Jordan Anderson

Jordan Lee Anderson (born April 15, 1991) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes part-time in the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series, driving the No. 32 Chevrolet Camaro SS for his own team, Jordan Anderson Racing.

Racing career Early career

Anderson began racing in karts as an eight-year-old.

2016–2017

In 2016, Anderson joined Bolen Motorsports for the full Truck schedule, driving the No. 66 Silverado with sponsorship from Columbia, SC – Famously Hot. After securing the last qualifying spot to race at Daytona in February, the team went on to log eight top-twenty finishes throughout the season. Anderson's truck garnered national attention in September as it was funded thanks in part to a "Fueled by Fans" campaign with over 120 fans sponsoring the truck to pay for a new motor for the team. Anderson would go on to finish in the top-twenty in the championship standings by only a mere point in the series for a second straight year. He also ran five Xfinity races in 2016, four for Obaika Racing and one for Precision Performance Motorsports.

Anderson started off 2017 by failing to qualify at Daytona with Mike Harmon Racing. After his No. 12 truck (which borrowed owner points from Rick Ware Racing) crashed at Atlanta, Anderson was left with no truck to drive for the season and made a website – SponsorJordan.com – for the fans to fund him a truck. While raising funds, Anderson started and parked RSS Racing's second car. Due to the large time gaps between races, Anderson was back two races later at Kansas Speedway. He also ran one race in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for B. J. McLeod Motorsports, at Dover International Speedway. He missed two races due to TJL having other drivers signed to drive, but otherwise ran the rest of the season and would go on to finish in the top 20 in the CWTS driver points for a third straight season. Besides his spring SponsorJordan.com initiative, Anderson received additional help throughout the season from former NASCAR driver Kenny Wallace after Gateway and ran another fan-funded campaign to close out the season.

2018–2020: Truck Series owner-driver Anderson in his Jordan Anderson Racing No. 3 truck at Daytona in 2018, the team's first race Anderson (No. 3) crashing out in the 2019 Truck Series season-opener at Daytona On January 31, 2018, Anderson announced he would be forming his own team, Jordan Anderson Racing, and would run full-time in the Truck Series in 2018 using the No. 3. which he chose in connection with Junior Johnson. JAR acquired trucks from Niece Motorsports, who switched from Toyota to Chevrolet before 2018 and Brad Keselowski Racing, who ceased operations at the end of 2017. As for the first half of the 2018 season, Anderson has an average finish of 19.7 and was two top-twenty finishes away from tying his record of eight top-twenty finishes from the 2016 season. In early July at the Charlotte Motor Speedway during Roval testing it was announced that Ryan Newman would race for the team at Eldora.

Anderson's photo finish with Grant Enfinger in the 2020 Truck Series season-opener at Daytona. His black and orange No. 3 truck is up against Enfinger's No. 98 truck and the wall. For the 2019 season, Anderson competed a full schedule in the Truck Series in his No. 3 JAR truck with the exception of Eldora, where Carson Hocevar drove the No. 3. JAR signed Wally Rogers as crew chief midway through the 2019 season.

In the 2020 season opener at Daytona, Anderson nearly won his first Truck race when he escaped numerous wrecks. On the final lap, he passed leader Grant Enfinger as they exited turn four, but Enfinger hindered his momentum by hitting his door, enabling Enfinger to win as Anderson finished a career-best second.

2021–present Anderson (left) talking to Erik Jones alongside his No. 31 car, which Jones would drive at Watkins Glen Anderson moved his team to a full-time Xfinity schedule ahead of the 2021 season, though he continued racing in the Truck Series on a part-time basis. In the Daytona Truck race, Anderson once again finished second when he was beat to the finish by Ben Rhodes, also a ThorSport Racing driver like Enfinger. He did not make the field for the following day's Xfinity opener when rain canceled qualifying. As a result, he would also fail to qualify for the next nine races as qualifying would not resume (due to the COVID-19 pandemic) until the inaugural Pit Boss 250 at the Circuit of the Americas on May 22. On May 4, he switched to Truck Series points in order to compete in the week's Truck race at Darlington, which was a Triple Truck Challenge race that only allowed the series' points-eligible drivers to compete in it. He would finish tenth. Although Anderson initially planned to run the full 2021 Xfinity Series season as a driver, he would scale back to a part-time schedule to make room for more experienced drivers (including Cup Series Chevy drivers Tyler Reddick, Erik Jones and Austin Dillon) in the No. 31 car in order to get it higher in the owner points in time for the next races without qualifying so that the team would not be excluded from the field as they were at the beginning of the season.

