J. D. McDuffie

J. D. McDuffie
McDuffie in 1991
Born	John Delphus McDuffie Jr. (1938-12-05)December 5, 1938 Upper Little River Township, North Carolina, U.S.
Died	August 11, 1991(1991-08-11) (aged 52) Watkins Glen, New York, U.S.
Cause of death	Basilar skull fracture
NASCAR Cup Series career
653 races run over 27 years
Best finish	9th (1971)
First race	1963 Speedorama 200 (Myrtle Beach)
Last race	1991 Budweiser at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 106 1

John Delphus McDuffie Jr. (December 5, 1938 – August 11, 1991) was an American racing driver. He competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series from 1963 to 1991, collecting 106 top-10 finishes during his career, despite never finishing on the lead lap of any race in his career, and holding the record for the most starts in NASCAR's top level without a win with 653. He died in a racing accident during the Budweiser at The Glen at Watkins Glen International in 1991.

Career

McDuffie's No. 70 at Pocono Raceway in 1984

After attending his first race in Bowman Gray Stadium at the age of ten, McDuffie was inspired by racers Curtis Turner, Glen Wood, Billy Myers, and others to become a race car driver.

His racing career started in dirt track racing. He picked the No. 70 early on because it was easy to paint and easy to remember.

McDuffie won several small races throughout the Carolinas including a track championship at a small dirt track near Rockingham, North Carolina. McDuffie made his NASCAR Grand National (now NASCAR Cup Series) debut in 1963 at the Racing Association of Myrtle Beach, Inc. Speedway near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina driving Curtis Turner’s old 1961 Ford. Though McDuffie was an expert dirt track racer, he never had similar success in NASCAR's premiership. His best NASCAR finish came at the Albany-Saratoga Speedway, in 1971, where he managed to finish third. Meanwhile, his first last-place finish came at the 1963 Pickens 200. In 1978, McDuffie won the pole position for the Delaware 500, his only pole position in Winston Cup competition. Normally a low-budget independent, McDuffie entered into a partnership with Donald Magnum and purchased a chassis from Richard Childress Racing. McDuffie in 1982 also made a start in the final race of the season at Riverside in Junior Johnson's second car, which was entered to protect Darrell Waltrip, who was on his way to winning that season's championship; If Waltrip had an accident in practice or qualifying, McDuffie could relinquish the second car to him and Waltrip would not jeopardize his championship hopes by missing the race.

In the 1988 Daytona 500 qualifying race, McDuffie received second- and third-degree burns in an accident after he raced without fireproof gloves (a practice no longer permitted in NASCAR) because they were stolen before the race.

One day before his fatal accident at Watkins Glen International, McDuffie won a celebrity race in Owego, New York, at the Shangri-La Speedway, not far from Watkins Glen.

McDuffie is still the record holder for the most starts in NASCAR's top touring series without recording a win. His 653 starts rank him 22nd all-time through the end of 2018. McDuffie held the series record for the most last-place finishes with 32 until Joe Nemechek surpassed him in 2014.

In 2016, Front Row Motorsports and Landon Cassill honored McDuffie with a tribute paint scheme during the throwback weekend at Darlington Raceway complete with sponsors that sponsored McDuffie's racing effort.

Death

McDuffie was involved in an accident on the fifth lap of the 1991 Budweiser at The Glen race at Watkins Glen International. On the straight between the esses (Turns 2-3-4) and the Loop-Chute (Turn 5), at 170 mph, McDuffie collided with Jimmy Means after suffering a mechanical failure. McDuffie's left front wheel spindle broke off the car, causing him to lose brakes and hit Means in the right front. This left him no way of stopping the car or steering it, and to further complicate matters, there was no gravel trap in the corner that McDuffie was headed toward. As a result, McDuffie skidded across the grass and hit the Armco outside retaining wall and tire barrier with such force that the car rebounded into the air, rotated 180 degrees, and then came to rest upside-down. Means also crashed into the same corner but was able to slow his vehicle down before the impact; his car collided into the same section of retaining wall as McDuffie's car rotated in mid-air. Means, a fellow independent racer, suffered only minor cuts and bruises in the accident, and got out of his car to check on McDuffie.

