After starting Jordan Anderson Racing as a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series team in 2018, Jordan Anderson and his team have since moved on to become a two-car NASCAR Xfinity Series team, with an occasional appearance of a third car.
In the time between, JAR has faced its own share of triumph and misfortune in both series, leading Anderson to pool the team’s resources exclusively into the Xfinity program.
The team won its first-ever race in 2023 with Jeb Burton at Talladega Superspeedway and won two poles with Parker Retzlaff this year, coming at Richmond Raceway and Martinsville Speedway.
Before the Talladega race in October, Frontstretch caught up with Anderson to discuss his team’s growth in the Xfinity Series, reflect on better speed this season and look to how the team might keep moving up in 2025.
Caleb Barnes, Frontstretch: I just wanted to ask about the growth of the team in general. I know starting in the Truck Series, we’ll start with that. But then you moved to the Xfinity Series, kind of had a toe in both waters and now two full-time cars as well as running the No. 32. Why did you decide to make that move from the Truck to the Xfinity Series?
Anderson: For us, it was kind of an idea that I thought when we first did it that we could do both. So if you go back and look at 2021, we tried to run — pretty much we ran the full season in the Trucks, and we had what happened with the Xfinity car with the rain delay.
We came back and ran the rest of the year once we got [in] the top 40 [in owner points]. It made sense on paper, and then once we started in ’22, I ran the first handful of races trying to do both, and they were just too different.
The Trucks run Ilmors, they were running different truck arms, different housings, obviously the steel bodies over there [in Xfinity], so there wasn’t a lot that made sense to go back and forth for us. So I said, ‘You know what, I’ve got two teams here.’
I looked at everything on paper and said, ‘Which one has got the most viable opportunity to be successful in the future.’ At the time we had Myatt [Snider] running for us full time, and I said, ‘This is where our focus needs to be.’ So, [we] parked the truck, sold off all of our trucks we had that year and put everything back in the Xfinity team and just kind of doubled down [and] said, ‘This is where we’re going to go.’
We made our…
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