Marc-Antoine Camirand (born 30 April 1979) is a Canadian racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Canada Series, driving the No. 96 Chevrolet for Paillé Racing. He is the 2022, 2024, 2025, and 2026 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. He 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 second 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.
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.
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. Camirand did not complete a full season during his Grand-Am career, instead only running partial schedules each year.
Touring car racing From 2008 through 2012, Camirand participated in the Canadian Touring Car Championship in the Super Touring class. He won several races in the series, including a record-breaking eleven victories at Circuit Trois-Rivières. Camirand's best finish in the championship was fifth in 2012.
NASCAR Canada 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. Camirand continued to drive for White through 2016, including a full season campaign in 2015, where he finished seventh 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. Camirand continued to drive for Steckly's team in 2019 and 2021, picking up another race victory in 2021 at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park.
In 2022, Camirand moved to the GM Paillé Partners team. Camirand won three races during the season and accumulated nine top-five finishes en route to his first Pinty's Series championship victory. 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 second.
From 2024 to 2026, Camirand picked up three championships (2024—2026) with a total of sixteen victories.
Career results NASCAR (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Canada Series NASCAR Canada Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Pts Ref 2013 Derek White 88 Chevy MSP DEL MSP ICAR MPS SAS ASE CTR RIS MSP BAR KWA 37th 54 2014 MSP ACD CTR RIS MSP BAR 22nd 135 99 ICAR EIR SAS ASE KWA 2015 99 MSP ACD SSS ICAR EIR SAS ASE CTR RIS MSP KWA 7th 382 2016 Brandon White MSP SSS ACD ICAR TOR EIR SAS CTR RIS MSP ASE KWA 49th 29 2017 22 Racing 22 MSP DEL ACD ICAR TOR SAS SAS EIR CTR RIS MSP ASE JUK 18th 148 2018 MSP JUK ACD TOR SAS SAS EIR CTR RIS MSP ASE NHA JUK 6th 488 2019 MSP JUK ACD TOR SAS SAS EIR CTR RIS MSP ASE NHA JUK 7th 442 2021 SUN SUN CTR ICAR MSP MSP FLA DEL DEL DEL 11th 315 2022 GM Paillé Partners 96 SUN MSP ACD AVE TOR EIR SAS SAS CTR OSK ICAR MSP DEL 1st 523 2023 SUN MSP ACD AVE TOR EIR SAS SAS CTR OSK OSK ICAR MSP DEL 2nd 551 2024 MSP ACD AVE RIS RIS OSK SASEIR CTR ICAR MSP DEL AMS 1st 548 2025 MSP RIS EDM SAS CMP ACD CTR ICAR* MSP DEL DEL AMS* 1st 499 2026 MSP ACD* ACD* RIS AMS AMS* CMP EIR EIR* CTR* MAR* ICAR MSP DEL 1st 621
Sports car racing 24 Hours of Daytona results Year Team Co-drivers Car Class Laps 2008 Spirit of Daytona Racing Guy Cosmo Michael McDowell Fabcar FDSC/03–Porsche DP 652 15th 10th
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