Jade Buford | |||||||
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![]() Buford at Atlanta Motor Speedway in 2021 | |||||||
Born | Jade Marcus Buford February 15, 1988 Houston, Texas | ||||||
NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
45 races run over 3 years | |||||||
Car no., team | No. 74 (Mike Harmon Racing) | ||||||
2021 position | 23rd | ||||||
Best finish | 23rd (2021) | ||||||
First race | 2020 Pennzoil 150 (Indianapolis) | ||||||
Last race | 2023 Ag-Pro 300 (Talladega) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
2022 position | 104th | ||||||
Best finish | 104th (2022) | ||||||
First race | 2022 DoorDash 250 (Sonoma) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 DoorDash 250 (Sonoma) | ||||||
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Michelin Pilot Challenge career | |||||||
Debut season | 2009 | ||||||
Current team | PF Racing | ||||||
Car number | 40 | ||||||
Engine | Ford 5.2 | ||||||
Co-driver | James Pesek, Shane Lewis | ||||||
Former teams | Multimatic Motorsports | ||||||
Best finish | 4th in 2013, 2014 | ||||||
Finished last season | 11th (2019) | ||||||
Previous series | |||||||
2019 2019 2016–2018 | British GT Championship GT4 America Series Pirelli World Challenge | ||||||
Last updated on: June 11, 2022. |
Jade Marcus Buford (born February 15, 1988) is an American professional racing driver with experience in open-wheel, sports car, and stock car racing. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series driving No. 74 Mike Harmon Racing.
Buford has also raced in the Pirelli World Challenge, British GT Championship, GT4 America Series, ARCA Menards Series, and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.
Racing career
[edit]Buford began his racing career when he was 18 years old, competing in Porsches;[1] he was also an intern at the Porsche Driving School at Barber Motorsports Park.[2] He debuted in Grand-Am's KONI Sports Car Challenge in 2009.[1] He raced for RSR Motorsports in the ST class and shared the No. 196 Mini Cooper S with Owen Trinkler.[3] In 2010, he joined Racers Edge Motorsports in the GS class of the renamed Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge.[4]
He moved to Multimatic Motorsports in 2012, where he shared the No. 71 Aston Martin Vantage with Tonis Kasemets en route to an 11th-place GS finish. The following year, he partnered with Scott Maxwell in Multimatic's No. 55, during which Buford recorded a series-record seven pole positions. The two remained together for 2014.[2] Buford's co-driver in 2015 was 16-year-old Austin Cindric, who described Buford as "someone to lean on" during the early stages of his racing career.[5] The duo recorded a victory at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.[6]
Buford began competing in the Pirelli World Challenge's GTS class in 2016 with Racers Edge. He swept the Barber Motorsports Park weekend from the pole,[7][8] followed by a third win at Lime Rock Park after wrecks took out the leaders and a cleanup truck interfered with another.[9]
He ran two Sports Car Challenge races in 2017 with Multimatic. Buford also returned to the Pirelli World Challenge, running in the GTS Pro class with Racers Edge, and won both races at Mosport.[10]
Buford joined PF Racing for the 2018 PWC season. In the GTS SprintX race at Circuit of the Americas, he scored the Mustang GT4's maiden victory when he and Maxwell passed pole sitter Harry Gottsacker during pit stops; Buford explained "some of the cars have outright pace on us, but we just executed the perfect race."[11] Buford recorded a second win that year at Watkins Glen International after beating Ian James to the finish by .208 seconds.[12]
In 2019, Buford ran the full Michelin Pilot Challenge schedule with PF Racing, finishing 11th in the standings.[13] He also began racing in the British GT Championship's Silver Cup for Multimatic alongside fellow American Chad McCumbee.[14]
For the 2020 MPC season, Buford shared PF's No. 40 with James Pesek and Shane Lewis.[15] In June, he dabbled in stock car racing when he joined SS-Green Light Racing to drive their No. 07 NASCAR Xfinity Series car in the Pennzoil 150 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.[13] After starting 17th, Buford finished 14th in the event.[16] Buford would make his second NASCAR start at Road America in the No. 6 for JD Motorsports,[17] replacing the car's usual driver, B. J. McLeod.
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In 2021, Buford joined the newly-formed Big Machine Racing in the No. 48 Chevrolet for the full Xfinity season.[18] His first race with the team came in the second round on the Daytona road course as he was not approved for the season opener on the oval.[19] He went on to finish 23rd in the final points standings after recording sixteen top-twenty finishes with a best result of ninth at Michigan International Speedway. It was also during this year that Buford made select starts in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East for Fast Track Racing, making his East series debut at Dover International Speedway, where he finished in ninth, and his main series debut at Pocono Raceway where he finished in eighth place.
