Shane S. Lee (born July 4, 1993) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He last competed part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 35 and Toyota Supra/Ford Mustangs for Emerling-Gase Motorsports. He has also competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Racing Series.
| Shane Lee | |||||||
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.jpg) Lee in 2018 | |||||||
| Born | Shane S. Lee July 4, 1993 Newton, North Carolina | ||||||
| Awards | Whelen All-American Series 2013 Rookie of the Year | ||||||
| NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
| 25 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| 2022 position | 47th | ||||||
| Best finish | 25th (2018) | ||||||
| First race | 2018 Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 (Bristol) | ||||||
| Last race | 2022 Alsco Uniforms 300 (Charlotte) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 3 races run over 1 year | |||||||
| 2016 position | 38th | ||||||
| Best finish | 38th (2016) | ||||||
| First race | 2016 Alpha Energy Solutions 250 (Martinsville) | ||||||
| Last race | 2016 Striping Technology 350 (Texas) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of May 28, 2022. | |||||||
Racing career
editEarly years
editRacing at Hickory Speedway in his youth, Lee was simultaneously Most Popular Driver and Rookie of the Year in the track's Limited Late Model class in 2012.[1] He was Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series in 2013.[2]
ARCA Racing Series
editLee, at the beginning of the 2016 ARCA Racing Series, tested with Win-Tron Racing at Daytona International Speedway in preparation of making his first start in the Lucas Oil 200.[3] The original schedule called for Lee to run nine races.[4] He ran ten, winning the pole at Chicagoland Speedway[5] but otherwise struggling to finish in the top ten early in the season.[6] He picked up his performance later in the season, which translated to a full-time ARCA ride with Cunningham Motorsports for 2017.[7] With a constant teammate in Dalton Sargeant, Lee led laps in four races and scored a top five in his first road course race[8] on his way to a third-place points finish behind champion Austin Theriault and teammate Sargeant.[9]
NASCAR
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On March 23, 2016, it was announced that Lee would make his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series debut for SS-Green Light Racing at Martinsville Speedway in April of that year.[10] He finished seventeenth in his debut and ran another race for SS-Green Light at Gateway Motorsports Park before signing with GMS Racing to drive their No. 24 truck at Texas Motor Speedway late in the season.[2] He finished sixteenth and on the lead lap in that race, marking his third consecutive lead-lap finish.[11]
After focusing on the ARCA Racing Series in 2017, it was announced on January 24, 2018 that Lee would drive part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for Richard Childress Racing, splitting the organization's No. 3 car with Austin and Ty Dillon, Jeb Burton, and Brendan Gaughan.[12][13] Issues plagued his early runs, with a blown tire ruining a potential Top 5 in his debut at Bristol Motor Speedway and a shortage of gas hindering his effort at Talladega Superspeedway.[14] At Pocono, Lee had a solid run finishing 12th, and then finishing 16th at Iowa. At Daytona in July, Lee had a great run. He was in the Top 10 for the majority of the race, finishing a career-best sixth-place finish. Then at the second Iowa race, he finished 13th.
In May 2019, Lee joined the newly-formed H2 Motorsports to run the remaining Xfinity schedule (with the exception of the road courses) in the No. 28 Circuit City-sponsored Toyota starting with the CircuitCity.com 250 at Iowa in June.[15][16][17] Although he had signed a deal with H2 for the entirety of the 2020 NASCAR Xfinity Series season,[18] he was released by the team for "performance-based" reasons before the Sport Clips VFW 200 at Darlington in August.[19]
In 2022, he returned to the Xfinity series driving for Emerling-Gase Motorsports. At Daytona, he finished 33rd. Atlanta, he finished 17th. At Martinsville, he finished 27th. He scored a 14th place finish at Talladega.
