Landen Lewis
Landen River Lewis (born February 26, 2006) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No. 16 Toyota Tundra for Hattori Racing Enterprises and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series and ARCA Menards Series East, driving the No. 97 Chevrolet for CR7 Motorsports.
Racing career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Go-karts
[edit]Lewis started his career in Go-Karts at the age of 4 and from 2010 to 2018, he picked up 150 wins, a Maxx Nationals win, 4 Maxx Jr Daddy championships as well as 4 Maxx Daddy championships.
Dirt Modifieds
[edit]In 2018, Lewis started racing Dirt Modifieds picking up 6 wins, 8 poles, 15 top 5’s, and 26 top 10’s and the Most Popular Driver Award for the Mid-East Dirt Modified Series.
Legend cars
[edit]In 2019, Lewis joined Joe Ryan Cars in Legend Cars and won the Winter Nationals in only his 2nd ever start. He would remain with the team to present day, picking up 15 wins in 2020 along with a Dirt Nationals championship, picking up the Dirt Nationals, Asphalt Nationals, Winter Nationals, Road Course World Finals championships as well as the North Carolina State Championship in 2021, and in 2022 picking up the Road Course National Championship and the Summer Shootout, Road Course World Finals, and Winter Nationals titles for the Pro Division.
ARCA Menards Series
[edit]2021
[edit]Lewis made his ARCA Menards Series debut in 2021 running three races. He debuted in the Allen Crowe 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds Racetrack driving for Rette Jones Racing in collaboration with Rev Racing and Austin Theriault, finishing 7th.[1] In his second career start, in the Southern Illinois 100 at the DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack, Lewis won the pole. He dominated the race, leading all 104 laps en route to his first career victory.[2] He ran one more race, the Sioux Chief PowerPEX 200 at Salem Speedway, finishing 13th.[3][4]
2022
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Lewis would make 8 starts in the ARCA Menards Series West in 2022 across the No. 42 car for Cook Racing Technologies, No. 17 car for McGowan Motorsports, and the No. 16 car for McAnally-Hilgemann Racing. He would pick up 1 win of the year in his first start of the season at Kern County.
2023
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In 2023 Lewis would make a full-time run at the ARCA Menards Series West championship in the No. 17 for McGowan Motorsports. He would start his season by finishing 2nd in the first 3 races and then winning the next race at Portland fending off NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Cole Custer.
ARCA Menards Series West
[edit]Lewis made his ARCA Menards Series West debut in 2022 in the Salute to the Oil Industry NAPA Auto Parts 150 at Kern County Raceway Park driving the No. 42 Chevrolet for Cook Racing Technologies. Lewis took the lead late in the race and collected his first career ARCA Menards Series West victory in his first ever start.[5] He would run the race at Sonoma Raceway for McGowan Motorsports before replacing Austin Herzog in the No. 16 for Bill McAnally Racing for the final six races of the year.[6]
ARCA Menards Series East
[edit]Lewis made his ARCA Menards Series East debut in 2023 in the General Tire 125 at Dover Motor Speedway driving the No. 17 Toyota for McGowan Motorsports. He would go on to finish second behind race winner Jake Finch.[7]
Lewis returned to CR7 Motorsports in 2024 to run the combination race for the main ARCA Series and the East Series at Bristol. He would finish second in the race. It would be his only ARCA start that year.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series
[edit]On June 24, 2023, Lewis posted on social media a picture of the No. 04 Roper Racing truck with his name above the window net, indicating that he would make his debut in the series for the team at some point during the season.[8] He ran races for the team at Mid-Ohio and IRP.
