Brandon Gdovic

Brandon Gdovic (born February 28, 1992) is an American professional racing driver. The Yorktown, Virginia[1] resident currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 26 Toyota Supra for Sam Hunt Racing. A former champion of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo circuit, he has also raced in the ARCA Racing Series, the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, and the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.

Brandon Gdovic
Gdovic's K&N Pro Series East car at Richmond International Raceway in 2013
Born (1992-02-28) February 28, 1992
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Achievements2015 Lamborghini Super Trofeo Champion
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
10 races run over 3 years
Car no., teamNo. 26 (Sam Hunt Racing)
2016 position37th
Best finish37th (2016)
First race2015 O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 (Texas)
Last race2020 UNOH 188 (Daytona)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of August 15, 2020.

Racing career

ARCA Racing Series

Gdovic has two career starts in the ARCA Racing Series, running two races in 2014 for Cunningham Motorsports. He finished on the lead lap both times, and recorded an eighth-place finish at Kansas Speedway.[2]

K&N Pro Series East

Gdovic first tried his hand at K&N Pro Series East competition in 2011, running 11 of the series 14 races. Running for his father and with funding from Aquis Communication, he scored one top five finish (New Hampshire) and three other top tens on the way to a 15th-place points finish. Gdovic failed to finish only two races.[3]

In 2012, Gdovic ran the entire season, recorded a career-best third-place finish at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, other top fives at Richmond International Raceway, Langley Speedway, and Greensville-Pickens, and recorded top-tens in all but five races. With only one crash on the season, he finished seventh in season points.[4]

2013 led to Gdovic's first win, at Greensville-Pickens.[5] He also recorded a second at Richmond and a third at Bowman Gray Stadium, but three engine failures in a fourteen race season dropped Gdovic to tenth in series points.[6] The team scaled back to part-time in 2014, with only one top ten finish and three crashes in eight races.[7] While focusing on the Lamborghini Super Trofeo series in 2015, Gdovic made only one start, a 12th at Virginia International Raceway.[8] Moving up to the Xfinity Series in 2016, Gdovic made a start while sharing his family ride with other drivers. He finished 16th at Mobile International Speedway.[9]

Xfinity Series

Gdovic made his Xfinity Series debut in the O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 10, 2015, in the No. 55 Chevrolet Camaro for Viva Motorsports. He qualified 29th and finished 26th, four laps down.[10][11][12] Gdovic would make two more starts in 2015 one for Viva Motorsports, at Richmond International Raceway, in which he finished 30th, and one for Precision Performance Motorsports who purchased Viva Motorsports equipment, at Watkins Glen International, where he finished 13th.[12]

On April 16, 2016, Gdovic made his first Xfinity start of the year in the first-ever Xfinity heat/main event, the Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 at Bristol. He finished 14th in his heat and 18th in the main.[13] He attempted four more races during the course of the season, finishing 21st twice and bringing sponsorship from Verizon Wireless.[13]

Gdovic had plans to run full-time in the No. 46 Precision Performance Motorsports Chevrolet, a ride he shared part-time in 2016 with Anthony Kumpen and Jordan Anderson.[14] However, the team did not attempt a race.

After not running any Xfinity Series races from 2017 to 2019, Gdovic announced a return to the series for the 2020 race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway infield road course with Sam Hunt Racing.[15]

Sports cars

Lamborghini Super Trofeo Series

After originally being introduced to sports car racing in a 2015 Lamborghini test with Mitchum Motorsports at Virginia International Raceway,[16] Gdovic captured the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North American Series championship later that year.[17] He also experimented in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series that year.[18] The following year, Gdovic moved up to the Huracan Super Trofeo Series and won three times on his way to a second-place points finish.[19] In 2017, he earned an invite to a Lamborghini training camp in hopes of becoming a factory driver.[19] Gdovic ran the 2017 24 Hours of Daytona with DAC Motorsports as part of the Huracan schedule.[20] He ran the Dubai 24 Hour while in the country for the TCR Middle East Series.[21] In 2018, Gdovic continued in Super Trofeo with co-driver Shinya Michimi, winning at Road America and finishing fourth in points.[22] Gdovic teamed with Conor Daly for the 2019 Super Trofeo North America season.[23] The pairing won their first race together at Barber Motorsports Park.[24]

TCR Middle East Series

Gdovic was the only American in the 2017 TCR Middle East Series,[21] driving a Volkswagen Golf with his German race team. Gdovic won in the first weekend of racing, which was in Dubai. He came up a narrow second in the standings to Brit Josh Files but helped his team to the Teams' Classification Championship.[25]

Personal life

Gdovic lent equipment to fellow K&N Pro Series competitor Ronnie Bassett Jr. in 2016 after Bassett's shop burned down.[26]

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.)

