Mario Gosselin

Mario Gosselin
Born	October 20, 1971 (1971-10-20) (age 38)
Hometown	Sainte-Marie, Quebec, Canada
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series statistics
First race	2004 Subway 500 (Martinsville)
Last race	2004 Mountain Dew Southern 500 (Darlington)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Nationwide Series statistics
2000 NNS position	97th
Best NNS position	96th (Busch Series)
First race	1998 Myrtle Beach 250 (Myrtle Beach
Last race	2000 Carquest Auto Parts 250 (Gateway)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series statistics
Car #, team	#12 - DGM Racing
2008 NCWTS position	47th
Best NCWTS position	47th
First race	2008 O'Reilly Auto Parts 250 (Kansas
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
Statistics current as of November, 2009.

Mario Gosselin (born October 20, 1971) is a Canadian professional racecar driver who races in USAR Hooters Pro Cup, ARCA RE/MAX, Late Models Stock and mainly in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for a team that he owns. In 2004, he became the second native of the Province of Quebec to start in a NEXTEL Cup race after Superbike legend Yvon Duhamel.

Contents 1 Biography 2 See also 3 External links 4 References

[edit] 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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..^[2]. 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, 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 has made twelve starts in 2009, and has finished four races. 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. The team looks to return next year with more sponsors lined up.

[edit] See also

List of Canadians in NASCAR

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Mario Gosselin at racing-reference.info

[edit] References

1. ^ Le Soleil (August 30th 2005) Le rêve à plein gaz
2. ^ ^{a b} "Mario Gosselin's bio on his official page". http://www.mariogosselin.com/bio.htm.