Landauer grew up in New York City and began racing go-karts at age ten, quickly accumulating wins and podiums. At 13 she transitioned to cars, and the following year became the first female champion of a Skip Barber Racing Series, recording 12 wins. She subsequently raced in Formula BMW USA single-seaters and gained oval-racing experience in Ford Focus Midgets before moving to late model stock cars. Funding constraints during her college years limited her to part-time late model and Legends car appearances.
She graduated from Manhattan's Stuyvesant High School in 2010 and earned a bachelor's degree in science, technology, and society from Stanford University in 2014. While pursuing her racing career, Landauer also established herself as a motivational speaker, appearing at events such as TEDx. In 2017, Forbes magazine included her on its 30 Under 30 list in the sports category.
Landauer came to the attention of team owner Bill McAnally in 2009, competing in select Late Model races for Bill McAnally Racing at All American Speedway in the Whelen All-American Series. In 2015 at Motor Mile Speedway, she competed for Lee Pulliam Performance and won the All-American Series-sanctioned Limited Late Model track championship — the first female track champion in that division and the first female track champion in any division at the venue since Sheryl Carls in 2011. She also won her debut in the track's Limited Sportsman division that year.
For 2016, McAnally and business partner Mike Curb selected Landauer to drive the No. 54 Toyota Camry for a fourth team in the K&N Pro Series West. She finished eighth in her debut at Irwindale Speedway and went on to record seven top-five finishes and thirteen top-tens in fourteen races over the season. That performance earned her the 2016 Driver Achievement Award and the series's Top Breakthrough Driver honor, and she was also invited to join the NASCAR Next program as the only female member of the 2016 class. Her fourth-place finish in the season-long points standings made her the highest-finishing female in K&N Pro Series West history.
In 2018, Landauer secured three races in the NASCAR Pinty's Series with CBRT. In 2019, she became the first woman to lead a lap in the Pinty's Series. She ran a full-time NASCAR Whelen Euro Series EuroNASCAR 2 campaign in 2020 for PK Carsport.
In 2022, Landauer made her NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, joining Alpha Prime Racing for the July 16 race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and then racing again in October at Homestead Miami Speedway. She made additional Xfinity appearances in subsequent seasons.
In 2013, Landauer gained significant national exposure as a contestant on Survivor: Caramoan, the twenty-sixth season of the CBS reality show. She reached Day 19 before being voted out as the eighth eliminated contestant. The appearance broadened her public profile considerably and underscored her self-positioning as someone who competes across different high-pressure environments.
Landauer's career bridges grassroots regional racing and NASCAR's national stages, with her K&N Pro Series West record points finish in 2016 representing the clearest benchmark. Her trajectory — from Skip Barber champion to Stanford graduate to Survivor contestant to NASCAR competitor and motivational speaker — reflects a deliberately multifaceted public identity. As one of the few female drivers to successfully navigate both regional championships and national series competition in the 2010s and early 2020s, she occupies a distinct place in the landscape of American stock car racing.