The CASCAR Super Series was the premier Canadian stock car racing championship before NASCAR acquired it in 2006 along with a title sponsorship from Canadian Tire and a television deal with TSN. The 2007 season was the inaugural NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season, with the first event held May 26, 2007, at Cayuga Motor Speedway. Andrew Ranger, in his first year of stock car competition after a career in open-wheel racing, won the second race at Mosport International Raceway and went on to claim the inaugural championship. Three of the series' races that first season — held in Edmonton, Toronto, and Montreal — drew crowds in excess of 50,000 fans.
The series produced several dominant champions in its early years. Scott Steckly won four championships, in 2008, 2011, 2013, and 2015, making him the most decorated champion in series history. D. J. Kennington won back-to-back titles in 2010 and 2012, including a remarkable 2012 campaign in which he won seven events, five of them consecutively. Andrew Ranger added a second title in 2009 after winning a single-season record six races.
Louis-Philippe Dumoulin won the 2014 championship by only three points over J. R. Fitzpatrick, illustrating the competitive depth the series had developed by its mid-period.
Canadian Tire's sponsorship ended after the 2015 season. On December 7, 2015, Pinty's Delicious Foods Inc. signed a six-year agreement to become the series' title sponsor beginning with the 2016 season. On November 21, 2023, NASCAR announced the series would revert to a geographically descriptive name, becoming the NASCAR Canada Series, with Pinty's and Evirum continuing as presenting partners.
The series attracted a wide range of competitors. Veteran Canadian short-track drivers competed part-time alongside serious championship contenders, and prominent NASCAR names including Tony Stewart, Dave Blaney, and Austin Dillon made appearances. Open-wheel and road racing veterans such as Jacques Villeneuve, Max Papis, Alex Tagliani, and Patrick Carpentier attempted races, and former National Hockey League player Patrice Brisebois was a regular participant in major events when fields exceeded 40 cars.
The series became a notable pathway for female racers. In 2011 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, three female drivers — Maryeve Dufault, Caitlin Johnston, and Isabelle Tremblay — attempted the same event, a series record. On June 2, 2019, Julia Landauer became the first woman in NASCAR Canada history to lead a lap, doing so at lap 72 of the APC 200 at Jukasa Motor Speedway. On August 15, 2022, Aaron Turkey became the first indigenous driver to win a race in the series, taking the victory at Ohsweken Speedway in the series' first-ever dirt race.
In 2018 the Pinty's Series held its first race in the United States, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, replacing the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series on that venue's fall race weekend. For the 2019 season, Continental AG replaced Goodyear as the exclusive tire supplier using General Tire branding, and all races became available live in the United States through fanschoice.tv. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a truncated 2020 season called the Pinty's Fan Cave Challenge, consisting of six races at three tracks — Sunset Speedway, Flamboro Speedway, and Jukasa Motor Speedway — across three double-race weekends.
The cars are steel tube-framed silhouette stock cars powered by carbureted V8 engines producing approximately 525 horsepower, with a minimum weight of 3,050 lb. Manufacturer representation has included Ford Fusion and Ford Mustang, Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS, Chevrolet Impala, Chevrolet Camaro, Pontiac, and Dodge products including the Avenger, Charger, and Challenger. The series was notably the last NASCAR series in which Dodge maintained factory support, backed by the Canadian arm of Fiat Automobili; that factory support ended before the shortened 2020 season. Toyota does not participate, making the Canada Series and the NASCAR Brasil Series the only two NASCAR international series without Toyota factory involvement.
As the primary feeder series to North American NASCAR competition, the series sent drivers including Kennington, Ranger, Fitzpatrick, and Steckly to NASCAR Xfinity Series starts, while Pierre Bourque and Derek White competed in the Camping World Truck Series. The series demonstrated that Canadian racing culture, including both oval and road course formats, could sustain a viable national NASCAR championship built on the foundation of the decades-old CASCAR infrastructure.