Born on May 27, 1969 in Owensboro, Kentucky, Jeremy Mayfield began his racing career early in life, when raced BMX bikes on local tracks. Following his start in BMX racing, Jeremy moved from racing BMX to go-kart and street stock cars. After that, Jeremy moved onto late-model cars; where he won Rookie of the Year honors in 1987 at the Kentucky Speedway. From there, Jeremy began racing in the ARCA Circuit and was quite successful, scoring 10 top10 finishes and garnered the Rookie of the Year award in 1993 and made his debut in the NASCAR Winston Cup at the Mello Yello 500 in Charlotte.
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It was then, in 1994, when Jeremy began racing full time for the Sadler Brothers in the Winston Cup Series, before being let go the next year. Not long afterwards, Jeremy was signed by Cale Yarborough, where he found some success before moving on to Michael Kranefuss’ racing team, and soon scored his first win in Pocono. From there, Jeremy signed with Ray Evernham Motorsports in 2002 to replace Casey Atwood, and had a large amount of success. In the four years with his new race team, Jeremy won 3 poles, 2 wins, 15 top 5 finishes, and 38 top 10 finishes.
However, in the 2006 race season, Jeremy had a mediocre season before being released after the Brickyard 400 in Indianapolis on August 6th and was replaced by Eliot Sadler for the remainder of the season. Hopefully the 2007 racing season will be nicer to Jeremy; not long after his release from Evernham, he signed to drive the #36 Toyota for Bill Davis Racing.
Away from the track, Jeremy enjoys to build and race remote control cars at home. Currently, Jeremy and his wife reside in Mooresville, North Carolina with their five dogs.
