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Alexandre Tagliani (; born October 18, 1973), nicknamed "Tag", is a Canadian professional racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Pinty’s Series, driving the No. 18
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for 22 Racing. Tagliani has competed in a variety of disciplines including
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,
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, and
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. He has raced in the
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,
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,
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,
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, and
NASCAR Xfinity Series The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to a ...
.


Racing career


Atlantic Championship

Tagliani debuted in the
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in 1996 with P-1 Racing, where he finished seventh in the overall points standings. Switching to
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, he finished third in 1997, fourth in 1998, and fourth in 1999, claiming two wins in each season.


Champ Car

Tagliani raced in the
Champ Car Champ Car World Series (CCWS) was the series sanctioned by Open-Wheel Racing Series Inc., or Champ Car, a sanctioning body for American open-wheel car racing that operated from 2004 to 2008. It was the successor to Championship Auto Racing Teams ( ...
series from 2000, when it was still known as CART, until its demise in 2007. He was signed by
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for the 2000 season replacing Greg Moore. He came close to obtaining his first victory in his third start, after taking pole position at Brazil and leading most of the race, but spun out from the lead with nine laps to go. In
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, he was involved in the collision with
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at the
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that resulted in the loss of Zanardi's legs. He remained at Forsythe until the end of 2002, when he was substituted by
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. He found a job with the
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team in 2003, and remained there for the 2004 season, in which he earned his first and only Champ Car victory at Road America. In 2005, he joined
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, which was a rebranding of
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's long-running team with the support of
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n businessman
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, and finished seventh in the championship despite lacking a
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. The seventh-place finish would equal the best of his three Top 10 championship points finishes. He returned to Rocketsports for the 2007 season, and finished 10th in points with a best finish of fourth in the first race of the season. He earned four pole positions during his Champ Car career.


IndyCar

In 2008, after the Rocketsports team decided not to take part in the
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, Tagliani made the transition to stock cars and began racing in the
NASCAR Canadian Tire Series The NASCAR Pinty's Series (french: Série NASCAR Pinty's), commonly abbreviated as NPS, is a national NASCAR racing series in Canada, and is a continuation of the old CASCAR Super Series which was founded in 1981. History In September 2006 NASCAR ...
. He also drove for
Conquest Racing Conquest Racing is an auto racing team that competed in the IndyCar Series and the Atlantic Championship. Formerly it competed in the Champ Car World Series. History It is owned by former series competitor Éric Bachelart. The team ran in Indy Li ...
in the
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Detroit Grand Prix, replacing the injured
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. Tagliani continued in the seat for the last two races of the season. Conquest Racing announced that Tagliani would return as a full-time driver for the 2009 season. However, the team ultimately concentrated on road and street course races after the
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; ninth place in Toronto proved his best result. Tagliani left Conquest Racing after the 2009 Rexall Edmonton Indy race in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It was announced on August 28, 2009, that Tagliani had signed a four-year deal with an option for a fifth year to drive for start-up
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in the
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beginning in
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. After a successful 2010 campaign with Tagliani, FAZZT Race Team was looking forward to an even more successful
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season, along with the possible expansion on the grid with a second entry. However, the team was purchased by
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on March 1, 2011, and was absorbed into
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. Tagliani was retained, along with all sponsors, for a full-time entry during the 2011 season, racing alongside his new teammates
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,
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, and
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. In 2011, for the 100th anniversary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500, Tagliani qualified on the pole position with a four-lap average of 227.472 mph, besting Scott Dixon in the last run of the day. Unfortunately for Tagliani, he would run wide in turn 4 on lap 147 and make contact with the outside wall, inflicting damage upon the car which would force him to retire from the race the following lap. To date, Tagliani's best finish in the
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is tenth, which he achieved in
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while driving for
FAZZT Race Team FAZZT Race Team was an auto racing team started by Montreal entrepreneur Andre Azzi, race car driver Alex Tagliani, and former Kelley Racing co-owner Jim Freudenberg (thus Freudenberg, Azzi, Tagliani). Team history The team's history can be trac ...
. His best performance was arguably the 2016 event when he charged hard from 33rd starting position to lead 11 laps, matching a record set by
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in
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.


