Agustín Hugo Canapino (born January 19, 1990) is an

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driver signed to

Juncos Hollinger Racing Juncos Hollinger Racing, formerly Juncos Racing, is an Argentine-American racing team competing in the NTT IndyCar Series, Indy Lights and Indy Pro 2000 Championship series in the Road to Indy ladder for IndyCar. Owned by Ricardo Juncos, who fo ...

in the

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. He has run in different series, with major success in

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(TC). He is the son of Alberto Canapino, a renowned race car mechanic in Argentina.

Career overview

With no previous racing experience, Agustín made his debut in 2005 in a Renault one-make. He won races in 2006 and won the championship in 2007. He made his debut that year in

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and the following year in Top Race and TC Pista, a championship prior to Turismo Carretera that he won that year. Canapino won the TC and Top Race Torneo Clausura championships in 2010. Between 2011 and 2017 he won all the titles in Top Race (with a

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prototype), except for 2015, which was won by Matías Rodríguez. Won the Súper TC 2000 championship in 2016 and 2021 with Chevrolet Argentina factory team and was a three-time TC champion between 2017 and 2019 with the Canapino Sport team (led by his father). He has also run a few races at

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. In 2019 he was called by Ricardo Juncos, director of

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, to race the

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in DPi. Along with Will Owen,

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and

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, he finished eighth in the class. He also raced at Sebring. Canapino was awarded the '' Olimpia de Oro'' 2018 for the best Argentine sportsman of the year. He is together with

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, the only racing driver to win this award. He received the ''Olimpia de Plata'' of the discipline four times. His father, Alberto Canapino, died on February 15, 2021, from

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. In October of 2022, his former team

announced that Canapino would take part in 2 demonstation runs to be held in Argentina, where Canapino would drive one of the team's Dallara IR18 IndyCars from the 2022 series, to be held in November 2022. In preparation for these demonstation runs, the team entered Canapino in a private IndyCar driver evaluation test at Sebring. Following this, Canapino was confirmed as the team's second driver for the full

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championship, partnering

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Racing record

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* Races: 212 * Wins: 15 * Heat wins: 52 * Debut: February 8, 2009 - Chevrolet Chevy - Mar de Ajó circuit * First win: November 28, 2010 - Chevrolet Chevy - Buenos Aires circuit * Last win: May 29, 2022 - Chevrolet Chevy -

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circuit * Pole positions: 8 * Podiums: 54 * Titles: 4 - 2010, 2017, 2018 and 2019. * Full Seasons: 14

Complete WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

24 Hours of Daytona results

American open–wheel racing results

IndyCar Series

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References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Canapino, Agustin 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province Argentine racing drivers TC 2000 Championship drivers Turismo Carretera drivers Top Race V6 drivers 24 Hours of Daytona drivers WeatherTech SportsCar Championship drivers Súper TC 2000 drivers Juncos Hollinger Racing drivers Hitech Grand Prix drivers Formula 3 Sudamericana drivers IndyCar Series drivers