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.

 Racing career 
Sauter gained national attention in 2001, when he won the ASA national Tour championship, when he won ten races. That same year, he ran a partial NASCAR Busch Series schedule for Richard Childress Racing. The following year, he ran a full season and earned his first win at Chicagoland Speedway. Sauter was also involved in one of the biggest crashes in NASCAR history, a thirty-plus car accident at Talladega Superspeedway. In 2003, Sauter split time between RCR and the Curb Agajanian team, driving 15 races for Curb and the other 19 for RCR. He also raced in his first five Winston Cup Series races with Morgan-McClure Motorsports.

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. He joined teammates Kevin Harvick and Robby Gordon and crew chief Kevin Hamlin at RCR. Sauter ran the full Busch schedule, performing well on short tracks. However, he was released after thirteen Cup races. 

After moving from ThorSport Racing to GMS Racing before 2016, Sauter won the 2016 Truck championship. During the 2017 season, he was the first driver to test a standard engine for the Truck Series.

On the day of the last race of 2017, Sauter said that he would return to GMS in 2018.

 Personal life 
Sauter is married with kids. He was born and raised in Necedah, Wisconsin and is a lifelong Catholic.

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