After peering into McDuffie's car, Means began frantically signaling for assistance, later saying, "It was so bad that I just had to close my eyes." A host of medical personnel and track workers rushed to the scene. The race was delayed for one hour and forty-eight minutes as McDuffie was removed from his car and his Pontiac was removed from the infield. Also, the wall that McDuffie and Means struck had to be repaired. As the cars got back on the track and cruised under yellow flag conditions, the media attention turned to Chip Williams, NASCAR's PR director, who disclosed that McDuffie had died instantly from head and brain injuries. NASCAR declined to investigate the accident, and McDuffie's car left the track before the conclusion of the race.

McDuffie's basilar skull fracture was presumed to have been caused by rapid head movement to his right rather than an impact. McDuffie's family and crew members have long believed that his injuries were caused by a foreign object entering the vehicle. McDuffie's sponsor, Medford Speed, hired accident investigators, Phil Moser and Terry Shaw, to determine the cause of the fatal injuries. The investigation concluded that upon impact with the tire barrier, a tire from the barrier entered the cockpit through the passenger side window and struck McDuffie on the right side of his head near the jaw, causing his fatal head injuries. The report cited a "black tar-like substance" on the window and damage to McDuffie's helmet foam and microphone tab that was consistent with a tire from the barrier entering the car upon impact.

McDuffie's death led to changes at Watkins Glen and also influenced motorsport safety changes that would come to full fruition at the end of the decade. Six weeks earlier, Camel GT prototype driver Tommy Kendall had a hard crash in the same section during the Camel Continental VIII, when a wheel failed on his Pratt & Miller Intrepid RM-1-Chevrolet prototype, sliding into the barrier, breaking both his legs and sidelining him for the rest of the 1991 season, including the Winston Cup race, where he was set to substitute for Kyle Petty, injured at Talladega in May (Kendall had substituted for Petty at Sears Point earlier in the year). The track was then given a bus stop chicane placed slightly before the entrance of turn five, the section of track in question, and a gravel trap (since paved over after research into motorsport safety proved the advantage of a tarmac runoff), for the 1992 season.

Also, at the time, basilar skull fractures were the subject of developing research by Jim Downing and Bob Hubbard into a head and neck restraint for motorsport. Downing, a champion sports car racer, and his brother-in-law Hubbard, were in the process of developing the HANS device, which had just begun production. McDuffie's death was among the catalysts that led to increased funding by the automakers to continue research into basilar skull fractures as part of motorsport safety improvements, as adoption by sports car drivers of HANS had increased. By the end of the decade, following two CART fatalities in one season and three NASCAR fatalities in a span of five months, and then the start of the next decade with two more fatalities (including that of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.), and research into the head and neck restraints that had quickly been adopted, most motorsport sanctioning bodies mandated head and neck restraints worldwide.

McDuffie's widow, Ima Jean, unsuccessfully sued Watkins Glen for $4.25 million, claiming the barrier McDuffie hit was unsafe. The judge in that case ruled that McDuffie was familiar enough with the track to be aware of the dangers and that mechanical failure caused the accident. The cause of the mechanical failure was never explained as NASCAR did a very brief investigation and the wheel that broke off disappeared before it could be returned to the McDuffie family. From McDuffie's death in 1991 to 2001, notable stock car drivers such as Dale Earnhardt, Adam Petty, Blaise Alexander, and Kenny Irwin Jr. would also die from crashes that caused basilar skull fractures. Research into head and neck restraints would lead to the development of devices such as the HANS device and the Hutchens device. In modern times most motorsport sanctioning bodies worldwide (including NASCAR), mandate drivers to use head and neck restraints. However it wasn't until October 2001, more than 10 years after McDuffie's death, that NASCAR mandated that all drivers wear head and neck restraints in the form of a HANS device or a Hutchens device. In January 2005 NASCAR banned the use of the Hutchens device and forced all drivers to use the HANS device instead.

Personal life

McDuffie made Sanford, North Carolina home; the city supported him through struggles much like it did with hometown driver Herb Thomas. McDuffie married Ima Jean Wood in 1959 and together they had two children, Jeff and Linda; all of whom survive him.

