Yvon Duhamel

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.

Yvon Duhamel
Born (1939-10-17) October 17, 1939
Montreal, Quebec
Awards1970 World Championship Snowmobile Derby winner
NASCAR Cup Series career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish109th (1973)
First race1973 Gwyn Staley 400 (North Wilkesboro)
Last race1973 Gwyn Staley 400 (North Wilkesboro)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 1 0

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.[1]

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.[2]

Motorsports career results

NASCAR

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

Winston Cup Series
NASCAR Winston Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 NWCC Pts
1973 Donlavey Racing 90 Ford RSD DAY RCH CAR BRI ATL NWS
10		 DAR MAR TAL NSV CLT DOV TWS RSD MCH DAY BRI ATL TAL NSV DAR RCH DOV NWS MAR CLT CAR 109th 0

References
  1. "Yvon Duhamel Career Statistics". Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
  2. Yvon Duhamel at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame
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