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Josh Reaume

Joshua Robert Reaume (born October 11, 1990) is an American professional stock car racing driver, engineer, and team owner. He is best known as the team owner and part-time driver for Team Reaume, driving various trucks for the team alongside working various managerial and technical jobs for the organization.

Born in Redlands, California, Reaume shortly after moved to Nigeria at the age of two as part of his parent's missionary work. He began his racing career at the age of six, racing go-karts in the province of Ontario. After moving to Vancouver Island in Canada at 15 years old, he began racing late models at Western Speedway. After making select regional NASCAR series races in 2012 and 2013, Reaume made his first NASCAR national touring series start in 2013, working in the next five years as an engineer and part-time driver for various teams. In 2018, Reaume expanded his family's racing team, Reaume Brothers Racing (now named Team Reaume), to the third-tier NASCAR Truck Series. In the following years, Reaume entered various partnerships. He took managerial and technical roles on second-tier NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series and first-tier NASCAR Cup Series teams alongside expanding his Truck Series operations, occasionally driving for his team.

Joshua Robert Reaume was born on October 11, 1990, in Redlands, California. He is the son of John Reaume and Wendy Reaume, who were both missionaries specializing in humanitarian aid. He was born alongside an older brother named Jonathan. At the age of two, Reaume moved to Nigeria as part of his parents' mission, staying in the country for 13 years. Growing up, Reaume, his father, and his grandfather often watched Formula One and NASCAR, which he credited to his interest to motorsports. After high school, Reaume attended the University of Victoria, earning a degree in mechanical engineering in 2012. As part of his university studies, he interned at various NASCAR teams in numerous engineering roles.

Reaume began racing go-karts at the age of six in the Canadian province of Ontario after his mother became ill, racing primarily in Europe in the following years. At 15 years old, Reaume moved to Vancouver Island. After moving to Canada, he began racing at Western Speedway, where he won rookie of the year honors in the track's stock car class in 2007. In 2009, Reaume was selected as one of 20 drivers for the Winner's Circle driver development program created by Ron Sutton. The following year, Reaume began more heavily pursuing a professional racing career, racing in local NASCAR late model events in 2010.

Although Reaume initially wanted to pursue a career in open-wheel racing and had aspirations to compete in Formula One, he was limited by a lack of funding. Reaume eventually decided to pursue a career in stock car racing due to his belief that it was easier to obtain corporate sponsors in stock car racing. He was able to make his first start in a regional NASCAR series race in 2012 at the Miller Motorsports Park, finishing in 25th in a K&N Pro Series West (now known as the ARCA Menards Series West) for Gregory Rayl. Reaume made additional starts in the series, earning a best finish of 15th at Evergreen. At the 12th race of the season at Portland, Reaume suffered carbon monoxide poisoning after sustaining damage to the car's exhaust in a crash.

In 2013, Reaume made his debut in the third-tier NASCAR Truck Series for SS-Green Light Racing, finishing 25th in the ninth race of the season at Iowa. The following year, Reaume drove a part-time schedule in the second-tier NASCAR Nationwide Series (now known as the NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts Series) for Rick Ware Racing (RWR), signing a six-race deal. He was scheduled to make his debut at the fourth race of the season at Bristol in mid-March; however, it was pushed back until late April due to numerous engine failures for RWR prior to Reaume's scheduled debut. In his debut at the eighth race of the season in Richmond, he finished in 30th out of 40 cars; in an interview with the Times Colonist, he described his debut as both "a lot of fun" and "a big learning curve", stating that "we met all our goals". In his next Nationwide Series start at Dover, he finished a season-best 25th. In the rest of his Nationwide Series races for the season, he failed to finish all but one race due to various mechanical issues and a crash at the 20th race of the season at Iowa.

Reaume started the 2015 season in the renamed Xfinity Series with Obaika Racing, earning a career-best 23rd at the season-opening race at Daytona. Although he was initially signed for a full-time ride, he only attempted the opening three rounds of the season with the team before he was replaced by Peyton Sellers, not returning until the 13th race of the season at Michigan driving for Carl Long's MBM Motorsports. Racing with MBM Motorsports for a majority of the rest of the season, he earned a best finish of 28th with the team. Starting in 2016, Reaume took a job as an engineer for Xfinity Series team RSS Racing, a job that he would maintain for two years. He additionally also worked as an engineer at MBM Motorsports during the season; due to his engineering jobs, he had a mostly-inactive racing season. Midway through the 2017 Truck Series season, Reaume returned to racing with Beaver Motorsports.

In February 2018, Reaume announced the expansion of his family-owned race team, then-called Reaume Brothers Racing (RBR; now named Team Reaume), to the NASCAR Truck Series. According to Reaume, he wanted to pursue team ownership because of his previous experience as an engineer and that he felt that ownership could provide more opportunities to potential sponsors he negotiated with and knew. He also stated that he "knew that he couldn't be a driver for forever", wanting to stay within motorsports after he retired. Reaume described the first races for RBR as turbulent. Reaume, driving for RBR, failed to qualify in their debut attempt at the season-opener at Daytona, sustained a crash at the following race at Atlanta, and missed numerous races during the season. He later stated to the Calgary Journal that during the season, "I crashed more my first season driving for myself than I crashed for all the other teams I had raced for combined."

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