Monday June 30, 2025 by Philippe Brassor
Favorite and leader of no less than 123 of the 300 laps of the test disputed last Saturday evening in Antigonish (Nova Scotia), Kevin Lacroix and the Napa Racing team could not sign the victory, during the 2ᵉ round of the 2025 Nascar Canada season. However, the Saint-Eustache pilot is satisfied with its speed.
The Camaro pilot nº74 NAPA RACING / GATES HYDRAULICS was launched from the 2ᵉ position for the 300 rpm test, alongside DJ Kennington in pole position. He confides what happened in the race: “I started from the 2ᵉ position, but I downgraded third during the departure. After 15 laps, I resumed the 2ᵉ position at Andrew Ranger and the 40ᵉ tour, I took the head of the peloton “It was therefore in first position that he evolved until the 180ᵉ turn, to allow the teams to supply.
This is where the victory was lost for the Quebec pilot: “I entered the wells to put petrol and change the tires, however, we had difficulty with a wheel and we lost a turn”. Since these are stops at the so -called competitive wells, and not a fixed stop, the cars all returned to the track behind the safety car, depending on the speed of their stop and not the position occupied before neutralization.
Lacroix continues by indicating: “So I left at the tail of the peloton, with a lathe. I managed to go back to the point of duplicating myself from the leader ”. It would have taken a neutralization at the end of the race to allow Kevin to pick up the leaders during a possible final revival, but no yellow flag came to group the peloton from the last part of the race. However, he concluded by saying that “we were by far the fastest, so it is a comfort to know that”.
Kevin Lacroix finished the event in 6ᵉ position, which gives him 5ᵉ place in the pilot championship, 10 points from the first place now occupied by DJ Kennington with 85 points, ahead of Marc-Antoine Cairand (84), Andrew Ranger (78) and Louis-Philippe Dumoulin (75).
The next Nascar Canada event will be the NAPA 300 at the Edmonton International Raceway, Alberta on July 12. Last year, Lacroix won the event. He intends to repeat the feat this year.
