Shane Lewis (racing driver)

Shane Lewis
Born August 8, 1967

Shane Lewis (born August 8, 1967) is an American racing driver who has competed primarily in sports car racing. He also competes in off-road racing and short course SXS racing.

Career

Shane Lewis's motorsport career began in 1989 in Southern California. At the end of the year, he won the 20th edition of the United States Formula Ford Festival.

From 1991 onwards, he started regularly in SCCA and IMSA races. In 1995 he won the IMSA supercar races at Mid-Ohio and Phoenix.

In the 1996 SCCA Pro Racing World Challenge, he finished second in the championship behind Almo Coppelli. In 1997, he began competing in the IMSA GT Championship in the GT1 class. Soon after, he began participating in both Grand-Am Road Racing and American Le Mans Series events. Lewis drove extensively in the Rolex Sports Car Series for the Southard Motorsports Daytona Prototype team, while in American Le Mans he drove for a variety of teams, mostly in GT classes. He secured a total of three race victories between the two series, including the 2013 24 Hours of Daytona in the GX class.

Lewis has also raced in European events, including three editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and five of the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. He has taken victory in class in the 2010 24 Hours of the Nürburgring and the 2013 24 Hours of Dubai and the 24 hours of Daytona.

Lewis has made brief forays into other disciplines of racing, including an attempted NASCAR start in 2002 at Watkins Glen International, an ARCA start in 2001 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and an Indy Pro series start in 2007 at Homestead-Miami Speedway

Lewis competed and won in the Trans-Am series, where he drove for Robinson Racing.

He currently races in the Creventic 24 hour series and the Nürburgring NLS.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1999 Riley & Scott Europe
Solution F
Marco Apicella
Carl Rosenblad
Riley & Scott Mk III/2 LMP 67 42nd DNF
2000 Michael Colucci Racing Cort Wagner
Bob Mazzuoccola
Porsche 911 GT3-R GT 22 46th DNF
2003 Risi Competizione Butch Leitzinger
Johnny Mowlem
Ferrari 360 Modena Challenge GT 138 39th DNF

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

()(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year Team Class Make Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rank Points
2014 Alex Job Racing GTD Porsche 911 GT America Porsche 4.0L Flat-6 DAY
8
SEB
LGA
BEL
WGL
MOS
IMS
ELK
VIR
AUS
PET
65th 26
Turner Motorsport BMW Z4 GT3 BMW 4.4 L V8 V8 DAY
SEB
7
LGA
BEL
WGL
MOS
IMS
ELK
VIR
AUS
PET
2015 RG Racing P Riley Mk XXVI DP Dinan (BMW) 5.0 L V8 DAY
6
SIR
LBH
LGA
DET
WGL
MSP
ELK
COA
PET
27th 26
2021 Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports GTD Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8 DAY
SEB
MDO
DET
WGL
WGL
7
LIM
ELK
14
LGA
LBH
VIR
PET
70th 186

24 Hours of Daytona results

Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1998 Mosler Automotive Vic Rice
Brian Hornkohl
Chris Neville
Mosler Raptor GT1 169 61st DNF
1999 T. C. Klein Racing Randy Pobst
Bob Mazzuoccola
Mark Raccaro
BMW M3 GT3 622 13th 5th
2000 MCR/Aspen Knolls Bob Mazzuoccola
Mike Bavaro
Cort Wagner
Porsche 996 GT3-R GTU 540 30th DNF
2001 Pilbeam Racing America Bruno Lambert
Toni Seiler
Pilbeam MP84 SRPII 216 58th DNF
2002 ACP Motorsports Kerry Hitt
Jim Briody
Owen Trinkler
Chevrolet Corvette AGT 287 53rd DNF
2004 Southard Motorsports George Robinson
Jack Baldwin
Vic Rice
Stephen Southard
Fabcar FDSC/03 DP 359 40th DNF
2005 Cegwa Sport/Southard Motorsports Darius Grala
Mark Patterson
Quentin Wahl
Bohdan Kroczek
Fabcar FDSC/03 DP 630 23rd 14th
2006 Southard Motorsports Kris Szekeres
Randy LaJoie
Tony Burgess
Riley Mk XI DP 548 38th 19th
2007 Southard Motorsports Randy Ruhlman
Graham Rahal
Elliot Forbes-Robinson
Riley Mk XI DP 214 62nd DNF
2008 Southard Motorsports Bill Lester
Ted Christopher
Alex Barron
Riley Mk XI DP 527 42nd DNF
2009 Gotham Competition Jerome Jacalone
Joe Jacalone
Randy Pobst
Gerardo Bonilla
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup GT 675 18th 10th
2010 Autohaus Motorsports Peter Collins
Romain Iannetta
Richard Zahn
Pontiac GXP.R GT 125 40th DNF
2011 Chris Smith Racing Bill Sweedler
Tom Sheehan
Mitch Pagerey
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup GT 495 35th 19th
2012 Orbit/GMG Nicolas Armindo
Bret Curtis
James Sofronas
Lance Wilsey
Porsche 997 GT3 Cup GT 713 22nd 11th
2013 Napleton Racing Nelson Canache Jr.
David Donohue
Jim Norman
Porsche Cayman S GX 635 26th 1st
2014 Alex Job Racing Cooper MacNeil
Leh Keen
Louis-Philippe Dumoulin
Shane van Gisbergen
Porsche 911 GT America GTD 656 26th 8th
2015 RG Racing Robert Gewirtz
Mark Kvamme
David Cheng
Riley MkXXVI P 644 24th 7th

NASCAR

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

Winston Cup Series

Winston Cup 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 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 NWCC Pts Ref
2002 Otto Motorsports 09 Ford DAY CAR LVS ATL DAR BRI TEX MAR TAL CAL RCH CLT DOV POC MCH SON DAY CHI NHA POC IND GLN
DNQ
MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV KAN TAL CLT MAR ATL CAR PHO HOM NA -

American open–wheel racing results

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Indy Lights

Year Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Rank Points
2007 Michael Crawford Motorsports HMS
20
STP1 STP2 INDY MIL IMS1 IMS2 IOW WGL1 WGL2 NSH MDO KTY SNM1 SNM2 CHI 42nd 10