It was a pretty good day for the Canadians at Sebring International Raceway today, with 3 drivers finishing on the podium.
GS
3rd #60 Kyle Marcelli/Nate Stacy
TCR
1st #21 Mark Wilkins/Harry Gottsacker
3rd #23 James Vance/Max Faulkner
It was a pretty good day for the Canadians at Sebring International Raceway today, with 3 drivers finishing on the podium.
GS
3rd #60 Kyle Marcelli/Nate Stacy
TCR
1st #21 Mark Wilkins/Harry Gottsacker
3rd #23 James Vance/Max Faulkner
Congratulations to Jeff Kingsley who won the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA drivers championship today at Sebring International Raceway.
Jeff had another 2nd/1st place finish weekend. Congratulations also goes to Jeff’s team KellyMossRacing for winning the team championship.
Class winners from today’s race from Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta were the #96 of Turner Motorsports driven by Robby Foley/Vincent Barlette in the GS class, and in the TCR class it was the #98 of Bryan Herta Autosport w/Curb Agajanian driven by Michael Lewis/Mason Filippi.
The Canadians in the race finished as follows:
GS
6th #60 Kyle Marcelli/Nate Stacy
7th Team Motorsports In Action
18th #22 Scott Maxwell/Seb Priaulx
TCR
4th #21 Mark Wilkins/Harry Gottsacker
10th #23 James Vance/Max Faulkner
Friday was a two race day for the Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge USA series at Road Atlanta. In race #1 of the day Jeff Kingsley finished in second place behind race winner Riley Dickinson, in the second race of the day Jeff reversed the finishing order by passing pole sitter Riley between turns 1 and 2 and held on for a 5.0 second lead at the finish line.
The victory was Jeff’s 7th of the season and now leads Riley by 22 points in the driver championship heading into Saturday mornings race 3 of the weekend.
Press Release prepared by Kyle Busch Motorsports:
Raphael Lessard, a 19-year-old Canadian driver, captured his first career NGROTS victory in Saturday’s race at Talladega Superspeedway narrowly edging former Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne when the caution flew after a truck accident occurred on the final lap of the event. Raphael Lessard became the fifth foreign-born driver to win a NGROTS race.
This was Raphael Lessard’s first victory and fifth top-10 finish of the 2020 season. The rookie driver currently sits 12th in points.
Stage One Recap:
Stage Two Recap:
Final Stage:
Raphael Raphael Lessard , driver of the No. 4 CANAC Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports
How does it feel to get your first Truck Series win?
“That was awesome. First of all, I want to thank everyone back home, my team at Kyle Busch Motorsports. CANAC came on board with us this year. Also, Mobil 1, Toyota, TRD – this is amazing, I can’t believe it. It’s my second superspeedway race and to get my first truck series win here is amazing.”
What was the final lap like, and did you think you had won the race?
“I don’t know who was behind me, but he gave me a heck of a push and I can’t thank him enough because he’s part of that win too. He pushed me as hard as he could, and I was just holding on for the ride. Then the caution came out at the right time. I’m so happy. This was my first time doing a burnout from a race win and I loved it. Hopefully, we can do it some more.”
How were you able to get into position to win the race?
“All race long, my crew chief Mike Hillman Jr. gave me the best strategy ever. I was kind of getting tired riding out back. My teammates and I worked really well – Christian Eckes and Chandler Smith. I was just getting tired of it and I guess I listened to my crew chief, my team and I think we won it from listening to what my crew chief was telling me. At the end, we were in position to win it and all I was doing was trying to hold it straight and the guy behind me pushed me as much as he could.”
Did you feel you were ahead of Trevor Bayne when the caution came out?
“I thought I was close, but I was just focused in case we had another restart. In my head, it wasn’t done yet. We didn’t get to the start-finish line yet, so I thought it was going to be a green-white-checkered, but it didn’t happen, and we ended up winning.”