The title of “Most Diverse Racing Series in North America” belongs to the NASCAR Pinty’s Series in Canada. Short tracks, road courses, street courses and even a dirt track make up an extremely eclectic mix of race tracks. But with such a diverse schedule comes a wide range of challenges that drivers and crew chiefs must overcome to be crowned champion at Delaware Speedway in September.

The season starts this Saturday at the challenging 1/3-mile oval of Sunset Speedway in Innisfil, Ontario, which sits about 40 minutes to the north of Toronto. Just one week later the series is making left and right turns on the legendary 1.8-mile road course at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park in Bowmanville, Ontario.

In June the series races on the quarter-mile bullring at Autodrome Chaudiere, and the 3/8-mile Eastbound International Speedway in Newfoundland. In July it’s off to the streets of Toronto for the first street race of the season, then the series heads west to Alberta’s quarter-mile bullring of Edmonton International Raceway, and then finally the series will run a doubleheader on the 1/3-mile oval at Sutherland Automotive Speedway in Saskatchewan.

In August the series is back on city streets, but this time in Quebec for the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres, the longest-running street race in North America. After that, the series will make its dirt debut at Ohsweken Speedway. August will conclude with a trip back to Quebec on the 2.125-mile, 16-turn road course at Circuit ICAR, located on the former runways of Montreal-Mirabel International Airport.

The 2022 season will end with two races in September with a second trip to Canadian Tire Motorsports Park and then finally, the season will end at Canada’s longest-running asphalt track, the half-mile oval of Delaware Speedway, just outside London, Ontario.

“The road courses, for me, are where I’m going to have to lean on (others), because my knowledge on road courses isn’t as good as my oval experience,” said Cayden Lapcevich.

Lapcevich won the NASCAR Pinty’s Series championship in 2016, but in 2022 he’ll be on top of the pit box as crew chief for three-time champion Andrew Ranger.

“I feel like everyone, especially myself, has a base setup that I’ll always work off of,” explained Lapcevich. “I can adjust off of that for most of the ovals. The biggest struggle with the diverse amount of tracks we go to is being able to adapt to them quickly and be able to give good feedback. That makes the most of your track time.”

Raphael Lessard won the last time the Pinty’s Series was at Sunset Speedway where they’ll open the season this weekend. While he’s not running the entire calendar, he is running every oval race, including on the dirt at Ohsweken.

“It’s pretty hard to be great at everything, but you’re going to have to be good at everything to win the NASCAR Pinty’s championship,” said Lessard of those who will be going for the title. “You can’t throw away a race because you are not very good in the dirt or on road courses or at the oval races. I wish I was running the full series, but it will be a great challenge for the drivers this year.”

This challenging season gets underway this Saturday at Innisfil, Ontario’s Sunset Speedway at 7 p.m. ET. Every race of the 2022 NASCAR Pinty’s Series season can be seen live on FloRacing.