“I didn’t breathe the whole (final) lap,” Allgaier said in victory lane.

Sam Hornish Jr. survived two late-race incidents, one with Michael McDowell and another with Danica Patrick, to finish second.

“Prior to that caution where we got spun out, I thought we had something for them,” Hornish said. “We had a winning race car.”

Villeneuve was relegated to third after leading a race high 43 laps in an event that had a scheduled distance of 74 circuits.

Villeneuve moved into the lead on lap eight and led the way until heading down pit road during a caution that came out on lap 18.

Patrick restarted up front after that caution and led some 20 laps before suffering mechanical issues that seemed to start after she hit a shoe that was thrown out onto the race track around lap 40. The indicent resulted in multiple pit stops during a caution that came out for debris on lap 45 and an eventual trip to the garage.

Villeneuve then took over and led much of the remainder of the race. Villeneuve last pitted on lap 46 and then stretched his fuel mileage the rest of the way with hopes of making it to the end.

He was able to remain under power the remainder of the race, but according to Allgaier, Villeneuve’s car sputtered and slowed on the final lap. It was then that Allgaier made the contact with Villeneuve that allowed himself and Hornish to get by to claim the top-two spots.

“I thought he was out of fuel, because he was so slow,” Allgaier said.

Series points leader Elliott Sadler finished fourth, and Ron Fellows was fifth. Finishing sixth through 10th were McDowell, Mike Wallace, Billy Johnson in the No. 60 Roush Fenway Racing Ford, Austin Dillon and Kyle Busch.

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“I’m always proud to come back to Montreal and to be able to race on this fantastic road course named after one of my all-time racing heroes, Gilles Villeneuve,” Tagliani said. “I really wanted to race here again, so when the opportunity presented itself with Turner Motorsports and we were no longer scheduled to be overseas, I was pretty excited. In Formula Atlantic, I won here from the pole and also had a pole in Indy Car. Montreal has been good to me to date and I’m hoping to better my race history here. Having a competitive car to challenge for the win is all I can wish for.”

Tagliani will be joined on the front row by Penske Racing driver Sam Hornish Jr., who posted a 100.905-second lap to grab the second starting spot.

“I feel good about our progression, how we’ve been,” Hornish said. “The good thing is that we’ve had good reliability out of our Dodge engines and out of our race cars. I’ve felt really good about the road course testing that we’ve done.”

Both Penske Racing drivers qualified in the top-three, as Jacques Villeneuve, driving the No. 22 Penske Dodge normally driven by Sprint Cup regular Brad Keselowski, qualified third at the track named for his late father.

Danica Patrick was the highest qualifier among the three JR Motorsports drivers, taking the fourth spot on the starting grid. Her teammates Cole Whitt and Ron Fellows also qualified in the top-10 in seventh and eighth.

Rounding out the top-five on Friday was Owen Kelly, who was on hand as a fill-in for Kyle Busch in the No. 54 Kyle Busch Motorsports Toyota. Busch was at Michigan International Speedway on Friday, qualifying his Sprint Cup Series car. When he arrives in Montreal to race his Nationwide entry, he’ll have to start from the back because of the driver change.

Michael McDowell qualified sixth in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Rounding out the top-10 in qualifying were Billy Johnson, driving the No. 60 for Roush Fenway Racing, in ninth and series regular Brian Scott in 10th.

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