Tony Buffomante

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Tony Buffomante
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Buffomante's 2019 TA2 car racing at Road America
NationalityAmerican
Born (1972-09-26) September 26, 1972 (age 48)
Buffalo, New York
Trans-Am TA2 career
Debut season2013
Current team Mike Cope Racing
Engine Ford
Championships1 (2016)
Best finish1st in 2016
Previous series
2000
1994
1992–1993		 USF2000 National Championship
USAC FF2000 National Championship
USAC FF2000 Eastern Division Championship
Championship titles
2016
1997		Trans-Am TA2
Star Mazda

Tony Buffomante (born September 26, 1972) is an American racing driver. Buffomante won the Star Mazda championship in 1997. Currently Buffomante has been competing in the Trans-Am Series' TA2 class since 2013, and won the championship in 2016.

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Racing career

Buffomante started karting with the World Karting Association in 1985. He continued to do so until 1990. For 1991 the New Yorker stepped up to the SCCA Spec Racer Renault class. In 1992 Buffomante switched to single-seaters in the Formula Continental class. At the SCCA National Championship Runoffs Buffomante finished third running the fastest lap of the race. [1] He also made his first appearance in the pro F2000 series the, USAC FF2000 Eastern Division Championship. At Watkins Glen International Buffomante finished in eleventh place. He returned the following season for two races with a best finish of seventh. [2] In 1995 Buffomante achieved success in the SCCA Central Division Spec Racer Ford class. The young driver won races at Blackhawk Farms Raceway and Road America. He finished third in the season standings. [3] The following year Buffomante started in Star Mazda and the SCCA Spec Racer Ford Pro Series. Buffomante ran his Star Mazda in the SCCA Central Division Formula Atlantic class achieving a sixth place in the championship, behind Tony Ave. [4] The New York driver ran four races in the Spec Racer Ford Pro Series. His best result was a third place at Heartland Park Topeka.

In 1997 Buffomante ran the pro Star Mazda series full time. The driver dominated the season winning eight races. But without a major sponsor Buffomante was not able to go up the racing ladder. For 1998 Buffomante competed in the Night before the 500 Star Mazda race. The young driver dominated the race winning it from pole position. [5] He also ran in the SCCA Star Mazda division winning the National Championship Runoffs. Buffomante took sabbatical in 1999 due to budget problems. He returned for 2000 in the USF2000 with Archangel Motorsports. The season started excellent at Phoenix International Raceway. Buffomante finished the first race of the season in second place, behind series champion Aaron Justus. He missed a number of rounds due to technical difficulties. He eventually finished fifteenth in the series championship, in front of Harold Primat. [6]

For 2001 Buffomante started in the American Power Boat Association. In his rookie season Buffomante finished fourth in the APBA Pro Series. In 2002 he won the Great Lakes Silver Cup Series in the Factory I class in a Mercruiser HP 500 powered Warlock. [7] Buffomante won the title again in 2003 and 2004.

Buffomante returned to auto racing in 2005 in the amateur based Factory Five Challenge sanctioned by NASA. He won three NASA National Championship in a row, two in the Factory Five Challenge, one in the Touring 2 class. The years after he ran in the Grand-Am sanctioned Ford Mustang Challenge. He finished fourth in the inaugural season standings. [8] Buffomante won races in the series in 2009 and 2010 before continuing in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge in 2011 and 2012. In his Ford Mustang his best result was a seventh place at Lime Rock Park.

In 2013 Buffomante joined the revived Trans-Am Series in the TA2 class. In 2013 he only competed at Mosport Park scoring a triple crown, winning the race from pole position and scoring the fastest lap. After another partial Trans-Am, and partial Pirelli World Challenge season in 2014, Buffomante joined Trans-Am full time for 2015. He scored two podium finished in the last three races of the season finished eighth in the season standings. [9] He won the 2016 TA2 championship.

Personal

Buffomante is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame where he studied Management and Computer Science. After graduating in 1994 the New Yorker joined Arthur Andersen for two years. In 1996 Buffomante joined Sears Roebuck in the IT Audit and IT Security divisions. In 2020, after several years at KPMG, Buffomante joined global IT services company Wipro as a Senior Vice President and Global Head of Cybersecurity & Risk Services. [10]

In May 1998 Buffomante was engaged to Nita Malkani, getting married in February 1999.

Complete motorsports results

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

YearTrackCarEngineClassFinishStartStatus
1992 Road Atlanta Reynard SF Ford Formula Continental 35Running
1995 Mid-Ohio Spec Racer Ford Spec Racer Ford 619Running
1998 Mid-Ohio Star Mazda Formula Mazda 12Running

American Open-Wheel racing results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, races in italics indicate fastest race lap)

USAC FF2000 Eastern Division Championship

YearEntrant123456789PosPoints
1992 ROA1 IRP NAZ SHA WGI
11		 TOP ROA2 SEB ??????
1993 ATL IRP WGI
7		 MDO
23		 RAM NHS SHA1 SHA2 LRP ??????

USAC FF2000 National Championship results

YearEntrant12345678910PosPoints
1994 IRP1
21		 IRP2
34		 IRP3 WGI
13		 BFR TOP NHS SHA1 SHA2 LRP ??????

USF2000 National Championship results

YearEntrant12345678910111213PosPoints
2000 Archangel Motorsports PIR
2		 MOS1
8		 MOS2
13		 IRP1
4		 ROA1
34		 ROA1
DNS		 TRR MOS3 WGI1 WGI2 IRP2
13		 ATL1 ATL1 15th74

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References

  1. ↑ "SCCA Runoffs Driver Histories" (PDF). SCCA. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "TONY BUFFOMANTE - OVERALL START/FINISH POSITIONS (CLASS POSITIONS NOT SHOWN)". USF2000. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  3. ↑ "1995 National Points for SRF" (PDF). Cendiv SCCA. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  4. ↑ "1996 National Points for FA" (PDF). Cendiv SCCA. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  5. ↑ "Star Mazda Series, Central Division/Round 4". The Auto Channel. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. ↑ "US F2000 National Championship Point Standings". USF2000. Archived from the original on November 27, 2003. Retrieved 5 March 2016.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  7. ↑ "Silver Cup Series". Archived from the original on March 31, 2003.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  8. ↑ "Ford Racing Mustang Challenge for the Miller Cup 2008 standings". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  9. ↑ "Tony Buffomante". DriverDB.com. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "Tony Buffomante". LinkedIn. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
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