MOORESVILLE, N.C. (March 6, 2024) – Sam Hunt Racing (SHR) announces today that British racing driver Ed Jones will compete in multiple races in 2024 behind the wheel of an SHR GR Supra. Jones will compete in three road course events including Circuit of the Americas, Portland International Raceway and Sonoma Raceway.
“I’m really excited to be joining Sam Hunt Racing and Toyota Racing Development for my Xfinity Series debut and to compete in multiple races this season,” said Ed Jones. ‘After spending time with Sam’s crew and the Toyota team, I have a lot of confidence in the program. I feel confident that we will be able to achieve some strong results.”
Jones, the 2013 Formula 3 Champion, is a road course regular who is making the transition to stock car racing following a career in Formula, IndyCar, IMSA and FIA’s World Endurance Challenge. The 28-year-old is the 2016 Indy Lights Champion and has collected three IndyCar podium finishes, including one third-place finish in his Indianapolis 500 debut. Additionally, Jones has multiple podiums in the World Endurance Challenge, including a third-place finish in the 2022 24 Hours of Le Mans in the LMP2 class.
Jones has one NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start at Circuit of the Americas.
“I’m looking forward to implementing Ed into our program at SHR, beginning at COTA,” said Sam Hunt, owner of Sam Hunt Racing. “He’s a super smart, mature guy who is hungry to build a career in NASCAR over the next couple of years , and to build it the right way. He’s professional and has raced at very high levels in IndyCar and Sports cars. We’re excited to tackle the learning curve of competing in stock cars with him, and we know he will only get stronger and stronger with experience.”
Jones’s first start of the season will take place at Circuit of the Americas on Saturday, March 23 behind the wheel of the No. 24 GR Supra alongside teammate Sage Karam. COTA will mark the team’s first two-car effort in 2024. The Pit Boss 250 in Austin, Texas can be viewed on FOX Sports 1 with live radio broadcasting from the Performance Racing Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Channel 90 at 5:00 PM ET.
ABOUT SAM HUNT RACING
Sam Hunt Racing (SHR) is a NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) team partnered with Toyota Racing Development, providing a value-packed platform for future stars. Owned and operated by 30-year-old former racer Sam Hunt, SHR is competing in its fourth full-time season in the NXS.
ABOUT TOYOTA
Toyota (NYSE:TM), creator of the Prius hybrid and the Mirai fuel cell vehicle, is committed to building vehicles for the way people live through our Toyota and Lexus brands, and directly employs more than 63,000 people in North America (more than 49,000 in the U.S.).
Over the past 65 years, Toyota has assembled nearly 45 million cars and trucks in North America at the company’s 13 manufacturing plants. By 2025, the company’s 14th plant in North Carolina will begin to manufacture automotive batteries for electrified vehicles.
Through our more than 1,800 North American dealerships (nearly 1,500 in the U.S.), Toyota sold more than 2.4 million cars and trucks (more than 2.1 million in the U.S.) in 2022, of which, nearly one quarter were electrified vehicles (full battery, hybrid, plug-in hybrid and fuel cell).
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