🇺🇸 Johnny Sauter

Johnny Sauter is a professional stock car racing driver competing in the NASCAR Truck Series for ThorSport Racing, where he has been a mainstay since 2012. He races Ford F-150 trucks in a national single-class championship that fields a mix of amateur, semi-professional and professional drivers. Sauter has also competed extensively in the NASCAR Xfinity Series and made a single appearance in IMSA Pilot Challenge's GS class.[1]

Sauter won the NASCAR Truck championship in 2013 and again in 2018, accumulating 20 wins and 52 podiums across 238 starts in the series. His 207 Xfinity starts from 2001 through 2018 yielded three wins and eleven podiums, the bulk of his activity there conducted on ovals. He has raced steadily in the Truck Series for over a decade, with 2025 marking his continued presence at ThorSport Racing. His career spans 23 seasons and 446 starts across all series combined.[2]

On the Truck grid, Sauter regularly faces Matt Crafton, a three-time series champion and Gold-graded professional, and Ron Hornaday Jr., both drivers with whom he remains closely matched. Among the strongest drivers he has beaten are Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell, both elite professionals who went on to careers in the NASCAR Cup Series. Sauter has raced most of his career on ovals, with only a handful of starts on road and street courses in either the Truck or Xfinity series.