McDuffie is buried at Buffalo Cemetery, Sanford, North Carolina. On August 8, 2021, Ima Jean died at age 83. On October 25, 2024, Jeff McDuffie died at the age of 62.

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Grand National Series

NASCAR Grand National Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	NGNC	Pts	Ref
1963	McDuffie Racing	X	Ford	BIR	GGS	THS	RSD	DAY	DAY	DAY	PIF	AWS	HBO	ATL	HCY	BRI	AUG	RCH	GPS	SBO	BGS	MAR	NWS	CLB	THS	DAR	ODS	RCH	CLT	BIR	ATL	DAY	MBS 12	SVH	DTS 12	BGS																							46th	2498
		76																																			ASH 8	OBS	BRR	BRI 19	GPS 21	NSV	CLB 14	AWS	PIF	BGS 12	ONA	DAR	HCY 8	RCH	MAR 29	DTS 12	NWS	THS 10	CLT	SBO	HBO 18	RSD
1966	McDuffie Racing	70	Ford	AUG	RSD	DAY	DAY	DAY	CAR 16	BRI 17	ATL	HCY 7	CLB 14	GPS 18	BGS 10	NWS 7	MAR 25	DAR DNQ	LGY	MGR	MON 11	RCH 13	CLT	DTS 8	ASH 8	PIF 5	SMR 21	AWS 13	BLV 14	GPS 6	DAY 21	ODS 13	BRR 17	OXF 18	FON 7	ISP 21	BRI 14	SMR 19	NSV 23	ATL 22	CLB 12	AWS 24	BLV 11	BGS 8	DAR	HCY 15	RCH 24	HBO 23	MAR 22	NWS DNQ	CLT	CAR 26							27th	9572
1967				AUG 18	RSD	DAY	DAY	DAY	AWS	BRI	GPS	BGS	ATL	CLB	HCY	NWS	MAR	SVH	RCH	DAR	BLV	LGY	CLT	ASH	MGR	SMR	BIR	CAR	GPS	MGY	DAY	TRN	OXF	FDA	ISP	BRI	SMR	NSV	ATL	BGS	CLB	SVH	DAR	HCY	RCH	BLV	HBO	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	AWS							NA	0
1968			Buick	MGR	MGY	RSD	DAY	BRI	RCH	ATL	HCY	GPS	CLB	NWS	MAR 25	AUG 16	AWS 19	DAR	BLV 15	LGY	CLT	ASH 8	MGR 9	SMR	BIR	CAR 7	GPS 6	DAY 37	ISP 19	OXF 9	FDA 15	TRN 19	BRI 10	SMR 10	NSV 11	ATL 40	CLB 15	BGS 16	AWS 25	SBO 12	LGY 11	DAR 42	HCY 18	RCH 28	BLV 8	HBO 15	MAR 16	NWS 30	AUG 9	CLT	CAR 35	JFC 13							24th	1370
1969				MGR 30	MGY 13	RSD 29	DAY	DAY 18	DAY 39	CAR 29	AUG 22	BRI 30	ATL 16	CLB 16	HCY 10	GPS 16	RCH 6	NWS 13	MAR 14	AWS 9	DAR 25	BLV 19	LGY 11	CLT 15	MGR 10	SMR 8	MCH 13	KPT 15	GPS 6	NCF 11		DOV 12	TPN 11	TRN 26	BLV 9	BRI 9	NSV 9	SMR 13	ATL 23	MCH 28	SBO 12	BGS 8	AWS 13	DAR 25	HCY 12	RCH 25	TAL DNQ	CLB 7	MAR DNQ			SVH 10	AUG 29		JFC 13	MGR	TWS		14th	2741
	E.C. Reid	09	Chevy																												DAY 40
	Don Tarr	0	Chevy																																														MAR 36					CAR 20
	GC Spencer Racing	8	Plymouth																																															NWS 12
	Langley Racing	84	Ford																																																CLT 24
1970	McDuffie Racing	70	Buick	RSD	DAY	DAY 31	DAY DNQ	RCH 11	CAR 13	SVH 11	ATL 30	BRI 6		NWS DNQ	CLB 8	DAR	BLV 10	LGY 16		SMR 11	MAR 21	MCH	RSD	HCY	KPT 7	GPS 12									CLB 23	ONA	MCH								NCF 19														16th	2079
			Ford										TAL DNQ														DAY 16
			Mercury																CLT 21									AST 23	TPN 11	TRN 23	BRI 9	SMR 21	NSV 5					TAL 41	BGS 7	SBO 7	DAR 26	HCY 11	RCH 15	DOV 25		NWS 21	CLT 15	MAR 10	MGR	CAR 18	LGY 8
	Ken Spikes	16	Chevy																															ATL 39
1971	McDuffie Racing	70	Mercury	RSD 15	DAY	DAY 30	DAY DNQ	ONT 35									NWS 20	MAR 19	DAR 7		TAL 33	ASH 7		CLT 24	DOV 12	MCH 25	RSD 14	HOU 10	GPS 24	DAY 35	BRI 9	AST 3	ISP 16	TRN 17	NSV 5	ATL 17	BGS 13	ONA 12	MCH 18	TAL 21	CLB 19	HCY	DAR DNQ	MAR 30		DOV 26	CAR 24				TWS 19								9th	2862
			Buick						RCH 20
	Lubinski Racing	88	Dodge							CAR 14	HCY
	McDuffie Racing	70	Chevy									BRI 30	ATL 25	CLB 15	GPS	SMR 18				SBO 7			KPT 24																									MGR 7	RCH 19	NWS 15
	Junior Fields	91	Chevy																																								DAR 40
	Williams Racing	47	Ford																																										CLT 22

