- Mario Gosselin (racing driver)
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Mario Gosselin 
Born October 20, 1971
Sainte-Marie, QuebecNASCAR Sprint Cup Series career Best finish 80th - 2004 First race 2004 Subway 500 (Martinsville) Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0 NASCAR Nationwide Series career Best finish 96th - 1998 First race 1998 Myrtle Beach 250 (Myrtle Beach Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career Truck no., team #12 - DGM Racing 2009 position 25th Best finish 25th - 2009 First race 2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas) Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0 Statistics current as of April 21, 2010. Mario Gosselin (born October 20, 1971 in Sainte-Marie, Quebec)[1] is a Canadian professional race car driver who currently races in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He drives the #12 TireMonkey.com Chevrolet for his own DGM Racing. In 2004, he became the second native of the Province of Quebec to start in a NEXTEL Cup race after Superbike legend Yvon Duhamel.
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Biography
Mario Gosselin is a native of Sainte-Marie, Quebec. He lived there before moving with his family to Florida in 1981. He settled in Lake Wales, Florida a few years ago.[2]
Gosselin is a multiple winner on the ARCA RE/MAX Series and 2-time USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Champion. He began his racing career in 1990 at Hialeah, Florida by winning the Pure Stock Division Championship.[3]
He moved into Late Models the very next year and has multiple championships and many wins to his credit at various speedways. In 1998, Gosselin made his NASCAR debut at Myrtle Beach Speedway in his #71 Chevrolet, finishing sixteenth. He also qualified on the pole and won his very first ARCA RE/MAX start in 1999. That first ARCA victory came at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C..[3] He has since competed in several part-time ARCA schedules since then, and has won two additional races.
In 2004, Gosselin ran a two-race schedule late in the Nextel Cup season in the #80 Hover Motorsports Ford, finishing 41st in both of his starts. He rejoined NASCAR competition in 2008 as the driver and crew chief of the #12 Crashedtoys.com Chevrolet Silverado in the Craftsman Truck Series, which was owned by his wife Michelle. He and Scotty Crockett shared the driving duties of the truck and made six starts with the team. After the season, attorney James Carter became a sponsor and co-owner of the team, allowing Gosselin and his wife to open a second truck team. Gosselin made fifteen starts in 2009 and finished six of them. His best finish and first ever NASCAR top-10 came at Talladega Superspeedway in the fall where he ended up 6th in a very wild race. Starting at Talladega, Gosselin picked up sponsorship from TireMonkey.com. With sponsorship in place, he looks to run the full 2010 Truck Series season.
References
- ^ Mario Gosselin Career Statistics
- ^ Le Soleil (August 30, 2005) Le rêve à plein gaz
- ^ a b "Mario Gosselin's bio on his official page". http://www.mariogosselin.com/bio.htm.
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See also
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- NASCAR drivers
- People from Beauce, Quebec
- Canadian racecar drivers
- Sportspeople from Quebec
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