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
2015 Viva Motorsports 55 Chevy DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX
26		 BRI RCH
30		 TAL IOW CLT DOV MCH CHI DAY KEN NHA IND IOW 48th 63 [12]
Precision Performance Motorsports GLN
13		 MOH BRI ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM
2016 46 DAY ATL LVS PHO CAL TEX BRI
18		 RCH TAL DOV CLT POC
26		 MCH IOW DAY KEN NHA IND
27		 IOW GLN MOH BRI
21		 ROA DAR RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO
21		 HOM 37th 92 [13]
2020 Sam Hunt Racing 26 Toyota DAY LVS CAL PHO DAR CLT BRI ATL HOM HOM TAL POC IND
12		 KEN KEN TEX KAN ROA DAY
28		 DOV DOV DAY DAR RCH RCH BRI LVS TAL CLT KAN TEX MAR PHO -* -* [27]

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 15 16 NKNPSEC Pts Ref
2011 Precision Performance Motorsports 46 Dodge GRE
27		 SBO
11		 RCH
18		 IOW
9		 BGS
17		 GRE
28		 LGY
24		 NHA
4		 COL GRE
8		 NHA
9		 DOV
11		 15th 1311 [3]
2012 BRI
21		 IOW
9		 BGS
7		 8th 470 [4]
Toyota GRE
3		 RCH
5		 GRE
20		 LGY
4		 CNB
7		 COL
9		 IOW
18		 NHA
13		 DOV
10		 GRE
5		 CAR
15
2013 BRI
18		 GRE
1		 PEN
10		 RCH
2		 BGS
3		 IOW
24		 LGY
10		 COL
5		 IOW
12		 VIR
25		 GRE
15		 NHA
22		 DOV
22		 RAL
8		 10th 443 [6]
2014 NSM
9		 DAY
11		 BRI
25		 GRE RCH
19		 IOW BGS FFL NHA
29		 COL IOW GLN VIR
15		 GRE DOV
11		 21st 216 [7]
64 LGY
17
2015 12 NSM GRE BRI IOW BGS LGY COL NHA IOW GLN MOT VIR
12		 RCH DOV 50th 32 [8]
2016 46 NSM MOB
16		 GRE BRI VIR DOM STA COL NHA IOW GLN GRE NJM DOV 53rd 28 [9]

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – Elite 1 results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NWESC Pts Ref
2015 Precision Performance Motorsports 46 Chevrolet VAL VAL VEN VEN BRH BRH TOU TOU UMB
18		 UMB
8		 ZOL ZOL 25th 124 [28]
2016 PK Carsport Chevrolet VAL
20		 VAL
25		 VEN VEN BRH BRH TOU TOU ADR ADR ZOL ZOL 20th 262 [29]

Whelen Euro Series – Elite 2
NASCAR Whelen Euro Series – Elite 2 results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 NWESC Pts Ref
2015 Precision Performance Motorsports 46 Chevrolet VAL VAL VEN VEN BRH BRH TOU TOU UMB
4		 UMB
4		 ZOL ZOL 24th 160 [30]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Racing 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 ARSC Pts Ref
2014 Cunningham Motorsports 72 Dodge DAY MOB SLM TAL TOL NJE POC MCH ELK WIN CHI IRP POC BLN ISF MAD DSF SLM KEN
15		 KAN
8		 52nd 345 [2]

WeatherTech SportsCar Championship

(key)

24 Hours of Daytona
24 Hours of Daytona results
Year Class No Team Car Co-drivers Laps Position Class Pos.
2016 PC 38 Performance Tech Motorsports ORECA FLM09 James French
Jim Norman
Josh Norman
Kyle Marcelli		 385 45 DNF 6 DNF
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gollark: I basically just start with one random one then add others as eggs' time drops.

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