Jason Anthony Jarrett (born October 14, 1975) is an American race car spotter forWood Brothers Racing andJR Motorsports. A former driver in theNASCAR Busch Series andARCA Racing Series, he has not driven in competition since 2005. Jarrett is the son of 1999 NASCARWinston Cup Series championDale Jarrett and the grandson of two-time championNed Jarrett.

Jarrett's racing career was launched in the World Karting Association (WKA), where in 1993 he claimed the WKA's Sprint Division Championship of the Carolina's Cup atNorth Carolina Speedway located inRockingham, North Carolina.^[1]

1994 saw Jarrett return to a track that had provided early success for both his father and grandfather atHickory Motor Speedway. While competing in the Limited Sportsman Division, he scored one victory and one pole, along with earning Rookie-of-the-Year honors. In 1995, Jarrett moved into the Winston Racing Series Late Model Stock Division, where he spent the next three seasons honing his skills at the famed oval.^[2]

The 1997 season proved extremely busy for Jarrett, as he competed in a total of 46 late model events betweenHickory Motor Speedway and Tri-County Speedway located inHudson, North Carolina.

In 2001, Jarrett began hisARCA RE/MAX Series career, with second-place finish in the final ARCA RE/MAX Series point standings^[3]and Rookie-of-the-Year honors. In 2002 he was third in points,^[4] and in 2003 he was second again in points^[5] as well as earning the Bill France Triple Crown Award. Jarrett won the penultimate race of the 2004 season but finished fifth in points while also competing in theWinston Cup Series.^[6] Switching toVenturini Motorsports for the 2005 season, Jarrett did not live up to expectations and was released mid-season, and promptly went on a streak of four DNF's in his first four races for new ownerWayne Hixson.^[7]

1996 saw Jarrett attempt to make his NASCAR debut driving in theCraftsman Truck Series atNorth Wilksboro for Bob Crocker, but his lone attempt in the series resulted in a DNQ.^[8]

In 1997, Jarrett moved up to theBusch Grand National Series, driving three races forDAJ Racing and failing to qualify for two others.^[9] For 1998, Jarrett ran another partial schedule, piloting the No. 32Carquest car for eleven races and failing to qualify for another. He recorded a best finish of seventeenth atRichmond International Raceway.^[10] Jarrett joinedBACE Motorsports in 1999, attempting ten races and qualifying for eight of them. He also ran one race forJarrett/Favre Motorsports, a collaboration between his father andNational Football League starBrett Favre.^[11] However, he broke his foot atMemphis Motorsports Park in October and did not drive the rest of the season.^[1] He also suffered a concussion atAuto Club Speedway earlier in the season and had to be replaced byJohnny Benson Jr.^[12] Running full-time in 2000, Jarrett struggled, failing to qualify for eleven races and posting a best finish of seventeenth.^[13] He was also replaced byHut Stricklin for a race atPocono Raceway.^[14] Jarrett has not competed in the series since.

After three years away from the sport competing inARCA, Jarrett returned toNASCAR in 2003 and made hisWinston Cup Series debut at the2003 EA Sports 500 that October atTalladega, driving a third car forRobert Yates in the No. 98, alongside his fatherDale^[15] andElliott Sadler, who famously barrel rolled late in the race. He mainly stayed out of trouble and finished the race in 29th despite being four laps down.^[16] He made one other start in the series at Pocono in the summer of 2004 driving the No. 02 forHermie Sadler's team,SCORE Motorsports, falling out after forty laps due to a handling issue to a 40th-place result.^[17] His only other attempt in the series at Bristol in March driving forMorgan Shepherd resulted in a withdrawal.^[18]

After the 2005 season he retired from racing. Starting in 2007, Jarrett worked for his father's company, Dale Jarrett Incorporated, as a project manager. In 2010, he joinedGermain Racing as a spotter for driversCasey Mears andMax Papis in the Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series. Three years later, he left the organization to joinStewart–Haas Racing (SHR) as the spotter for driverRyan Newman in theSprint Cup Series, and followed Newman in 2014 toRichard Childress Racing in the same role.^[19] Jarrett has spotted in all threeNASCAR national series, for Newman in Cup,Ryan Truex in theXfinity Series, andJohn Hunter Nemechek in theCamping World Truck Series.^[20]

In 2022, He spotted for23XI Racing forKurt Busch. Jarrett also spotted forJosh Berry atJR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series andTate Fogelman atOn Point Motorsports in the Camping World Truck Series.^[21]

He now resides inHickory, North Carolina, and is married to Christina. Their first child, Ford, was born November 14, 2008.

• 1993World Karting Association Sprint Division Champion
• 1994Hickory Motor Speedway Limited Sportsman Division Rookie of the Year
• 2001ARCA Racing Series Rookie of the Year
• 2003Bill France Triple Crown Award

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

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

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• Jason Jarrett driver statistics at Racing-Reference

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