23 Facts About Tanner Foust

Tanner Lee Foust was born on June 13,1973 and is an American professional racing driver, stunt driver, and television host.

Tanner Foust competes in rally, drift, ice racing, time attack, hill climb and rallycross with multiple podium placements, national championships, and world records.

Tanner Foust was a co-host of the American version of the motoring television series Top Gear.

Tanner Foust returned to the United States and worked jobs as a golf caddy and school bus driver, from which he was fired, and went into a pre-med track at the University of Colorado, earning a biology degree.

Tanner Foust spent his summers at the track, trading mechanic work and driver coaching jobs for seat time in racecars.

Tanner Foust made the transition to professional racing in 2003, and soon moved to California to begin stunt driving for Hollywood films.

Tanner Foust considers himself fortunate that, in just over ten years of professional racing, he has had the opportunity to compete against the likes of Rod Millen, Colin McRae, Michael Schumacher, Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel.

Tanner Foust was slated to become co-host for the original American version of the motoring television series, Top Gear, on NBC and filmed a pilot before the series was dropped.

The series has since been picked up by the History Channel and Tanner Foust was the only pilot presenter to be picked up when the program finally made it on air in the US in late 2010.

Tanner Foust has hosted other shows including SPEED Channel's SuperCars Exposed, SPEED Channel's Redline TV and ESPN's Import Tuners.

Tanner Foust has been a stunt driver for films such as The Fast and the Furious Tokyo Drift, Ford vs Ferrari, Need For Speed and The Dukes of Hazzard and set multiple world records with Hot Wheels and Top Gear.

Tanner Foust was a prominent competitor in the Formula Drift series, winning the 2007 and 2008 championship.

Tanner Foust is the first driver in Formula Drift history to win back-to-back series championships.

Tanner Foust is the most decorated driver in X Games history with 9 medals.

Tanner Foust first competed in X Games XIII in 2007 where he won the gold in the rally racing event.

Tanner Foust competed in the European Rallycross Championship, becoming the first American to do so.

In 2012, Tanner Foust continued his success with another Global RallyCross championship.

For 2013, Tanner Foust medaled in both racing events at X Games XIX Los Angeles with a gold in Gymkhana Grid and silver in RallyCross.

At the Chicago Auto Show in February 2014, Tanner Foust announced a new partnership with Volkswagen and Andretti Autosport.

Tanner Foust drove a Volkswagen New Beetle for the 2014 Global RallyCross Championship season as well as selected events with Marklund Motorsport in the inaugural season of the FIA World Rallycross Championship.

Tanner Foust became the first, and so far only, driver from outside Europe to win a round of the championship, winning the 2014 World RX of Finland.

Tanner Foust holds the longest running streak of Heat victories in rallycross worldwide at 25 and is currently the winningest driver in the US.

Tanner Foust signed with McLaren XE to race in the 2022 Extreme E season alongside Emma Gilmour.