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Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Ron Fellows page on 17 September 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Ron Fellows is an accomplished Canadian SCCA Trans-Am, IMSA, and American Le Mans Series driver. Fellows holds the record for most wins by a foreign-born driver in NASCAR's top three series (Sprint Cup, Nationwide, and Trucks) with six - four in Nationwide and two in Trucks.
Fellows was born in Windsor, Ontario on September 28, 1959. At age 4 he became interested in auto racing with his family. He found a love for French-Canadian Formula 1 driver Gilles Villeneuve. Fellows has one of the biggest collections of Gilles Villeneuve merchandise in Canada and called Villeneuve his idol. To attend F1 races at a young age, Fellows went to watch them at a local track on an island in Montreal Canada; a track that eventually would be named Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. When Villeneuve died in 1982 the track was named after Villeneuve himself. Fellows developed a dream to win at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when he became a racing driver. He accomplished his goal in 2008, winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the track the NAPA Auto Parts 200.
Besides his racing career, Fellows owns a corporate business chain the Ron Fellows Performance Driving Schools and is one of the owners of car brand, Corvette as well as Corvette's racing operations. He also owns a charity called the Sunoco-Ron Fellows Karting Championship to help young kids become race-car drivers. In January 2013, Ron Fellows purchased the Canadian Tire Motorsports Park racetrack and NASCAR hosted a truck series race there-the first time since 2000 that the truck series came to a road course. Fellows' current goal for his track is to bring the Cup series to the track someday.
He has a wife Lynda Fellows, and 3 kids, Lyndsay, Sam and Patrick Fellows. Ron is a close friend of Dale Earnhardt Jr. who he currently drives for in the NASCAR Nationwide Series; as well as Gilles Villeneuve's son Jacques who was a student in a racing school with Ron.
| Date | Article | Author/Source |
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| 25 August 2009 | NASCAR Media Conference | Colin Braun Ron Fellows |
| 7 August 2012 | NASCAR Media Conference | Ron Fellows |
| 28 August 2013 | NASCAR Media Conference | Ron Fellows |
| 1 September 2013 | NASCAR Camping World Truck Series: Chevy Silverado 250 | Ron Fellows |
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| Die Cast - GMP 13007 | 1994 AER/Ron Fellows Ford Trans-Am Mustang | 1:18 scale, #4 Production: 1,500 |
| Die Cast - Action 101585 | Ron Fellows/Johnny O'Connell/Chris Kneifel/Franck Freon #2 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Raced Version | 1:18 scale 2001 Chevrolet Corvette C5R, production 8,748 (ARC 8,460/QVC 288) |
