Jerett Brooks

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Jerett Brooks
Stadium Super Trucks Jerrett Brooks wins Crandon 2013.jpg
Brooks after winning the Stadium Super Trucks race at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway in 2013
NationalityAmerican
Born (1997-07-27) July 27, 1997 (age 27)
Alpine, California
Championship Off-Road career
Current teamJerett Brooks Racing
Car number77
Stadium Super Trucks career
Debut season 2013
Car number27
Starts25
Wins2
Podiums8
Poles1
Best finish9th in 2014
Finished last season13th (2022)
Championship titles
2022
2019–2020
2016–2017
2014		 COR Pro 2
LOORRS Pro 2
LOORRS Pro Lite
TORC Pro Lite
Last updated on: November 14, 2022.

Jerett Brooks (born July 27, 1997) is an American racing driver. He mainly competes in short course off-road racing such as TORC: The Off-Road Championship, Lucas Oil Off Road Racing Series, and Championship Off-Road.

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He is a five-time off-road truck champion with three Pro Lite class titles in TORC (2014) and LOORRS (2016–2017) and two in LOORRS' Pro 2 division (2019–2020). Brooks has also competed in the Stadium Super Trucks and X Games.

Racing career

Brooks competing in the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks round at Crandon Stadium Super Trucks winner 77 Jerrett Brooks.jpg
Brooks competing in the 2013 Stadium Super Trucks round at Crandon

In his youth, Brooks often visited K1 Speed and built radio-controlled cars before switching to competitive trophy kart racing. [1] In 2008, he debuted in Championship Off-Road Racing's Junior 1 Kart class. [2] [3] After three years in Junior Karts, he switched to LOORRS' Modified Karts and won two races in 2010. [4] [2]

Brooks moved up to the Pro Lites in 2012, where he befriended driver Doug Mittag who built a new truck for him the following year. [3] Two years later, he won his first LOORRS Pro Lite race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in addition to racing for the TORC Pro Lite championship, which he won. [5] [6] He returned to LOORRS in 2015. [2] He won two consecutive LOORRS Pro Lite tiles in 2016 and 2017. [7] [8]

In 2017, Brooks won in his LOORRS Pro 2 class debut at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. [9] He claimed the series' Pro 2 championship in 2019 and 2020, the former of which made him the class's youngest champion at the age of 22. [10] His Jerett Brooks Racing operation also won 2020 Team of the Year honors. [11] When LOORRS folded after 2020, Brooks joined Championship Off-Road's Pro 2 class. [12]

During the Stadium Super Trucks' inaugural season in 2013, Brooks debuted at Qualcomm Stadium before winning for the first time at Crandon International Off-Road Raceway. [13] [14] He continued racing in the series on a sporadic basis over the next two years, which included entering X Games Austin 2014 and 2015. [15] Brooks returned to the series for the 2017 finale at Lake Elsinore Diamond as an injury replacement for Paul Morris; he finished second in the final race to beat Matthew Brabham for the title by one point. [16] [17] He also ran the 2018 season opener at Lake Elsinore in Morris' truck. [18] After not racing in SST in 2019 and 2020, Brooks rejoined the trucks at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in July 2021, where he led the most laps in the first race and fought with Robby Gordon for the win in the second before spinning on the final lap. [19] [20] Two months later, Brooks won the first race at the Grand Prix of Long Beach after using his brakes conservatively to have enough strength for the finish, a tactic that he called "pretty smart"; [21] he finished runner-up in the second race to take the weekend victory. [22]

Brooks retired from full-time racing after the 2022 season, where he won Championship Off-Road's Pro 2 title. [23] Since then, he has occasionally returned to driving at marquee events like the Crandon World Championship. [24]

Personal life

A native of Alpine, California, Brooks was homeschooled in high school as his racing career interfered with his education. [3]

Motorsports career results

Career summary

SeasonSeriesRacesWinsPodiumsPolesPointsPositionRef
2009LOORRS Junior 1 Karts402N/A14622nd [25]
LOORRS Junior 2 Karts826N/A3797th [26]
LOORRS Modified Karts1001N/A5278th [27]
2010LOORRS Junior 2 Karts211N/A8316th [4]
LOORRS Modified Karts1524N/A5537th [28]
2011LOORRS Modified Karts1505N/A5705th [29]
2012LOORRS Pro Lite1500N/A39214th [30]
2013LOORRS Pro Lite1500N/A29218th [31]
Stadium Super Trucks 512010811th [32]
2014LOORRS Pro Lite333N/A15421st [5]
Stadium Super Trucks 60301299th [33]
2015LOORRS Pro Lite1648N/A7072nd [34]
Stadium Super Trucks 10002727th [35]
2016LOORRS Pro Lite15712N/A7101st [36]
2017LOORRS Pro Lite13411N/A6101st [37]
LOORRS Pro 21314N/A5296th [38]
Stadium Super Trucks 210100N/A1 [17]
2018LOORRS Pro 21106N/A4843rd [39]
Stadium Super Trucks 40005418th [40]
2019LOORRS Pro 2161013N/A4291st [41]
2020LOORRS Pro 2181115N/A5151st [42]
1 – Paul Morris credited with finishes

Stadium Super Trucks

(key) (Bold – Pole position. Italics – Fastest qualifier. * – Most laps led.)

Stadium Super Trucks results
Year12345678910111213141516171819202122SSTCPtsRef
2013 PHO LBH LAN SDG
14		 SDG
6		 STL TOR TOR CRA
3		 CRA
1*		 OCF OCF OCF CPL
4		11th108 [32]
2014 STP
2		 STP
3		 LBH
10		 IMS
2		 IMS
4		 DET DET DET AUS
4		 TOR TOR OCF OCF CSS LVV LVV 9th129 [33]
2015 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH DET DET DET AUS
5		 TOR TOR OCF OCF OCF SRF SRF SRF SRF SYD LVV LVV 27th27 [35]
2017 ADE ADE ADE STP STP LBH LBH PER PER PER DET DET TEX TEX HID HID HID BEI GLN GLN ELS
8†		 ELS
2†		NA- [17]
2018 ELS
10†		 ADE ADE ADE LBH LBH PER PER DET DET TEX TEX ROA ROA SMP SMP HLN
11		 HLN
8		 MXC
7		 MXC
7		18th54 [40]
2021 STP STP MOH MOH MOH
2*		 MOH
8		 NSH NSH LBH
1		 LBH
2		6th111 [43]
2022 LBH
5		 LBH
10		 MOH MOH TOR TOR NSH NSH BRI BRI 13th31
† – Replaced Paul Morris, points went to Morris

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