Marc-Antoine Camirand

Canadian professional stock car racing driver

NASCAR driver

Camirand competing at Autodrome Chaudière in 2015.

Born

(1979-04-30) 30 April 1979 (age 44)
Saint-Léonard-d'Aston, Quebec

NASCAR Canada Series career

86 races run over 10 years

Car no., team

No. 96 (Paille Corse Racing)

2023 position

2nd (2023)

Best finish

1st (2022)

First race

2013 JuliaWine.com 100 (Trois-Rivières)

Last race

2023 Pinty's Fall Brawl (Delaware Speedway)

First win

2018 Lucas Oil 250 (St. Eustache)

Last win

2023 Evirum 125 (Circuit ICAR)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
9	59	7

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.

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	14	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		88		MSP 19	ACD					CTR 20	RIS	MSP 3	BAR					22nd	135
2014		99				ICAR 28	EIR	SAS	ASE					KWA 17				22nd	135
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	99		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
2023	GM Paillé Partners	96		SUN 4	MSP 2	ACD 1	AVE 3	TOR 3	EIR 1	SAS 3	SAS 5	CTR 1	OSK 5	OSK 13	ICAR 1	MSP 3	DEL 22	2nd	551

Sports car racing

24 Hours of Daytona results

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

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Marc-Antoine Camirand: Driver Stats". driverdb.com. The Race. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
^ "Spirit of Daytona announces driver change for The Glen". motorsport.com. Motorsport Network. August 5, 2005. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Marc-Antoine Camirand career results". racing-reference.com. NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
^ "Marc-Antoine Camirand 11-time winner in Trois-Rivières". auto123.com. Auto123. 6 August 2012. Retrieved September 27, 2022.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Srigley, Joseph (2023-05-21). "Aggressive Last-Lap Move Scores Treyten Lapcevich Second Straight Pinty's Series Win". TobyChristie.com. Retrieved 2023-05-21.