Winston Cup Series

NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	NWCC	Pts	Ref
1972	McDuffie Racing	70	Chevy	RSD 18	DAY 24	RCH 12	ONT 23	CAR DNQ	ATL DNQ	BRI 19	DAR 19	NWS 25	MAR 13	TAL 34	CLT 33	DOV 11	MCH 16	RSD 28	TWS 27	DAY 28		TRN 16	ATL DNQ	TAL 36	MCH 29	NSV 10	DAR DNQ		DOV 24	MAR 14	NWS 23	CLT DNQ	CAR 24	TWS 14	18th	5075.85
	Don Tarr		Dodge																		BRI 5
	George Altheide	0	Dodge																								DAR 15
	Faustina Racing	5	Plymouth																									RCH 30
1973	McDuffie Racing	70	Chevy	RSD 32	DAY 26	RCH 29	CAR 29	BRI 21	ATL	NWS 23	DAR 5	MAR 13	TAL 18	NSV 9	CLT 21	DOV 19	TWS 10	RSD 12	MCH 10	DAY 40	BRI 5	ATL 7	TAL 11	NSV 18	DAR 10	RCH 29	DOV 5	NWS 10	MAR 10	CLT 29	CAR 20				10th	5743.9
1974				RSD 22	DAY 28	RCH 7	CAR 13	BRI 12	ATL 15	DAR 30	NWS 8	MAR 9	TAL 19	NSV 7	DOV 11	CLT 10	RSD 17	MCH 17	DAY 11	BRI 11	NSV 27	ATL 19	POC 25	TAL 24	MCH 13	DAR 17	RCH 8	DOV 12	NWS 23	MAR 16	CLT 21	CAR 19	ONT 10		12th	920.85
1975				RSD 14	DAY 33	RCH	CAR	BRI	ATL	NWS 13	DAR 11	MAR 28	TAL 29	NSV 11	DOV 18	CLT 11	RSD 6	MCH 18	DAY 22	NSV 9	POC 27	TAL 45	MCH 28	DAR 33	DOV 8	NWS 7	MAR 30	CLT 9	RCH 5	CAR 20	BRI 30	ATL 18	ONT 21		18th	2745
1976				RSD 19	DAY 7	CAR 10	RCH 21	BRI 10	ATL 27	NWS 5	DAR 27	MAR 23	TAL 27	NSV 20	DOV 15	CLT 25	RSD 14	MCH 16	DAY 24	NSV 13	POC 21	TAL 7	MCH 8	BRI 23	DAR 25	RCH 11	DOV 7	MAR 21	NWS 7	CLT 23		ATL 13	ONT 11		12th	3400
	Handy Racing	33	Chevy																												CAR 26
1977	McDuffie Racing	70	Chevy	RSD 29	DAY 13	RCH 16	CAR 15	ATL 31	NWS 22	DAR 19	BRI 20	MAR 9	TAL 26	NSV 24	DOV 13	CLT 25	RSD 33	MCH 20	DAY 24	NSV 8	POC 14	TAL 8	MCH 20	BRI 18	DAR 12	RCH 13	DOV 12	MAR 17	NWS 23	CLT 15	CAR 10	ATL 27	ONT 20		12th	3236
