CASCAR - Vancouver Qualifying Session #1

CASCAR Super Series

July 26, 2002

Wade Lee earns provisional pole
Apollo Motorsports drivers Lee and Dowler lead after first qualifying session

VANCOUVER, BC - Calgary's Wade Lee has earned the provisional pole for 
Saturday afternoon's CASCAR Super Series race at the Vancouver Molson Indy 
with a lap of 1 minute and 24.428 seconds around the 12-turn Concord 
Pacific Place temporary street circuit. Second fastest, with a time of 
1:24.761, was his Apollo Motorsports teammate Kevin Dowler, in his Quality 
Care Taurus.
	Lee turned only three laps in the Friday afternoon session, after setting 
the fastest lap on his second tour of the circuit. That Lee has been quick 
in Vancouver is no surprise. The BC Ford Dealers Taurus driver is a 
talented road racer and is competing in the same car that Dowler drove to 
an incredible 'back to front' victory, just weeks ago, in the Toronto Indy.
	Dowler, who owns Apollo Motorsports, opted to drive a different car in 
Vancouver. The Edmonton, AB racer will pilot the car he took to victory 
lane at Mosport Int'l Raceway, earlier this season. With two wins to his 
credit this year, Dowler is the Super Series' winningest racer.
	Current CASCAR Super Series points leader Don Thomson was third fastest, 
with a lap of 1:24..885, in his Home Hardware Chevy. Ron Beauchamp's Mopar 
Parts Intrepid is fourth (1:25.438), ahead of brothers Jeff (1:25.609) and 
Jim (1:25.615) Lapcevich.
	The CASCAR Super Series teams return to the track at 8:25 a.m. Saturday 
morning for their second and final half-hour qualifying session. Several 
drivers believe that the pole for the feature race could still be in play, 
given that the cooler morning track conditions could produce faster speeds 
than Friday's afternoon qualifying session.
	The combined times for the two sessions will set the grid for Saturday 
afternoon's main event, at 3:00 p.m.