Ronald Charles Fellows CM (born September 28, 1959) is a Canadian retired auto racing driver.
He accomplished his goal in 2008, winning the NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the track, the NAPA Auto Parts 200.
He also owns a charity called the Sunoco-Ron Fellows Karting Championship, to help young kids become race-car drivers.
When funds for these projects ran low, he left racing for a nine-year stint as gas pipeline worker.
He made his professional debut in 1986 in the Player's GM Challenge, driving a showroom stock Chevrolet Camaro.
Fellows had a dominant 1989 season, capturing both the title at Mosport Park and his first SCCA Trans-Am Series race during the same weekend.
Fellows then had two starts in the legendary Ferrari 333SP, including a 1997 win at Mosport Park in the IMSA GT Championship.
Fellows and Corvette Racing fared better the next year, winning overall with Chris Kneifel, Johnny O'Connell, and Franck Fréon.
Later that year, in June, Corvette Racing achieved its ultimate goal, a GTS class win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Scott Pruett and O'Connell.
For the 2003 season, Corvette Racing won the American Le Mans Series GTS title with a very close win over the Prodrive Ferrari 550 team.
Fellows also competed in one NASCAR Cup Series race, at Watkins Glen, where he started 43rd and climbed his way up to second place.
Corvette Racing's opposition during 2006 was the Prodrive Aston Martin team, which ran two full-season cars on Pirelli tires.
Prodrive expressed their disdain for their disadvantage, and IMSA, the ALMS sanctioning body, introduced a number of penalties for the Corvette Racing team, to "balance" the performance.
However, Fellows did not have the best luck in 2006, with the title going to the sister car driven by Jan Magnussen, Olivier Beretta and Oliver Gavin.
Fellows returned to Corvette Racing in a limited supporting role in the American Le Mans Series.
A year after winning his first truck race, Ron Fellows won his first Busch series event on June 28, 1998, leading the most laps during the 1998 Lysol 200.
In his only scheduled NASCAR Cup Series race for 1999, for the Frontier at the Glen, Fellows led three laps, but was beaten by Gordon on the final restart.
In 2003 at Infineon, during the Dodge/Save Mart 350, Fellows started third, and took advantage of a battle between Richard Childress Racing teammates Robby Gordon and Kevin Harvick to take the lead.
The following season, Ron contested the 2005 Telcel Motorola 200 in Mexico City, for the inaugural Busch Series race there, driving the No.
In 2006, Fellows had originally finished 10th during the AMD at the Glen, but was penalized 30 seconds, hours after the race ended, for having illegally made passes through the "bus stop".
33 Busch series car for Kevin Harvick Incorporated, driving the road course races in Mexico City, Montreal, and Watkins Glen.
His boss, Kevin Harvick, ended up winning the race because of Robby Gordon and rookie Marcos Ambrose's altercation.
He won after Marcos Ambrose was black-flagged for slipping across the soaked pit road too fast just before the red flag flew.
This victory marked Fellows' fourth NASCAR Nationwide Series win, all coming on road courses.
After running most of the 2010 Heluva Good at the Glen in the top twenty, Fellows suffered a blown engine and finished 40th.
It features unique white paint and "grand sport" hash marks on the front left fender.
Fellows also supports many charities and programs and, like many Canadians, he has a deep passion for hockey, especially the Toronto Maple Leafs.
He lives outside of Toronto with his wife and three children, and has a second home in a town near Las Vegas because his driving school is based there.
On June 1, 2011, it was announced that Fellows, along with partners Carlo Fidani and Allan Boughton, had formed Canadian Motorsport Ventures Ltd., which had just completed the purchase of Mosport International Raceway, north of Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.
[4] On December 31, 2019, as part of the New Year Honours, Fellows was awarded the Order of Canada, for "outstanding work in multi-disciplinary roles in motor-racing".