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N’WIDE: Jeff Green Continues His Record Pace At Montreal

SOURCE: NASCAR Media
Jeff Green picked up the 37th last-place finish of his NASCAR Nationwide Series career in Saturday’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve when his unsponsored #10 TriStar Motorsports Toyota fell out with a vibration after completing 2 of the race’s 81 laps.

The finish was Green’s sixth in the last nine races and his 11th of the 2012 season, tying NASCAR’s all-time single-season last-place record set by Jeff Fuller in 2004. This Friday, Green has a chance to break Fuller’s record at Bristol, scene of his record-setting fourth-consecutive last-place finish last year.

Green qualified 25th for Saturday’s race at an average speed of 93.514 mph, ranking him sixth among the fourteen "go-or-go-homers" who attempted to qualify for the event. Only Ryan Ellis did not qualify, resulting in the second consecutive DNQ for the #52 Jimmy Means-owned team.

In the race itself, Green was the first to fall out, though the ESPN broadcast showed The Motorsports Group teammates Chase Miller and Matt DiBenedetto running in the final two spots. However, in the final running order, Green was 43rd once again, with Miller and DiBenedetto 42nd and 40th, respectively.

LASTCAR STATISTICS
*This was Green’s second consecutive last-place finish at Montreal.
*This was the first last-place finish for the #10 at Montreal, and the first time a driver finished last at the track due to a vibration.

THE BOTTOM FIVE
43) #10-Jeff Green / 2 laps / vibration
42) #46-Chase Miller / 4 laps / brakes
41) #42-Blake Koch / 5 laps / brakes
40) #47-Matt DiBenedetto / 6 laps / overheating
39) #15-Chris Cook / 6 laps / brakes

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Jeff Green (11)
2nd) Mike Harmon, Kevin Lepage (2)
3rd) Ryan Blaney, Stephen Leicht, Chase Miller, Danica Patrick, Tony Raines, Scott Speed, Josh Wise (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES OWNER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) #10-TriStar Motorsports (11)
2nd) #47-The Motorsports Group, #74-Mike Harmon (2)
3rd) #7-JR Motorsports, #36-Tommy Baldwin Racing, #42-The Motorsports Group, #46-The Motorsports Group, #52-Means Racing, #70-ML Motorsports, #91-TriStar Motorsports (1)

LASTCAR N'WIDE SERIES MANUFACTURER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1st) Toyota (12)
2nd) Chevrolet (10)