ATLANTA — Jordan Anderson’s third full-time season in the Xfinity Series has taken him into a new direction but one that most NASCAR teams have already arrived.
Anderson is running a pair of Chevrolet Camaros with the #31 driven by Parker Retzlaff and the #27 piloted by Jeb Burton.
Both cars are currently in the top 20 of the points standings and Anderson is hoping each race means his team is getting closer to contending for a spot in the playoffs and perhaps one day make a trip to Victory Lane.
Anderson, an A.C. Flora graduate, has been an NASCAR owner since 2018, starting in the truck series where he literally had one truck in the shop. Anderson had some close calls in that #3 Chevrolet where one accident could have put his racing career on hold.
He made the bold move to the Xfinity Series for the 2021 season and his rookie season as an Xfinity Series owner was quite painful as qualifying washed out qualifying for the season opener at Daytona. With no opportunity to earn owners points due to the rainout rules and no NASCAR qualifying for the next couple of months due to COVID, Anderson’s team was sidelined for nine races.
But in May, things made a turn for the better as Anderson lured the likes of Tyler Reddick and Josh Berry to his team for qualifying sessions which began at the Circuit of the Americas. With each week that qualifying was held, the driver by committee put the #31 in the show and that allowed Anderson to build up solid finishes and more importantly, move up in the points standings.
Now in his third season the Xfinity Series, Anderson is seeing both teams flourish with both teams displaying great chemistry in their first season working under one roof.
Since the move to the Xfinity Series, Jordan has been a part-time driver in that series and in the truck series where he made national news last fall when he was involved in a fiery wreck during a truck race at Talladega. Jordan suffered second and third degree burns in what was the scariest moment of his racing career. But he says he still has the desire to race and there is a chance he might climb behind the wheel of a third Jordan Anderson Racing Bommarito Autosport entry when NASCAR’s Xfinity Series returns to Daytona later this year.
In the meantime, Anderson will keep busy bouncing from pit box to pit box during the races as he now has two cars to observe from his perch.