Agustín Canapino · Biography

Agustín Canapino won the first title of his career in 2007, when he took the Copa Mégane in a car prepared by Claudio Pfening. He was born on 19 January 1990 in Arrecifes, in Buenos Aires province, and is the son of Alberto Canapino, a racing car preparer and chassis builder. He won the Turismo Carretera title in 2010, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2025. He raced in the IndyCar Series with Juncos Hollinger Racing in 2023 and 2024.

Copa Mégane debut and the TC Pista title

Canapino made his debut in the Copa Mégane in 2005, at 15. Two seasons later he won the championship. In 2008 he moved up to TC Pista, the series below Turismo Carretera, and won the title that same year in a Chevrolet Chevy run by HAZ Racing Team. He was 18. That title opened the way to the top category of Argentine motorsport.

Turismo Carretera: from 2009 to the 2017-2019 run

He made his Turismo Carretera debut in 2009 in a Chevrolet Chevy for Dole Racing. He won the championship in his second season, 2010, at 20 years, 10 months and 9 days, the youngest age on record for a champion of the series. His next TC title came seven years later. He won the championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019, three titles in a row that took him to four crowns in the category.

Top Race and Súper TC2000

While racing in TC, Canapino also competed in other national series. In Top Race V6 he won the 2010 Torneo Clausura and the 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017 championships in a Sportteam Mercedes-Benz. In TC2000 he finished fourth in 2011 with Chevrolet. He raced for Peugeot in 2014 and 2015, then went back to Chevrolet YPF. In the Chevrolet Cruze he won the 2016 Súper TC2000 title. He was runner-up in 2017, 2018 and 2020, won the championship again in 2021 and finished third in 2022.

First steps abroad

In 2018 and 2019 he made three starts in Stock Car Brasil in a Chevrolet Cruze. In 2019 he raced for Juncos Racing in the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, in the DPi class, driving a Cadillac DPi-V.R. He took part in the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring and finished 25th in the standings that year. His link with Ricardo Juncos's team continued. In October 2022 he tested an IndyCar at Sebring and set the fifth-fastest time of the session.

IndyCar with Juncos Hollinger Racing

In 2023 he ran the full IndyCar Series season in a Juncos Hollinger Racing Dallara IR18. His teammate was Callum Ilott. In his debut at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg he started 21st and finished 12th in an incident-filled race. He matched that 12th place at Texas and Toronto the same year and ended the season 21st, with 180 points from 17 races. In 2024 he was 12th again in Detroit. After that race, fans sent threats to his teammate Théo Pourchaire, and Arrow McLaren ended its partnership with the team on 6 June 2024. Canapino took a leave of absence and Nolan Siegel replaced him at Road America. He returned for the next race and ran five more. The last was Toronto. On 7 August 2024, Juncos Hollinger announced that they had parted ways. He finished the season 27th, with 109 points from 12 races.

Return to Argentina and the 2025 treble

In 2025 he went back to Turismo Carretera with Canning Motorsport, driving a Chevrolet Camaro for a different outfit from the ones behind his four earlier titles. In December 2025, at the final round of the Copa de Oro at the Roberto José Mouras circuit in La Plata, he won his fifth TC championship, one short of Juan María Traverso's six. That same year he won the TC Pick Up title in a Chevrolet S10, in his first season in the series, and the Turismo Carretera 2000 title in an Axion Energy Sport Renault Fluence. In all, he won three championships in 2025.