The finish came in her 9th career start. In the SCRL Formula E Series, it's the 1st for car #63 and the 6th where the car was still running. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 6th for the #63 and the 226th where the car was still running.
Love was one of a few rookies that had never competed in a SCRL race before signing up to compete full time in the SCRL's second highest formula division; the SCRL Formula E Series Presented by Twitter. With the series entering it's second season, Love was just hoping to complete as many laps as possible and learn experience to one day compete in the SCRL Red Bull Formula One Series. Love made her debut in the series first ever event at Adelaide, where she started 10th and would work her way up through the field and finished an impressive 6th. A finish of 11th at Shanghai would be followed up with her first career Top 5 in just her 3rd start; a 5th at Vancouver. In her 4th career start she would struggle for the first time in her career with a 19th at Monaco and a 17th at Toronto. In the very next round, Love started on pole and led all 8 laps to score her first career win at Long Beach. After scoring her first career win, Love would struggle in the next round, a 15th at Mexico City before battling all race long in the Top 5 before finishing 3rd in the last round in the first ever SCRL race held in the rain at Watkins Glen.
On race day, Love rolled off starting 14th while starting in the final spot was the #9 Target of Mikali Kose, a position that Kose would hold for the first lap, before making a move in Turn 1, knocking Vancouver last-place finisher the #3 Pennzoil Ultra Platinum of Danyal Gitirokh into the last spot. Gitirokh would remain in the last spot for the next three laps and was trailing the field on Lap 5 when Love, who had fallen back to 19th at this point, wheel hopped entering Turn 7, sending Love's car for a spin, sliding off track and making slight contact with the wall. As the rest of the field roared past, Love put her car back into gear and rejoined the race, with no caution coming out, her only hope was for another driver to have problems but it didn't happen, with Love crossing the start/finish line 41 second behind the race winner AJ Jones, and seven seconds behind 21st place finisher Gitirokh.
Rounding out the Bottom Five were: 20th was the #20 Fuzzy's Vodka of TJ Dent, 19th was the #12 Verizon of Karl-Jong Bensson and 18th was Monaco last-place finisher the #17 Automatic Fire Sprinklers of Gregg Speed.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #63 has finished last in a Formula E race as well at Montreal.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
22) #63-Kerri Love / 8 laps / running
21) #3-Danyal Gitirokh / 8 laps / running
20) #20-TJ Dent / 8 laps / running
19) #12-Karl-Jong Bensson / 8 laps / running
18) #17-Gregg Speed / 8 laps / running
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