Jon Garrett
| Jon Garrett | |||||||
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| Born | May 8, 1970 Athens, Texas | ||||||
| ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
| 23 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| ARCA no., team | No. 66 (Veer Motorsports) | ||||||
| Best finish | 5th (2023) | ||||||
| First race | 2022 General Tire 200 (Talladega) | ||||||
| Last race | 2023 Shore Lunch 200 (Toledo) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series East career | |||||||
| 4 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| ARCA East no., team | No. 66 (Veer Motorsports) | ||||||
| Best finish | 19th (2023) | ||||||
| First race | 2023 Calypso Lemonade 150 (Iowa) | ||||||
| Last race | 2023 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
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| ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
| 1 race run over 1 year | |||||||
| First race | 2023 General Tire 150 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of January 9, 2024. | |||||||
Jon Garrett (born May 8, 1970) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed full-time in the ARCA Menards Series and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No. 66 Chevrolet for his own team, Veer Motorsports. He has also previously competed in the ARCA Menards Series West.
Racing career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Garrett is the first member of his family to pursue a career in racing. He started racing in street stock cars on dirt tracks in the early 1990's. He then drove trucks in the American Race Truck Series in his home state of Texas. He stopped racing in 2005 or 2006 due to lack of sponsorship and to spend more time with his children. In 2018, Garrett got back into racing as a sponsor of fellow Texan Bayley Currey when he debuted in NASCAR. In the winter of 2022, he competed in ARCA's offseason testing at Daytona International Speedway for Fast Track Racing after being encouraged to participate by Michael Harper, who drove for Fast Track in the test and in the race at Talladega in 2021 and who was also a T-shirt designer for Currey. This led to Garrett making his first start in the main ARCA Series in the race at Talladega that year driving for FTR as Harper had done the previous year.[1]
ARCA Menards Series
[edit]Garrett made his ARCA Menards Series debut in 2022 for Fast Track Racing in the General Tire 200 at Talladega Superspeedway, where he would finish 22nd.[2] He would make two more starts that year for the team at Pocono Raceway and Kansas Speedway, getting a best finish of tenth at Kansas.
In 2023, it was announced that Garrett would start his own team in 2023, Veer Motorsports, and would run full-time in the main ARCA Series in the No. 66 Chevrolet. The team would have an alliance with Fast Track Racing.[3] In his first race of the year at Daytona International Speedway, Garrett was in the top-ten on the final lap of the race before being involved in a spin coming to the finish that would ultimately place him in 25th position.[4] He would go on to finish fifth in the final points standings after scoring five top-ten finishes with a best result of seventh at Salem Speedway.
Garrett revealed at the 2023 Awards Banquet that he and his team would likely only run part-time in 2024 after he said he "broke the bank" running full-time in 2023. They were scheduled to enter the races at Daytona, Talladega, Iowa, and potentially Bristol and other races if sponsorship can be found.[1][5] However, as of September 5, 2024, Garrett has not entered any races.
Motorsports career results
[edit]ARCA Menards Series
[edit]| 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 |
| 2022 | Fast Track Racing | 11 | Ford | DAY | PHO | TAL 21 |
KAN | CLT | IOW | BLN | ELK | MOH | 44th | 87 | [6] | |||||||||||
| 10 | POC 14 |
IRP | MCH | GLN | ISF | MLW | DSF | |||||||||||||||||||
| Chevy | KAN 10 |
BRI | SLM | TOL | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Veer Motorsports | 66 | Chevy | DAY 25 |
PHO 20 |
TAL 27 |
KAN 13 |
CLT 14 |
BLN 10 |
ELK 11 |
MOH 12 |
IOW 10 |
POC 12 |
MCH 10 |
IRP 14 |
GLN 19 |
ISF 9 |
MLW 21 |
DSF 15 |
KAN 12 |
BRI 26 |
SLM 7 |
TOL 15 |
5th | 778 | [7] |
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 |
| 2023 | Veer Motorsports | 66 | Chevy | FIF | DOV | NSV | FRS | IOW 10 |
IRP 14 |
MLW 21 |
BRI 26 |
19th | 105 | [8] |
ARCA Menards Series West
[edit]| ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
| 2023 | Veer Motorsports | 66 | Chevy | PHO 20 |
IRW | KCR | PIR | SON | IRW | SHA | EVG | AAS | LVS | MAD | PHO | 62nd | 24 | [9] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Catching up with Jon Garrett as 2024 season approaches". ARCARacing.com. January 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ "Jon Garrett Set To Make ARCA Menards Series Debut at Talladega Superspeedway". Speedwaydigest.com. April 19, 2022. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ "Jon Garrett, Veer Motorsports Set for Full-Time ARCA Menards Series Campaign in 2023". Kickin The Tires. 14 January 2023. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
- ^ "Despite late spin, rookie Jon Garrett happy with his debut at Daytona". ARCA Menards Series. Press Release. February 27, 2023. Retrieved June 18, 2023.
- ^ Branscum, Benjamine (January 4, 2024). "'I Broke The Bank... To Fufill [sic] My Dream Last Year,' Jon Garrett Talks Funding Issues Heading Into 2024". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ "Jon Garrett – 2022 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racingreference.com. Retrieved May 5, 2022.
- ^ "Jon Garrett – 2023 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racingreference.com. Retrieved February 21, 2023.
- ^ "Jon Garrett – 2023 ARCA Menards Series East Results". Racingreference.com. Retrieved July 16, 2023.
- ^ "Jon Garrett – 2023 ARCA Menards Series West Results". Racingreference.com. Retrieved March 14, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Jon Garrett driver statistics at Racing-Reference
