At the SCCA National Championship Runoffs Buffomante finished third running the fastest lap of the race.

[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.

[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.

Buffomante finished the first race of the season in second place, behind series champion Aaron Justus.

In 2002 he won the Great Lakes Silver Cup Series in the Factory I class in a Mercruiser HP 500 powered Warlock.

Buffomante returned to auto racing in 2005 in the amateur based Factory Five Challenge sanctioned by NASA.

[8] Buffomante won races in the series in 2009 and 2010 before continuing in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge in 2011 and 2012.

Buffomante is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame where he studied Management and Computer Science.