Sunoco and GM Racing step up Mosport ALMS program
Sunoco to Sponsor Fellows Corvette at Mosport; GM Racing and Sunoco to
Sponsor National Karting Championships;
Canada's Future Race Stars Win.
Toronto, August 10, 2003
It was announced today that Sunoco will be expanding a long-standing and
valued relationship with Ron Fellows at the ALMS Race at Mosport on August
15, 16 and 17 by putting the Sunoco logo on the side of his C5R Corvette
for this event.
It was also announced that GM Racing, worldwide racing arm of General
Motors, and Sunoco Ultra 94, the performance brand of Suncor Energy
Products, have signed as sponsors of the 2003 Canadian National Karting
Championships which also take place at Mosport's Driver Development Track
on the same weekend. The event will be called Sunoco Presents the GM Racing
2003 ASN Canada FIA National Karting Championships and will run August 15,
16 and 17.
"I am delighted that these two performance-focused companies have decided
to get involved in our National Championships," said Paul Cooke, Vice
President of Competition, ASN Canada FIA, and National Director of
KartSport. "Sunoco and Ron Fellows took the plunge last year when we formed
the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship," Cooke continued, "and this
series has changed the face of kart racing competitions in Ontario forever.
This year GM Racing, as well as Pratt & Miller who build Ron's race cars
got involved as well, and the series did not simply grow - it tripled!"
Fellows, of course, gets to race in front of his home town fans at Mosport.
"This is my most important race of the year," Fellows said. "After all, you
want to do well when you are the local guy and everyone is rooting for you.
The addition of the National Karting races at this event means that I get
to be a racer, a series principal and spectator all on one weekend. This
should be one great event."
Of interest, the Sunoco logo on the side of both GM Racing Corvettes will
not be the usual one you see at Sunoco stations, but the Sunoco Ron Fellows
Karting Championship version. "We are so proud of everything that has been
achieved in the series in such a short time," said Patricia Anderson,
Sunoco's Director of Marketing, "that we want to grow awareness of the
excitement that exists at these Karting races and we want to ensure the
continued growth of extraordinarily capable racers coming from Canada.
Naturally I hope that lots of race fans will come to cheer Ron on," she
continued, "but I hope they take the opportunity while they are there to
take in some of the karting action as well; they certainly won't be
disappointed".
The action gets underway at both events on Friday, August 15 with the
racing action happening on Sunday, August 17. Tickets can be purchased from
www.mosport.com for the ALMS race and entry to the Sunoco Presents the GM
Racing 2003 ASN Canada FIA National Karting Championships is free.