CASCAR - N#7 - Sun Valley Super Series Preview

CASCAR SUPER SERIES:
SUN VALLEY SPEEDWAY PREVIEW

CASCAR returns to British Columbia for this weekend’s Super Series event at 
Vernon’s Sun Valley Speedway

VERNON, BC - Canada’s top stock car series will make its inaugural 
appearance at Sun Valley Speedway this weekend when the CASCAR Super Series 
visits Vernon, British Columbia’s scenic half-mile tri-oval. The format for 
the event will be the same as for last weekend’s MOPAR 500 Weekend in Calgary.

         Time trials will open the weekend racing program on Friday night 
(July 29). The drivers with the two best times will lock themselves into 
the top two starting positions for Saturday’s 300-lap feature event. Friday 
night’s racing program will also include a pair of 100-lap, full-points 
qualifying sprint races. These Twin 100s will set the rest of the field for 
Saturday’s main event.

         While the majority of the Super Series competitors in action this 
weekend at Sun Valley will be seeing the track for the first time, 
multi-time Western Series champ Kevin Dowler has lots of experience at the 
unique facility. The EMCO Ford driver  who has several Super Series road 
racing wins to his credit  is hoping his knowledge of Sun Valley helps him 
earn his first-ever Super Series feature win on an oval.

         “I’m excited about racing at Vernon,” said Dowler, who lives in 
Edmonton, Alberta. “The Western Series has probably raced there 16 times or 
so and I believe we have half-a-dozen wins. If there’s a chance of me 
getting it done in a Super Series oval race, I really think it could be 
this one.”

         Describing Sun Valley’s configuration, Dowler says it’s a special 
place. “It’s just a great little racetrack. It’s fast and it’s been good to 
us. There’s no other track like it in Canada. There are two totally 
different turns at each end of the track. There’s progressive banking in 
turns 3 and 4, and turn 1 is just about flat. And there’s a kink in the 
middle of the front straight. It’s almost like a small road course, or 
maybe like Richmond International Raceway, with alternate ends.”

         Dowler, who is riding high after winning his Twin 100 race in 
Calgary and scoring a fifth-place finish in the MOPAR 300, is banking on 
his extensive experience at Sun Valley to make a difference this weekend. 
The veteran racer joked about his newfound popularity among the visiting 
eastern-based Super Series regulars. “As the old story goes, I was 
surprised how many Eastern friends I had when we started talking about the 
Vernon race, last weekend in Calgary. Everyone was my friend when they 
wanted to know about Sun Valley. ‘What gear? What springs?’ I told them 
all, ‘You’ve got lots of gears and springs… try ‘em all.’”

SUN VALLEY NOTEBOOK: EMCO has sponsored a three-stage pit stop competition 
in the region in advance of this weekend’s inaugural CASCAR Super Series 
stop at Sun Valley Speedway. The first portion took place on Wednesday 
afternoon in Kamloops, BC. The second is scheduled for Thursday afternoon 
(1 p.m.) at The Brick in Kelowna, BC. The final Pit Stop Contest starts at 
4 p.m. at Watkins Motors in Vernon, BC… After the racing action is finished 
on Friday evening, well-known country music artist Lee Dinwoodee will 
headline a concert for the fans at Sun Valley… In addition to being a Super 
Series race, the races at Sun Valley are also full points events for the 
CASCAR Western Series…

CASCAR ON TV: For information regarding initial airings and replays of 
Super Series races on SPORTSNET, please check your local listings or visit 
http://www.cascar.ca/schedule/tv_schedule.html.


SCHEDULE: SUN VALLEY SPEEDWAY

FRIDAY, JULY 29, 2005
1:30 p.m.  3:45 p.m.    CASCAR Super Series Practice
6:00 p.m.       Time Trials to set the top two positions for the MOPAR 300
7:00 p.m.       MOPAR 100 Qualifying Sprint Race #1
         MOPAR 100 Qualifying Sprint Race #2

SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2005
6:30 p.m.       Driver Introductions
7:00 p.m.       START: 300 LAP FEATURE RACE



POINT STANDINGS: After 6 events. Unofficial as of July 28, 2005: 1. #4 Don 
Thomson Jr. (1100 pts.); 2. #1 Peter Gibbons (1044); 3. #02 Kerry Micks 
(1031); 4. #9 Mark Dilley (1029); 5. #39 Dave Whitlock (984); 6. #17 DJ 
Kennington (975); 7. #60 Ron Beauchamp Jr. (952); 8. #84 J.R. Fitzpatrick 
(951); 9. #19 Brad Graham (941); 10. #14 John Fitzpatrick (920); 11. #88 
Dave Jacombs (900); 12. #22 Scott Steckly (866); 13. #37 Tara MacLeod ® 
(844); 14. #50/71 Pete Shepherd (830); 15. #10 Doug Brown (826)
® Denotes Rookie of the Year.