1978				RSD 28	DAY 30	RCH 27	CAR 25	ATL 16	BRI 28	DAR 11	NWS 7	MAR 26	TAL 40	DOV 34	CLT 22	NSV 12	RSD 24	MCH 13	DAY 12	NSV 5	POC 10	TAL 17	MCH 7	BRI 8	DAR 20	RCH 8	DOV 33	MAR 22	NWS 11	CLT 11	CAR 12	ATL 14	ONT 26		11th	3255
1979				RSD 17		CAR 25	RCH 7		NWS 6	BRI 26	DAR 19	MAR 10	TAL 31	NSV 5	DOV 13	CLT 13	TWS 14	RSD 7	MCH 14	DAY 21	NSV 8	POC 13	TAL 18	MCH 9	BRI 26	DAR 18	RCH 14	DOV 27	MAR 21	CLT 22	NWS 28	CAR 25	ATL 12	ONT 31	13th	3473
			Olds		DAY 25			ATL 17
1980			Chevy	RSD 15		RCH 9	CAR 32	ATL 9	BRI 13	DAR 22	NWS 30	MAR 30		NSV 20	DOV 33		TWS 29	RSD 9	MCH 15		NSV 11	POC 36		MCH 20	BRI 11	DAR 18	RCH 29	DOV 38	NWS 24	MAR 26	CLT 20	CAR 21	ATL 17	ONT 14	16th	2968
			Buick		DAY DNQ								TAL 41							DAY 23			TAL 25
	Gray Racing	19	Buick		DAY 27
	Ulrich Racing	40	Chevy													CLT 30
1981	McDuffie Racing	70	Chevy	RSD 23																															17th	2996
			Pontiac		DAY 24	RCH 10	CAR 33	ATL 11	BRI 22	NWS 16	DAR 16	MAR 30	TAL 22	NSV 16	DOV 23	CLT 13	TWS 11	RSD 12	MCH 22	DAY 12	NSV 20	POC 18	TAL	MCH 16	BRI 13	DAR 21	RCH	DOV 28	MAR	NWS 12	CLT 17	CAR 30	ATL 23	RSD 11
1982				DAY 13	RCH 23	BRI 19	ATL 38	CAR 10	DAR 36	NWS 20	MAR 16	TAL 18	NSV 18	DOV 27	CLT 33	POC 33	RSD 25	MCH 37	DAY 11	NSV 25	POC 16	TAL 22	MCH 16	BRI 22	DAR 16	RCH 30	DOV 13	NWS 30	CLT 18	MAR DNQ	CAR 22	ATL 30			19th	2886
	Gordon Racing	24	Buick																											MAR 15
	Junior Johnson & Associates	70	Buick																														RSD 18
1983	McDuffie Racing		Pontiac	DAY 29	RCH 25	CAR 30		DAR 17	NWS DNQ	MAR	TAL DNQ	NSV 18	DOV 23	BRI 24	CLT 26	RSD 24	POC 19	MCH 34	DAY	NSV 17	POC 25	TAL 23	MCH 32	BRI 25	DAR 37	RCH 11	DOV 36	MAR 13	NWS 26	CLT DNQ	CAR 14	ATL 32	RSD 30		26th	2197
	Gray Racing	19	Buick				ATL 36
1984	McDuffie Racing	70	Pontiac	DAY DNQ	RCH 23	CAR 16	ATL	BRI 21	NWS 24	DAR	MAR	TAL	NSV 26	DOV 33	CLT	RSD	POC 39	MCH DNQ	DAY	NSV DNQ	POC 31	TAL DNQ	MCH DNQ	BRI 12	DAR 24	RCH 28	DOV 16	MAR 25	CLT DNQ	NWS 30	CAR 36	ATL DNQ	RSD 30		34th	1366
