The finish came in his 17th start. In the SCRL NASCAR Legends Series, it's the 5th for car #34 and the 23rd from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 8th for the #34 and the 221st from a crash.
Despite not being around for the first three seasons of the Legends Series, Al joined the SCRL with his younger brother Jack, and the pair have taken the SCRL by storm, with Jack picking up 7 career SCRL wins, as well as winning the Season 1 SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series Championship, while Al has scored 4 career wins, and won the SCRL IndyCar Series Championship. Al's career in the Legends Series starting off to a rocky start with a finish of 28th at Riverside but in the next round, he finished runner up to Oreius Centaur at Ontario. It would be five more races before he would pick up another Top 5, a 5th at Talladega, before struggling once again for three more races, scoring the second runner up finish of the season to Nathan Ormond at Charlotte.A finish of 7th at Martinsville would be the best finish he could string together and finished 22nd in the last round at Bristol.
The entry list for the second round at Atlanta was bumped back up to the original 42 cars as Atlanta hometown boy the #43 Plymouth By Petty Plymouth of Oreius Centaur returned to the series after choosing to skip the short track at Bristol. Completing in his final event at his hometown track, Oreius had never won at the track and was looking to end his final season on a high note.
On race day, Lagasse rolled off starting in 33rd while starting last was Oreius's teammate the #40 7-Up Plymouth of Brian Fox, a spot that Fox would hold until the field had reached the backstretch, as Fox knocked the #99 Dow Chemicals Dodge of Joshua Rush into the final spot for the first lap. Much like at Bristol, the battle for last was as intense as it was up front as Rush passed the #21 60 Minute Cleaners Mercury Cyclone of Bryan McKayson. McKayson wouldn't remain in last for long, as he knocked Thompson last-place finisher the #00 Thomas Brothers Country Ham Chevrolet of Jimmy Sampson into the final spot on Lap 3 and would be trailing the field when the battle for last quickly ended.
While battling for 22nd, the #06 Warren Fox Dodge of Ty Dent was running three wide with the #11 Don Wagner Ford Sales Ford of Muhammad Zain Abdullah and fall Bristol last-place finisher the #68 Auto Specialists / Auto Lad Ford of Trevor Collins when contact between Dent and Abdullah sent him into Collins, forcing the two cars up the track and head on into the guard rail in Turn 4. Due to the banking of the track, Abdullah's car went back down the track right in front of Lagasee's path, with Lagasee's front end and right side completely smashed in, as Lagasee limped around the track and pulled into the garage, his car being listed as "out" by the 5th lap.
41st was the aforementioned the #11 of Muhammah Zain Abdullah, 40th was the #68 of Trevor Collins and 39th was the #00 of Jimmy Sampson all who finished two laps down.
Rounding out the Bottom Five in 38th was the #7 unsponsored Plymouth of Simon Fox, who was also involved in the same crash, but limped home to finishing only one lap behind the race leaders.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This marked the second last-place finish for the #34 in the SCRL NASCAR Legends Series at Atlanta; the other time it had trailed at Atlanta was in the Season 2 Atlanta 500 when Chakat Whitelion completed all 32 laps under power; 66 races ago.
*This is the first time the #34 has trailed an SCRL NASCAR Legends Series field since the Season 3 Wilkes 400 at the North Wilkesboro Speedway when Whitelion was involved in a multi-car crash after 5 of the 40 laps; 21 races ago.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
42) #34-Al Lagasee / 3 laps / crash
41) #11-Muhammah Zain Abdullah / 30 laps / running
40) #68-Trevor Collins / 30 laps / running
39) #00-Jimmy Sampson / 30 laps / running
38) #7-Simon Fox / 31 laps / running
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