After spending the last two years as the full-time driver for the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford Mustang in the NASCAR Cup Series, Harrison Burton will return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2025 and look to earn AM Racing its first career Xfinity Series win.
Burton arrives on the scene to the Statesville, N.C.-based team on the heels of earning his first career NASCAR Cup Series win in a thrilling finish at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, cementing the legendary Virginia-based team with their historic 100th win.
The win also propelled the team into the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs with Burton ending up 16th overall when the checkered flag waved at Phoenix (Ariz.) Raceway this past November.
AM Racing has hired former NASCAR Xfinity Series driver and former Cup Series engineer Danny Efland to lead the organization in their third year of full-time Xfinity Series competition. Burton kicked off his 2023 racing season in winning fashion, emerging victorious in the season-opening IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge race at Daytona International Speedway. The 23-year-old driver went on to score a season-best finish of sixth in the Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway and recorded his career-best qualifying effort of third for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona over the course of the Cup Series season.
Before moving up to NASCAR’s premier series in 2022 where the rookie driver claimed a notable podium finish at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Burton proved to be a perennial playoff contender in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with four wins, 26 top-five and 49 top-10 finishes and was recognized as the 2020 Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year.
The Huntersville, North Carolina, native established himself as one of the top young talents competing in marquee late model events across the country. A winner of the prestigious Rattler 250, Burton is also a pole winner in the Snowball Derby, one of the top late model events in the country. He is the 2017 ARCA Menards Series East champion and has three wins in the ARCA Menards Series.
Burton is part of a family with a racing history. He has remained focused on honing his craft and forging a name for himself.
Career Highlights
2024 – Earned his first NASCAR Cup Series win in the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. He made his first appearance in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs, finishing 16th overall.
2023 – Recorded his career-best Cup Series qualifying effort of third for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona
2022 – Joined the Wood Brothers Racing No. 21 team and completed his rookie year in the Cup Series with crew chief Brian Wilson, finished third at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
2021 – Recorded an impressive 10 top-five and 22 top-10 finishes, earning a spot in the playoffs for the second consecutive season and finished eighth in the final Xfinity Series championship standings; made his first Cup Series start at Talladega Superspeedway
2020 – Four Xfinity Series wins, 15 top-five and 22 top-10 finishes
2019 – Part-time Xfinity Series season with one top-five and five top-10 finishes in nine starts while competing full-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with seven top-five and 11 top-10 finishes; ARCA Menards Series win at Daytona International Speedway
2018 – ARCA Menards Series victory at Pocono Raceway and Snowball Derby pole winner, leading 111 laps
2017 – ARCA Menards Series East champion, ARCA Menards Series victory at Toledo Speedway in his second career start, winner of the Rattler 250
2016 – Southern Super Series race win at Five Flags Speedway
2015 – Became the youngest driver to compete in the ARCA Menards Series West at 15 years, eight days old
2014 – Youngest Division I winner in the history of the NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series (New Smyrna Speedway)
