Harrison Burton

Harrison Burton
Burton at Pocono Raceway in 2021
Born	Harrison Brian Burton (2000-10-09) October 9, 2000 (age 21) Huntersville, North Carolina
Achievements	2017 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Champion
Awards	2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Car no., team	No. 21 (Wood Brothers Racing)
2021 position	51st
Best finish	51st (2021)
First race	2021 GEICO 500 (Talladega)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
75 races run over 3 years
2021 position	8th
Best finish	8th (2020, 2021)
First race	2019 Alsco 300 (Bristol)
Last race	2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship Race (Phoenix)
First win	2020 Production Alliance Group 300 (Fontana)
Last win	2020 Draft Top 250 (Martinsville)
Wins Top tens Poles 4 49 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
38 races run over 4 years
2019 position	12th
Best finish	12th (2019)
First race	2016 Texas Roadhouse 200 (Martinsville)
Last race	2019 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 18 1
Statistics current as of December 25, 2021.

Harrison Brian Burton (born October 9, 2000) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 21 Ford Mustang GT for Wood Brothers Racing.

Racing career[]

Early years[]

Burton's racing career started off when he received a go-kart at age two, which later turned in to a quarter midget at age four.^[1] After starting to race them at age twelve, Burton won his first late model race in early 2014.^[2] His first super late model win came in early 2015, at New Smyrna Speedway.^[3][4] He was also for three years a USAC quarter midget championship. At age 11, he grabbed his first late model pole at Ace Speedway, and at twelve won two races in pro late models.^[5]

CARS Super Late Model Tour[]

The Charlotte, North Carolina native made his CARS debut in 2015, running six of the series' ten races. Finishing only two of those races, he finished third at Southern National Motorsports Park and fourth at Concord Speedway.^[6] In the middle of that season, the team switched car bodies and crew chiefs, hiring former Xfinity Series driver Chris Wimmer.^[7] Switching his focus to the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, he only ran three of eight races in 2016, recording two top ten finishes.^[8]

ARCA Racing Series[]

In his ARCA Racing Series debut for Ranier Racing with MDM, Burton started sixth and finished third after almost being spun out by eventual race winner Chase Briscoe.^[9][10] Returning in 2017 with MDM Motorsports, Burton chased down Dalton Sargeant on the final run of the race at Toledo Speedway to win in only his second series start.^[11] He later won in his superspeedway debut, which came at Pocono Raceway in 2018. Burton dedicated the win to John Andretti, who was battling colon cancer until his death in 2020.^[12]

On January 8, 2018, it was announced that Burton would run a partial ARCA schedule with MDM in 2018.^[13]

On January 10, 2019, it was announced that Burton would drive the Venturini Motorsports No. 20 Toyota for five races in 2019.^[14] Burton won on his superspeedway debut at Daytona.

East Series[]

Starting with the 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East season opener at New Smyrna, Burton became the youngest driver to start a race in the series. He also garnered a full-time ride from HScott Motorsports using their Toyotas.^[15] Throughout the thirteen race season, Burton garnered one pole, as many top fives, and finished eighth in the championship point standings while failing to finish two races.^[16] After HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks shut down, Burton moved to MDM Motorsports bringing his number and sponsor.^[17] He also signed an extension with Kevin Harvick Incorporated to bring in sponsors like DEX Imaging, Hunt Brothers Pizza, Rheem and others.^[18] Early in the season, Burton made waves by campaigning a paint scheme with the number on the rear quarter panels.^[19] His performance also gained attention, winning a rain-shortened race at Bristol.^[20] He then outlasted the field at Memphis the following race after Todd Gilliland had a flat tire.^[21] He went on to win five of fourteen races that season^[22] and beat Gilliland for the championship after making up an eight-point deficit going into the final race.^[23]

On January 8, 2018, it was announced that Burton would drive a partial K&N season with MDM in 2018.^[13] The first race of his part-time schedule came at the K&N East season opener at New Smyrna Speedway, where he finished 3rd after battling Todd Gilliland for the lead in the final laps.

