IROC: Fuel System damage ends Al Lagasee's championship hopes just seconds after green flag at Indy; Sebastian Dent wins SCRLASTCAR Championship on a tiebreaker

Al Lagasee picked up the 1st last place finish of his SCRL IROC Series career in Race 4 of IROC VIII at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway when his #1 completed 15 of the 16 laps under power.

The finish came in his 12th career start. In the SCRL IROC Series, it's the 2nd for car #1 and the 18th for running at the finish. Across all the series in the SCRL, it's the 16th for the #1 and 321st for running at the finish.

Al is one of the most longest active drivers in the SCRL today as him and his brother Jack have both shown their talent in the SCRL, with Jack being a 11 time winner and the inaugural SCRL Wrangler Jeans Busch Grand National Series Champion while Al has won 9 times and is a two time champion, being the inaugural IndyCar Champion as well as the Season 3 Busch Grand National Series Champion, making him and Jack the only pair of brothers to win a championship in the same series. For Al, he would be chosen first at random to complete in his third straight appearance in the IROC Series, making his debut in IROC VI but he had yet been to victory lane and was looking to change that this season. Al would led one lap at Daytona before being involved in the race's final wreck and finished a disappointing 9th, a 7th at Talladega would be followed by Al scoring his first ever IROC Series win with a last turn last lap pass to lead only the final lap at Michigan, keeping his championship hopes alive.

On race day, Al would start 10th after the field's line up would be the inverted points standings, which meant that the #8 of Nick Kennedy would be starting in the final spot. As the field took the green flag, Al's car almost instantly began to show a loss of power, reporting to his team that the car was missing, as he slowed up fellow championship contender's the #4 of Chakat Whitelion and the #8 of Nick Kennedy, before both drivers where finally able to get past him. Al would limp back around the two and a half mile track before pulling on pit road as the crew discovered that the cause of the problem was a fuel system issues. The crew tried their best to fix it before sending Al back out onto the track, just before leader Christian Russel, with Al fighting to stay on the lead lap before losing it and actually costing Russel the lead on Lap 6. Al would regain his lap back and hoping to luck into a caution, but that would never come as Al would lose his lap again, this time for good, and with no other drivers having problems, Al would limp home as the only car not on the lead lap.

The remaining Bottom Five finished on the same lap as the race leaders: 11th was the #5 of Adam McDowell, 10th was the #3 of Jay Barker, 9th was the #8 of Nick Kennedy and 8th was the #4 of Chakat Whitelion

By virtue of finishing last, Al threw his hat into the running for being the possible LASTCAR Champion for IROC VIII as it was a literal four way tie between him, Sebastian Dent, Colin Dryburgh and Tony Newman, but the tie breaker does go to Sebastian, his first ever LASTCAR Championship in any SCRL Series.

The SCRL IROC VIII Championship went to Nick Kennedy, his 2nd overall championship in the SCRL, with his first coming in Season 1 of the SCRL Red Bull Formula One Series. Kennedy had no last place finishs this season with only one Bottom Five finish, the worst of the season coming here at Indy, a 9th place finish.

Congratulations to Nick for having a great year.

SCRLASTCAR STATISTICS
*This is the first time the #1 has finished last in a IROC race at Indy.
*The only other time the #1 has finished last in a IROC race was in IROC VII Race 2 at the Myrtle Beach Speedway when Jonathan Raines completed all 20 laps under power; 6 races ago.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
12) #1-Al Lagasee / 15 laps / running
11) #5-Adam McDowell / 16 laps / running
10) #3-Jay Barker / 16 laps / running
9) #8-Nick Kennedy / 16 laps / running
8) #4-Chakat Whitelion / 16 laps / running