Johnny Sauter
Jonathan Joseph "Johnny" Sauter is an American racecar driver. He currently drives in the NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 98 Ford F-150 for ThorSport Racing. Sauter won the 2016 Camping World Truck Series championship.
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 Sauter interacting with fans in 2014 | |||||||
| Born | Jonathan Joseph Sauter May 1, 1978 Necedah, Wisconsin | ||||||
| Achievements | 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Champion 2017 Oktoberfest winner 2001 ASA National Tour Champion | ||||||
| Awards | 2009 Camping World Truck Series Rookie of the Year 2001 ASA National Tour Rookie of the Year | ||||||
| Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
| 85 races run over 11 years | |||||||
| 2015 position | 61st | ||||||
| Best finish | 30th (2007) | ||||||
| First race | 2003 Tropicana 400 (Chicago) | ||||||
| Last race | 2015 Daytona 500 (Daytona) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series career | |||||||
| 222 races run over 15 years | |||||||
| Truck no., team | No. 21 (GMS Racing) | ||||||
| 2017 position | 2nd | ||||||
| Best finish | 1st (2016) | ||||||
| First race | 2003 O'Reilly 200 (Bristol) | ||||||
| Last race | 2020 CarShield 200 (Gateway) | ||||||
| First win | 2009 Las Vegas 350 (Las Vegas) | ||||||
| Last win | 2018 NextEra Energy Resources 250 (Daytona) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of November 17, 2017. | |||||||
Racing career
changeSauter gained national attention in 2001, when he won the ASA national Tour championship, when he won ten races.[1] That same year, he ran a partial NASCAR Busch Series schedule for Richard Childress Racing.[2] The following year, he ran a full season and earned his first win at Chicagoland Speedway.[3] Sauter was also involved in one of the biggest crashes in NASCAR history, a thirty-plus car accident at Talladega Superspeedway.[4] In 2003, Sauter split time between RCR and the Curb Agajanian team, driving 15 races for Curb and the other 19 for RCR.[5] He also raced in his first five Winston Cup Series races with Morgan-McClure Motorsports.[6]
In between the 2003 and 2004 seasons, Sauter signed with RCR to run the full Cup schedule and also with Brewco Motorsports to run the full Busch Series schedule.[7] He joined teammates Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon and crew chief Kevin Hamlin at RCR.[8] Sauter ran the full Busch schedule, performing well on short tracks.[9] However, he was released after thirteen Cup races.[10]
After moving from ThorSport Racing to GMS Racing before 2016,[11] Sauter won the 2016 Truck championship.[12] During the 2017 season, he was the first driver to test a standard engine for the Truck Series.[13]
On the day of the last race of 2017, Sauter said that he would return to GMS in 2018.[14]
Personal life
changeSauter is married with kids.[1] He was born and raised in Necedah, Wisconsin[15] and is a lifelong Catholic.[16]
References
change- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Staff, SPEED SPORT (2011-04-13). "Sauter Is A Product Of Old ASA | SPEED SPORT". SPEED SPORT. Retrieved 2018-02-14.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "BUSCH: Johnny Sauter gets Childress ride for 2002". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Driver Johnny Sauter 2002 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Horrifying NASCAR crashes". 2015-08-28. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "BUSCH: Curb Agajanian sign Johnny Sauter". Motorsport.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Driver Johnny Sauter 2003 NASCAR Winston Cup Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Sauter partners with BREWCO and RCR for 2004". Crash. 2003-12-10. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ Press, Associated. "Sauter to drive for Childress in 2004 | chronicle.augusta.com". chronicle.augusta.com. Retrieved 2018-02-15.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Driver Johnny Sauter 2004 NASCAR Busch Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Sauter to make Cup return with RCR at RIR". Crash. 2004-09-10. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Johnny Sauter works to win races while helping build NASCAR truck team". Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Opinion: Johnny Sauter silenced the critics with his first NASCAR Trucks Championship". Autoweek. Retrieved 2018-02-14.
- ↑ "NASCAR Truck: Johnny Sauter tests spec engine at Talladega Superspeedway". Auto Racing Daily. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Johnny Sauter returning to GMS Racing next season". NASCAR Talk. 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "Nascar Driver Johnny Sauter". tribunedigital-chicagotribune. Archived from the original on 2017-12-25. Retrieved 2018-02-15.
- ↑ "NASCAR Champion Boldly Thanks "Blessed Mother & Sacred Heart of Jesus" | ChurchPOP". ChurchPOP. 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2018-02-15.