The finish came in his 8th career series start. Turner at this point in his career would be in the twilight years as he would begin to slowly come to an end, having competed for years in the SCRL. Turner had signed up in the pre-season that was the original Canadian Series, finishing 25th in the series first race at CTMP before scoring a 7th place finish at Cayuga before the series was cancelled and then re-branded to give the series a proper season, with Turner coming back to complete full time.
With the start of the new rebranded series, Turner started the season off on a high note, scoring a runner up finish to Zachary Fitzwater at CTMP and backed it up with a 7th at ICAR in the next round. A disappointing 27th at Delaware and a 30th at Mosport would follow before Turner finally rebounded by finishing 6th in the last round at Exhibition Place.
On race day, Turner started 9th while rolling off from the final spot was the #98 Roofing Connection Chevrolet of Chris Kyle, a position he would hold for the first circuit before the #66 Quaker State / Durabody Dodge of Tony Newman made a sharp turn to try and get onto pit road, with Newman spinning out and sliding up the track right in front of Turner, with Turner slamming into the back of Newman's car, destroying the front end of the car. Turner would limp back around the track, pulling onto pit road and then into the garage, his day over, the car being listed as "out" on Lap 4.
The next two spots would be filled just four laps later as another crash in Turn 3 as CTMP last-place finisher the #00 Aaron's Dodge of Al Lagasee and #22 Canadian Tire / MotoMaster Dodge of Derrick Edison would both crash hard, ending their days just before Lap 10.
It would take another 15 laps before another spot was filled, that being the unsponsored #99 White Motorsports Chevrolet of Betty Barrett, who would also find trouble in that same Turn 3, and would retire from the race just seven laps from the finish.
Rounding out the Bottom Five in 26th was the aforementioned #66 of Tony Newman, who would lose 5 laps during the race to the race leaders due to the damaged he had gotten in the first caution, but was able to limp across the start/finish line as the last car running.
Turner's career in the Canadian Series would never take off like it had in other series, with his runner up at CTMP would be his best finish in the series, but he would go on to score another runner up at Riverside, and would finish 20th in his last ever race in the series at Kawartha, and would finish 4th in the overall point standings.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #89 had finished last in the Canadian Series as well as at Motoplex.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
30) #89-Jesse Turner / 1 lap / crash
29) #00-Al Lagasee / 8 laps / crash
28) #22-Derrick Edison / 8 laps / crash
27) #99-Betty Barrett / 23 laps / crash
26) #66-Tony Newman / 25 laps / running
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