Landen Lewis — Driver Profile
Car: No. 29 | Team: Kevin Harvick Inc. | Series: CARS Tour LMSC Status: Full-time (through August 2026) | Hometown: Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina | Age: 19
Career Highlights
Landen Lewis is the reigning 2025 CARS Tour Late Model Stock champion and one of the youngest drivers to win a touring-series title in recent short track history.
Born February 26, 2006, Lewis grew up in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, and found racing early. In 2021, at age fifteen, he won the Legend Car "Trifecta" — Dirt, Asphalt, and Road Course Nationals — plus the North Carolina State Championship. That same year, he made his ARCA Menards Series debut and won in his second start, leading all 104 laps of the Southern Illinois 100 at DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack.
Lewis joined Kevin Harvick Inc. for a full-time CARS Tour LMSC campaign, and in 2025 he delivered the organization's first driver's championship in sixteen years. Lewis racked up four wins — at Ace Speedway, Anderson Motor Speedway, Florence Motor Speedway, and North Wilkesboro Speedway — and clinched the title with a seventh-place finish in the season finale at North Wilkesboro. He joins NASCAR Hall of Famer Ron Hornaday Jr. as the only two drivers to win championships with Kevin Harvick's organization.
For 2026, Lewis returns to KHI and the CARS Tour in the No. 29 while also stepping up to the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series on a part-time basis with Niece Motorsports, driving the No. 45 alongside Ross Chastain and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. He plans to run all scheduled CARS Tour events through the Hickory Motor Speedway race in August.
2026 CARS Tour LMSC Season
| Event | Track | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Music City Showdown | Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway | 5th |
| TCPS Plumbing & Septic 250 | Caraway Speedway | WIN |
| CARS Tour doubleheader | Ace Speedway | 4th |
The Caraway victory — Lewis' sixth career CARS Tour LMSC win and his first of 2026 — came after he hit the orange choose-V cone before an early restart and was sent to the rear of the field. He came back through traffic, dispatched three-time Caraway winner Jared Fryar, and passed Conner Jones on a late restart for the win.
"This is probably one of my favorite wins I've ever raced, being able to come from the back, back to the front. It taught us all discipline and not to give up."
Lewis sits fifth in CARS Tour LMSC points at 160 points (post-Ace, through four of five events run — he skipped one for a Truck Series commitment). Caden Kvapil leads the standings at 204 points, Treyten Lapcevich second at 182, Conner Jones third at 177, Chase Burrow fourth at 163.
Recent Coverage
- Landen Lewis Is Defending a Championship He Can't Catch on a Partial Schedule — May 26, 2026 — The partial-schedule math: 44 points behind Kvapil, per-race pace functionally tied, eight LMSC races to go.
- Lewis Apologized. Then He Won Caraway Anyway. — May 5, 2026
- Honeycutt Swept Ace Speedway — May 10, 2026 (Lewis 4th in LMSC)
Up Next
The CARS Tour LMSC field reconvenes at Langley Speedway on Saturday, May 30. Lewis and Caden Kvapil are both on the entry list.