Scott Steudler

Scott Steudler
Age	40
Nationality	American
Car #	26
Years Competed	2007-
Rookie Season	2007
Current Team	Hodges-Walter Racing
Former Team(s)	Camelot Racing Mitchell & Sons Racing Scuderia Tutino Power Steering, Inc. Manticore Engineering ALERT
Championships	0
Pole Positions	2?
Wins	2?
First Race	2007 Round of Daytona
First Win	2009 Round of Australia
Last Win	2014 Round of Argentina
Last Race	2019 Round of Wales
Twitter	SteudlerTMRacer
TM Master Cup Series Driver

Scott Steudler (born May 9, 1984) is an American racing driver from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He currently the third driver for Hodges-Walter Racing in the TM Master Cup Series. In his first eight years in the series, Steudler scored two wins; the first came at the 2009 Round of Australia, and he finally captured his second in the 2014 Round of Argentina. His uncle, Marty Steudler, is a former Master Cup driver who made a brief comeback in 2013.

Pre-Master Cup

Scott Steudler is the nephew of Northeast racing legend Marty Steudler. When he was 8 years old, Marty took Scott into racing, by entering him in local karting series thoughout Pennsylvania. Showing some promise, by the time Scott was 16, he moved up to racing on dirt and paved ovals. After winning numerous races throughout the region, Scott had showed enough skill that Marty decided to run a TM Lights team for his nephew in 2005 and 2006. While not winning any races in TM Lights, Scott did well enough, that by 2006, rumors had gone around that he was being considered for a new 3rd car for the Hodges-Walter Racing team. By the end of the year, it was official, and Scott had signed a 3 year contract with the team.

Hodges-Walter

Scott debuted in the No. 26 Haas Manufacturing CM Nova at Daytona in 2007, and showed up with a reasonable performance at Daytona before falling down the pack late. However, as it was, it would be one of the few highlights that Scott would see for the team that season, as its newness as a 3rd car, and being a rookie driver showed, by not qualifying for nine races. 2008 would show a little more promise, as Scott would qualify for all races, and usually would finish mid-pack. As the 2009 season came along, there were rumors that Scott would possibly be going elsewhere, as the team was looking at possibly signing a promising young rookie for 2010, Adrien Devereux. Using it as motivation to try and get re-signed with the team, or at least a way to impress other teams looking to sign him to a ride, Scott performed at his best, and it showed, scoring his first (and to date, only) career victory at Australia (and famously put his car in the wall post-race trying to do donuts), two pole positions, and a 15th-place points finish (having been in the Top 10 in the points going into Decatur). That would not be enough to keep Scott at Hodges-Walter, but it has not prevented him from giving great praise to the team and Alan Hodges, having thanked him and the team many times through his career for giving him his chance to break into the series.

Camelot Racing

Before Scott's victory at Australia, it was rumored that he was to land the ride at Camelot Racing. The deal came to fruition before the end of the 2009 season, with what was at the time a three-year deal to run for the team. 2010 saw him continue to do well when he stayed out of trouble, and finish with another 15th-place points finish in the standings. 2011 however, was a different story. The season started out with great promise, with new sponsor Hershey's, and it looked like Scott would at least continue to perform like he had been, but rumors of the team moving to the ASCC, a move that Scott was against, showed, and suffered greatly in the standings, not qualifying at Karjala and Decatur, as well as Indianapolis, but being able to secure a ride that had qualified. Meanwhile, his teammate Chris Johaanes finished second in the championship to Adrien Devereux. Before the season was finished, sensing his frustration, Camelot granted Scott's release from the team at the end of the season.

Mitchell & Sons

At the close of the season, Scott announced that he had signed a three-year deal to race with Mitchell & Sons. He would be joined by his teammate, Johaanes, and his sponsor, Hershey's. After a slow start to the season, finishing a lap down at Las Vegas, but in the points, Steudler had improved his finishes considerably, by finishing in the top 10 at the Georgia, he would only finish off the pace for one more race before rattling off three straight podium finishes.

