Raphael Lessard spectacular comeback and a third position at All American 400 in Nashville

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Raphael Lessard, 15, signed a 3rd place at the 32 th edition of the 2016 All-American 400 presented by Freman-Webb Companies at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville , Tennessee. It was the 4th race off Lessard championship this year, still driving his Toyota Camry in the Super Late Model class.

The driver of Saint-Joseph-de-Beauce almost did not take part in the race on Sunday when an overrun caused by a mechanical failure during private testing last Tuesday damaged the car. It ranked 29th in Saturday qualifying, a position beyond the chopper to a guaranteed place at the start of the race. Finally, during a race last chance Saturday night, he went in first position and led the race for 20 laps until the checkered flag, thus assuring themselves of starting in 29 th place out of 32 cars at the racing 400 laps.

During the first 70 laps, Raphael has performed an impressive comeback from the 29th position to the 15th. Several yellow flags came punctuate this race and have sometimes benefited Lessard, other times less. Moreover, during a Relan this, the driver of the # 99 Toyota Camry FRL Express / Team Coach Imaging / Toyota / JBLAudio prepared by the team David Gilliland Racing left in first position, but has kept its position for long as he had not tire change at that time.

Only 13 cars finished the race, and in a spectacular final, Raphael has secured the 3rd place 18 laps from the end. “It was a great race, I’m still satisfied even though we did not win the race. It’s been a difficult week after the incident last Tuesday’s track. The car was very bad and that is why we struggled in qualifying. The team of David Gilliland has not stopped working on the car, I’m so proud of the work they have done. “

During the test, Raphael has used strategy for the podium: “During the race, we had 6 right to change tires, we kept changing four tires later in the race, then we had a advantage in the end. It was a long but very intense race, we were often three wide, it was exciting! “. Bubba Pollard and Derek Thorn finished 1st and 2nd respectively in this race, with 3.7 and 2.5 seconds ahead of Raphael.

Raphaël The next race will be on Sunday, October 9th for another test off championship Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Indiana, for another race of 400 laps.

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