Born on the north shore of Montreal, Quebec in Laval, Jean-Christophe started his interest in racing due to his father’s firsthand involvement in the sport. Between his driving academy, racing team and tuning shop, JC very much liked to hang out and hear the rumbling and feel the speed of these impressive machines. His mom used to track her Kawasaki Ninja in her younger days also, so it is not hard to see where young Jean-Christophe got his genes for speed. Because of the financial strain of pursuing a career in the sport, his parents deterred him very early on to start karting to pursue other ventures. It wasn’t before getting his driver’s licence that the thought of never even trying to see if he had any kind of talent haunted him perpetually and he convinced his parents to get do a racing school. On his 18th birthday, they obliged, much to the joy of the young JC. It was then never quite the same after that very decisive weekend in Mont-Tremblant.

2018

On a very cold October day in the beautiful Laurentian mountains of Québec, JC had his very first taste of driving a racecar driving a Van Diemen F2000 on track and impressed immediately, gapping the field by 10s of seconds on all of his outings on track. His chief instructor, Philippe Létourneau, was extremely surprised and complimentary to him and reassured his father who was hard enough to impress as it is, a former chief instructor himself, that this was quite unusual pace for a complete newcomer, or even for anyone driving a racecar for the first time regardless of previous experience. The next goal then became clear; starting in his first pro race in F1600 Canada the next spring.

2019

His very first race would also happen to be at Le Circuit Mont-Tremblant, and the young Lavallois became comfortable right away. He would grab a pair of P5 finishes in a very competitive field in his first weekend complimented by a race long battle with someone who he looked up to until then: Canadian Hall of Famer Bertrand Godin. He caught and then passed Godin who he battled with tooth-and-nail for the remainder of the race. A very nice moment and formative experience as he recalled. The next weekend however, wasn’t as sweet. At the Grand Prix of Montreal, after getting a surprise P5 qualification on his first attempt, he would crash heavily in the first race with a backmarker at 170 km/h and jeopardize the remainder of his 2019 campaign. A very formative experience also, but obviously not for the same reasons. He would have to wait a little while for his next race…

2021

His next race only came in 2021 at the Grand-Prix of Three Rivers. The famous street race would then be his career best so far, earning three second places after some heart stopping battles. A very satisfying weekend back after the financial struggles and forced pandemic break.

The next weekend was at le Circuit Mont-Tremblant, where he rented a older car from a third party in a hurry to try and close out the championship of the shortened covid season. He would have a mechanical DNF in the first race, a podium in the second and then and a P7 from dead last. These would give him just enough points to finish the year as the 2021 Vice-Champion, a title which would help him earn a ride the following year.

2022

This would become JC’s breakout year in the FRP series. From the very first weekend the enigmatic french canadian ruffled some feathers, running away with the championship with atleast one win at every race weekend and a podium every race he finished except for one, where his rear axle exploded. Things were looking very good for the future !…

2023

2023 was definitively a quieter year than 2022 on the sporting side, competing in only 2 events, but the achievements of those events surely made up for it. He returned to the Grand-Prix of Montreal for his third and last time in F1600 with the team of he started it all with : Britain West Motorsport. A beautiful Swan song it indeed was ; JC won his home race with the smallest margin in the track’s history (0.006s) and finally exorcised his demons with the track from 2019. 2 pole positions, 2 fastest laps, 2 podiums and a win. « That race felt like winning a whole championship for me ». « This was the event i dreamt about winning when i first started out, and now it feels like i’m closing a chapter in my career for bigger and better things ». He was right. With that result, JC was now a part of Remstar Management, working on competing in the high echelons of IMSA racing for 2024 with his manager, Rémi Lanteigne. Remstar Mangement would enable him to compete in his last event of the year in a multi-class event hosted by the FARA series, and to cap off 2023 he won the weekend overall in a Radical 1538. A very satsfying way to end the year with Remstar indeed and a bright campaign shining ahead for 2024.