A third Victory in NASCAR Canada at the Grand Prix of Trois-Rivières: The Target of Louis-Philippe Dumoulin - Speedway Digest

This weekend will be held the 54th edition of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières. This year again, the NASCAR Canada Series race will be the feature race, and for three-time series champion Louis-Philippe Dumoulin the GP3R always represents a special moment in the season. But it’s also a venue where he has had a lot of success. The 2024 edition will be his fifteenth appearance at the event in NASCAR Canada Series. He has collected two victories (2014-2019), two pole positions (2012-2021) and no less than nine Top 5 finishes so far. He also has only two retirements in 14 participations in this race and has qualified in the Top 6 every year since 2011.

“I like these statistics and it would be nice to respect them even more with a third victory in front of my family, friends and fans, who I am always very happy to see again at each edition. The Grand Prix de Trois-Rivières is unique, it’s a bit like the Daytona 500 or the Monaco Grand Prix of the NASCAR Canada series, the most prestigious race of the season, the one that all the drivers want to win,” says the driver of the #47 WeatherTech Canada | Groupe Bellemare | Omnifab car.

Currently fourth in the drivers’ standings, Louis-Philippe Dumoulin explains: “It’s a Grand Prix that is always very difficult to win. The track is hard on the brakes and on the cars; on the drivers too because there is always a lot of traffic with more than thirty drivers entered. But it’s a track that our entire team knows perfectly and I am confident that I have a car to fight at the front and try to win this 2024 edition. This is kind of the decisive moment to get a little bit closer to the leaders in the championship. There are 5 races left this season and I am confident in the quality of my equipment.”

The Dumoulin Compétition team will enter three cars in this 2024 edition of the GP3R, with the presence of Jean-François Dumoulin, Louis-Philippe’s older brother, and Louis-Philippe Montour in two other team cars. “I am convinced that the show will be excellent for the fans but the risk of multiple full course yellows due to the large number of drivers on the track may be decisive. You need to have a perfect strategy, a little luck and know how to be aggressive at the right time, without destroying your brakes, to win at the GP3R” confides the driver of the #47 WeatherTech Canada | Groupe Bellemare | Omnifab car.

“The plan is to regain the points lost in a few incidents since the start of the season. I want to stay in the title contenders until the last events” adds Louis-Philippe, second in the 2023 edition of the GP3R. “We will also be participating in the Thursday night parade downtown and I invite all fans to also attend the return of the fireworks on Saturday night in the Old Port. Trois-Rivières is my hometown, I can’t imagine this event any other way than on the track, in a position to win in front of all this enthusiastic public,” concludes the driver of the #47 WeatherTech Canada | Groupe Bellemare | Omnifab car.

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