Jack Baruth
| Jack Baruth | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 7, 1971 Brooklyn, NY, U.S. |
| Pirelli World Challenge career | |
| Debut season | 2018 |
| Current team | RTF Racing |
| Car number | 31 |
| Best finish | 30th in 2018 |
| Previous series | |
| 2009 | KONI Challenge |
| Awards | |
| 2018 | Best Start, Hard Charger |
Jack Baruth (born November 8, 1971) is an automotive journalist and race car driver. He is a former professional BMX racer, cycling instructor, and cycling journalist, perhaps best known for writing the "One Racer's Perspective" and "BMX Basics" columns for the National Bicycle League, for his regular (and sometimes controversial) contributions to The Truth About Cars and for maintaining the now defunct BMX Basics website under his pen name Jim Boswell. As of 2013, Jack Baruth is now a contributor to Road and Track magazine. On July 12, 2013, he became the temporary editor-in-chief of The Truth About Cars.
As a car racer, he races in the Pirelli World Challenge, NASA, KONI Challenge, and Skip Barber Mazdaspeed Series.
Jack Baruth has been parodied on the satirical websites Autoblopnik and Sniff Petrol.