolt that goes on that race car. Mighty Mouse reminds me of that.”