Buddy Shepherd
| Buddy Shepherd | |||||||
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 Shepherd at All American Speedway in 2023 | |||||||
| Born | October 9, 1999 Bakersfield, California | ||||||
| ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
| 10 races run over 7 years | |||||||
| ARCA West no., team | No. 5 (Jerry Pitts Racing) | ||||||
| Best finish | 28th (2022) | ||||||
| First race | 2015 Bill Schmitt Memorial 150 (Shasta) | ||||||
| Last race | 2023 NAPA Auto Parts 150 (Roseville) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of October 2, 2023. | |||||||
Buddy Shepherd (born October 9, 1999) is an American professional stock car racing driver who competes part-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 5 Toyota for Jerry Pitts Racing.
Racing career
In 2015, Shepherd would make his
Kern County Raceway Park, where he would finish nineteenth after starting twelfth. He would then run at Douglas County Speedway in 2017, this time driving the No. 27, where he would finish sixth, before moving back to the No. 55 for the season finale at Kern County, where he would finish seventh. In 2018, Shepherd would make one start at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway
dirt-track in the No. 27, where he would finish 23rd due to a crash eight laps into the race, and would run at Roseville the following year, where he would finish seventh.
From 2020 to early 2022, Shepherd would compete in various series such as the SRL Spears Southwest Tour Series, where he would finish third in the points in 2021 with six top-fives and eight top-ten finishes, the CRA Super Series, the and Southern Super Series.[2]
In October 2022, Shepherd would make his return to the now
Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring, driving the No. 17 Toyota for McGowan Motorsports, where he would start twelfth and finish in fifth place.[3][4] He would then compete in the next race with the team at Phoenix Raceway, where he would start tenth and go on to finish eleventh. In 2023, he would run with Jerry Pitts Racing at Roseville, where he would drive the No. 5 Toyota, where he would start fifth and finish in sixth place.[5][6]
Motorsports results
ARCA Menards Series West
| ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
| 2015 | Jefferson Pitts Racing
|
55 | Ford | KCR
|
IRW | TUS
|
IOW | SHA 5 |
SON | SLS | IOW | EVG | CNS | MER 3 |
AAS | PHO
|
29th | 80 | [7] | |
| 2016 | IRW | KCR 19 |
TUS
|
OSS | CNS | SON | SLS | IOW | EVG | DCS | MMP | MMP | MER | AAS | 52nd | 25 | [8] | |||
| 2017 | 27 | TUS | KCR
|
IRW | IRW | SPO
|
OSS | CNS | SON | IOW | EVG | DCS 6 |
MER | AAS | 29th | 75 | [9] | |||
| 55 | KCR 7 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 27 | KCR
|
TUS | TUS | OSS | CNS | SON | DCS | IOW | EVG | GTW
|
LVS 23 |
MER | AAS | KCR
|
60th | 21 | [10] | ||
| 2019 | LVS | IRW
|
TUS | TUS | CNS | SON | DCS | IOW | EVG | GTW
|
MER | AAS 7 |
KCR
|
PHO | 44th | 37 | [11] | |||
| 2022 | McGowan Motorsports | 17 | Toyota | PHO | IRW
|
KCR
|
PIR | SON | IRW
|
EVG | PIR | AAS
|
LVS 5 |
PHO 11 |
28th | 122 | [12] | |||
| 2023 | Jerry Pitts Racing | 5 | Toyota | PHO | IRW | KCR
|
PIR | SON | IRW | SHA | EVG | AAS 6 |
LVS | MAD | PHO | 42nd | 38 | [13] | ||
References
- ^ "Late Model driver Buddy Shepherd set for K&N Pro Series debut". Bakersfield.com. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd". The Third Turn. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Milestone Starts To Be Made At Las Vegas Bullring During ARCA West Race". Flo Racing. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "ARCA Menards West Series: Las Vegas Bullring Race Review". Kickin' the Tires. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "NOTEBOOK: Joey Iest returns to ARCA Menards Series West at All American Speedway". ARCARacing.com. September 28, 2023. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Race results: NAPA Auto Parts 150 at All American Speedway". ARCARacing.com. September 30, 2023. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2015 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2017 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2018 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2022 ARCA Menards Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
- ^ "Buddy Shepherd – 2023 ARCA Menards Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 2, 2023.
External links
- Buddy Shepherd driver statistics at Racing-Reference