Erik Benjamin Jones (born May 30, 1996) is an American professional stock car racing driver.

[4] In December 2012, Jones held off NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch to win the prestigious Snowball Derby.

In March 2013, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that it had signed Jones to drive in five age-eligible Camping World Truck Series races in the team's No.

On November 7, 2014, Jones picked up his 4th career Truck Series win under the red flag at Phoenix, due to a power outage.

After a string of top-ten finishes, Jones picked up win number three on the season at Texas Motor Speedway, extending his point lead over Crafton.

Jones battled with defending champion Matt Crafton and Reddick during the 2015 season and beat them to win the Championship.

In 2020, Jones joined a partnership between Wauters Motorsports and former team owners James Finch and Billy Ballew to run the Truck race at Homestead–Miami Speedway.

The effort was spurred by a bounty from Kevin Harvick and Marcus Lemonis for full-time Cup drivers who could beat Busch in a Truck race.

[18] The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the plan shifting to Charlotte Motor Speedway, but Jones was excluded from the 40-truck field as the No.

He also won the $100,000 Dash 4 Cash bonus by being the highest-finishing Xfinity Series regular out of the four who qualified through the heat races.

[23] Jones then set the fastest time in qualifying for the Hisense 4K TV 300, winning the 9th straight pole for JGR.

[25] Jones advanced through the Chase to the championship round at Homestead, where he would finish 4th in points behind Daniel Suárez, Elliott Sadler, and Justin Allgaier.

In 2017, as he began racing full-time in the Cup Series, Jones ran a part-time Xfinity schedule.

81 Toyota at the 2019 Food City 300 at Bristol,[28] where he finished 37th after being involved in a multi-car pileup with Christopher Bell, Cole Custer, and Joey Logano.

[29] On August 2, 2021, it was announced that Jones would return to the Xfinity Series to run the race at Watkins Glen in the No.

Jones unofficially debuted in the Sprint Cup Series during the 2015 Food City 500, when he relieved Denny Hamlin in the No.

After taking over the car, which had been in fifth, he dropped to 37th for the restart, and despite falling to the point where he was two laps down, Jones managed to finish the race in 26th.

Jones made his first career "triple duty" by running all three national series at the November Texas and Phoenix races.

20 car following the suspension of Matt Kenseth for his incident with Joey Logano at the Martinsville race the previous week.

However, due to the charter system, which limits an owner to just four cars without any exception for rookie drivers, his Cup plans were put on hold.

[34] This win secured him in the Playoffs, but was eliminated in the Round of 16 after disastrous finishes at Las Vegas and the Charlotte Roval.

On September 2, 2019, Jones scored his second career Cup Series win at Darlington, securing him in the 2019 Playoffs.

[36] Heading into the playoffs, Jones started 26th at Las Vegas, and worked his way up to the top 10 by the end of Stage 1.

[37] At Richmond, Jones ran top 10 in the latter part of the night and was able to finish 4th, but was disqualified when his car was discovered to have a rear-wheel alignment issue during post-race inspection.

[39] Jones kicked off 2020 by winning the Busch Clash; despite being involved in three accidents towards the end of the race, further wrecks on the field led to multiple overtime attempts.

Jones would end up missing the playoffs after being involved in a wreck at Daytona, a race he would need to win to lock himself in.

43 was docked 35 driver and owner points for an L1 penalty when the pre-race inspection revealed issues on the car's rocker box vent hole.

After battling Joey Logano for the lead, Tyler Reddick passed them both coming to the white flag.

[53] As Legacy Motor Club struggled to grind out results, Jones once again only managed one top-five finish with fifth place at the fall Talladega race and ended up 28th in the points standings.

* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.