page_title: Erik Jones
section_title: Early career and short track racing
hierarchical_section_title: Erik Jones / Racing career / Early career and short track racing
caption_attribution_description: Future NASCAR driver w:Erik Jones #4 prior to the start at his ASA North Late Model win at the Oktoberfest Race at w:La Crosse Fairgrounds Speedway.
context_page_description: Erik Benjamin Jones is an American professional stock car racing driver. The 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion, he currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 20 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. His nicknames are EJ, his initials, and That Jones Boy, given to him by announcer Ken Squier.
context_section_description: Jones began his racing career at the age of seven, in quarter-midget racing; he began racing stock cars at age 13, and began competing in the ASA Late Model Series in 2010, becoming the youngest-ever winner of the Oktoberfest race at LaCrosse Fairgrounds Speedway. Moving to the Champion Racing Association's CRA All-Star Tour in 2011, he won the series championship in his rookie year; Jones also was the winner of that year's Governor's Cup 200 late model race at New Smyrna Speedway, leading every lap of the event; he was the first driver not born in the state of Florida to achieve that feat in over thirty years.
  Jones moved to the ARCA Racing Series for the 2012 season, becoming the first-ever driver to compete in the series at the age of 15; competing in 10 of the series' 19 races (he was not eligible at tracks longer than one mile), he posted a best finish of third at Winchester Speedway and Berlin Raceway. In December of that year, Jones held off NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch to win the prestigious Snowball Derby.
  In December 2013, Jones was named the winner of the 2013 Snowball Derby after the original winner, Chase Elliott, was disqualified after post-race inspections revealed a piece of tungsten in his car.
caption: Jones' 2010 ASA North Late Model that he won with at the La Crosse
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