15 Facts About Josh Burdon

Josh Burdon was born on September 5,1992 and is an Australian racing driver.

Josh Burdon began his racing career kart racing at 8 years old winning various titles.

Josh Burdon further progressed to competing internationally in 2012, and has gone on to compete in numerous racing series throughout the world.

In 2013 Josh Burdon relocated to France and signed with Scorpus Racing driving the Xbox sponsored car in the open Whelen Euro Series.

Josh Burdon led the championship from beginning to end, winning 7 out of 12 races when he was controversially taken out during the final race in Le Mans.

Josh Burdon won the championship with 7 out of 12 race wins.

Josh Burdon swept qualifying after winning 4 pole positions from 4 attempts at Zhuhai International Circuit, Fuji Speedway, Chang International Circuit and Sepang International Circuit.

In 2018 Josh Burdon was signed by Taiwanese celebrity Jimmy Lin to compete for his team PTRS in the China LMP3 Series.

Josh Burdon won the championship after dominating the final round in Tianjin, despite a publicly difficult relationship with the team as the season progressed.

Josh Burdon competed in the first rounds of GT World Challenge Asia with Absolute Racing, partnering with Anthony Liu driving an Audi R8 LMS GT3 as a Pro Am lineup, Burdon picked up pole position on his GT3 debut in Sepang International Circuit, Malaysia.

Pre season in 2019 KC Motorgroup announced Josh Burdon joining its expanding international GT3 program, where they fielded the official GT3 entries for Nissan with the Nissan GT-R GT3.

Josh Burdon was placed into the No 35 where he joined factory Japanese Nissan drivers Tsugio Matsuda and Katsumasa Chiyo.

Josh Burdon escaped serious injury in scary crash during the 2019 24 Hours of Nurburgring after slowing for a code 60 zone on the Dottinger Hohe a lower category car was not paying attention and hit Josh Burdon from behind with a significant impact.

Josh Burdon was born in Hobart, the capital city of Tasmania.

Josh Burdon was educated at St Virgils College, a Catholic boys school that puts much importance on sport.