Truck Series[]

Burton signed on with Kyle Busch Motorsports to drive the No. 18 Toyota Tundra for the 2016 Alpha Energy Solutions 250 at Martinsville Speedway in late October. Due to NASCAR rules and regulations maintaining that a driver has to be sixteen years of age before competing in any national series event, Burton was therefore barred from entering any events before October 9 of that year.^[24] He showed speed early, cracking the top ten in practice, but faltered during the race and finished one lap down in 22nd.^[25][26] In this race, Burton and Kyle Donahue (who was driving the No. 63 for MB Motorsports) made history as the first drivers born in the 2000s decade and the 21st century to compete in the Truck Series and in any NASCAR national series. Burton signed with Kyle Busch Motorsports to run both Martinsville races, as well as Dover, Iowa, Eldora, and Bristol in the No. 51 Toyota Tundra in 2017.^[27] He finished all of the races but only scored one top-ten, a fourth-place at Martinsville in fall.^[28]

On January 8, 2018, it was announced that Burton would again pilot the KBM No. 51 for a partial schedule. The nine-race schedule included mostly short tracks but also Canadian Tire Motorsport Park and all of the races after he turns eighteen.^[29] Burton grabbed his first pole in the M&M's 200, and finished third after dealing with throttle issues during the race.^[30] He won his first stage in NASCAR competition at ISM Raceway in November en route to another third-place finish.^[31]

On November 14, 2018, it was announced that Burton would run full-time in 2019, replacing Noah Gragson in KBM's No. 18 entry.^[32]

Xfinity Series[]

On April 1, 2019, Joe Gibbs Racing announced Burton would drive the team's No. 18 Toyota Supra in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for eight races starting with the Alsco 300 at Bristol Motor Speedway five days later.^[33] In his third race of the year at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Burton was intentionally wrecked by Paul Menard after Burton passed Menard with contact. Menard thought the incident was a teaching moment to not race dirty while Burton was from the viewpoint that getting passed was not grounds for being wrecked.^[34]

On October 17, 2019, with Christopher Bell moving up to the NASCAR Cup Series, JGR announced Burton would replace him in the No. 20 Supra for the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season.^[35]

On February 29, 2020, Burton earned his first career Xfinity Series win at Auto Club Speedway after holding off teammate Riley Herbst; the win made him and father Jeff Burton the only son-and-father duo to ever win at Auto Club and the second driver to ever win on Leap Day with the first being his uncle Ward Burton at Rockingham Speedway in 1992. This also made Burton the first driver born in the 2000s to win in the Xfinity Series. He qualified for the Xfinity Series playoffs after scoring two wins in the regular season but was eliminated after the first round.^[36] He later passed Noah Gragson in the final set of corners at Texas Motor Speedway to grab a late-season post-elimination win.^[37] A week later Harrison would go on to win again at Martinsville Speedway during the Draft Top 250.

Cup Series[]

On April 15, 2021, Gaunt Brothers Racing announced that Burton would make his Cup Series debut with the team in their No. 96 Toyota in the race at Talladega that month, with his Xfinity Series sponsor, DEX Imaging, as the sponsor. In this race, Burton would become the first driver born in the 2000s decade to run a Cup Series race.^[38]

On July 15, 2021, Burton was named the driver of Wood Brothers Racing's No. 21 for the 2022 season, replacing Matt DiBenedetto.^[39]

Personal life[]

Burton attended the Cannon School while racing,^[18] and upon graduating in 2019 took a gap semester to focus on racing for the remainder of the year. He is apart of the Celebratory Cause.^[40] He is the son of former NASCAR driver and current NASCAR on NBC analyst Jeff Burton, nephew of former driver Ward Burton and cousin of current driver Jeb Burton.^[41]

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.)

Cup Series[]

NASCAR Cup 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	36	NCSC	Pts	Ref
2021	Gaunt Brothers Racing	96	Toyota	DAY	DAY	HOM	LVS	PHO	ATL	BRI	MAR	RCH	TAL 20	KAN	DAR	DOV	COA	CLT	SON	NSH	POC	POC	ROA	ATL	NHA	GLN	IND	MCH	DAY	DAR	RCH	BRI	LVS	TAL	CLT	TEX	KAN	MAR	PHO	51st	01	[42]

Xfinity Series[]

