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Marcos Ambrose: A phenomenon in the NASCAR series!

"I'm certainly disappointed to finish second but finished behind the best NASCAR driver road course is very satisfying." It is in these terms that the Quebecois Alex Tagliani talks about Marcos Ambrose, laureate last Sunday in the NASCAR Nationwide race at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

Little known to the general public, the driver from the island of Tasmania is a real phenomenon, an exceptional talent who is doing his mark in NASCAR, not only on road circuits or it reveals almost unbeatable for two seasons, but also on oval Sprint Cup or it progresses each output traces.

Comes the very popular Australian V8 Supercar championship or he harvested the pole position in his first start in 2001 before winning the 2003 and 2004 championships, Marcos Ambrose NASCAR Nationwide debuted in 2007, after a quarrel partial program in the previous year the Camping World Series NASCAR trucks.

He now plays full time in Sprint Cup in the Richard Petty Motorsports. Montreal was the only race has its planned schedule serie Nationwide, who had said in 2009, while Carl Edwards had robbed him of victory in the last corner, he would return to Montreal as long as he did not win.

One who will celebrate his 35th birthday in a week was the strongest on the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve on Sunday. Although the public quebecois dreamed of a victory of a local favorite, the success of Ambrose is fully deserved.

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