Sunday August 10, 2025 by Philippe Brassor
The 2025 edition of the Trois-Rivières Grand Prix ended this Sunday. A 55ᵉ edition marked by summer weather and spectacular races this Sunday. The star test was of course that of Nascar Canada in early afternoon. Marc-Antoine Camirand and Andrew Ranger, the two GM Paillé pilots, shared the first line, in front of Alex Tagliani, author of an aggressive departure and quickly at the controls, and Louis-Philippe Dumoulin.
At the 6ᵉ Tour, a first neutralization intervened, following contact with the tire wall of Martin Goulet Jr. although the latter himself came out of his annoying posture before returning to the wells, it took 6 long laps before the officials of Nascar relaunch the race. Kevin Lacroix was then in the lead, in front of Mathieu Kingsbury.
6 laps later, new yellow flag, Ben Couture being arrested after the turn of the duplessis door. These two hasty neutralizations allowed all the pilots to change tires, the hierarchy returning to normal once the revival has been given, with this time to store in mind and Tagliani’s car clearing a disturbing smoke.
The tag car having put oil on the track, a neutralization followed by a red flag then took place. The pilots, half cooked in their habitable in the sun, and the fans in the platforms had to wait long minutes before the green flag was restored, at the 29ᵉ round, for two front passages a hanging at the end of the straight line of the Carmel, notably involving Donald Theetge.
The 43ᵉ round, while Ranger and Camirand dominated, coincided with the start of fire from the Italian car Vittorio Ghirelli. A new neutralization – fully justified this time – was of course deployed. The revival saw Dumoulin stealing 2ᵉ place in Camirand while, further in the peloton, Alexandre Fortin (SPC serial leader and who started in parallel in Nascar Canada this weekend) was found in the wall and returned the 23 pilots still on track (on the 29 runners) behind the safety car, for another neutralization.
With this cascade of yellow incidents and flags, 51 laps could be run before the time limit of 90 minutes was reached. But the officials were not concerned with their own regulations and, after a final neutralization and 63 laps contested (out of the 60 laps planned!), Ranger logically won this chaotic race of 1h49 ‘, in front of Camirand, on the edge of the exhaustion, and Dumoulin. These three pilots were a notch above competition on the Trifluvian circuit this weekend.
Lessard finished 4ᵉ, ahead of Jean-François Dumoulin, Darryl Timmers and DJ Kennington. Victim of steering troubles at the start of the race, Alex Guénette ranks 8ᵉ. Alex Labbé and Kevin Lacroix complete the top 10.
With a damaged car, Jean-Philippe Bergeron managed to rank 11ᵉ, Mathieu Kingsbury 13ᵉ, Simon Dion-Viens 15ᵉ, Dave Coursol 16ᵉ and Serge Bourdeau 17ᵉ. Tagliani is ranked 20ᵉ, Fortin 22ᵉ. Ryan Vargas, Donald Theetge, Martin Goulet and Ben Couture abandoned.
In the morning, three races were on the program. Devin O’Connel won the last of three of the modified legends, ahead of Reily O’Connel, Jessy Lambert, Alexandre Jeannotte and Vincent Fournier … In super production challenge, the 30 -minute race under the green flag, was spectacular at will. Gabriel Lacombe won in front of his teammate Guillaume Labbé after Jonathan Manseau broke down at the start of the last round while he was leading. Éric Chaput completes the podium.
In the Nissan Sentra Cup (see detailed article here), let us underline the 3ᵉ consecutive victory of Frédérick Chaput (ahead of Nicolas Barrette) and the first podium at the GP3R of Bruno Spengler … This GP3R ends at the end of this afternoon with two races out of championship, that of historic cars and the mayor 3 of the Cup of the mayor reserved for GT and TCR.
