NASCAR's purchase of the CASCAR Super Series in September 2006 included a title sponsorship agreement with Canadian Tire and a television contract with TSN. The inaugural 2007 season opened at Cayuga Motor Speedway on 26 May 2007, with Don Thomson Jr. winning the first race. Andrew Ranger won the second event at Mosport International Raceway and, going on to claim four more wins, took the inaugural championship.
The early years of the series were dominated by a handful of drivers. Scott Steckly became the most decorated champion in series history, winning in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2015. Andrew Ranger won again in 2009 — setting a single-season record of six victories — and 2019, accumulating 34 wins total to lead the all-time list under the NASCAR banner. D. J. Kennington took titles in 2010 and 2012, including a record seven wins in the 2012 season. Louis-Philippe Dumoulin won three championships (2014, 2018, 2021).
After Pinty's Delicious Foods became title sponsor from 2016, the series continued to expand. In 2018 it held its first race outside Canada at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, filling a gap on that venue's NASCAR weekend. Continental AG's General Tire brand replaced Goodyear as the exclusive tyre supplier from 2019. The 2020 season, shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic, was renamed the Pinty's Fan Cave Challenge and ran just six races at three tracks: Sunset Speedway, Flamboro Speedway, and Jukasa Motor Speedway. In 2022 the series introduced its first-ever dirt race at Ohsweken Speedway.
Marc-Antoine Camirand became the defining champion of the series' most recent era, winning the title in 2022, 2024, and 2025, making him the only driver in series history to win three consecutive championships across that span.
The cars are steel tube-framed silhouette stock cars powered by carbureted V8 engines. Manufacturer bodies used have included the Ford Mustang, Ford Fusion, Chevrolet Camaro, and Dodge Challenger. Dodge remained the last manufacturer with factory support in the series after withdrawing from all other NASCAR series in 2012; that support ended before the 2020 season. The series adopted the NASCAR spec engine programme in 2009. General Tire has been the exclusive tyre supplier since 2019.
The series draws from a wide pool: veteran Canadian club racers, full-time championship contenders, American NASCAR regional series drivers, and drivers from open-wheel and road-racing backgrounds. Notable visitors have included Formula One world champion Jacques Villeneuve, NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart, IndyCar regular Alex Tagliani, and Max Papis. In June 2019 Julia Landauer became the first woman to lead a lap in series history, leading lap 72 of the APC 200 at Jukasa Motor Speedway. In August 2022 Aaron Turkey became the first indigenous winner at the series' inaugural dirt event at Ohsweken Speedway.
Several drivers have used the series as a springboard to NASCAR national touring events. Ranger finished third in the 2009 NASCAR Nationwide Series event in Montreal; Kennington, Steckly, and Fitzpatrick have all made Xfinity Series appearances.
| Year | Champion | |------|----------| | 2007 | Andrew Ranger (1) | | 2008 | Scott Steckly (1) | | 2009 | Andrew Ranger (2) | | 2010 | D. J. Kennington (1) | | 2011 | Scott Steckly (2) | | 2012 | D. J. Kennington (2) | | 2013 | Scott Steckly (3) | | 2014 | L. P. Dumoulin (1) | | 2015 | Scott Steckly (4) | | 2016 | Cayden Lapcevich | | 2017 | Alex Labbé | | 2018 | L. P. Dumoulin (2) | | 2019 | Andrew Ranger (3) | | 2020 | Jason Hathaway | | 2021 | L. P. Dumoulin (3) | | 2022 | Marc-Antoine Camirand (1) | | 2023 | Treyten Lapcevich | | 2024 | Marc-Antoine Camirand (2) | | 2025 | Marc-Antoine Camirand (3) |
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