Chris Lewis
Chris Lewis has been selected to represent Australia in the 2011 World Driver’s Championship which will be held in the USA between July 31st and August 5th 2011.
Lewis, who passed both the 4000 career wins and 2000 Perth wins milestones during 2010 has been the standout driver in Western Australia for the past 25 years.
A nominee for induction into The West Australian Racing Industry Hall of Fame later this year, Chris has won eight Perth Driver’s Premierships (only Hall of Famers Fred R Kersley with 17 and Frank Kersley with 11 have won more) and has an unprecedented 27 successive Top Five finishes on the Perth Premiership between the 1983/84 and 2009/2010 seasons.
He became one of only four West Australians to win the national drivers title when he beat Victorian ace Chris Alford to claim Australia’s Leading Driver Title (wins) in 1995 with a then Australian Record tally of 211 winners.
Chris has been 17 times in the Top 10 Australian Drivers (wins) and has driven 100 Winners in a season on 22 separate occasions.
He has driven a total of 40 Group One winners in races that include the Inter Dominion (SA & QLD), WA Pacing Cup, Fremantle Cup, WA Derby, WA Oaks, WA Golden Slipper Stakes, Australian Pacing Championship, M H Treuer Memorial (NSW), Australian Pacing Gold (Vic), WA Golden Nugget Championship , Bathurst Gold Tiara (NSW), Harold Park Cup (NSW), NSW Miracle Mile.
He is the only Western Australian reinsman to win at Group One level in each of the five mainland States in Australia.
The World Driver’s Championship, which commenced in 1970, is conducted every two years over 20 races and will bring together ten of the world’s finest drivers from Europe, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the USA.
Lewis will be attempting to join Ted Demmler (1987) as the only Australian to win the World Title.
Lewis joins WA Racing Industry Hall Of Famers Jim Schrader (1973 and 1979) and Fred Kersley (2nd to Maurice McKendry in 1991) as the only Western Australians to compete in the World Driver’s Championship.
Lewis has previously driven winners in both Russia and the USA in addition to his Australian record.
