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| NASCAR Nationwide Series Hits Montreal, Live This Saturday |
| Posted
on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 - 03:05 PM |
Canadian drivers Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Carpentier and Ron Fellows
will be among the NASCAR stars in Montreal this weekend as the NASCAR
Nationwide Series heads north for the second annual NAPA Auto Parts 200
presented by Dodge. TSN and TSN HD have all the live action from
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Saturday, Aug. 2, beginning with qualifying
at 12:30 p.m. ET immediately followed by the race at 2:30 p.m. ET.
TSN's Brent Wallace will be in Montreal filing daily reports for
SportsCentre leading up to and following the race, including a
one-on-one interview with the winning driver.
Villeneuve, who raced in two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races last year,
makes his return to stock car racing this weekend at the track named for
his late father. Villeneuve will drive Braun Racing's No. 32 Toyota.
Fellow Quebec native Carpentier, racing in the No. 9 Subway Dodge, will
look to improve upon last year's impressive performance where he started
on the pole and finished in second place. Fellows, a Windsor, Ont.,
native and road course specialist, will aim for another top-5 finish in
the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet after placing fourth in this event last
year. A number of homegrown drivers from the NASCAR Canadian Tire
Series are also entered in Saturday's race, including, Scott Steckly of
Milverton, Ont., and DJ Kennington of St. Thomas, Ont.
Current NASCAR Nationwide Series points leader Clint Bowyer will look to
increase his lead in the standings over Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards
who currently sit second and third in the standings, respectively.
Keselowski and Edwards are both less than 200 points behind Bowyer and
will aim to shorten that gap this weekend. Edwards and Bowyer are also
regulars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and are fifth and 12th
respectively in that series' point standings.
The 74-lap road course race is the 23rd event on the 2008 NASCAR
Nationwide Series schedule and joins the Corona Mexico 200 as the only
other race taking place outside of the U.S. this year.
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