1985			Chevy	DAY DNQ			ATL 23											DAY 20		TAL 28		BRI DNQ	DAR DNQ						CAR 26						27th	1853
			Pontiac		RCH 20	CAR 28		BRI 27	DAR 39	NWS 24	MAR 24	TAL 15		CLT 39	RSD 42	POC 25	MCH 31				MCH 29			RCH 26		MAR 15	NWS DNQ	CLT		ATL 27	RSD 25
			Ford										DOV 31						POC 40
	Beahr Racing		Ford																						DOV 28
1986	McDuffie Racing		Pontiac	DAY DNQ	RCH 16	CAR 31	ATL	BRI DNQ	DAR 17	NWS 28	MAR 18	TAL DNQ	DOV 20	CLT DNQ	RSD 14	POC 16	MCH 35	DAY DNQ	POC 19	TAL DNQ	GLN 25	MCH 31	BRI 24	DAR 34											26th	1825
	Winkle Motorsports																								RCH 28	DOV 37	MAR 20	NWS 26	CLT 20	CAR 21	ATL DNQ	RSD
1987				DAY 25	CAR 20	RCH 16																													30th	1361
	McDuffie Racing						ATL 40	DAR 41	NWS 32	BRI 21	MAR 31	TAL	CLT DNQ	DOV 23	POC 28	RSD 37	MCH DNQ	DAY DNQ	POC DNQ	TAL 25	GLN 24	MCH 22	BRI DNQ	DAR	RCH DNQ	DOV 28	MAR 17	NWS DNQ	CLT DNQ	CAR 40	RSD	ATL DNQ
1988				DAY DNQ	RCH	CAR	ATL	DAR	BRI	NWS	MAR	TAL	CLT DNQ	DOV 25	RSD	POC DNQ	MCH DNQ	DAY	POC DNQ	TAL DNQ	GLN 36	MCH DNQ	BRI DNQ	DAR	RCH DNQ	DOV DNQ	MAR DNQ	CLT DNQ	NWS DNQ	CAR DNQ	PHO	ATL			61st	148
1989				DAY 24	CAR 37	ATL DNQ	RCH DNQ	DAR 31	BRI DNQ	NWS DNQ	MAR DNQ	TAL DNQ	CLT	DOV	SON	POC	MCH	DAY DNQ	POC DNQ	TAL DNQ	GLN 35	MCH DNQ	BRI	DAR 36	RCH 31	DOV 34	MAR DNQ	CLT DNQ	NWS	CAR DNQ	PHO	ATL DNQ			44th	457
1990				DAY DNQ	RCH DNQ	CAR 35	ATL DNQ	DAR 35	BRI 27	NWS DNQ	MAR	TAL DNQ	CLT DNQ	DOV 25	SON	POC 28	MCH 37	DAY DNQ	POC DNQ	TAL DNQ	GLN 22	MCH DNQ	BRI DNQ	DAR DNQ	RCH DNQ	DOV 40	MAR DNQ	NWS DNQ	CLT DNQ	CAR DNQ	PHO	ATL			40th	557
1991				DAY DNQ	RCH DNQ	CAR DNQ	ATL	DAR 30	BRI DNQ	NWS DNQ	MAR DNQ	TAL DNQ	CLT DNQ	DOV 31	SON	POC 34	MCH DNQ	DAY DNQ	POC 25	TAL	GLN 40	MCH	BRI	DAR	RCH	DOV	MAR	NWS	CLT	CAR	PHO	ATL			48th	335

