Bridget Burgess | |||||||
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Born | Brisbane, Australia | December 26, 2001||||||
ARCA Menards Series career | |||||||
2 races run over 2 years | |||||||
ARCA no., team | No. 88 ( BMI Racing) | ||||||
Best finish | 107th ( 2021) | ||||||
First race | 2021 General Tire 150 ( Phoenix) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 General Tire 150 ( Phoenix) | ||||||
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ARCA Menards Series West career | |||||||
31 races run over 4 years | |||||||
ARCA West no., team | No. 88 ( BMI Racing) | ||||||
Best finish | 9th ( 2021) | ||||||
First race | 2019 NAPA Auto Parts Idaho 208 ( Meridian) | ||||||
Last race | 2022 NAPA Auto Parts 150 ( Irwindale) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of November 19, 2022. |
Bridget Burgess (born December 26, 2001) is an Australian stock car racing driver. She last competed full-time in the ARCA Menards Series West, driving the No. 88 Chevrolet for her family-owned team, BMI Racing.
Born in Australia, Burgess and her family moved to the United States in 2008. After beginning her racing career in short course off-road racing, she transitioned to competing on asphalt in 2019 to pursue a career in NASCAR.
Burgess ran her first off road race at age 15. [1] In 2017, she competed in the Open V8 class of the Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, scoring a podium finish in her debut race. She later competed in the series' Pro Lite class as well. [2] Burgess began her stock car career in 2019 with a pair of races in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West, where she finished 12th and 11th at Meridian Speedway and All American Speedway respectively. [3]
At the 2020 ARCA Menards Series West series opener at the Las Vegas Bullring, Burgess' car suffered a gear failure, [1] leaving her with a 17th-place finish. [4] After skipping the series' doubleheader at her home track in Utah, [1] Burgess' family team received a 2007 Toyota chassis on loan from Bill McAnally Racing. [2] She drove the car in the remaining eight races of the season, leading to a streak of three consecutive top-ten finishes, [2] including a career-best of seventh in her return to Las Vegas. [5]
Burgess began the 2021 season with sponsorship from GearWrench tools and HMH Construction. [6] [7] In March, she made her ARCA Menards Series debut through a combination race with the West Series at Phoenix Raceway, where she finished 22nd. [8] Her season-best was an eighth-place finish at Sonoma Raceway. Burgess ran as high as fifth in the race, which was her first in the series on a road course. [9]
On March 8, 2022, Burgess announced that she would return full-time to the ARCA Menards Series West. [10] Burgess tied her career-best finish at Portland International Raceway, finishing seventh. [11] The next week, she followed up with another top-ten run by finishing tenth at Sonoma. [12] At the Las Vegas Bullring, Burgess competed against her mother, Sarah Burgess, as the pair became the first mother and daughter to compete against each other in a NASCAR-sanctioned race. [13] Bridget finished in 12th place ahead of Sarah in 17th. [14]
Originally from Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Burgess' family moved to the United States in 2008 to pursue opportunities in motorsports. [2] She currently lives in Tooele, Utah, near Utah Motorsports Campus. [2] Her father, Adam, serves as her spotter. [15] Her mother, Sarah, is a former off-road racing competitor and serves as Burgess' crew chief and owner. [2] With a lack of funding compared to bigger teams in the series, Sarah is often tasked with completing the jobs of an entire pit crew, such as changing all four tires during a pit stop by herself. [2]
Burgess frequently helps with mechanical work on her equipment; [1] during the 2020 ARCA West season, she replaced the gear differential on her car between races on back-to-back days. [2]
( key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
2021 | BMI Racing | 88 | Chevy | DAY |
PHO 22 |
TAL | KAN | TOL | CLT | MOH | POC | ELK | BLN | IOW | WIN | GLN | MCH | ISF | MLW | DSF | BRI | SLM | KAN | 107th | 22 | [16] |
2022 | DAY |
PHO 23 |
TAL | KAN | CLT | IOW | BLN | ELK | MOH | POC | IRP | MCH | GLN | ISF | MLW | DSF | KAN | BRI | SLM | TOL | 111th | 21 | [17] |
ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
2019 | Tim Spurgeon | 86 | Toyota | LVS | IRW | TUS | TUS | CNS | SON | DCS | IOW | EVG | GTW |
MER 12 |
31st | 65 | [3] | |||
Stafford Smith | 34 | Toyota |
AAS 11 |
KCR | PHO | |||||||||||||||
2020 | BMI Racing | 88 | Chevy |
LVS 17 |
MMP | MMP | 10th | 283 | [18] | |||||||||||
Toyota |
IRW 12 |
EVG 11 |
DCS 9 |
CNS 10 |
LVS 7 |
AAS 11 |
KCR 14 |
PHO 22 |
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2021 | Chevy |
PHO 22 |
SON 8 |
IRW 13 |
CNS 9 |
IRW 14 |
PIR 16 |
LVS 20 |
AAS 11 |
PHO 24 |
9th | 359 | [19] | |||||||
2022 |
PHO 23 |
IRW 12 |
KCR 12 |
PIR 7 |
SON 10 |
IRW 19 |
EVG 10 |
PIR 10 |
AAS 19 |
LVS 12 |
PHO 17 |
7th | 483 | [20] |