Johnny Leonard (racing driver)

Johnny Leonard
Born	(1969-06-28) June 28, 1969 Cape Coral, Florida
ARCA Menards Series career
42 races run over 4 years
Best finish	10th (2005)
First race	2003 ARCA Re/Max 200 Presented by Hamot & Siemens (Lake Erie)
Last race	2006 Hantz Group 200 by Belle Tire & It's Mighty Ezy (Toledo)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 3 0
Statistics current as of January 11, 2024.

Johnny Leonard (born June 28, 1969) is an American former professional stock car racing driver who has previously competed in the ARCA Re/Max Series.

Racing career

Prior to his ARCA career, Leonard raced late-models in his home state of Florida, and competed in series like the FASCAR Goodyear Challenge Series.

In 2003, Leonard made his debut in the ARCA Re/Max Series at Lake Erie Speedway, driving the No. 14 Chevrolet for Jeff Caudell, where he started sixteenth and finished 26th. After failing to qualify at Winchester Speedway, he moved to Wayne Peterson Racing and the No. 6 Chevrolet for two races, finishing fifteenth at Salem Speedway, and 31st at South Boston Speedway. For the following year, Leonard competed speradically throughout the year, running seven races and getting a best finish of twelfth at Michigan Speedway.

In 2005, Leonard, alongside racing partner and former hydroplane racer Rick Woodward, formed Florida Motorsports Group, and ran the full ARCA schedule that season, driving the No. 13 entry. Three races into the year, the team relocated from Florida to North Carolina, and was renamed to Boca Bay Racing for the remainder of the season. Alongside this, Leonard also announced that he would be running for rookie of the year honors. Throughout the year, Leonard scored three top-ten finishes with a best result of ninth at Nashville Superspeedway, and finished tenth in the final points standings, and fifth in the rookie of the year standings.

In 2006, Leonard ran the first eight races of the year, with a majority of those starts being fielded in collaboration with Mark Gibson Racing. He only finished inside the top-twenty once out of those eight starts, that being a twentieth place finish at Winchester. After the eighth race at Michigan, he did not attempt another race until the series returned to the track later in the year, where he failed to qualify, before making his final start of the year at Toledo Speedway, where he started 23rd and finished 21st. This would be his most recent event as a driver, as he has not competed in the series since then.

Motorsports results

ARCA Re/Max Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Re/Max Series results
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	ARMC	Pts	Ref
2003	Jeff Caudell	14	Chevy	DAY	ATL	NSH	SLM	TOL	KEN	CLT	BLN	KAN	MCH	LER 26	POC	POC	NSH	ISF	WIN DNQ	DSF	CHI						80th	330
	Wayne Peterson Racing	6	Chevy																			SLM 15	TAL	CLT	SBO 31
2004	Johnny Leonard	13	Pontiac	DAY 15																					TAL 13		27th	940
			Chevy		NSH 33	SLM	KEN	TOL	CLT 14	KAN	POC	MCH 12	SBO	BLN	KEN 30	GTW	POC	LER	NSH 18	ISF	TOL	DSF	CHI	SLM
2005	Florida Motorsports Group		Pontiac	DAY 34																							10th	4160
			Chevy		NSH 29	SLM 14
	Boca Bay Racing						KEN 24	TOL 21	LAN 17	MIL 19	POC 29	MCH 18	KAN 16	KEN 11	BLN 31	POC 10	GTW 22	LER 19	NSH 9	MCH 29	ISF 27	TOL 10	DSF 16	CHI 30	SLM 12	TAL 29
2006				DAY 30						POC 32								MCH DNQ	ISF	MIL	TOL 21	DSF	CHI	SLM	TAL	IOW	37th	1095
	Mark Gibson Racing				NSH 39	SLM 27	WIN 20	KEN 32	TOL 27		MCH 22	KAN	KEN	BLN	POC	GTW	NSH

External links

• Johnny Leonard driver statistics at Racing-Reference