The Boycott

Amidst the MCMA boycott of the 2012 Round of Michigan, Steudler had announced intentions to run his own car in the race due to believing that teams shouldn't boycott races and rip the fans off from a full field for a race. Tensions between him and team management at Mitchell & Sons esclated to a point where if he arrived at the track under any circumstances, his contract would be terminated with immediate effect. Steudler went to the track anyway, and was fired from his ride, despite his good standing in the points. Eventually, a deal would be reached where he ended up agreeing to drive for Scuderia Tutino for two races initially, but it turned into a deal where he would agree to run the car for extra races. This deal lasted until the Round of Queensland where Steudler accepted a one race deal to drive the 08 car for Power Steering Incorporated. He would eventually attempt another race with the 08 at Decatur, but not make it out of pre-qualifying when an odd engine problem dropped him out of the race.

Manticore Engineering

Weeks after Decatur, Steudler announced that he had signed a deal with Manticore Engineering, reuniting with Johaanes after the Mitchells decided to hire Kevin Dwyer and Zach Duff. Terms of the deal weren't originally announced, but it turned out to be a one year deal. The season was marked with many struggles for the team in their first full-time season, and Steudler was replaced in some races with younger talent and pay drivers. Steudler managed to find a ride with ALERT's third car and started the races where he was benched from Manticore, thanks to the Promoter's Option.

ALERT

For 2014, Steudler signed a deal to race with ALERT full-time, replacing the retiring champion Michael Sykes, and teaming with Johaanes for a fifth consecutive season. Steudler got the opportunity to compete under a number that he had long wanted to race in, when Alan Hodges, one of the men who helped him get into the TM Master Cup series, allowed him to race the number 13; a "great honor and privilege to race in that number" in Steudler's words. After a slow start to the season, Steudler earned his first Top 5 finish of the year in France. In the Round of Argentina, Steudler finally captured his second career victory after a flat tire took Yuliya Nosova out of the lead. Steudler finished the year with six top 5s, including podiums in Argentina and Queensland, and a 16th place points finish, his best showing in the championship since 2010.

Owner/Driver

For a few seasons, Scott had convinced sponsors to help fund and put together cars for him under his name (and under the team name of Steudler Motorsports to differentiate it from his uncle's Steudler Racing). He would generally have local up and comers come to take spots in his cars, generally with poor results. In 2012, he had cars ready to go due to the aformentioned boycott the MCMA was planning in Michigan, however, with getting rides in the field with Tutino, the need for them came to pass, and none of his cars appeared in a race field in 2012. He would eventually sell the assets of the team to his uncle, to allow him to try and field entries for the 2013 season.

Personal Life

In Scott's personal time, he has been known to play ice hockey as a way to stay in shape, and has even played in some charity hockey games in the offseason. When the TM Master Cup series goes to the Northern and Central European countries known for hockey, it has almost been a given that he will bring along his hockey gear, and try to get a game in for any free time that he can get. He is also well known to, whenever the TM Master Cup series gets near Pennsylvania, that he will run some of the short tracks around the area, though with some renewed commitments in 2012, it is not known if Scott will continue to do this.

Steudler is also fluent in French, and has been utilized on occasion for French TV broadcasts of TM Master Cup races.

