CASCAR - N#10 - St-Eustache Preview

CASCAR Super Series
PREVIEW: Autodrome St-Eustache

For more information contact CASCAR’s Toronto office at (416) 531-4714
For immediate release / September 7, 2006

CASCAR Super Series returns to Montreal for a make-up Super Series race at 
Autodrome St-Eustache

TORONTO, ON – Just weeks after a successful inaugural appearance at the 
Grand Prix de Montreal, the CASCAR Super Series is returning to Montreal, 
Quebec for a 200-lap race at Autodrome St-Eustache. The flat, 4/10-mile 
oval has long played host to Canada’s top stock car tour. This Saturday 
night’s race is a make-up date for one that was rained out earlier in the 
summer. With the postponement, the St-Eustache event takes on new and 
increased significance, given that it’s now the next-to-last points event 
on the 2006 Super Series schedule.

                 The race will go a long way toward determining the Super 
Series points championship. As he has for most of the season, Milwaukee 
Tools Chevy driver J.R. Fitzpatrick will enter the St-Eustache event as the 
Super Series’ points leader. If anyone was anticipating that the third-year 
CASCAR competitor would fold under the pressure of being in the thick of 
his first championship chase, it hasn’t happened. The Cambridge, ON 
resident continues to post top-finishes in his quest for his first CASCAR 
title.

                 Fitzpatrick enjoys a 44-point lead over second-place 
driver Kerry Micks. The Mt. Albert, ON Ford racer has a pair of wins to his 
credit in 2006, but is coming off a frustrating 18th-place finish in last 
Sunday’s race at Cayuga Int’l Speedway where he suffered a power loss with 
30 laps to go. By failing to finish at Cayuga, it dealt a serious setback 
to Micks’ hopes for earning a second career Super Series crown.

                 Three-time CASCAR champ Dave Whitlock (NTN-Bower / Griddly 
Headz Dodge) is a former race winner at St-Eustache (in 2002) and has 
captured checkered flags in two of the last three Super Series feature 
races (Mosport & Cayuga). His strong runs late in the schedule have lifted 
the Wyoming, ON racer to within one point of Micks, in third.

                 Behind them, in fourth place overall, is Don Thomson Jr., 
the five-time and defending CASCAR National champ. The Home Hardware Chevy 
driver has experienced a change of fortune this season and finds himself in 
unfamiliar territory with two races remaining, a full 58 points back of his 
Fitzpatrick Motorsports teammate, J.R. Fitzpatrick.

                 Time trials for Saturday night’s 200-lap CASCAR Super 
Series race at Autodrome St-Eustache are scheduled for 8 p.m., while the 
green flag is scheduled to fly on the feature race at 9:30 p.m.

LAST YEAR AT ST-EUSTACHE: Ford driver Kerry Micks is the defending race 
winner at St-Eustache. The Mt. Albert, ON resident took the lead on lap 118 
of last season’s race and never looked back en route to his first of two 
feature wins in 2005. DJ Kennington (Castrol Dodge Charger) and Ron 
Beauchamp Jr. (MOPAR Dodge Charger) were second and third, respectively. 
Canadian Tire Chevy driver Peter Gibbons earned the pole for CASCAR’s 2005 
appearance at St-Eustache on the strength of a 17.767 second lap around the 
4/10-mile oval during time trials.

WESTERN SERIES: Last Saturday night (Sept. 3), Vernon, BC’s Sun Valley 
Speedway played host to the next-to-last CASCAR Flo~Pro.Com Western Series 
race of the season. Kamloops, BC racer Jim White was dominant in his MOPAR 
/ Kamloops Dodge-sponsored Charger, taking his second victory of the season 
and extending his points lead in the process. White earned the pole 
position for the Brandt Tractor 200 and led 103 of the 200 feature laps 
around the ½-mile tri-oval.

                 Edmonton’s Kevin Dowler, the five-time Western Series 
champ, brought his EMCO Ford Taurus home in second, just ahead of another 
multi-time title winner, Wade Lee. The Calgarian guided the Thirsty Dog Pup 
Pontiac to the final podium position. With the win, White will head to the 
season-finale, at Saskatoon’s Auto Clearing Motor Speedway, with a 23-point 
lead over Dowler.


SCHEDULE: Autodrome St-Eustache
Montreal, Quebec // CASCAR Super Series // 200 Laps // Race #10 of 11
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

12:00 p.m.                                       Registration opens
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.                     Hauler move-in
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.                     CASCAR Technical Inspection
3:30 p.m.                                         CASCAR driver & Crew 
Chief meeting
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.                     CASCAR Practice
8:00 p.m.                                         CASCAR Time Trials
9:10 p.m.                                         Opening Ceremonies
9:30 p.m.                                         START: CASCAR Super 
Series 200 lap Feature Race


POINT STANDINGS

CASCAR Super Series (As of Sept. 3, 2006 // Top 15): 1. #84 J.R. 
Fitzpatrick (1584 pts.); 2. #02 Kerry Micks (1540); 3. #39 Dave Whitlock 
(1539); 4. #4 Don Thomson Jr. (1526); 5. #22 Scott Steckly (1508); 6. #9 
Mark Dilley (1480); 7. #60 Ron Beauchamp Jr. (1475); 8. #1 Peter Gibbons 
(1436); 9. #19 Brad Graham (1431); 10. #25 Jim Lapcevich (1400); 10. #10 
Doug Brown (1400); 12. #17 DJ Kennington (1396); 13. #3 Jason Hathaway 
(1367); 14. #11 Ron Van Es (1242); 15. #09 Kent Nuhn (1212)

CASCAR Flo~Pro.Com Western Series (As of Sept. 3, 2006 // Top 15): 1. #36 
Jim White (1188 pts.); 2. #35 Kevin Dowler (1165); 3. #30 Derek Polack 
(1128); 4. #6 Todd Nichol (1069); 5. #26 Shaun Polack (1032); 6. #79 Wade 
Lee (1031); 7. #21 Jason White (993); 8. #86 Shawn Press (974); 9. #24 
Scott Dennis (958); 10. #71 Daryl Harr (957); 11. #2 Carl Harr (905); 12. 
#87 James Ward (617); 13. #5 Fred Whiteman (540); 14. #48 Chris Dennis 
(483); 15. #96 Norm Hunger (478)

CASCAR Sportsman Series (As of Sept. 3, 2006 // Top 10): 1.  #77 Dion 
Verhoeven (326 pts.); 2.  #81 Shawn McGlynn (324); 3.  #00 Steve Munro 
(303); 4.  #32 Mike Alguire (295); 5.  #11 Cole Weber (286); 6.  #95 Ron 
Lethbridge (285); 7.  #82 Dave Connelly (273); 8.  #48 Doug Cathcart (269); 
9.  #67 Scott Mitchell (267); 10.  #36 Alan Lebert (264)


CASCAR ON TV: Watch the CASCAR 100 from the streets of Montreal on 
Saturday, September 9th on SPORTSNET: EAST & ONTARIO @ 8 p.m., WEST @ 2 
p.m., and PACIFIC @ 1 p.m. For information regarding initial airings and 
replays of Super Series races, please check your local listings or visit 
http://www.cascar.ca/schedule/tv_schedule.html.



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