In 2022, JAR signed former Richard Childress Racing Xfinity Series driver Myatt Snider to drive their No. 31 car full-time. Anderson would continue competing part-time in the Truck Series in his No. 3 truck and would attempt to qualify for one Xfinity Series race in a new second car for his team, the No. 32, at Michigan but he failed to qualify. In the Talladega Truck Series playoff race on October 1, 2022, Anderson survived a fiery crash, sustaining second-degree burns on his body.

At Talladega on April 22, 2023, just over six months after Anderson suffered the fiery crash, Jeb Burton scored the first win for Anderson's team in all of NASCAR in the Xfinity Series race. Anderson's only start of 2023 as a driver would be in the summer Daytona race in his No. 27 car, with Jeb Burton moving to a third JAR car, the No. 22, for this race. Anderson's father-in-law, NASCAR on Fox commentator Larry McReynolds, would come out of retirement to crew chief him in the No. 27 car in this race.

Anderson in his No. 32 car in the season-opener at Daytona in 2024 In 2024, Anderson would run both Daytona and Talladega races as well as the race at Atlanta in February in his No. 32 car.

In 2025, Anderson would drive his No. 32 car in the Xfinity Series season-opener at Daytona again. He would also return to the Truck Series for the first time since his team last fielded an entry in the series in 2022 when he drove the Young's Motorsports No. 20 truck in the race at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

Personal life Anderson graduated from Belmont Abbey College in Belmont, North Carolina, with a degree in business and marketing, and is said to be one of the hardest-working drivers in the sport, with his hands-on, grassroots approach to his career and sponsorship.

In January 2021, Anderson became engaged to Kendall McReynolds, the daughter of former crew chief and NASCAR on Fox analyst Larry McReynolds. The couple was married in April 2022.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

O'Reilly Auto Parts Series NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series results 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 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Pts Ref 2015 Mike Harmon Racing 74 Dodge DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL IOW CLT DOV MCH CHI DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN MOH BRI36 ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 115th 01 2016 Obaika Racing 77 Chevy DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI RCH TAL DOV CLT POC MCH IOW DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN MOH31 BRI ROA DAR RCH 121st 01 97 CHI29 KEN DOV37 CLT33 KAN TEX PHO Precision Performance Motorsports 46 Chevy HOM36 2017 RSS Racing 93 Chevy DAY ATL39 LVS40 PHO40 CAL40 TEX40 BRI40 RCH TAL 106th 01 Mike Harmon Racing 74 Dodge CLTDNQ B. J. McLeod Motorsports 78 Chevy DOV26 POC MCH IOW DAY KEN NHA IND IOW GLN MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 2021 Jordan Anderson Racing 31 Chevy DAYDNQ DRCDNQ HOMDNQ LVSDNQ PHODNQ ATLDNQ MARDNQ TALDNQ DARDNQ DOVDNQ COA CLT MOH TEX34 NSH POC ROA ATL NHA34 GLN IRC MCH15 DAY22 DAR RCH BRI LVS TAL5 ROV TEX KAN20 MAR PHO 81st 02 2022 32 DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR TAL DOV DAR TEX CLT PIR NSH ROA ATL NHA POC IRC MCHDNQ GLN DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 116th 0 2023 27 DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH MAR TAL DOV DAR CLT PIR SON NSH CSC ATL NHA POC ROA MCH IRC GLN DAY15 DAR KAN BRI TEX ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 54th 22 2024 32 DAY4 ATL38 LVS PHO COA RCH MAR TEX TAL31 DOV DAR CLT PIR SON IOW NHA NSH CSC POC IND MCH DAY6 DAR ATL GLN BRI KAN TAL33 ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO 41st 75 2025 DAY7 ATL COA PHO LVS HOM MAR DAR BRI CAR TAL TEX CLT NSH MXC POC ATL CSC SON DOV IND IOW GLN DAY PIR GTW38 BRI KAN ROV LVS TAL32 MAR PHO 48th 36 2026 DAY4 ATL COA PHO LVS DAR MAR CAR BRI KAN TAL TEX GLN DOV CLT NSH POC COR SON CHI ATL27 IND IOW DAY DAR GTW BRI LVS CLT PHO TAL MAR HOM -* -*

