Shane Lewis (racing driver)

Shane Lewis 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.

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

Racing record

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

Year

Team

Class

Make

Engine

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

Rank

Points

Alex Job Racing

GTD

Porsche 911 GT America

Porsche 4.0L Flat-6

ELK

65th

26

Turner Motorsport

GTD

BMW 4.4 L V8 V8

ELK

65th

26

RG Racing

P

Riley Mk XXVI DP

Dinan 5.0 L V8

27th

26

Gilbert Korthoff Motorsports

GTD

Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo

Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8

ELK
14

70th

186