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Juan Sebastian Arias (born October 28, 1998 in Bogota, Colombia ) is a Colombian professional stock car racing driver. He competesin the NASCAR Late Model Series, driving the No. 5 Chevrolet SS for NextGen Motorsports on their Drivers Development Program.

Arias grew up racing Karts in Bogota, Colombia. But transitioned to competing on Legend Cars in America in 2016 to pursue a career in stock car racing. He began his career in NASCAR in 2018 at the Nascar Wheelen Modifiends in Boisie, Idhao.

Early career

Arias was born in Bogotá, Colombia, where he started his karting career at 11 years old. He started by doing a karting school with Escuela Colombiana De Karts, and where he was taught the techniques of karting from one of his coaches, the Ex indycar driver Sebastian Saavedra and Juan Pablo Rico.

Sebastian was very pationate about his Karting and his practices, he used to take the bus to the kart track every thursday to practice. He always showed up with his school uniform and a 2 big travel bags. One for his Karting Uniform and the other one for his helmet, and visors.

Sebastian or "Seb" despite his family supporting him with not enough money to race all season in karting, did a great role, racing the Rotax Max Challenge, and opening some doors in Europe to race the KJ karting championship with Scuderua Match Racing Team in Jesolo, Italy. But decided to head to the United States and fulfill the dream of NASCAR.

Legend Cars

Sebastian, In 2016 began his transition to oval racing by driving legends cars for Jorgensen Racing in Atlanta Motor Speedway. He raced also in Texas Motorspeedway where finished top 5 at the Battle for the big top, twice. Arias did a podium at Sunny South Speedway, finishing second behind his teammate at the time Jensen Jorgensen.

Southern Pro AM Truck Series

Arias, Raced for Bobby Owens, the Southern Pro Am Truck Series at Homestead Miami Speedway. On his debut, he qualified 3rd and finished 4th on the race.

West coast

Sebastian moved to the west coast in 2018, he packed his bags and drove to Las Vegas, Nevada where he lived for 9 months. In the west Coast, He signed to race for Patriot Motorsports Group. A Nascar K&N Pro Series and ARCA Racing team. He raced the Modifieds division at Meridian, Idaho.

Patriot Motorsports Group, shut down his program so Sebastian had to move back to the East Coast.

Nascar Late model series

On May 10, 2019, Arias announced plans to compete in for NextGen Motorsports on his Drivers development program in the Nascar Late Model series. Arias made his series debut at Caraway Speedway in NextGen´s No. 5 Chevrolet SS on July 6. She ranked 8th in qualifying, finishing 10th