Personal life
editLee attended Gaston Community College.[1]
Motorsports career results
editNASCAR
edit(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Xfinity Series
edit| NASCAR Xfinity Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | NXSC | Pts | Ref | ||
| 2018 | Richard Childress Racing | 3 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | PHO | CAL | TEX | BRI 14 |
RCH | TAL 15 |
DOV | CLT | POC 12 |
MCH | IOW 16 |
CHI | DAY 6 |
KEN | NHA | IOW 13 |
GLN | MOH | BRI | ROA | DAR | IND | LVS 30 |
RCH 9 |
CLT | DOV 17 |
KAN 4 |
TEX 23 |
PHO 14 |
HOM 20 |
25th | 315 | [20] | ||
| 2019 | H2 Motorsports | 28 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | LVS | PHO | CAL | TEX | BRI | RCH | TAL | DOV | CLT | POC | MCH | IOW 18 |
CHI 18 |
DAY 21 |
KEN 16 |
NHA 33 |
IOW 7 |
GLN | MOH | BRI 13 |
ROA | DAR Wth |
IND | LVS | RCH | CLT | DOV | KAN | TEX | PHO | HOM | 34th | 133 | [21] | ||
| 2022 | Emerling-Gase Motorsports | 35 | Toyota | DAY 33 |
CAL | LVS | PHO | ATL 17 |
COA | RCH | CLT 24 |
PIR | NSH | ROA | ATL | NHA | POC | IND | MCH | GLN | DAY | DAR | KAN | BRI | TEX | TAL | CLT | LVS | HOM | MAR | PHO | 47th | 71 | [22] | |||||||
| Ford | MAR 27 |
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| 53 | TAL 14 |
DOV | DAR | TEX | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Camping World Truck Series
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| 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 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Win-Tron Racing | 07 | Toyota | DAY | ATL | MAR 17 |
KAN | DOV | CLT | TEX | IOW | GTW 16 |
KEN | ELD | POC | BRI | MCH | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | 38th | 50 | [23] | ||||||||||||||||||
| GMS Racing | 24 | Chevy | TEX 16 |
PHO | HOM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
ARCA Racing Series
edit| ARCA Racing Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ARSC | Pts | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Win-Tron Racing | 32 | Toyota | DAY 38 |
NSH 16 |
SLM 12 |
TAL 11 |
TOL | NJE | POC 14 |
MCH 10 |
MAD | WIN | IOW | IRP | POC 4 |
BLN | ISF | DSF | SLM | CHI 21 |
KEN 9 |
KAN 8 |
16th | 1615 | [24] | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Cunningham Motorsports | 22 | Ford | DAY 3 |
NSH 12 |
SLM 4 |
TAL 5 |
TOL 22 |
ELK 7 |
POC 28 |
MCH 15 |
MAD 4 |
IOW 11* |
IRP 9 |
POC 13 |
WIN 6 |
ISF 5 |
ROA 4 |
DSF 6* |
SLM 9 |
CHI 8 |
KEN 5 |
KAN 4 |
3rd | 4735 | [25] | ||||||||||||||||||
References
edit- ^ a b "Rookie Shane Lee Leading At Hickory | NASCAR Home Tracks". hometracks.nascar.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ a b "Shane Lee to Join GMS in Texas – POPULAR SPEED". www.popularspeed.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Introducing newcomer Shane Lee...with a Win-Tron welcome back". ARCA Racing. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Late Model Champion Shane Lee Lands Ride with WinTron Racing – POPULAR SPEED". www.popularspeed.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Rookie Shane Lee earns career-first pole at Chicagoland; SCOTT 150 Live on FS1". ARCA Racing. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Driver Shane Lee 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Shane Lee joins Cunningham Motorsports for '17 season". ARCA Racing. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Driver Shane Lee 2017 ARCA Racing Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "ARCA Racing Series standings for 2017 - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Shane Lee joins SS Green Light Racing for Partial Truck Schedule - NASCAR Camping World Truck Series News - MRN.com". www.mrn.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Driver Shane Lee 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Richard Childress Racing Announces Multi-Driver Lineup for the No. 3 Chevrolet Camaro SS in the NASCAR XFINITY Series". www.speedwaymedia.com. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Dillons, Burton, Lee, Gaughan to drive RCR No. 3 Xfinity entry in 2018". Official Site Of NASCAR. 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ Catanzareti, Zach (2018-06-02). "Shane Lee Earns Third Top 15 in Third XFINITY Start · Kickin' The Tires". Kickin' The Tires. Retrieved 2018-06-02.
- ^ Knight, Chris (May 23, 2019). "Shane Lee to drive for newly formed H2 Motorsports in NASCAR Xfinity Series". Catchfence. Retrieved May 23, 2019.
- ^ "Circuit City Set to Electrify as Entitlement Sponsor of Iowa 250". Iowa Speedway. June 6, 2019. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ^ Tomlinson, Joy (July 29, 2019). "Entry List: Zippo 200 at the Glen". Frontstretch. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
- ^ Albino, Dustin (21 August 2019). "Eyes on Xfinity: Shane Lee, H2 Motorsports Looking Toward the Future". Frontstretch. Retrieved 22 August 2019.
- ^ Knight, Chris (August 28, 2019). "Shane Lee released from H2 Motorsports". Catchfence. Retrieved August 28, 2019.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2018 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved October 31, 2018.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2019 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved February 26, 2022.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2016 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
- ^ "Shane Lee – 2017 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference. Retrieved February 1, 2018.
External links
edit- Official website
- Shane Lee driver statistics at Racing-Reference