Marc-Antoine Camirand

Marc-Antoine Camirand (born 30 April 1979) is a Canadian racing driver. He currently competes in the NASCAR Pinty's Series and is the 2022 NASCAR Pinty's Series champion.

Marc-Antoine Camirand
Camirand competing at Autodrome Chaudière in 2015.
Born (1979-04-30) 30 April 1979
Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec
NASCAR Pinty's Series career
73 races run over 10 years
Car no., teamNo. 96 (Paille Corse Racing)
2022 position1st (2022)
Best finish1st (2022)
First race2013 JuliaWine.com 100 (Trois-Rivières)
Last race2023 eBay Motors 200 (Mosport)
First win2018 Lucas Oil 250 (St. Eustache)
Last win2022 WeatherTech 200 (Mosport)
Wins Top tens Poles
5 49 4

Early career

Camirand began karting in the early 1990s, winning the F100 Junior class in the Quebec Karting Championship in 1993 and the Formula Super A class in the Canadian Karting Championship two years later in 1995.

Camirand moved to cars in 1996, beginning with the Formula Ford Canada championship. Camirand won the championship in 1997 and afterwards moved on the U.S. F2000 National Championship. He competed three full seasons in U.S. F2000, with a best finish of 2nd in the championship during the 1999 championship. Camirand made a handful of single-seater series appearances for the next few years, including in the Toyota Atlantic Series and the Formula Renault 2.0 Fran-Am series.[1]

Sports car racing

Camirand made his sports car racing debut in 2002 in the American Le Mans Series with a pair of starts in the LMP675 class driving for Archangel Motorsports[1]

From 2004 through 2008, Camirand participated in Rolex Sports Car Series in the United States. From 2005 onward, Camirand drove primarily for Spirit of Daytona Racing in the Daytona Prototype class.[2] Camirand did not complete a full season during his Grand-Am career, instead only running partial schedules each year.[3]

Touring car racing

From 2008 through 2012, Camirand participated in the Canadian Touring Car Championship in the Super Touring class.[1] Camirand won several races in the series, including a record-breaking 11 victories at Circuit Trois-Rivières.[4] Camirand's best finish in the championship was 5th in 2012.[1]

NASCAR Canadian Tire/Pinty's series

Camirand made his debut in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series in 2013 at Circuit Trois-Rivières driving for Derek White. Camirand made one further start that season Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.[3] Camirand continued to drive for White through 2016, including a full season campaign in 2015, where he finished 7th in the championship.

In 2017, Camirand switched teams to drive for Scott Steckly. 2017 was another partial season, but Camirand began competing full-time for Steckly in 2018. During the 2018 season, Camirand picked up his first career race victory in the series at Autodrome St. Eustache en route to a sixth-place finish in the championship.[5] Camirand continued to drive for Steckly's team in 2019 and 2021, picking up another race victory in 2021 at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.[3]

In 2022, Camirand moved to the GM Paillé Partners team. Camirand won three races during the season and accumulated nine top-5 finishes en route to his first Pinty's Series championship victory.[6] Camirand led 803 laps during the season, the second most for a single season in series history.

In 2023, Camirand would be leading on the final lap at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park but contact from Treyten Lapcevich would cause Camirand to fall to 2nd.[7]

Career results

NASCAR

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

Canadian Tire/Pinty's Series
NASCAR Pinty's Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 NPSC Pts Ref
2013 Derek White 88 Chevrolet MSP DEL MSP ICAR MPS SAS ASE CTR
29		 RIS MSP
6		 BAR KWA 37th 54 [3]
2014 MSP
19		 ACD CTR
20		 RIS MSP
3		 BAR 22nd 135
99 ICAR
28		 EIR SAS ASE KWA
17
2015 99 MSP
23		 ACD
11		 SSS
8		 ICAR
7		 EIR
5		 SAS
5		 ASE
3		 CTR
6		 RIS
2		 MSP
27		 KWA
5		 7th 382
2016 Brandon White MSP SSS ACD ICAR TOR EIR SAS CTR
15		 RIS MSP ASE KWA 49th 29
2017 Scott Steckly 22 MSP DEL ACD ICAR
3		 TOR
16		 SAS SAS EIR CTR
3		 RIS MSP
7		 ASE JUK 18th 148
2018 MSP
2		 JUK
4		 ACD
6		 TOR
6		 SAS
4		 SAS
3		 EIR
6		 CTR
5		 RIS
13		 MSP
25		 ASE
1		 NHA
10		 JUK
7		 6th 488
2019 MSP
18		 JUK
6		 ACD
11		 TOR
16		 SAS
9		 SAS
9		 EIR
6		 CTR
18		 RIS
10		 MSP
2		 ASE
9		 NHA
5		 JUK
11		 7th 442
2021 SUN
7		 SUN
12		 CTR
23		 ICAR
18		 MSP
2		 MSP
1		 FLA
15		 DEL
20		 DEL
10		 DEL
21		 11th 315
2022 GM Paillé Partners 96 SUN
4		 MSP
14		 ACD
2		 AVE
1		 TOR
9		 EIR
1		 SAS
3		 SAS
20		 CTR
3		 OSK
4		 ICAR
2		 MSP
1		 DEL
9		 1st 523

24 Hours of Daytona results
Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2008 United States Spirit of Daytona Racing United States Guy Cosmo
United States Michael McDowell		 Fabcar FDSC/03–Porsche DP 652 15th 10th

References
  1. "Marc-Antoine Camirand: Driver Stats". driverdb.com. The Race. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  2. "Spirit of Daytona announces driver change for The Glen". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. August 5, 2005. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  3. "Marc-Antoine Camirand career results". racing-reference.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  4. "Marc-Antoine Camirand 11-time winner in Trois-Rivières". auto123.com. Auto123. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  5. Southers, Tim (February 21, 2019). "Marc-Antoine Camirand set to return to Pinty's Series in 2019". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  6. Srigley, Joseph (September 26, 2022). "Dominant Season Nets Marc-Antoine Camirand First NASCAR Pinty's Series Championship". tobychristie.com. TobyChristie.com LLC. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
  7. Srigley, Joseph (2023-05-21). "Aggressive Last-Lap Move Scores Treyten Lapcevich Second Straight Pinty's Series Win". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved 2023-05-21.
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