Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Wheels takes Barrie by storm!

  Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Wheels

For immediate release: June 21, 2006

Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship takes Barrie by storm!

TORONTO, ONTARIO – This weekend is probably the most anticipated weekend of 
the year for any Eastern Canadian karter – it is the Barrie Grand Prix 
weekend, the showcase event for the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship 
presented by Toronto Star Wheels. The event, the only street race in 
Ontario for the series, is also round three, which marks the halfway point 
for the series.
The Barrie Grand Prix is the one event that every karter in the series 
wants to win, and come Sunday afternoon, there will be 11 very happy 
champions – each one crowned King of the Bay for their respective classes.
The race format for this weekend has changed to deliver fans of the 
championship a thrilling viewing experience. Practice, qualifying and 
pre-finals will all be run on Friday and Saturday. Then all 11 classes in 
the championship will have their finals run on Sunday, which will create 
the best show for not only the fans, but the racers themselves.
The Barrie Grand Prix has also given the series a chance to give back to 
the community, as many special events are planned for the weekend. The most 
popular is the ‘media/celebrity’ race, which puts media members with 
karters for a team event on Saturday. The karters raise money and the top 
10 fund raisers are picked to partner the media members. All the proceeds 
are donated to the Breast Cancer Society. Sunoco, the primary sponsor of 
the series steps up in a big way to match the amount raised by the karters 
– last year the total donation was over $20,000.
As if the drivers in the series didn’t have enough incentive already – 
being crowned King of the Bay – the Discovery Channel’s Star Racer 
television program will pick three drivers from the event to join the show. 
Twelve drivers in total will compete at the end of the year on Star Racer 
to see who earns the prize of a funded Star Mazda ride for 2007.

More information on the opening event, including directions to the track 
can be found at www.grandprixofbarrie.com and for more information on the 
Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship presented by Toronto Star Wheels, 
visit www.asncanada.com
The objective of the SRFKC is to help foster a professional environment for 
kart drivers; help create a positive attitude towards appearance, conduct 
and discipline; help foster the employment of the best practices for the 
safe and fair running of competitions; and help kart drivers to move up the 
racing ladder to automobile racing.
For more information, please contact:
Russ Bond, 905-852-2900 r.bond@russbondagency.com
Brad Brown, k.andb.brown@sympatico.ca (416)-233-8727, Paul Cooke, ASN 
Canada FIA – 905-403-9000
Release prepared by Russ Bond Agency (www.russbondagency.com)