Jeff Kingsley is a 22-year-old from Whitby who, this very weekend, swept the three races held at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA by Yokohama championship. He’s signed to drive a McLaren for Karl Thomson’s Compass Racing of Toronto – press release coming Tuesday – which means he’s moving up to the big leagues.

He started karting when he was 9 and before he’d graduated to cars he’d won just about every karting championship imaginable – 16, in total. A full-time student at Western University in London, Ont.. he finished third last year in the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada and tied for third in points in the U.S. Series. So far this season, he’s won six of the nine U.S. races, including the three this weekend in Ohio. He looks to be in a strong position to win his first championship in the series.

“Three for three, I’m super excited about that,” Kingsley said Sunday. “We couldn’t have had a better weekend if I’m being honest, so we’ve got to keep this momentum going. It (was) a busy three days here. It all starts in practice, so each session is important, each session is crucial. We’ve got to make the steps towards the front and that’s what we did. . . . It’s a long way to go and the points spread in the championship is always small. We can’t take things for granted and we’ve got to keep pushing, race after race.”

Kingsley entered the weekend in the Platinum Cup class championship lead and expanded his advantage to 22 points, 306-284, over Riley Dickinson. Dickinson finished runner-up on Sunday.

Kingsley wasn’t the only Canadian at Mid-Ohio to have a winning weekend. Marcelli, of Barrie, teamed up with American Nate Stacy to sweep the two races held in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Grand Sport championship driving an Aston Martin. Marcelli and Stacy are now leading the championship in that class.

Meantime, In the headline event at Mid-Ohio, Helio Castroneves and Ricky Taylor won the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship race in an Acura DPi entered by Roger Penske. Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia drove a Corvette Racing entry to victory in the GT Le Mans class and Jack Hawksworth teamed up with Aaron Telitz to win the GT-Daytona class in a Lexus entered by AIM Autosport of Woodbridge in partnership with Jimmy Vasser and Sully Sullivan.