Although he was slated to run another full-season with BMR in 2022,[20] Buford only ran the first eight races of the year, where he only finished in the top-twenty once, an eighth place finish at the Circuit of the Americas, before being replaced by Kaz Grala for the follwoing two events at Talladega Superspeedway and Dover International Speedway.[21] He wouldn't make another start for the team that year until Portland International Raceway, where he finished in fourteenth. Buford also made his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut at Sonoma Raceway, driving the No. 33 Toyota for Reaume Brothers Racing, where he finished in 33rd due to transmission issues.[22]
In 2023, it was announced that Buford would run a second car for Big Machine Racing at Daytona International Speedway, the No. 5 Chevrolet.[23] After qualifying for the race in twelfth, he went on to finish in 25th place. It was later announced that Buford would run the No. 5 at Talladega Superspeedway, where he qualified in fifth but finished in 36th after being involved in a multi-car crash early in the race.[24]
Personal life
[edit]Buford is a graduate of Auburn University.[10] An avid rock climber,[25] he participated in the show American Ninja Warrior in 2017 (Daytona Beach) and 2018 (Philadelphia), but was eliminated on the third obstacle in both attempts.[26]
Motorsports career results
[edit]NASCAR
[edit](key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Xfinity Series
[edit]Camping World Truck Series
[edit]NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
2022 | Reaume Brothers Racing | 33 | Toyota | DAY | LVS | ATL | COA | MAR | BRI | DAR | KAN | TEX | CLT | GTW | SON 33 |
KNO | NSH | MOH | POC | IRP | RCH | KAN | BRI | TAL | HOM | PHO | 104th | 01 | [32] |
* Season still in progress
ARCA Menards Series
[edit](key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
2021 | Fast Track Racing | 11 | Toyota | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | TOL | CLT | MOH | POC 8 |
ELK | BLN | IOW | WIN | GLN | MCH | ISF | MLW | DSF | 60th | 62 | [33] | |||
10 | BRI 18 |
SLM | KAN |
ARCA Menards Series East
[edit]ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref | ||||
2021 | Fast Track Racing | 11 | Ford | NSM | FIF | NSV | DOV 9 |
SNM | IOW | MLW | 27th | 61 | [34] | |||||
10 | Toyota | BRI 18 |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Big Machine Vodka and Hand Sanitizer to sponsor Jade Buford's NASCAR Xfinity Series debut". SS-Green Light Racing (Press release). Catchfence. June 30, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Jade Buford". Multimatic Motorsports. Archived from the original on July 1, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "SCC: Utah: Owen Trinkler preview". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. October 1, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Racers Edge Motorsports Tests Three". AutoMobilSport.com. September 12, 2009. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Cindric Enjoying Full Season in Multimatic Ford Mustang". International Motor Sports Association. Archived from the original on May 10, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
- ^ "Austin Cindric, son of Team Penske president, sets CTSC mark". Sports Illustrated. July 11, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "PWC: Buford takes GTS Round 5 win at Barber". Racer. April 22, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "PMG Drivers Finish 2nd & 6th at PWC @ Barber Motorsports Park". Pirelli World Challenge. Performance Motorsports Group. April 23, 2016. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ Bradley, Charles (May 28, 2016). "Buford inherits win in crazy GTS race at Lime Rock". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ a b "Jade Buford completes GTS weekend sweep with Pirelli World Challenge win". Autoweek. May 21, 2017. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ Allaway, Phil (March 25, 2018). "Jade Buford, Scott Maxwell Claim Maiden PWC Win for Mustang GT4". Frontstretch. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ Dagys, John (September 1, 2018). "Buford Wins; Sofronas Wraps Up Overall GTS Championship". Sportscar365. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ a b Nguyen, Justin (June 30, 2020). "Sports car racer Jade Buford to make NASCAR debut at Indy road course". The Checkered Flag. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Multimatic confirms Buford and McCumbee for second Mustang". British GT Championship. April 15, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "PF Racing kicks off the 2020 season with an 11th place at Daytona". International Motor Sports Association. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ Cain, Holly (July 4, 2020). "Chase Briscoe Earns Hard-Fought NASCAR Xfinity Win at Indianapolis". Autoweek. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
- ^ "Jade Buford driving for JD Motorsports at Road America". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. August 3, 2020.
- ^ Utter, Jim (January 19, 2021). "New Xfinity team to debut at Daytona with driver Jade Buford". Motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
- ^ Rutherford, Kevin (February 1, 2021). "Danny Bohn Making Xfinity Debut at Daytona". Frontstretch. Retrieved February 2, 2021.
- ^ "Music executive Scott Borchetta's lifelong passion for racing fuels desire to start new team". NASCAR. October 7, 2021. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Kaz Grala Replacing Jade Buford for 2 Races at Big Machine". Frontstretch. April 12, 2022. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Brad Perez Returns, Jade Buford Debuts with Reaume Brothers Racing at Sonoma Raceway". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Jade Buford running second car for Big Machine Racing at Daytona". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Jade Buford returning to Big Machine Racing at Talladega". Jayski's Silly Season Site. NASCAR Digital Media. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Jade Buford Sets the Pace in Both GTS Practice Rounds Friday at CTMP in No. 55 PF Racing Ford Mustang GT4". Motor Racing Press. May 18, 2018. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Jade Buford". Ninja Guide. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 9, 2020.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2023 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 23, 2023.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2024 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 24, 2024.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved March 19, 2024.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2021 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 21, 2021.
- ^ "Jade Buford – 2021 ARCA Menards Series East Results". Racing Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
External links
[edit]- Jade Buford driver statistics at Racing-Reference