CART: Mid race crash at Atlanta gives Jack Lagasee the first last-place finish of his CART career

Jack Lagasee picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL CART Series career in Friday's Gould Twin Dixie 125 #2 at the Atlanta Motor Speedway when his #18 Miller entry was eliminated in a multi-car accident after 9 of 20 laps.

The finish came in his 3rd career start. In the CART Series, it's the 1st for the #18 and the 1st from a crash. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 9th for the #18 and 269th from a crash.

Jack is one of the most successful drivers in the SCRL having picked up 10 career wins, as well as winning a championship in the SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series. Jack signed up to drive full time in the brand new CART Series, Jack finished 29th in his CART debut at Phoenix before finishing 11th in the first round at Atlanta.

Qualifying wouldn't be held due to the field being set by the finishing order of the first Atlanta race, with first Atlanta last-place finisher the #1 Doritos entry of Casey Nanako starting in the final spot.

On race day, Nanako would remain in last for only the first two turns before she passed and knocked the #13 Interstate Batteries entry of Dexter Black into last, a spot he would hold for only one lap before knocking the #3 Canon entry of Michael Brown a spot he would hold for one lap as well before knocking Phoenix last-place finisher the #98 Miller entry of Al Lagasee into last on Lap 3. Al would also remain in last for one lap before knocking the #30 BP entry of Titus Marciniak before knocking Casey Nanako back to last on Lap 5, but the next lap the #2 Coppertone entry of Mairin Tayami was in the final spot, and the trend would continue as on Lap 7 the #68 Jordache Jeans entry of Christian Russel into last on Lap 8 before Nanako would fall back to last on Lap 8 and was running in the spot when the battle for last came to an end.

While battling for 10th, Lagasee was spun out by the #42 Danyal Gitirokh with Jack spinning down the track and hitting the inside guardrail before spinning back across the track and in front of the #04 of Matt Boyle, who hit Jack head on as the two cars spun across the track in Turn 1, collecting three other drivers in what turned out to be the lone caution of the day. Lagasee's car would be unable to move from the spot while Boyle would limp back to pit road and then into the garage, with Jack being towed back to the garage, both cars would be scored as competing 9 laps, while Jack was scored in the final spot due to being towed back.

The remaining Bottom Five finished on the same lap as the race leaders: 31st was the #6 RCA entry of Daniel Bouchard, 30th was the #77 of Ryan Pritchard and 29th was the aforementioned #30 of Titus Marciniak.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was the first time the #18 had finished last in the CART Series as well at Atlanta.
*This marked the first time a driver has finished last due to a crash.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
33) #18-Jack Lagasee / 9 laps / crash
32) #04-Matt Boyle / 9 laps / crash
31) #6-Daniel Bouchard / 20 laps / running
30) #77-Ryan Pritchard / 20 laps / running
29) #30-Titus Marciniak / 20 laps / running