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SCOTT MCLAUGHLIN No. 3 XPEL CHEVROLET
START: 6TH
FINISH: 7TH
POINTS: 7TH (-126)
RACE RUNDOWN: Scott McLaughlin and the No. 3 XPEL Chevrolet team continued their mid-season push with a solid, seventh-place finish in Sunday’s XPEL Grand Prix at Road America. He and first year race strategist, Raul Prados are starting to find their footing, evident by the speed shown all weekend in the No. 3 Chevrolet as McLaughlin qualified in the sixth position after advancing to the Firestone Fast Six. After surviving a chaotic opening lap of action, McLaughlin settled into the fifth position and began working his race strategy with strategist Tim Cindric. The 55-lap event only featured four caution periods with most of them happening around the pit cycle when McLaughlin had already made his way down pit lane for service and needing the cycle to finish. Despite the setbacks, McLaughlin relied on the speed in his XPEL Chevy to persevere for his sixth top-10 finish of the year as he sits just nine points out of the top five in the standings.
MCLAUGHLIN’S THOUGHTS: “Solid day for us. It could have been a lot worse. We were probably, on strategy, looking at P15 because of the yellows. But, we managed to come all the way back through and finish seventh. Got screwed a couple of times on yellows, obviously. I think our potential was a podium or a top five, so to come back to seventh was fantastic. The XPEL Chevy was really good. Just bummed that we didn’t have the luck today, but that’s all right. One day we’ll catch the yellow.”