Daytona 500

Year	Team	Manufacturer	Start	Finish
1969	McDuffie Racing	Buick	36	39
1970			DNQ
1971		Mercury	DNQ
1972		Chevrolet	19	24
1973			22	26
1974			30	28
1975			14	33
1976			41	7
1977			24	13
1978			22	30
1979		Oldsmobile	29	25
1980		Buick	DNQ
	Gray Racing	Buick	25	27
1981	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	41	24
1982			33	13
1983			37	29
1984			DNQ
1985		Chevrolet	DNQ
1986		Pontiac	DNQ
1987	Winkle Motorsports		38	25
1988	McDuffie Racing		DNQ
1989			29	24
1990			DNQ
1991			DNQ

Busch Series

NASCAR Busch Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	NBSC	Pts	Ref
1982	McDuffie Racing	70	Pontiac	DAY	RCH	BRI	MAR	DAR 16	HCY	SBO	CRW	RCH	LGY	DOV 16	HCY	CLT 21	ASH	HCY	SBO	CAR 21	CRW	SBO	HCY	LGY	IRP	BRI	HCY	RCH	MAR	CLT 15	HCY	MAR							44th	548
1983		03	Chevy	DAY 19	RCH	CAR 32	HCY	MAR	NWS	SBO	GPS	LGY	DOV 15	BRI	CLT 14	SBO	HCY	ROU	SBO	ROU	CRW	ROU	SBO	HCY	LGY	IRP	GPS	BRI	HCY										44th	542
			Pontiac																											DAR 11	RCH	NWS	SBO	MAR	ROU	CLT	HCY	MAR
1984		72	Olds	DAY	RCH	CAR	HCY	MAR	DAR	ROU	NSV	LGY	MLW	DOV	CLT 8	SBO	HCY	ROU	SBO	ROU	HCY	IRP	LGY	SBO	BRI	DAR	RCH	NWS	CLT	HCY	CAR	MAR							112th	-

ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series

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

ARCA Permatex SuperCar Series results
Year	Team	No.	Make	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	APSC	Pts	Ref
1976		81	Dodge	SLM	DAY	QCS	FMS	TAL 28	QCS	AVS	SLM	FRS	TOL	NSV	TOL	SLM								NA	0
1983	McDuffie Racing	7	Pontiac	DAY	NSV	TAL 34	LPR	LPR	ISF	IRP	SSP	FRS	BFS	WIN	LPR	POC	TAL	MCS	FRS	MIL	DSF	ZAN	SND	NA	0
1984		72	Olds	DAY	ATL	TAL	CSP	SMS	FRS	MCS	LCS	IRP	TAL 21	FRS	ISF	DSF	TOL	MGR						NA	0
1986	McDuffie Racing	77	Pontiac	ATL	DAY	ATL	TAL 31	SIR	SSP	FRS	KIL	CSP												67th	-
		78											TAL 6	BLN	ISF	DSF	TOL	MCS	ATL
1988	McDuffie Racing	79	Pontiac	DAY	ATL	TAL	FRS	PCS	ROC	POC	WIN	KIL	ACS	SLM	POC	TAL	DEL	FRS	ISF	DSF	SLM	ATL 10		115th	-
1989				DAY 41	ATL 39	KIL	TAL	FRS	POC	KIL	HAG	POC	TAL	DEL	FRS	ISF	TOL	DSF	SLM	ATL				74th	-
1990		70		DAY	ATL	KIL	TAL	FRS	POC	KIL	TOL	HAG	POC	TAL 16	MCH 22	ISF	TOL	DSF	WIN	DEL	ATL			79th	-
1991				DAY	ATL	KIL	TAL 25	TOL	FRS		MCH 13	KIL	FRS	DEL	POC	TAL	HPT	MCH	ISF	TOL	DSF	TWS	ATL	62nd	-
		08	Olds							POC 19
Results before 1979 may be incomplete.

See also

• Ayrton Senna

External links

• The Legend of J.D. McDuffie: J.D.'s strong performances at the Wayback Machine (archived December 22, 2015)
• The Legend of J.D. McDuffie: The 1991 season at the Wayback Machine (archived December 22, 2015)
• Salute to J.D.
• J. D. McDuffie driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• ESPN race coverage of JD McDuffie's crash for historical purposes only on YouTube.
• Tribute by PattyKay Lilley - Writer for racefansforever.com at the Wayback Machine (archived August 17, 2013)