Josh Burdon

Josh Burdon
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1992-09-05) September 5, 1992 Hobart, Tasmania

Josh Burdon (born September 5, 1992) is an Australian racing driver. He currently drives the No. 74 Oreca LMP2 for Riley Motorsports in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. Previously, Burdon competed for Hong Kong–based KC Motorgroup in the Intercontinental GT Challenge, Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie and GT World Challenge Europe.

Career

As a third generation racer, racing was in his blood. Burdon began his racing career kart racing at 8 years old winning various titles. At 16 he was awarded with a funded scholarship through the Confederation of Australian Motorsport to make the transition into racing cars. He further progressed to competing internationally in 2012, and has gone on to compete in numerous racing series throughout the world.

In 2013 Burdon relocated to France and signed with Scorpus Racing driving the Xbox sponsored car in the open Whelen Euro Series. He led the championship from beginning to end, winning 7 out of 12 races when he was controversially taken out during the final race in Le Mans. As a result he finished second in the championship. During the season he joined the final two rounds of French Formula Premium, winning both rounds in Circuit du Val de Vienne and Le Mans. Funding ruled Burdon out of a full time seat for most of the 2014–15 seasons.

2016 saw Burdon relocated to China to spearhead BlackArts Racing Team season in the Asian Formula Renault Series. He won the championship with 7 out of 12 race wins. Burdon competed in the 2017–18 Asian Le Mans Series in LMP3 with KC Motorgroup, joining him was Neric Wei and Louis Prette. Burdon swept qualifying after winning 4 pole positions from 4 attempts at Zhuhai International Circuit, Fuji Speedway, Chang International Circuit and Sepang International Circuit. Burdon, Wei and Prette won in Zhuhai, Thailand and were leading the final race in Sepang when an exhaust broke and took them out of contention for the win. They ended second in the championship.

In 2018 Burdon was signed by Taiwanese celebrity Jimmy Lin to compete for his team PTRS in the China LMP3 Series. Burdon won the championship after dominating the final round in Tianjin, despite a publicly difficult relationship with the team as the season progressed. He also competed in the first rounds of GT World Challenge Asia with Absolute Racing, partnering with Anthony Liu driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3 as a Pro Am lineup, Burdon picked up pole position on his GT3 debut in Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia.

Pre season in 2019 KC Motorgroup announced Burdon joining its expanding international GT3 program, where they fielded the official GT3 entries for Nissan with the Nissan GT-R GT3. He was placed into the No. 35 where he joined factory Japanese Nissan drivers Tsugio Matsuda and Katsumasa Chiyo. They competed in the Intercontinental GT Challenge and the Nürburgring Langstrecken Serie. The season kicked off with the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour, where Burdon picked up fastest lap of the race after mechanical issue took them out of the fight for the win while battling inside the top 5 at mid race distance. Burdon escaped serious injury in scary crash during the 2019 24 Hours of Nürburgring after slowing for a code 60 zone on the Dottinger Hohe a lower category car was not paying attention and hit Burdon from behind with a significant impact.

Personal life

Burdon was born in Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania. He was educated at St Virgils College, a Catholic boys school that puts much importance on sport. Graduated high school and did not complete further studies after turning full focus towards being a racing driver.

Racing Record

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	No.	Class	Make	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Rank	Points	Ref
2021	Andretti Autosport	36	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8	DAY	SEB	MDO	WGL	WGL	ELK	PET 10	33rd	240
2022	Andretti Autosport	36	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8	DAY 4	SEB 10	MDO	WGL 11	CTM	ELK	PET 1	18th	822
2023	Riley Motorsports	74	LMP3	Ligier JS P320	Nissan VK56DE 5.6 L V8	DAY 9	SEB 1	WGL 1	MOS	ELK 1	IMS 2	PET 3	5th	1777
2024	Riley Motorsports	74	LMP2	Oreca 07	Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8	DAY 3	SEB 5	WGL 2	MOS	ELK	IMS 5	ATL 2	16th	1587
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External links

• Profile at Driver Database
• Josh Burdon on Instagram

References

• "Josh Burdon on the podium in second weekend for Changan Ford". 8 October 2018.
• "Lind, Burdon, Ward and Vannelet claim poles for Blancpain GT".
• http://www.dailysportscar.com/2018/11/12/moore-and-burdon-take-chinese-endurance-championship-win.html
• "Josh Burdon biography". Josh Burdon Motorsport. 27 October 2015. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.
• "Burdon latest Aussie Young Gun". motorsport.com. 16 March 2009. Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
• "K&N new driver info". motorsport.com. 19 April 2014. Archived from the original on 20 December 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
• Rollinson, Scott (4 April 2016). "Burdon aims for Asian Championship". abc.net.au.