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Trois-Rivieres native Louis-Philippe Dumoulin celebrated his homecoming with his first career pole position in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series for the JuliaWine.com 100 at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres.

Dumoulin, the 2011 series rookie of the year and now a teammate with two-time series' champion Scott Steckly, put down the fastest lap during group qualifying by just .011 seconds over J.R. Fitzpatrick.

Dumoulin had a lap of 1m7.821s around the street course. Fitzpatrick was just slightly slower at 1m7.832s but also earned a spot on the front row for today's race.

Andrew Ranger qualified third at 1m7.839s and Steckly was fourth. Points leader DJ Kennington, who enters the weekend with a five-race win streak, qualified fifth.

Ron Beauchamp Jr. was sixth, followed by rookies Martin Roy and Elie Arseneau. Robin Buck and Jean-Francois Dumoulin rounded out the top 10.



Results of the qualifying session
1 47 L.P. Dumoulin - 81.214
2 84 J.R. Fitzpatrick - 81.201
3 27 Andrew Ranger - 81.192
4 22 Scott Steckly - 80.716
5 17 D.J. Kennington - 80.438
6 60 Ron Beauchamp - 80.028
7 90 Martin Roy - 80.024*
8 03 Elie Arseneau - 79.991*
9 66 Robin Buck - 79.920
10 04 J.F. Dumoulin - 79.834
Etc.

*Rookie driver