Tagliani victim of misfortune after leading 161 laps in Nova Scotia (13)

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Tagliani victim of misfortune after leading 161 laps in Nova Scotia


While Leading the Bumper To Bumper 300 NASCAR 
Pinty's Race, Alex Tagliani is Involve in a Race 
Incident


Montreal, August 21, 2016 - An unfortunate race 
incident ended a brilliant performance by Alex 
Tagliani on Saturday in night round 9 of 12 of 
the NASCAR Pinty's Series held at the one-third 
mile oval Riverside International Speedway in 
Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Starting sixth, Tagliani 
took command of the race during a restart on lap 
66 to lead 164 of the next 166 laps. As he was 
approaching two backmarkers on lap 231, he was 
victim of a crash by the spinning car of Mark 
Dilley, the result of an encounter between Dilley 
and Gary Klutt.


Beforehand on lap 108, the driver of the EpiPen 
Chevrolet had a hard time to move pass Waylon 
Farrell of Newfoundland, who was five laps down 
on the leader. It also took Tagliani 10 laps to 
pass Andrew Ranger who was also several laps 
down. But things were still running well at that 
point as he put polesitter Donald Chisholm one 
lap down on the 229th circuit.


"That's a tough one to take", said a dejected 
Alex Tagliani following the race. "I was lapping 
the field. We had the car to beat. At one point 
in the last third of the race, I got stuck behind 
two cars fighting for position and they would not 
let go as I was approaching. Then car 50 (Gary 
Klutt) banged car 7 (Mark Dilley) which spun off 
out of control before coming back in the middle 
of the track hitting me as I was driving by. His 
car tore off the right front end of mine, 
destroying the suspension. Dilley was a bystander 
in this incident. He did not initiate the contact 
with Klutt. There is nothing he could do to avoid 
the contact with my Chevrolet EpiPen. These are 
the types of incidents that should not occur when 
the race leader approaches lapped cars. The 
Tagliani Autosport crew did everything they could 
to repair, but the car was too damaged.


"This will be remember as the missed opportunity 
of the season for us. We had a chance to close in 
on the championship leaders. Instead, I am 32 
points from first place. I have never seen my 
teammates so down when the race was over," 
concluded Tagliani.


The Bumper to Bumper 300-lap night time race was 
won by rookie Cayden Lapcevich from Grimsby, 
Ontario who took over the lead on lap 290, His 
second win of the season enables him to move into 
first place of the driver standings. 
Louis-Philippe Dumoulin of Trois-Rivières 
finished second ahead of Jason Hathaway of St. 
Thomas, Ontario and local hero Donald Chisholm of 
Antigonish' Nova Scotia, the last driver to 
complete 300 laps.


Sixteen drivers made the trip to Nova Scotia and 
12 crossed the finish line, with only four of 
them on the lead lap. The race was under caution 
four times for 41 laps.


With three races to go, Tagliani is still third 
in the Driver standings with 341 points. With his 
win in Nova Scotia, rookie Cayden Lapcevich takes 
the overall lead with 373 points, 12 ahead of 
former leader Andrew Ranger of Roxton Pond, 
Quebec, who finished 14th. Tagliani Autosport 
principal Colin Livingston still leads the Owner 
Standings, but only one point separates his team 
from Sherri Lapcevich (374-373).


The Bumper To Bumper 300 will be televised on TSN 
on Sunday, August 28 at 12:30 p.m. ET. The NASCAR 
Pinty's series returns to action the weekend of 
September 3-4 for the Can-Am 200 at Canadian Tire 
Motorsport Park, Ontario. Tag should be entered 
in several series.


Tagliani with Team Penske next weekend at Road America
Next Saturday August 27, Tagliani will be in Road 
America, Wisconsin to drive the #22 Ford Mustang 
of Team Penske in round 23 of the NASCAR Xfinity 
Series. The Road America 150 will air live on TSN 
1, 4 and TSN 5 at 3 p.m. Pre-race show starts at 
2:30 p.m. ET.


PHOTO: On-board the Chevrolet EpiPen with Alex Tagliani
Alex Tagliani was dominating the field at the 
Bumper To Bumper race in Nova Scotia before he 
was unfortunately hit by a spinning car on lap 
231.
Photo courtesy of Colin Livingston/Tagliani Autosport


PHOTO: Alex Tagliani with Fans
Alex Tagliani poses with his supporters during 
the pre-race ceremonies in Antigonish, Nova 
Scotia.
Photo courtesy of Tagliani Autosport


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Source:
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