NASCAR Xfinity and Truck Series

Tagliani has run selected races in the
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Xfinity Series The NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) is a stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. It is promoted as NASCAR's second-tier circuit to the organization's top level Cup Series. NXS events are frequently held as a support race on the day prior to a ...
since 2009. That year he entered the Montreal and Phoenix rounds with Pat MacDonald. He drove at Montreal in 2011 for
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and 2012 for Steve Turner. He did not enter any race in 2013. In 2014, Tagliani announced that he would drive in two races in the series for
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. At
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for the
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, Tagliani won the pole position driving Penske's No. 22. Tagliani nearly won his first NNS race leading the second half. However, it was questionable with 10 laps to go if Tagliani had enough fuel. A caution came out before the final lap and just as the yellow period began, Tagliani ran out of gas in the extended race and stalled at the start/finish line. Tagliani switched to dry (slick) tires with most of the field on wet tires (on a drying track); he restarted in 23rd place and recovered for second place. At Mid-Ohio he finished fifth without leading any lap. Later in 2014, Tagliani was announced as the driver for
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's No. 19 in the
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event at
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. Despite the race being his very first Truck Series start, he earned the pole position and led the first seven laps. However, he would finish the race in sixteenth. In 2015, Tagliani drove one race for
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in the Xfinity Series race at
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. He earned the pole and was in contention for the victory, losing the lead in the second-to-final corner of the race after being hit by eventual winner Regan Smith. Two weeks later, Tagliani drove the No. 29 truck for
Brad Keselowski Racing Brad Keselowski Racing was an American professional stock car racing team that competed in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. Started in 2007, it was owned and operated by NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series champion Brad Keselowski. The tea ...
at
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, leading a total of 8 laps and finishing 5th after battling
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for the lead late in the race. In 2016, Tagliani made a one-off appearance in the No. 22 for Team Penske at
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in the Xfinity Series, and earned the pole for the race. He would lead 17 laps and score a seventh-place finish. Tagliani would part ways with Penske at year's end, to make way for other Penske drivers such as
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. Tagliani returned to the Truck Series for the 2017 Mosport race, driving the No. 02 for
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. For the 2019 Chevrolet Silverado 250, he moved to
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' No. 51 Toyota. He returned to the team in August 2020 at the
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road course.


NASCAR Pinty's Series

In 2007, Tagliani debuted in the
NASCAR Canadian Tire Series The NASCAR Pinty's Series (french: Série NASCAR Pinty's), commonly abbreviated as NPS, is a national NASCAR racing series in Canada, and is a continuation of the old CASCAR Super Series which was founded in 1981. History In September 2006 NASCAR ...
, entering two rounds with Dave Jacombs. In 2008, he raced in 9 out of 13 races with that team, scoring a win at Edmonton Airport. Tagliani competed at two NASCAR Canada Series races in 2009, two in 2013 and one in 2013. He scored four pole positions, but his best finishes were fifth. The driver returned as a full-time driver in 2014 with his own team. Again, his best results were fifth, and ended ninth in the overall standings. In 2015, he joined Colin Livingston's team, where he claimed his second win at
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and two third-place finishes. In 2016, he scored three wins at Sunset,
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and
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, and finished third in points. Tagliani joined
Scott Steckly Scott Steckly (born March 2, 1972) is a Canadian professional stock car racing driver and team owner. In his nine years competing in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, he drove the No. 22 Dodge Charger for his own 22 Racing team. He is the 2008, ...
's 22 Racing team in 2017. In 2018, he finished second in the standings behind
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. During the 2019 season, he scored a win at Toronto and was running in points until
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forced him out of competing in the
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round, effectively ending his championship hopes.


Sports cars

Tagliani has competed in sports cars since the mid-2000s. He finished 59th in GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series GT class points in 2007, with a best finish of 13th at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City. In 2013, he drove driving a Ferrari GRAND-AM GT in the
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. Later,
Rocketsports Racing Rocketsports Racing was a motor racing team based in East Lansing, Michigan in the United States. Team history Rocketsports was founded in 1985 by racing driver Paul Gentilozzi to compete in the Trans-Am series. It competed in Trans-Am until 200 ...
announced that it had signed Tagliani for the full 2014
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season to drive an
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.


Personal life

Tagliani has severe
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and suffered several episodes of
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. He has promoted public awareness through the Food Allergy Canada and personal sponsor Pfizer.Tagliani pushes food allergy education
- Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 August 2016


Motorsports career results


Career summary


American open-wheel racing results

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CART/Champ Car

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IndyCar Series

: ''1 Run on same day.'' : ''2 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.'' : ''3 The Las Vegas Indy 300 was abandoned after
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died from injuries sustained in a 15-car crash on lap 11.'' : ** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes. : *** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.


Indianapolis 500


NASCAR

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


Xfinity Series


Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series


Pinty's Series

Season still in progress
Ineligible for series points


Touring/sports car racing

(Races in bold indicate pole position)


V8 Supercar results

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in the two races where Tagliani was co-driver for the #11 Kelly Racing Holden.


See also

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References


External links

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