Yvon Duhamel

Born

October 17, 1939 (age 77)
Montreal, Quebec

Awards

1970 World Championship Snowmobile Derby winner

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career

Best finish

109th (1973)

First race

1973 Gwyn Staley 400 (North Wilkesboro)

Wins	Top tens	Poles
0	1	0

Yvon Duhamel (born October 17, 1939 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a French-Canadian professional motorcycle racer and father of former AMA Superbike road racer Miguel Duhamel. He won the World Championship Snowmobile Derby in 1970. He was also a very active ice racer, using hockey shin pads to allow him to lean over farther, scraping his knee on the ice rather than merely sliding his foot as did speedway racers.

Duhamel is best remembered as a member of the Kawasaki factory racing team during the 1970s along with teammates Gary Nixon and Art Baumann. He made famous the No. 17 on the neon green factory Kawasaki, a number now honoured by his son Miguel.

Following in the footsteps of motorcycle legends Joe Weatherly and Paul Goldsmith, Duhamel raced a NASCAR Winston Cup race at the North Wilkesboro Speedway in 1973, finishing tenth for Junie Donlavey in the No. 90 Truxmore Ford after starting 15th, completing 381 laps of the 400-lap Gwyn Staley 400.

Never officially retired, Duhamel raced the 24-Hour World Championship in 1988 with his sons Miguel and Mario and continues to race in the Vintage series to this day. He is still open to offers of racing the Daytona 200. Duhamel was inducted into both the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame and the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 1999.

() (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

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