page_title: Kevin Lepage
section_title: 2008–present
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin Lepage / Racing career / 2008–present
caption_attribution_description: NASCAR driver w:Kevin Lepages car being pushed off after not qualifying for the 2009 w:Northern Tool.com 250 w:Nationwide Series race at the w:Milwaukee Mile.
context_page_description: Kevin Paul Lepage is a retired American professional stock car racing driver, who last drove in NASCAR in 2014.
context_section_description: Lepage returned to driving full-time in the Nationwide Series (formerly known as the Busch Series) in 2008, driving for Specialty Racing. While racing for Specialty, Lepage made one of the most controversial moves in the history of NASCAR at Talladega when he proceeded to pull off pit road and directly in front of the entire field which was bearing down on him at almost 200 mph (322 km/h). Lepage blamed it on the spotter for every other team stating "nobody recognized my car was damaged and vastly underpowered," but later apologized for the accident himself. Lepage was released by Specialty after the July Daytona race and was replaced by Brandon Whitt.  The following race at Chicagoland, he failed to qualify a car brought by Front Row Motorsports.  After he failed to qualify, Lepage drove the No. 52 Means Racing entry for Brad Teague in order to maintain his position in the driver's points. He then attempted to race at Gateway in Mike Harmon's No. 84 Chevrolet, but failed to qualify.  Later in the season, he was hired to drive the No. 73 for Derrike Cope, and finished the season 28th in driver's points, despite missing 8 races.  Lepage ran one Truck Series race at Homestead for Green Light Racing finishing 35th.
  He began the 2009 season without a full-time ride, but after running Derrike Cope's No. 73 at Bristol, Lepage joined Jimmy Means' team at Texas in April until leaving after the June race at New Hampshire.  He then joined Derrike Cope's team for the rest of the season at Chicago primarily driving the No. 78, but also occasionally driving the No. 73.  Lepage also ran one race for Green Light Racing at Dover in the Camping World Truck Series finishing 33rd, his most recent start in that series to date.
  Lepage announced on February 5, 2010, that he would be returning to Mac Hill Motorsports for the 2010 season with sponsorship from Revolucion World Wide/Start Energy Drink.  Unfortunately the sponsorship deal fell through after four races and the team was forced to "start and park" races in order to keep costs down.  Even with this measure, finances forced the team to start skipping races by mid year.  The team partnered up with RaceDaySponsor.com in order to give local sponsors an opportunity to be a sponsor each week.  This earned the team finances to get to the track, but not enough to run full races.  When the Mac Hill team was unable to get to the track, Lepage got to run some races for No. 52 Jimmy Means Racing Chevrolet (made four out of five attempts) and No. 04 Davis Motorsports Chevrolet at Road America.  Even with the limited finances, Lepage was able to make 25 out of 31 race attempts and ended up 40th in points.
  In 2010, Lepage was in a Sprint Cup car for the first time since 2007.  Lepage joined back up with Morgan-McClure Motorsports to run the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol with sponsorship from Alpha Natural Resources/Joy Mining Machinery.  Lepage was unable to qualify for the race.
  On November 20, 2010, Mac Hill Motorsports announced that it was discontinuing its Nationwide Series team, allowing Lepage to seek another ride.
  On January 10, 2011, Lepage announced that he would drive for Team Rensi Motorsports No. 24 team in the Nationwide Series, bringing sponsorship from RaceDaySponsor.com, marking the first time since 2008 that Lepage would run a full race distance. Not enough sponsorship was found and the team was forced to start and park four of the five races they ran. After the spring Texas race, they closed down. On April 26, Lepage announced that he would be joining Means Racing starting at Richmond and would work with the team to procure more sponsorship for the rest of the season. Sponsorship was found to allow Lepage to run 17 races without having to start and park, with a best finish of 20th at Phoenix.  Lepage finished 27th in Points, which was his best finish since 2008.
  On February 2012, Lepage announced that Race Day Sponsor.com and himself were no longer working together. Lepage wasn't able to start his season until securing a ride in the No. 28 Robinson-Blakeney Racing for the 4th 
caption: Lepage's 2009 No. 52 Jimmy Means Nationwide car
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