A new year brings some change for Brendan Patrick as he will be taking his racing endeavors in a new direction for 2026.

After spending time in the Ontario Sportsman Series the past couple seasons, Patrick will be running full-time in the super stock division at Delaware Speedway. He will not leave OSS entirely, expecting to participate in a couple events this season.

“It kind of makes more sense logistically to just drive two minutes to the track instead of having to do all the travel for this year, but we’ll see as you never know in the future as we might end up back traveling,” he commented. “But it’s just making a little more sense this year to stay home.”

Patrick knows the change won’t come easy with how steep the weekly Friday night competition is at the half-mile.

“It’s good competition,” he commented. “So we’re kinda bringing our own ideas to this car and we’re gonna see if we can end up running up front this year. It’s going to be a learning curve for sure. But I think in the end, we’re going to figure it out, and we’ll try our best.”

Knowing the learning curve, Patrick is keeping his goals in perspective for the 2026 campaign.

“I think our goals are to consistently be improving all throughout the year,” he shared. “I hope we can get up into the top-five and have some good runs, good showings and hopefully end up in victory lane; that would be the ultimate goal.”

Patrick is coming off a strong Ontario Sportsman Series season which saw him place second in points after a trip to victory lane.

“We were chasing the Two Speed (Motorsports) car most of the year, but we ended up running right with them all year,” he shared. “It seemed like it was mainly us two running against each other for the year, and it turned out to be a lot of good racing. We ran well everywhere we went, except Sauble; we had a little trouble there, but it was a really good year.”

For Patrick, he got his start in racing at the age of seven via running Micro Sprints at Grand Bend Speedways, before jumping into the Ontario Sportsman Series in 2021. It may have seemed like a big leap for some, but Patrick had racing experience to lean on with his father having been involved in the CASCAR Super Series.

“It’s definitely really cool,” Patrick said of getting to race with his brother. “A couple times, we got to race all three of us – my dad, my brother and me – in the few races at Delaware in the OSS. It was pretty cool to be racing with the whole family.”

As he gets ready for a new chapter, Patrick admits there are other cars out there he’d like to try and get behind the wheel of, including a Super Late Model or Modified.