Mario Gosselin | |||||||
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Born | Sainte-Marie, Quebec, Canada | October 20, 1971||||||
Achievements | 1997 Hooters Pro Cup Series Champion | ||||||
NASCAR Cup Series career | |||||||
2 races run over 1 year | |||||||
Best finish | 80th (2004) | ||||||
First race | 2004 Subway 500 (Martinsville) | ||||||
Last race | 2004 Southern 500 (Darlington) | ||||||
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NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
43 races run over 5 years | |||||||
2021 position | 110th | ||||||
Best finish | 26th (2016) | ||||||
First race | 1998 Myrtle Beach 250 (Myrtle Beach | ||||||
Last race | 2017 Ticket Galaxy 200 (Phoenix) | ||||||
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NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
47 races run over 4 years | |||||||
2012 position | 66th | ||||||
Best finish | 16th (2010) | ||||||
First race | 2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas) | ||||||
Last race | 2012 Ford EcoBoost 200 (Homestead) | ||||||
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Statistics current as of December 28, 2021. |
Mario Gosselin (born October 20, 1971) is a Canadian-American professional stock car racing driver, crew chief, and team owner. He owns DGM Racing, a team that competes in the NASCAR Xfinity Series. In 2004, he became the second native of the Province of Quebec to start in a NASCAR Nextel Cup Series race after Superbike legend Yvon Duhamel. In 1997, he became the first Canadian to win the championship title for the NASCAR CARS Pro Cup Series.
Gosselin is a multiple-time winner in the ARCA Racing Series and two-time CARS Pro Cup Series champion. He began his racing career in 1990 at Hialeah, Florida, by winning the pure stock division championship. [1]
He moved into late models the 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 No. 71 Chevrolet, finishing sixteenth. He also qualified on the pole and won his first ARCA RE/MAX Series start, in 1999. That first ARCA victory came at the Lowe's Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C. [1] He has since competed in several part-time ARCA schedules and has won another two races.
In 2004, Gosselin ran two races late in the Nextel Cup Series season in the No. 80 Hover Motorsports Ford, finishing 41st in both starts. He rejoined NASCAR competition in 2008 as the driver and crew chief of the No. 12 Crashedtoys.com Chevrolet Silverado, which was owned by his wife Michelle, in the Craftsman Truck Series. 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 sixth in a wild race. Starting at Talladega, Gosselin picked up a sponsorship from TireMonkey.com. With a sponsorship in place, he ran the full 2010 season, but was forced to sell his owners' points to Johanna Long and her Panhandle Motorsports team for 2011. Gosselin took a new role as a crew chief for Truck Series driver Russ Dugger.
Gosselin returned to the Busch Series, now the Xfinity Series, in 2015, racing the No. 90 King Autosport Chevy at Daytona International Speedway. [2] He continued racing sporadically until 2017, with his team later being renamed DGM Racing. In December 2020, Gosselin announced he would once again race in the series with DGM, driving the No. 91 in the 2021 season opener at Daytona. [3]
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.[ when? ] [4]
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
NASCAR Nextel Cup Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | NNCC | Pts | Ref | ||
2004 | Hover Motorsports | 80 | Ford | DAY | CAR | LVS | ATL | DAR | BRI | TEX | MAR | TAL | CAL | RCH | CLT | DOV | POC | MCH | SON | DAY | CHI | NHA | POC | IND | GLN | MCH | BRI | CAL | RCH | NHA | DOV | TAL | KAN | CLT | MAR 41 | ATL | PHO DNQ | DAR 41 | HOM | 80th | 80 | [5] |
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Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | NCWTC | Pts | Ref | |||||||||||||
2008 | DGM Racing | 12 | Chevy | DAY | CAL | ATL | MAR | KAN 34 | CLT | MFD | DOV | TEX | MCH 29 | MLW | MEM | KEN | IRP 28 | NSH | BRI | GTY | NHA 27 | LVS | TAL | MAR | ATL 24 | TEX | PHO | HOM 24 | 47th | 403 | [13] | |||||||||||||
2009 | DAY 29 | CAL | ATL 32 | MAR | KAN | CLT 17 | TEX 29 | MCH 31 | MLW | MEM 19 | KEN 27 | IRP | NSH 26 | BRI | CHI 32 | IOW 20 | GTY 32 | NHA | LVS | MAR | TAL 6 | TEX 21 | PHO | HOM 20 | 25th | 1324 | [14] | |||||||||||||||||
72 | DOV 36 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | 12 | DAY 23 | ATL 22 | MAR 9 | NSH 21 | KAN 17 | DOV 18 | CLT 20 | TEX 22 | MCH 23 | IOW 12 | GTY 14 | IRP 24 | POC 15 | NSH 26 | DAR 23 | BRI 18 | CHI 19 | KEN 16 | NHA 17 | LVS 19 | MAR 35 | TAL 34 | TEX 20 | PHO 34 | HOM 35 | 16th | 2479 | [15] | |||||||||||||||
2012 | Glenden Enterprises | 84 | Chevy | DAY | MAR | CAR | KAN | CLT | DOV | TEX | KEN | IOW | CHI | POC | MCH | BRI | ATL | IOW | KEN | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM 21 | 66th | 23 | [16] |
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
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