Brandon Thompson

Brandon Thompson (born February 19, 1990) is an American professional and stock car racing driver He competed full-time in the ARCA Re/Max Series, driving the No. 29 Dodge Charger for Cunningham Motorsports, and recently served as Managing Director of the NASCAR Touring Series and in his new role was based in Charlotte, North Carolina, He last reported to Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Content Officer, Jill Gregory.

Racing career
Thompson headed to the ARCA season finale at Toledo Speedway after dominating the Thunder Car "Race To The Top" feature that was held as part of the 2008 INEX/600 Racing Asphalt Nationalsat the Elko Speedway. The win gave Thomson a Dodge development ride in the ARCA season finale at Toledo Speedway.

Thomson, who is no stranger to Legends competition.

Thomson was the 2003 and 2004 Florida State INEX Bandolero Champion and since 2005 has collected more than 30 Legends Series victories. He has also raced Thunder Roadsters and has competed in the ARCA Racing Series at Toledo Speedway. The shop is dedicated to working with drivers to improve their racing abilities

“Working with the drivers is one of my specialties since I have raced so much myself,” Brandon said recently, “I have a very good idea on how to teach young drivers what they need to know at the right time.”

Other information
Thompson arrived at Nashville Superspeedway as an intern in 2003, he admits knowing little about the sport that it regularly hosted. The names of drivers Sterling Marlin and Bobby Hamilton — then contemporary NASCAR stars from his hometown area — were reference points, but the rest was up to him to learn.

“I remember those things,” Thompson recalls, “but I also remember just the openness and warmness that I was welcomed with, just people being able to share their experiences and stories and try to get me up to speed on the background and context for things that were happening not only on the race track but leading up to certain events.”

The NASCAR Diversity Internship Program was just beginning to get off the ground, with the NASCAR Drive for Diversity Driver and Pit Crew Development Program launching the following year. It was early still, but Thompson could see the platform’s roots starting to grab hold.

“It was very much in the infant stages of the program, but I think it’s appropriate and important to point out that we were doing that before other sports leagues were focused on that,” says Thompson, now NASCAR’s Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion. “I think the time and place when you say infancy is really important there, but yes, it was very early in the game in terms of us getting started on those initiatives, but it was meant to be impactful. One of the things I remember is constantly hearing about how this wasn’t just a ‘make coffee and shuffle papers’ internship, and that was definitely the case.”

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