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CASCAR: CASCAR Castrol Super Series West resumes in Regina this weekend

9 September 1999

KOMOKA, ON - Action resumes on CASCAR's western front this weekend with the
next-to-last CASCAR Castrol Super Series West race of the season; the
King's Park 150 at King's Park Speedway in Regina, SK.

	Entering this Saturday night's race (Sept. 11), former CASCAR West
champion Dan Shirley holds a slim, two-point lead over Steve Jefferson, his
nearest rival, in the chase CASCAR supremacy in the west. Shirley, who
drives the NTN Bearings Chevrolet Monte Carlo, hails from Saskatoon, SK and
is looking forward to taking another step toward his second championship,
in his home province.

	Shirley is the defending winner of this race, on the high-banked,
third-mile oval.

	"We had a real good start to the season, but then, it got rough in British
Columbia," noted Shirley, of the most recent CASCAR West events. "We had an
overheating engine at Quesnel and a flagging deal that hurt us at Prince
George. But we did some testing at Regina [SK] and we're ready to go there.
Steve Jefferson is two points behind us. We went to the BC races with a 66
point lead - so it's not a big deficit for him to get back.

"We want to finish very, very strong. Last year, we crashed in Calgary in
the last race and that made for the longest winter ever. We want to make
sure that our last two race meets are as strong as they can possibly be,
with consistent finishes. We got our bad luck out of the way and we're
looking forward to Regina. We'll do well there, because we found some
things out when we tested."

Jefferson, driver of the Mopar Batteries Dodge, has put together several
consistent runs of late and has narrowed the gap in his hunt for his first
ever CASCAR crown. He's been close to winning a championship before, and
doesn't want it to slip away again this year.

"In '96 - the first year I ran the Goodwrench car - I won the first two
races of the year," said Jefferson. "And we held the lead right up until
the last race of the year, at Edmonton, when we lost the clutch. That was a
bit of a heartbreaker. The closest we've ever been to the championship. But
we're close again and are hoping to carry through."


King's Park 150 Notes: King's Park Speedway is located five miles east of
IPSCO on Hwy. 6 North. Qualifying for the King's Park 150 starts on
Saturday afternoon at 6:30 p.m., with the checkered flag scheduled to fly
on the 150 lap feature race at 7:30.

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Western Point Standings after Round #5 of 7 / As of September 8, 1999: 1.
#46 Dan Shirley (Saskatoon, SK / 846 / Chevrolet); 2. #5 Steve Jefferson
(Prince George, BC / 844 / Dodge); 3. #33 Don Sales (Quesnel, BC / 796 /
Chevrolet); 4. #20 Kim Richard (Calgary, AB / 772 / Chevrolet); 5. #2 Carl
Harr (St. Albert, AB / 758 / Chevrolet); 6. #4 Daryl Harr (St. Albert, AB /
754 / Chevrolet); 7. #44 Fred DelPero (Edmonton, AB / 746 / Ford); 8. #12
Ron Larson (Quesnel, BC / 720 / Chevrolet); 9. #15 Mike Browne (Calgary, AB
/ 700 / Pontiac); 10. #93 Charlie Kirton (Saskatoon, SK / 692 / Chevrolet);
11. #6 Todd Nichol (St. Albert, AB / 674 / Chevrolet); 12. #35 Kevin Dowler
(Edmonton, AB / 640 / Ford); 13. #79 Wade Lee (Calgary, AB / 624 /
Pontiac); 14. #14 James VanDomselaar (Ft. Sask., AB / 498 / Pontiac); 15.
#45 Darren Swerid (N. Battleford, SK / 366 / Pontiac); 16. #70 John
Restemeyer (Calgary, AB / 346 / Chevrolet); 17. #43 Dallas Mayert (Prince
George, BC / 284 / Pontiac); 18. #O9 Trevor Seibert (Williams Lake, BC /
168 / Ford); 19. #70 Al Gandy (Prince George, BC / 160 / Pontiac)

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