The No. 4 team qualified 6th at Daytona in 1985
Team Owner Johnny Davis first began fielding the No. 4 car in what is now the Xfinity Series in 1983 with Joe Henry Thurman as the driver. From 1983-1985, Davis and Thurman competed in 41 races and earned one top-5 and seven top-10 finishes.
Although JDM has seen a sharp rise in on-track performance in the past few years, success is nothing new to this team. Years of good drivers and excellent runs have paved the way for what JDM is today.
The No. 01 leads on the final restart at Talladega Superspeedway in 2011
Highlights from the history of JD Motorsports include:
Mike Wallace drove the No. 01 for the team from 2009-2013 with three Top 10’s and one Top 5, including his highly-televised near-win at Talladega
Popular NASCAR Cup Series driver, Landon Cassill, raced with JDM 2013-2015 with 5 Top 10 finishes. In 2014, Cassill was 10th in Xfinity Driver points for the majority of the season.
Ross Chastain earned JDM its first Playoffs birth in 2018, finishing 10th in the NASCAR Xfinity Series standings.
The team has a total of 45 Top 10 finishes, and a life-time average finish of 25.6.
JDM has had a driver finish in the top-20 of Xfinity Series Driver points 20 times.
JDM has been steadily gaining momentum over the years, and the team is now the #1 non- NASCAR Cup Series Affiliated team in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.
Highlights from the past five years include:
4 Top 5 finishes
29 Top 10 finishes
Countless Top 15 finishes
96 laps led by JDM cars
5 races (2014 Darlington & Daytona, 2017 Daytona & Iowa, 2018 Daytona) with two JDM cars in the top-ten