19 Facts About Dean Canto

Best noted as a Supercars driver, Canto was the inaugural winner of the second-tier V8 Supercar development series in 2000, and the first to become a multiple-champion five years later.

Dean Canto has been a regular in the main Supercars Championship for a variety of teams racing both full-time and as a part-time endurance race co-driver.

Dean Canto then backed up this performance with a victory in the 1998 Sandown 1 Hour driving a Maserati Ghibli co-driving with Alfredo Costanzo.

Later that year, Dean Canto made his V8 Supercar debut in the Shell Championship Series at Oran Park Raceway then went on to drive in the Queensland 500 and Bathurst Classic as well as racing his Mondeo at the Bathurst 1000.

In 2001, Dean Canto drove with Ford Tickford Racing at the Queensland 500 and Bathurst 1000.

Dean Canto achieved a ninth placing in the Queensland 500 and fifth with teammate Jim Richards in the Bathurst 1000.

Dean Canto added another title with his victory in the Young Guns races at the Honda IndyCar Carnival, a one-make event for emerging young drivers in road specification Honda Integras.

In 2002, Dean Canto became co-driver to Max Wilson at Briggs Motor Sport and in 2003, achieved a full-time drive with the same team.

Dean Canto was diagnosed with Alopecia Universalis, a very rare medical condition that causes rapid hair loss to the body.

Dean Canto was retained as the endurance race co-driver with team under its new ownership identity of Triple Eight Race Engineering for the 2004 season.

Dean Canto won five of the seven rounds, qualified on pole position on six of seven occasions, won nine of the ten races where he started on the front row of the grid and won ten races in total.

Dean Canto's times were so fast that he could qualify in the Supercars Top 20.

Dean Canto set new Development Series lap records at Adelaide and Wakefield Park and new qualifying lap records at the Clipsal 500 and Queensland rounds.

Dean Canto proved his worth as an endurance driver teaming up with Glenn Seton at the endurance rounds in a DJR Falcon.

Dean Canto signed a multi-year deal with GRM as the team's lead driver for their assault on the 2006 V8 Supercar Championship Series.

The 2006 series saw Dean Canto achieve his first win in the main category, the reverse grid race at Barbagallo Raceway.

Dean Canto returned to the Development series with Howard Racing but just missed out on his third title, finishing second to Steve Owen.

Since then Dean Canto has competed as an endurance co-driver with Ford Performance Racing under its numerous banners from 2008 to 2018.

In 2019, Dean Canto competed in his 21st Bathurst 1000 alongside Macauley Jones at Brad Jones Racing.