Racing Stats

TM Lights

Year	Races	Wins	Poles	Top 5	Top 10	DNF	DNQ	Season Rank	Team
2005	16	0	1	1	4	5	0	17th	Steudler Racing (#80)
2006	17	0	3	7	10	2	0	4th	Steudler Racing (#80)
Totals	33	0	4	8	14	7	0

TM Master Cup

Year	Races	Wins	Poles	Top 5	Top 10	DNF	DNQ	Season Rank	Team
2007	5	0	0	0	0	2	9	42nd	Hodges-Walter Racing (#26)
2008	19	0	0	1	4	4	0	21st	Hodges-Walter Racing (#26)
2009	18	1	2	3	5	5	0+	15th	Hodges-Walter Racing (#26)
2010	18	0	0	0	4	2	0	15th	Camelot Racing (#23)
2011	18	0	0	0	2	9	3@	36th	Camelot Racing (#23)
2012	16	0	0	3	4	3	2	21st	multiple teams
2013	19	0	0	2	3	7	3	26th	multiple teams
2014	25	1	0	6	8	9	0	16th	ALERT (#13)
Totals	138	2	2	15	30	41	17

+ - Qualified at Texas, but pulled out of race before start @ - Did not qualify at Indianapolis, but took over another car in order to start the race.

TM Master Cup Race Results

Yr	Entrant	Car	Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	Standings	Points
2007	Hodges-Walter Racing	CM Nova	26	DAY 35	ROC DNQ	CHI DNQ	FRA DNQ	PEO 17	CON DNQ	KAR DNQ	SIL 41	JAP 12	IND DNQ	RUS DNQ	ALA 34	MAN DNQ	DEC DNQ								42th	363
2008	Hodges-Walter Racing	CM Nova	26	DAY 8	CAR 11	CHI 33	GB 19	NY 20	TEX 31	KAR 41	SAL 7	SEA 27	IND 6	SIL 29	ALA 31	POR 25	ITA 28	BEL 21	RUS 30	JAP 5	CAN 27	DEC 29			21st	1021
2009	Hodges-Walter Racing	CM Nova	26	DAY 12	CAR 33	CHI 26	GBR 30	TEX DNS	BRA 9	KAR 31	NYK 6	SAL 22	IND 14	SIL 16	ALA 4	AUS 1	JAP 18	RUS 33	BEL 30	ITA 25	CAN 4	DEC 39			15th	1072
2010	Camelot Racing	Tremwell Knight	23	JAP 21	AUS 8	BRA 29	CAR 11	TEX 13	GB 17	KAR 19	GER 6	BEL 40	ITA 7	CZE 22	IND 18	QUI 10	MIC 24	WIS 25	CAN 36	RUS DNP	ALA 14	DEC 27			15th	976
2011	Camelot Racing	Tremwell Knight	23	LV 7	TEX 34	CAR 8	GB 40	SWE 15	GER 41	KAR DNQ	RUS 24	CZE 15	DAY 35	OHI 32	WIS 33	QUI 39	IND 29#	MIC 11	QUE 22	BC 25	JAP 32	BRA 33	DEC DNQ		36th	90
2012	Mitchell & Sons Racing	Tremwell Knight	74	LV 16	GEO 9	CAR 31	ENG 3	FRA 3	SWE 2	KAR 29	RUS 21	WAL 32													21st	180
	Scuderia Tutino	Tutino T12	50										MIC 14	QUE DSQ	OHI 27	QUI 21	WIS 20	IND DNQ	VIC 24
	Power Steering Incorporated	Tonare Surge	08																	QEN 15	BRA DNP	NY DNP	BC DNP	DEC DNQ

2013 Finishes

Yr	Entrant	Car	Number	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	Standings	Points
2013	Manticore Engineering	Manticore M1A1	28	CAL 18	CAR 16	GEO 31	ENG 29	FRA	SWE	KAR	RUS	WAL	SCA	QUE	OHI	QUI	WIS	INDY	COL	VIC	QLD	BRA	NYC	VAN	DEC	NC	12

Key to table

• Gold - 1st
• Silver - 2nd
• Bronze - 3rd
• Green - Top 10 pre-2011, Points finish 2011 onward. If DNF, will be marked with a *
• Blue - Running at Finish pre-2011, Non-points finish running 2011 onward
• Purple - Did not Finish
• Red - Did not Qualify
• White - Did not Participate
• Black - Disqualified
• # - DNQ race, participated in another car