Career
He was a regular on the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Goody"s Dash Series, and also competed in events in the Busch and Winston Cup Series, as well as the Associate of the Royal College of Art Re/MAX Series. Pardus began racing in National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing"s touring series in 1992, competing in the Goody"s Dash Series, a series for four-cylinder subcompact cars. He ran in the series for several years, running a Chevrolet Cavalier and, later, a Pontiac Grand American
He joined Jim & Judie Motorsports, the team he would run the majority of the remainder of his racing career for, before the 1995 season.
He ran only five races in the series in 1998, as he attempted to make his debut at the top level of National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing competition, the Winston Cup Series. He failed to qualify for a number of races through the season, and was injured early in the season in a practice crash at Texas Motor Speedway.
In October he successfully made his debut, in what would prove to be his only start in the series, in the Pepsi 400 in October. Pardus finished 36th in the event, which had been delayed from July by extensive wildfires in central Florida.
50 for Midwest Transit Racing.
The team ran a limited schedule due to limited sponsorship. Following his third failure to qualify in three attempts, at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May, Pardus was released as the team"s driver, moving to a management position. In 2000, driving for the Gardners, Pardus failed to qualify for the Daytona 500.
After running a limited Associate of the Royal College of Art schedule in 2000, Pardus and the team moved to the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing Busch Series in 2001, with sponsorship from The Outdoor Channel.
He made his debut in the series at Nashville Superspeedway. In his second Busch Series race, at Chicagoland Speedway, Pardus was involved in a hard crash with David Donohue, suffering a broken back.
He returned to competition later in the year, and ran a partial schedule in 2002, competing in twelve races, all but one for Jim & Judie Motorsports. The exception being a drive for Jay Robinson Racing in the GNC Live Well 250 at Daytona International Speedway.
He also failed to qualify for six other races.
Pardus" team hired pit crews from Winston Cup Series teams to pit their cars. At Nashville, due to a scheduling conflict, the crew for Master of Laws Motorsports pitted the car. Following the 2002 season, The Outdoor Channel ended their sponsorship of Jim & Judie Motorsports.
Pardus attempted to qualify for two races in 2003, at Daytona International Speedway and Darlington Raceway failing to qualify for both.
Pardus would make one more attempt at a National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing start, in 2005 at Daytona, driving the Number. 73 Chevrolet for Raabe Racing Enterprises in qualifying for the Pepsi 400.
He failed to qualify for the event.