Craftsman Truck Series NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results 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 24 25 Pts Ref 2014 MAKE Motorsports 50 Chevy DAY MAR KAN CLT DOV TEX GTW KEN IOW ELD POC MCH BRI MSP CHI NHA LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO24 62nd 34 Mike Harmon Racing 74 Chevy HOM30 2015 DAYDNQ ATL23 MAR KAN18 CLT23 DOV TEX24 GTW19 IOW22 KEN28 ELD POC18 MCH13 BRIDNQ MSP16 CHI20 NHA25 LVS22 TAL19 MAR TEX21 PHO29 HOM29 19th 379 2016 Bolen Motorsports 66 Chevy DAY30 ATLDNQ MARDNQ KAN29 DOV18 CLT24 TEX22 IOW20 GTW11 KEN17 ELD32 POC14 BRI16 MCH14 MSP13 CHI23 NHA22 LVS TAL MAR TEX25 HOM24 20th 212 Mike Harmon Racing 74 Chevy PHO29 2017 DAYDNQ 17th 316 Rick Ware Racing 12 Chevy ATL28 MAR31 TJL Motorsports 1 Chevy KAN19 CLT21 DOV24 TEX15 GTW17 IOW15 KEN25 ELD POC17 MCH23 BRI27 MSP23 CHI21 NHA21 LVS15 TAL MAR24 TEX24 PHO13 HOM21 2018 Jordan Anderson Racing 3 Toyota DAY9 TAL7 15th 389 Chevy ATL24 LVS17 MAR22 DOV18 KAN25 CLT20 TEX19 IOW23 GTW23 CHI17 KEN19 ELD POC16 MCH13 BRI22 MSP16 LVS20 MAR26 TEX29 PHO23 HOM20 2019 DAY25 ATL19 LVS21 MAR26 TEX21 DOV21 KAN13 CLT15 TEX15 IOW18 GTW18 CHI20 KEN30 POC13 ELD MCH14 BRI28 MSP16 LVS14 TAL21 MAR12 PHO28 HOM21 16th 397 2020 DAY2 LVS20 CLT31 ATL37 HOM31 POC17 KEN24 TEX28 KAN30 KAN15 MCH32 DRC35 DOV24 GTW17 DAR24 RCH24 BRI23 LVS32 TAL6 KAN30 TEX13 MAR19 PHO22 18th 323 2021 DAY2 DRC LVS27 ATL25 BRD RCH KAN30 DAR10 COA CLT TEX NSH POC KNX GLNRL† GTW37 DAR26 BRI LVS TAL11 MAR PHO23 39th 79 2022 DAYDNQ LVS26 ATL18 COA MAR BRD DAR KAN TEX14 CLT GTW16 SON KNX NSH MOH POC IRP RCH KAN BRI TAL36 HOM PHO 39th 75 2025 Young's Motorsports 20 Chevy DAY ATL LVS HOM MAR BRI CAR TEX KAN NWS CLT NSH MCH POC LRP IRP29 GLN RCH DAR BRI NHA ROV TAL MAR PHO 104th 01 † – Relieved Bobby Reuse

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points Switched from Xfinity to Truck points before the spring Darlington race

K&N Pro Series East NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Pts Ref 2013 MacDonald Motorsports 49 Toyota BRI GRE25 FIF RCH BGS IOW LGY COL IOW VIR GRE NHA DOV RAL 71st 19 2014 Andrew Bloom 91 Toyota NSM DAY BRI GRE RCH33 IOW BGS FIF LGY NHA COL IOW GLN VIR GRE DOV 70th 11