Landen Lewis

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Landen Lewis
Lewis at Sonoma Raceway in 2023
Born	Landen River Lewis (2006-02-26) February 26, 2006 (age 18) Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
2 races run over 1 year
Truck no., team	No. 16 (Hattori Racing Enterprises)
2023 position	58th
First race	2023 O'Reilly Auto Parts 150 (Mid-Ohio)
Last race	2023 TSport 200 (Indianapolis)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
ARCA Menards Series career
6 races run over 3 years
ARCA no., team	No. 97 (CR7 Motorsports)
Best finish	32nd (2021)
First race	2021 Allen Crowe 100 (Springfield)
Last race	2024 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol)
First win	2021 Southern Illinois 100 (DuQuoin)
Wins Top tens Poles 1 4 1
ARCA Menards Series East career
3 races run over 2 years
ARCA East no., team	No. 97 (CR7 Motorsports)
Best finish	26th (2023)
First race	2023 General Tire 125 (Dover)
Last race	2024 Bush's Beans 200 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
ARCA Menards Series West career
17 races run over 2 years
Best finish	6th (2022)
First race	2022 Salute to the Oil Industry NAPA Auto Parts 150 (Kern County)
Last race	2023 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
First win	2022 Salute to the Oil Industry NAPA Auto Parts 150 (Kern County)
Last win	2023 Portland 112 (Portland)
Wins Top tens Poles 2 10 1
Statistics current as of October 31, 2024.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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]

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.

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 off his season by finishing 2nd the first 3 races and then winning the next race at Portland fending off NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Cole Custer.

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]

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.

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]

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

• Official website
• Landen Lewis driver statistics at Racing-Reference