Chris Fontaine began his racing career in 1998 at the age of 16 driving minicup race cars. He became interested in auto racing after spending three years playing ice hockey on a junior league in his hometown of Lakeland, FL.
In his first year of racing, Chris racked up 2 wins, and finished in the top five 13 of 14 races.
In 1999, Chris continued his winning ways in minicup cars with 12 wins and 23 top five finishes out of 25 races. He took home the 1999 MMRA Minicup National Indoor Championship and the 1999 North Florida Region MMRA Championship.
Also in 1999, Chris began racing Late Models taking 3 top five's out of 9 races run for the year in the FASCAR and SARA series.
In 2000, Chris got his first Late Model win in a FASCAR feature race at Orlando Speedworld. His record for that year stands at 11 top ten finishes and 5 top five's out of 20 races run. He took 3rd place in the 2000 FASCAR series points, and 13th in the 2000 SARA series points.
In 2001, ambition took Chris to the NASCAR All Pro series where he got 22nd place in the 2001 Gatorade All Pro, NASCAR Touring points.
In 2002, he finished with 26th Place in the 2002 Hills Bros. All Pro, NASCAR Touring points.
Also in 2002, Chris' racing ambitions drove him to enter the NASCAR Busch Series driver ranks.
The team purchased a car from veteran driver, Joe Nemacheck, and with the assistance of his team and driver Jeff Fuller, Chris tried out for races at Dover, Memphis and Nashville.
The NEMCO boys are also helping out Lakeland's Chris Fontaine who will attempt
to make the race at Memphis
At the end of 2002, Chris and his team decided to make a change in Crewchiefs, and Late Model Champion Kevin Ingram of Auburndale, FL took the reins. Chris designed a new look for the car and team, and they were off!
With Kevin's experience in Late Models and by giving Chris reliable race cars, Chris was able to amass a 2003 record of 16 top tens and 11 top fives out of 35 races run.
Chris finished 13th in the 2003 FASCAR points, and 9th in the 2003 AACS points, despite having missed several races in each series.
In 2004, Chris started the year off with a win in the first AACS series race of the season, and new sponsorship from GGR Roofing, BDH Construction, and Frasier Contracting.
The Icebreaker win got Chris on the cover of Late Model Digest Magazine.
And Chris ended the 2004 season with another win in the next to last AACS series race of the year.
Throughout the season, Chris drove the GGR Roofing, BDH Construction, Frasier Contracting #47 to two wins, 9 top tens and 6 top fives out of 16 total races in the series.
Chris Fontaine and the Chris Fontaine Racing team clinched the fifth spot in the 2004 AACS series points race at Desoto Speedway.
Chris ended the 2004 race season with two wins, 16 top tens and 9 top fives out of 28 races, including FASCAR, USAR, and I-Power Dash races.
Driver Chris Fontaine, Crewchief Kevin Ingram and Skid, the I-Power Dash car at Daytona.
In 2005, Chris finished third in the Florida Triple Crown points. He also finished ninth in the 2005 AACS points, and 10th in the FASCAR Sunbelt Super Series points, despite not running the full schedule of races in each series.
He amassed 12 top tens and 5 top fives out of the 23 Super Late Model races he raced in during 2005.
Chris also ran three NASCAR Craftsman Truck races driving the #4 for Bobby Hamilton Racing.
In 2006, Fontaine finished 2nd in the AACS points.
He finished 10th in the FASCAR Sunbelt Super Series points despite not having run the full race schedule.
Fontaine had his best year to date in 2006 with 2 wins, 12 top 5's and 19 top 10's out of 25 races.
In 2007, Chris Fontaine and the CF Racing Inc. Team took on a new challenge of running both the ASALMS Challenge series and the ASALMS South series schedules.
Chris Fontaine and team finished out the 2007 ASA Late Model Challenge series Rookie of the Year Points race in fifth place, and 17th in the overall Challenge series points.
With his sixth place finish at Birmingham, AL on October 27, Chris Fontaine wrapped up the 2007 ASALMS Southern Division Points Championship in fifth place and the ASALMS Southern Division Rookie Points in third place.
Fontaine finished out the season only 21 points behind fourth place John Wes Townley and 118 points ahead of sixth place Travis Wilson.
During the ASALMS South 2007 season, Fontaine amassed three poles, three top five finishes and six top ten finishes out of the 11 total races.
He also ran 2 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races during 2007.