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Shane Lewis

b. 1967

American racing driver

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Born 1967. Shane Lewis is an American racing automobile driver.

Shane Lewis (born August 8, 1967) is an American racing driver who has competed primarily in endurance sports car racing. He also competes in Unlimited Trophy Truck desert racing and short course SXS racing.

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

From 1991 onwards, Lewis 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, Lewis 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.

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

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans results Yea Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps 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 (key)(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 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 LGA BEL WGL MOS IMS ELK VIR AUS PET 2015 RG Racing P Riley Mk XXVI DP Dinan (BMW) 5.0 L V8 DAY 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 MOH DET WGL WGL LIM ELK LGA LBH VIR PET 70th 186

24 Hours of Daytona results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 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 (key) (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 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 GLNDNQ MCH BRI DAR RCH NHA DOV KAN TAL CLT MAR ATL CAR PHO HOM NA -

American open–wheel racing results (key)

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Who is Shane Lewis?

American racing driver

When was Shane Lewis born?

Shane Lewis was born on 8 August 1967 in Lancaster.

What is Shane Lewis's occupation?

Shane Lewis is a racing automobile driver.

What nationality is Shane Lewis?

Shane Lewis is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Shane Lewis

· Wikidata: Q21006212

· DBpedia: Shane Lewis (racing driver)

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