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Steven D. Lane (born November 16, 1972) is an American NASCAR crew chief, team owner and an American professional stock car racing driver. He is employed at his own team of On Point Motorsports as the crew chief for Tate Fogleman in the No. 30 Toyota Tundra. He has crew chiefed in NASCAR since 2000, and has been an owner in NASCAR since 2018.
In 2009 he would jump to new team Front Row Motorsports with John Andretti in the No. 34 scoring a beat finish of 16th at Loudon. He would then jump ship once again to Robby Gordon Motorsports in 2011 scoring a best finish of 16th at Daytona in July with Robby Gordon.
Halfway through the 2011 season he would leave Robby Gordon Motorsports and join Swan Racing (then Swan Racing) where he would stay until 2014 having one top 15 with David Stremme at Talladega where they would finish 12th. He would have one last race with Swan in Swan's final race at Richmond Raceway with J. J. Yeley finishing 40th. Steven would follow J.J. to Team Xtreme Racing and stay until midway through 2014 after poor performance from Yeley where their best finish was a 34th.
Steven made one final cup stint as a crew chief for Randy Humphrey Racing scoring a best finish of 26th at Watkins Glen International with Nelson Piquet Jr. in Nelson's one and only Cup start. His final Cup crew chiefing effort came at Charlotte with Corey LaJoie where they would finish 35th.
In 2016 Yeley split from JGL leaving Lane at JGL with new driver Dakoda Armstrong, they performed on a decent level but would split for 4 races however partner backup midway through at Pocono Raceway and finish 18th, this led JGL to partner them back up after Iowa Speedway for the rest of the season except for the races Dakoda was in with Joe Gibbs Racing in the No. 18, they would rack up 15 top 20's and 3 top 15's.
In 2017 he and Armstrong were slated for a full season where they would score 2 top 10's and two top 5's while also scoring his first top 5 since the year 2000 in his Cup debut with Jeremy Mayfield at ISM Raceway and would score a best finish of 3rd place at Daytona. They split up after Dakoda barely missed the playoffs, He would bounce back to the No. 24 car for JGL with Corey LaJoie and Dylan Lupton where he would score 4 top 20's and 2 top 15's.
He returned in 2018 for what would be JGL's final season with Dylan Lupton and Tony Mrakovich scoring 2 top 25's with Lupton and having 1 top 25 with Mrakovich.
In November 2018, Lane announced his plans to field a full-time truck for the 2019 season.
In 2019, Lane started crew chiefing Brennan Poole, his first full-time job as a crew chief since 2017. They racked up three top ten and one top five. Their two top tens came at both Texas races, and they finishing 9th in the June race and 7th in the, at Charlotte finishing 2nd, and at Texas finishing. Whelen Modified Tour driver Danny Bohn would make his Truck Series debut that year for On Point Motorsports, running the last three races of the season in the No. 30.
Poole and Bohn returned to split the season in the No. 30 in 2020. Rick Markle started the season as crew chief, although Lane replaced him atop the pit box later in the season.
For 2021, Bohn returned to On Point Motorsports, beginning at the season-opener at Daytona.
On November 29, 2018 On Point Motorsports announced they would run a full-time NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedule and a part-time ARCA Menards Series schedule for the 2019 season. Derrick Lancaster was named as driver for the team's first race at Daytona International Speedway.
On January 28, 2019, On Point Motorsports announced they would run full-time with Brennan Poole and run for NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors. The team cracked the top ten for the first time in 2019 at Texas, finishing ninth.
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