Patrick Carpentier

Patrick Carpentier
Carpentier in 2007
Born	(1971-08-13) August 13, 1971 (age 45) LaSalle, Quebec, Canada
Achievements	1985 Quebec Karting (4stroke) junior champion 1989 Spenard-David racing school series champion 1992 Formula Atlantic (Canada) series champion. 1996 Toyota Atlantic champion 1 Mile Oval: Fastest lap ever recorded by anyone (1998 Nazareth, PE. CART) 184.896 mph with a qualifying lap of 18.419 sec.
Awards	1997 CART Rookie of the Year
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career
42 races run over 6 years
Car no., team	No. 32 (Go FAS Racing)
2016 position	47th
Best finish	38th (2008)
First race	2007 Centurion Boats at the Glen (Watkins Glen)
Last race	2016 Brickyard 400 (Indianapolis)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 1
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
16 races run over 6 years
Best finish	50th (2008)
First race	2007 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Montreal)
Last race	2012 NAPA Auto Parts 200 (Montreal)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 5 1
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	89th (2008)
First race	2008 O'Reilly 200 (Bristol)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
NASCAR Pinty's Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish	35th (2006)
First race	2006 Hot Head Henry 200 (Cayuga)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 1 0
IndyCar Series career
17 races run over 1 year
Best finish	10th (2005)
First race	2005 Toyota Indy 300 (Homestead)
Last race	2005 Toyota Indy 400 (Fontana)
Wins Podiums Poles 0 2 0
Champ Car career
140 races run over 8 years
Best finish	3rd (2002 2004)
First race	1997 Marlboro Grand Prix of Miami (Homestead)
Last race	2004 Gran Premio Telmex/Tecate (Mexico City)
First win	2001 Harrah's 500 (Michigan)
Last win	2004 Grand Prix of Monterey (Laguna Seca)
Wins Podiums Poles 5 22 5
Statistics current as of July 24, 2016.

Patrick Carpentier (born August 13, 1971) is a Canadian professional auto racing driver. He is best known for his career in the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series, where he got five wins and 24 podiums, as well as two third place championship finishes in 2002 and 2004. The long-time Champ Car driver switched to the IndyCar Series in 2005, but moved on Grand Am in 2007 and spent a bit more time running his ranch. After a few NASCAR races in 2007, he moved full-time into the series in 2008. Since 2009, he has only had part-time drives, so became a contractor and renovator in Montreal, trading in real estate in Las Vegas, as well as being a color commentator for television coverage of various racing series. He currently competes part-time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, driving the No. 32 Ford Fusion for Go FAS Racing.

Patrick Carpentier started into Formula Ford 2000 Canada, before moving up to Player’s Toyota Atlantic Championship in 1992. He joined Lynx Racing in 1995, whereby he won his first-ever race for the team around the streets of Bicentennial Park (Miami). He won again on the Nazareth Speedway oval, however the reminder of the season was marked by variety of mechanical problems.

1996 was a whole different story. During the course of the Player’s Toyota Atlantic Championship, he would shatter every record in the 25-year history of the championship, including nine wins out of 12 races – eight of them in a row, from pole position. He rewrote the record book for this series, setting a new record for the most consecutive wins(8), most wins in a season (9), also most consecutive wins from pole (8), most laps led in a season and most accumulated points in a season (239pts). This included a flag-to-flag victory at the Grand Prix Molson du Canada meeting. After shattering Giles Villeneuve's long standing records, His 1996 Atlantic season propelled him to the major league Indycar series.