Brandon Lareau

Brandon Lareau is a TM Master Cup driver contending for the Independent's Trophy in the 2013 with Afterburner Motorsports.

2012 - Independent's Trophy & TM Lights
Just days prior to the race, it was announced that Lareau would run the full TM Lights schedule along with his part-time schedule in the TM Master Cup Series. Lareau started 9th and finished 16th, scoring his first TM Lights points in his 1st start. Lareau didn't score at Road Atlanta or Carbondale, however he finished 7th at Piqua. He would once again finish inside the top 10 at Peoria, but then would be involved in a controversial incident at Mosport when Lareau went up the track after blowing up and wrecking James Davison. At Portland, he scored his best career finish yet of 6th. The rest of his rookie TM Lights campaign ended quietly, with a disappointing 25th in the final standings.

Just hours prior to his TM Master Cup series debut at Las Vegas, Lareau earned sponsorship from Brandon's Chair Repair. The sponsor showed up in plain white text on the car, however they would have the main logo applied at Karjala on forward. Lareau started 28th and finished 19th, scoring his first TM Master Cup points in his 1st start as well. Unfortunately for Lareau, he would fail to qualify for the year's Karjala Grand Prix. Despite the MCMA boycott at Michigan, Afterburner Motorsports was not affected and ran the race. Lareau would score a career best finish of 9th. At Ohio, Lareau would have a close encounter with Melanie Clevenot early in the race, fall a lap down, but would sneak his way into a 16th place finish. In his final Independent's Trophy race at Road America, he started 13th, however he would fail to score any points. At Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Lareau appeared as if he had failed to pre-qualify once again, but a post-race accident involving Noeilla Castillo and Greg Woodard meant that Castillo would be disqualified and Lareau was into the qualifier. In that race, Lareau started 36th, but would climb to 23rd, which was plenty enough to slot him into the main race. On race day, he would quietly finish in the 15th position. At Decatur, he would surprise the paddock by scoring his first career pole in Master Cup competition. Unfortunately in the race, he spun across the nose of Mathias Taube early in the race and finished well outside the points.

Lareau also made an attempt at the 2012 Rockford 200, however he failed to advance out of the heat races.

2013 - Independent's Trophy & TM Lights (Take 2)
Lareau got his 2013 TM Lights campaign off to a good start with his 1st pole in the series. However, poor pit strategy cost him a chance at scoring any points. In his first Independent's Trophy race of the season at Carbondale, Lareau finished 17th after starting 29th.