On October 31, 2024, Hattori Racing Enterprises announced that Lewis would drive their No. 16 truck in the fall race at Martinsville as a last-minute replacement for Johnny Sauter, who moved to the ThorSport Racing No. 66 truck to replace Conner Jones who was suspended for the race after intentionally wrecking Matt Mills' truck in the previous race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.[9]
Motorsports career results
[edit]NASCAR
[edit](key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)
Craftsman Truck Series
[edit]| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCTC | Pts | Ref |
| 2023 | Roper Racing | 04 | Chevy | DAY | LVS | ATL | COA | TEX | BRD | MAR | KAN | DAR | NWS | CLT | GTW | NSH | MOH 24 |
POC | RCH | IRP 28 |
MLW | KAN | BRI | TAL | HOM | PHO | 58th | 22 | [10] |
| 2024 | Hattori Racing Enterprises | 16 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | LVS | BRI | COA | MAR | TEX | KAN | DAR | NWS | CLT | GTW | NSH | POC | IRP | RCH | MLW | BRI | KAN | TAL | HOM | MAR 35 |
PHO | 76th | 2 | [11] |
ARCA Menards Series
[edit]| ARCA Menards Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | AMSC | Pts | Ref |
| 2021 | Rette Jones Racing with Austin Theriault | 2 | Toyota | DAY | PHO | TAL | KAN | TOL | CLT | MOH | POC | ELK | BLN | IOW | WIN | GLN | MCH | ISF 7 |
MLW | DSF 1** |
BRI | 32nd | 117 | [12] | ||
| Rette Jones Racing | 30 | Ford | SLM 13 |
KAN | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | McGowan Motorsports | 17 | Toyota | DAY | PHO 2 |
TAL | KAN | CLT | BLN | ELK | MOH | IOW | POC | MCH | IRP | GLN | ISF | MLW | DSF | KAN | 59th | 68 | [13] | |||
| CR7 Motorsports | 97 | Chevy | BRI 20 |
SLM | TOL | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | DAY | PHO | TAL | DOV | KAN | CLT | IOW | MOH | BLN | IRP | SLM | ELK | MCH | ISF | MLW | DSF | GLN | BRI 2 |
KAN | TOL | 74th | 43 | [14] | |||
ARCA Menards Series East
[edit]| ARCA Menards Series East results | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | AMSEC | Pts | Ref |
| 2023 | McGowan Motorsports | 17 | Toyota | FIF | DOV 2 |
NSV | FRS | IOW | IRP | MLW | 26th | 68 | [15] | |
| CR7 Motorsports | 97 | Chevy | BRI 20 | |||||||||||
| 2024 | FIF | DOV | NSV | FRS | IOW | IRP | MLW | BRI 2 |
37th | 43 | [16] | |||
ARCA Menards Series West
[edit]| ARCA Menards Series West results | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | AMSWC | Pts | Ref |
| 2022 | Cook Racing Technologies | 42 | Toyota | PHO | IRW | KCR 1 |
PIR | 8th | 398 | [17] | ||||||||
| McGowan Motorsports | 17 | Chevy | SON 14 |
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| Bill McAnally Racing | 16 | IRW 5 |
EVG 6 |
PIR 9 |
AAS 17 |
LVS 3 |
PHO 6 |
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| 2023 | McGowan Motorsports | 17 | Toyota | PHO 2 |
IRW 2 |
11th | 409 | [18] | ||||||||||
| Chevy | KCR 2* |
PIR 1 |
SON 19 |
IRW 9 |
SHA 4 |
EVG 4 |
AAS | LVS | MAD | |||||||||
| CR7 Motorsports | 97 | Chevy | PHO 6 | |||||||||||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "Landen Lewis to make ARCA Menards Series debut at Springfield with Rette Jones Racing Development". ARCA Menards Series. August 18, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ "Landen Lewis dominates at DuQuoin for first ARCA win in second start". ARCA Menards Series. September 6, 2021. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "ARCA winner Landen Lewis returns to competition at Salem Speedway". Speedway Digest. September 29, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ "Landen Lewis Returns To ARCA Action At Salem". Speed Sport. September 29, 2021. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ "Speechless Lewis Is ARCA West Winner". SPEED Sport. April 24, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "Following In The Footsteps Of Champions Landen Lewis Gets Six Races In Bill McAnally Racing's ARCA West No. 16". Kickin the Tires. July 2, 2022. Retrieved June 12, 2023.
- ^ "Jake Finch wins General Tire 125 ARCA Menards Series East race". Speedway Digest. April 30, 2023. Retrieved June 13, 2023.
- ^ "(Twitter post)". Twitter. Landen Lewis. June 24, 2023. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
- ^ Srigley, Joseph (October 31, 2024). "Landen Lewis Jumping Into Hattori No. 16 Truck at Martinsville". TobyChristie.com.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2023 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved July 8, 2023.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved October 31, 2024.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2021 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved April 23, 2022.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2023 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2024 ARCA Menards Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2023 ARCA Menards Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved May 2, 2023.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2024 ARCA Menards Series East Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 17, 2024.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2022 ARCA Menards Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
- ^ "Landen Lewis – 2023 ARCA Menards Series West Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved March 12, 2023.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Landen Lewis driver statistics at Racing-Reference