Joshua Pacer

Joshua Tyler Pacer (born April 11, 1992) is an American auto racing driver from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Pacer currently drives the #9 Lenard for Flare Motorsports in the ASCC All American Racing Series, where - as of the completion of the eleventh race of his rookie season - he has scored four race victories.

Pacer is also a former winner in the FARC Lowe Dollar Series, where his professional racing career began. He nearly won the driver's championship as a part-time racer in 2016, a result of that year's FARC-Off championship points system working heavily in his favor.

Career
Pacer began racing cars as a teenager at the Gillette Thunder Speedway in Wyoming, competing in the street stocks division at the 3/8-mile dirt track.

FARC
In 2014, John Jones, who had fielded cars at Gillette Thunder, entered a car in the FARC DiEmAr Chassis Regional Cup for the West division of the new street stocks series, hiring Pacer was hired to drive the car. They would score a runner-up finish at Albuquerque Speedbowl early in the season.

The following year, the team purchased a Saar Carolina to attempt a limited schedule in the Elite Series with Pacer behind the wheel, once more. Pacer and his new Jonesport entry competed in the four dirt track events as well as the race on the superspeedway in Joliet. He scored a 5th-place finish in his first start, at the River Spirit Expo Center in Oklahoma.

Jonesport's original plans to attempt another limited schedule of select events in the western United States and on the dirt tracks for 2016 were suddenly changed when Pacer won the third race of the season at Albuquerque Speedbowl in New Mexico. Prior to the beginning of the season, FARC had implemented a knockout-style championship points system that rewarded eligible race-winners with a spot in the "FARC-Off". To maintain Pacer's championship eligibility, Jones and Pacer managed to compete in an additional four races, and Pacer also competed in two races behind the wheel of the #83 Saar for Desert Star Motorsports. Pacer made it all the way to the championship finale at Texas World Speedway with a shot at the title, becoming one of the "Final Five" who could win it by outfinishing the other four in the race. A heavy crash early on in the event, however, would eliminate his title hopes, and he would be ranked 23rd in the final standings.

Having stretched its resources, Jonesport entered Pacer in only five events for 2017. His lone top 10 result came at Tulsa, where he would finish 5th at the River Spirit Expo Center for the second time.

2018 would be a breakout year for Pacer, as he signed a deal to pilot the #86 Lenard for Durbin Sport Racing for four races, in addition to another six races in the #88 Saar for Jonesport. He won his first race in the #86 car at Sayre Speedway, which also happened to be his first start of the season. Another victory in the fourth of the Quarterfinals at LaCrosse, as well as several top ten finishes, led Pacer to achieve a 7th-place ranking in the championship standings.

ASCC
Former championship TM Master Cup team Flare Motorsports would hire Pacer to drive their new #9 Lenard for the 2019 ASCC All American Racing Series Presented by Kenslo. Pacer would pilot the car alongside teammate Alex Carson, who himself has three FARC Lowe Dollar Series victories to his name.

Pacer quickly found his footing in the steel-bodied ASCC cars and won four of the sixteen races in the regular season. He would win the race at Kansas, as well, to kick off the opening round of the Playoffs. Unfortunately, an early engine failure at Talladega undid all of the points that he had earned in the first two races of Round One, and he fell two points short of the cutoff to be eligible for Round Two.

Pacer has generally not taken well to working with a teammate for the first time in his career, having expressed grievances whenever Carson has won or otherwise finished better than him. He has even shown a tendency to race Carson especially hard on the racetrack, in spite of the risk of inflicting damage upon multiple team cars. The rivalry between both drivers, however, has luckily not inhibited their results thus far, as they have won a combined nine of the season's first nineteen races.

Personal
Pacer was born in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and spent the majority of his childhood in the Cheyenne metropolitan area. He has also temporarily resided in Ortonville, Michigan, before moving back to Wyoming once more.

Pacer's brash and irascible personality have often provided difficulty for the crew members who work with him. This, combined with his fiercely competitive nature, has led to a number of crashes throughout his career. He tends to be very unapologetic in general, and has expressed regret at having not wrecked his competitors more regularly than he has.

Trivia

 * Pacer is an avid railroad enthusiast, having expressed a desire to work as a railroad engineer should he not find success in racing.