Justin Lofton

Justin William Lofton (born February 18, 1986) is an American professional off-road racing driver. He has also competed in stock car racing, last driving part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West in the No. 30 Ford for Rette Jones Racing. Lofton formerly competed in stock car racing full-time, competing in the ARCA Racing Series, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and NASCAR West Series. He is the 2009 ARCA champion.

Racing career

Lofton started his racing career in mountain bikes before moving to late models. He went on to run in both the NASCAR Camping World East and West Series, before landing in the ARCA Re/Max Series. In 2008, he began driving full-time for Eddie Sharp Racing, first driving the No. 93 before moving to the No. 20 for the remainder of the season. He earned his first career win that year at Michigan International Speedway, and would finish 13th in the standings.

Lofton narrowly won the 2009 ARCA Series championship over Parker Kligerman in his sophomore season. Throughout the season, he earned six wins, fifteen top-fives, nineteen top-tens, and five poles. In 2009, Lofton also made his Nationwide Series debut at Michigan. Driving the No. 14 Lofton Cattle Toyota for CJM Racing, he qualified 19th and finished 16th.

In 2010, Lofton drove the No. 7 VisitPIT.com Toyota for Red Horse Racing. He also ran a partial schedule in the Nationwide Series, driving the No. 71 Weekend Warriors TV Toyota for the same team, and the No. 27 Ford for Baker Curb Racing.

In 2010, Lofton had a best qualifying effort of third in Darlington, a best finish of third at Dover, and earned four top-five and eight top-ten finishes in the Camping World Truck Series. He finished 12th in the driver point standings.

For 2011, Lofton joined defending champion team Germain Racing to drive the 77 truck. However, after Texas, Lofton and Germain parted ways. On June 22, Lofton announced on Sirius NASCAR Radio that he would return to Eddie Sharp Racing for the remainder of the season. He debuted in the No. 46 CollegeComplete.com Toyota at Kentucky Speedway on July 7 with a 15th-place finish. Starting July 22, 2011 in Nashville, Lofton returned to the No. 6 where he previously won the ARCA series in 2009 in the No. 6.

Lofton drove the full season for Eddie Sharp Racing in the Camping World Truck Series, driving the No. 6 for the 2012 season.

On May 18, 2012, at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Lofton captured his first win, holding off Brad Keselowski and Todd Bodine.

Lofton returned to racing stock cars for the first time since 2014 when he made his first West Series start since 2007 at Phoenix in November 2020, driving for Rette Jones Racing in the No. 30 car. He would finish the race in sixth.

Off-road racing

After the 2012 season, Lofton announced that he would be scaling back his NASCAR schedule in 2013, instead primarily competing in the new Stadium Super Trucks being promoted by Robby Gordon. He collected three wins and resulted third in the standings behind Gordon and Rob MacCachren. In 2014 he competed at the St. Petersburg, X Games Austin, and Las Vegas rounds of the Stadium Super Trucks.

Lofton won the Best in the Desert Mint 400 overall and Trick Truck class in 2015, 2016 and 2019.

Lofton currently drivers the Fox, Yokohama Tires sponsored Trophy Truck.

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.)

Nationwide Series NASCAR Nationwide 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 34 35 Pts Ref 2009 CJM Racing 14 Toyota DAY CAL LVS BRI TEX NSH PHO TAL RCH DAR CLT DOV NSH KEN MLW NHA DAY CHI GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH16 BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT MEM TEX PHO HOM 125th 115 2010 Red Horse Racing 71 Toyota DAY CAL LVS BRI NSH PHO TEX37 TAL RCH DAR DOV CLT NSH KEN ROA 90th 249 Baker-Curb Racing 27 Ford NHA17 DAY CHI26 GTY IRP IOW GLN MCH BRI CGV ATL RCH DOV KAN CAL CLT GTY TEX PHO HOM

Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Camping World 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 2010 Red Horse Racing 7 Toyota DAY18 ATL20 MAR31 NSH20 KAN13 DOV3 CLT15 TEX23 MCH18 IOW15 GTY27 IRP29 POC5 NSH9 DAR20 BRI5 CHI5 KEN11 NHA11 LVS8 MAR13 TAL33 TEX22 PHO9 HOM9 12th 2948 2011 Germain Racing 77 Toyota DAY18 PHO30 DAR13 MAR32 NSH16 DOV25 CLT13 KAN19 TEX10 14th 687 Eddie Sharp Racing 46 Toyota KEN15 IOW12 6 NSH15 IRP20 POC16 MCH15 BRI7 ATL26 Chevy CHI15 NHA13 KEN11 LVS19 TAL11 MAR17 TEX10 HOM18 2012 DAY3 MAR4 CAR10 KAN7 CLT1 DOV10 TEX9 KEN14 IOW5 CHI21 POC9 MCH12 BRI10 ATL14 IOW31 KEN7 LVS20 TAL24 MAR19 TEX22 PHO10 HOM9 8th 710 2013 DAY4 MAR CAR KAN CLT10 DOV TEX KEN IOW ELD POC MCH 27th 250 Sharp Gallaher Racing BRI14 MSP IOW19 CHI15 LVS18 TAL20 MAR TEX5 PHO HOM 2014 NTS Motorsports 9 Chevy DAY MAR KAN CLT10 DOV 33rd 135 20 TEX2 GTW KEN IOW20 ELD POC9 MCH BRI MSP CHI NHA LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM

ARCA Menards Series (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 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 Pts Ref 2008 Eddie Sharp Racing 93 Dodge DAY SLM IOW KAN 13th 3975 20 CAR KEN TOL POC MCH CAY KEN BLN POC NSH ISF DSF CHI SLM TOL Toyota NJE TAL 2009 6 DAY SLM CAR TAL KEN TOL POC MCH MFD IOW KEN BLN POC ISF CHI TOL DSF NJE SLM KAN CAR 1st 5715

ARCA Menards Series West

Season still in progress

Stadium Super Trucks (key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.) Stadium Super Trucks results Year 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Pts Ref 2013 PHO11 LBH1 LAN9 SDG9 SDG9 STL6 TOR1* TOR5 CRA6 CRA9 OCF5 OCF1* OCF2 CPL 3rd 295 2014 STP3 STP4 LBH IMS IMS DET DET DET AUS12 TOR TOR OCF OCF CSS MGM8† MGM 16th 68 † – Replaced Bill Hynes, points went to Hynes

Season still in progress Ineligible for series points