52 Facts About Johnny Sauter

Jonathan Joseph Sauter was born on May 1,1978 and is an American professional stock car racing driver.

Johnny Sauter competes part-time in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, driving the No 04 Ford F-150 for Roper Racing.

Johnny Sauter has driven in the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series in the past.

Johnny Sauter then joined the American Speed Association Series in 1998.

Johnny Sauter finished in the Top 15 in three of his five Busch starts, including a fifth-place finish in the AutoLite Fram 250 at Richmond, which was his first start in the series.

In 2002, Childress hired Johnny Sauter to run a full Busch Series schedule in the No 2 AC Delco-sponsored Chevrolet.

Johnny Sauter notched five Top 10 finishes, including his first Busch Series win in the Tropicana Twister 300 at the Chicagoland Speedway, despite skipping one race.

Johnny Sauter was involved in one of the biggest accidents in NASCAR history in the Aaron's 312 at Talladega, where 33 of 43 cars were involved, and 15 of them were taken out of the race.

Johnny Sauter captured 14 Top 10 finishes in 34 Busch Series starts, including a win at Richmond in the No 43.

Johnny Sauter finished the 2003 season eighth in the driver standings and, together with Kevin Harvick, led the No 21 car to the owners' points championship.

Johnny Sauter's best start in five races was a 23rd at Loudon, and he missed a race at Kansas Speedway.

Johnny Sauter ran three races in the Craftsman Truck Series for Fasscore Motorsports, and had a tenth-place run at Richmond.

Childress hired Johnny Sauter to drive the No 30 AOL-sponsored Chevrolet in Winston Cup full-time in 2004.

Johnny Sauter ran a full Busch schedule with Brewco Motorsports that season, driving the No 27 Kleenex-sponsored Pontiac Grand Prix and Chevy Monte Carlo to an 18th-place points finish.

Johnny Sauter joined Phoenix full-time in 2005, with Yellow Transportation becoming the team's primary sponsor.

Johnny Sauter had 11 Top 10 finishes and a win at his home track at Milwaukee, and improved his position in points to twelfth for the year.

However, Johnny Sauter was disqualified at Texas after his car failed a post-race inspection.

Johnny Sauter had one pole and nine top-tens, and tied his best finish of eighth in series points.

Johnny Sauter made one Cup start that season that year at the Coca-Cola 600, and finished 24th.

Johnny Sauter moved up to a new Cup team for a new team for Haas, the No 70, in 2007.

Johnny Sauter competed in six Busch races that year with Jay Robinson Racing, but could not finish higher than 23rd.

Johnny Sauter was dropped from the No 70 after the season, and rejoined Phoenix Racing for the 2008 season, where he was released after five races.

Johnny Sauter has since spent time as a substitute driver for many teams, starting at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he was unable to qualify the No 21 McKee Foods-sponsored Ford.

Johnny Sauter soon returned to Haas to drive several races in their No 70, with a best finish of 20th, as well as attempting several races for John Carter.

Johnny Sauter drove one Truck race at Martinsville for SS-Green Light Racing.

Johnny Sauter returned to the trucks in 2009, replacing Shelby Howard in the No 13 FunSand-sponsored truck for ThorSport Racing in association with Cary Agajanian.

Johnny Sauter won his first ever Truck Series race at the Las Vegas, holding off teammate Matt Crafton for the win.

Johnny Sauter beat Tayler Malsam in the NASCAR Rookie of the Year standings.

For 2010, Johnny Sauter attempted the No 35 Chevy for Tommy Baldwin Racing for 3 races and took over the No 36 ride after Phoenix with little success.

Johnny Sauter drove some late-season races for Prism Motorsports in the No 66 Toyota.

Johnny Sauter picked up his second career truck win in 2010 at Kansas after a late race collision and save with Ron Hornaday Jr.

Johnny Sauter grabbed his 3rd career victory at Martinsville in 2011, battling Kyle Busch on the last lap.

In 2013, Johnny Sauter started the season with his first win at Daytona International Speedway in the NextEra Energy Resources 250.

Johnny Sauter appeared at the Slinger Nationals at Slinger Super Speedway, won an ARCA Midwest Tour race at Madison International Speedway, the Larry Detjens Memorial Race at State Park Speedway, and set a new Super Late Model track record at an ARCA Midwest Tour race at Wisconsin International Raceway.

On October 15,2015, Johnny Sauter announced that he would be joining GMS Racing for 2016.

Johnny Sauter went on to win the championship at Homestead, finishing 3rd in the race.

Johnny Sauter had a successful 2017 season, winning Dover in early June and had a couple stage wins and had been consistent all year long.

Johnny Sauter won Texas and Phoenix, which advanced him to the final round at Homestead Miami.

Johnny Sauter finished 3rd in the race but Christopher Bell, who finished runner-up, took the championship and Johnny Sauter finished 2nd in the standings by just one point.

Johnny Sauter opened up 2018 by winning the Daytona race for the third time in his career.

In May 2018, Johnny Sauter returned to the Nationwide Series at Dover; he drove the No 23 GMS car in place of the suspended Spencer Gallagher.

Johnny Sauter ran the race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway as well in the summer, finishing 19th.

Johnny Sauter later rejoined ThorSport to drive the No 13.

Johnny Sauter was eliminated from the playoffs at Las Vegas when he finished 29th after experiencing an engine failure that plagued three other trucks.

At Talladega, Johnny Sauter appeared to have won the race, but was penalized and placed in 14th for blocking Riley Herbst below the yellow line on the final lap, effectively giving the win to Spencer Boyd.

In 2020, Johnny Sauter failed to win a race for the first time since 2015 as well as missed the Truck Series playoffs for the first time since it was implemented in 2016.

On top of that, that year was the first time that Johnny Sauter finished outside the top ten in the Truck Series final standings when running full-time in the series.

Johnny Sauter ran the season-opener at Daytona in the No 47 truck for the new G2G Racing team.

Johnny Sauter would be locked into the race through his champions provisional.

Johnny Sauter would drive the Young's Motorsports No 02 truck in the season-finale at Phoenix.

On February 2,2023, it was announced that Johnny Sauter would drive for G2G at Daytona again.

Johnny Sauter enjoys flying, fishing, and playing the banjo in his free time.