NASCAR Xfinity 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	NXSC	Pts	Ref
2019	Joe Gibbs Racing	18	Toyota	DAY	ATL	LVS	PHO	CAL	TEX	BRI 10	RCH	TAL	DOV	CLT	POC	MCH	IOW 4	CHI	DAY	KEN	NHA 29	IOW	GLN	MOH	BRI	ROA	DAR	IND	LVS	RCH 6	CLT 13	DOV 38	KAN 34	TEX 7	PHO	HOM 10	85th	01	[43]
2020		20		DAY 2	LVS 5	CAL 1	PHO 2	DAR 9	CLT 9	BRI 4	ATL 5	HOM 1	HOM 8	TAL 32	POC 32	IND 25	KEN 17	KEN 12	TEX 4	KAN 3	ROA 16	DAY 8	DOV 5	DOV 11	DAY 5	DAR 6	RCH 16	RCH 4	BRI 4	LVS 9	TAL 23	CLT 33	KAN 11	TEX 1	MAR 1*	PHO 6	8th	2248	[44]
2021				DAY 3*	DAY 6	HOM 39	LVS 9	PHO 12	ATL 3	MAR 7	TAL 10	DAR 11	DOV 6	COA 6	CLT 3	MOH 38	TEX 30	NSH 3	POC 37	ROA 5	ATL 24	NHA 5	GLN 5	IND 9	MCH 5	DAY 9	DAR 2	RCH 9	BRI 7	LVS 10	TAL 25	CLT 15	TEX 8	KAN 34	MAR 20	PHO 3	8th	2194	[45]

Gander Outdoors Truck Series[]

NASCAR Gander Outdoors 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	NGOTC	Pts	Ref
2016	Kyle Busch Motorsports	18	Toyota	DAY	ATL	MAR	KAN	DOV	CLT	TEX	IOW	GTW	KEN	ELD	POC	BRI	MCH	MSP	CHI	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR 22	TEX	PHO	HOM	66th	16	[46]
2017		51		DAY	ATL	MAR 13	KAN	CLT	DOV 13	TEX	GTW	IOW 11	KEN	ELD 15	POC	MCH	BRI 18	MSP	CHI	NHA	LVS	TAL	MAR 4	TEX	PHO	HOM	29th	162	[47]
2018				DAY	ATL	LVS	MAR 8	DOV 5	KAN	CLT	TEX	IOW 3	GTW	CHI	KEN	ELD	POC	MCH	BRI	MSP 13	LVS	TAL	MAR 8	TEX 6	PHO 3*	HOM 11	18th	277	[48]
2019		18		DAY 18	ATL 8	LVS 5	MAR 11	TEX 31	DOV 3	KAN 10	CLT 11	TEX 5	IOW 3	GTW 16	CHI 4	KEN 3	POC 3	ELD 31	MCH 11	BRI 23	MSP 21	LVS 9	TAL 11	MAR 18	PHO 7	HOM 13	12th	707	[49]

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	NKNPSEC	Pts	Ref
2016	HScott Motorsports with Justin Marks	12	Toyota	NSM 13	MOB 7	GRE 15	BRI 23	VIR 11	DOM 21	STA 15	COL 4	NHA 7	IOW 15	GLN 12	GRE 9	NJM 15	DOV 6	7th	444	[50]
2017	MDM Motorsports			NSM 4	GRE 4	BRI 1*	SBO 5	SBO 1	MEM 1	BLN 6	TMP 1	NHA 4	IOW 4	GLN 3	LGY 7	NJM 3	DOV 1	1st	593	[51]
2018				NSM 3	BRI 2	LGY	SBO	SBO	MEM	NJM	TMP	NHA 2	IOW	GLN 9	GTW	NHA	DOV 5	17th	200	[52]

K&N Pro Series West[]

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West results
Year	Car owner	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	NKNPSWC	Pts	Ref
2015	Jeff Burton	12	Toyota	KCR	IRW	TUS	IOW		SON	SLS	IOW	EVG	CNS	MER	AAS 11	PHO 6	32nd	71	[53]

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

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	AMSC	Pts	Ref
2016	Ranier Racing with MDM	8	Chevy	DAY	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL	NJM	POC		MAD	WIN	IOW 3	IRP		BLN	ISF	DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN	89th	215	[54]
2017	MDM Motorsports	28	Toyota	DAY	NSH	SLM	TAL	TOL 1	ELK	POC		MAD	IOW	IRP		WIN	ISF		DSF	SLM	CHI	KEN	KAN	73rd	240	[55]
2018		12		DAY	NSH 3	SLM	TAL	TOL 9		POC 1	MCH	MAD	3	CHI	IOW 6	ELK	4	ISF	BLN	DSF	SLM 6	IRP 21	KAN 2	16th	1840	[56]
2019	Venturini Motorsports	20	Toyota	DAY 1*			TAL	NSH	TOL	4	POC 6	MCH			CHI 2	ELK	IOW		ISF	DSF	SLM		KAN 12	21st	1240	[57]
		15				SLM 8

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External links[]

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• Harrison Burton driver statistics at Racing-Reference

Sporting positions
Preceded by Justin Haley	NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Champion 2017	Succeeded by Tyler Ankrum