The finish came in his 1st career start. In the CART Series, it's the 1st for the #98 and the 1st for running at the finish. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 8th for the #98 and 283rd for running at the finish.
After several years of team owners, who disagreed with the direction and leadership of USAC, with the then-novel idea of car owners sanctioning and promoting their own series collectively instead of relying on a neutral body to do so, the Championship Auto Racing Teams, or CART, was born. After a few months of teams getting together sponsorship and cars, a full roster of thirty three drivers would travel to the desert in Arizona for the first ever sanctioned race of the brand new series.
Rohan Marmot would make history by becoming the first driver to win a pole in the new series history, posting a time of 26.858 seconds, while Lagasee would struggle with his car, posting a time of 27.081 seconds, 0.223 seconds behind Rohan's pole winning time, placing Lagasee in 31st position. Posting the slowest time during qualifying was the #97 Mountain Dew entry of Dilan Ebrahimian, who was 0.323 seconds behind Rohan's lap time.
On race day, Ebrahimian would trail for only the first two turns before making a move on the backstretch and would knock the #55 Members Only entry of Ray Dent into the final spot, with Dent becoming the first driver to trail a lap in the CART Series. Dent's stay in last would last only one circuit as he knocked Al into the final spot for the first time. Al would also only trail for one lap before he knocked the #13 Interstate Batteries of Dexter Black into the final spot on Lap 3. Black would trail for two circuits before knocking Ray Dent back to last on Lap 5, but the next circuit around the #1 Doritos of Casey Nanako fell back to last on Lap 6, trailing for two laps before knocking Black back to last on Lap 8. Black would struggle with his car around the one mile track over the next few laps, but staying within one second for the entire time, before finally passing and knocking Al back to last on Lap 12. Unknown at the time, but that final drop into last would be the last change for last place, with Al staying with the tail end of the field, but never being able to make a move, finishing nine seconds behind when the checkered flag waved.
The remaining Bottom Five were: 32nd was the aforementioned #55 of Ray Dent, 31st was the #13 of Dexter Black, 30th was the #1 of Casey Nanako and 29th was Al's brother, the #18 Miller entry of Jack Lagasee.
SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #98 had finished last at Phoenix.
*This was the first time the #98 had finished last at Phoenix.
THE BOTTOM FIVE
33) #98-Al Lagasee / 20 laps / running
32) #55-Ray Dent / 20 laps / running
31) #13-Dexter Black / 20 laps / running
30) #1-Casey Nanako / 20 laps / running
29) #18-Jack Lagasee / 20 laps / running
33) #98-Al Lagasee / 20 laps / running
32) #55-Ray Dent / 20 laps / running
31) #13-Dexter Black / 20 laps / running
30) #1-Casey Nanako / 20 laps / running
29) #18-Jack Lagasee / 20 laps / running
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