Tue, September 12, 2006
The deal, two years in the making, will see the series running for the Canadian Tire Cup.
By DEAN MCNULTY, SUN MEDIA
TORONTO -- NASCAR today will unveil a Canadian-based stock car series that will feature a season-long points battle among the country's best drivers and end with the awarding of the Canadian Tire Cup.
Sun Media has learned a deal to sell CASCAR -- Canada's top stock car racing series -- to the France family business that is NASCAR will be made official at a news conference today in Toronto and Canadian Tire has signed on as title sponsor.
Robbie Weiss, NASCAR's international director, is flying in from his Los Angeles office for the announcement.
The deal, two years in the making, will see NASCAR sanction a national stock car racing series in Canada on the foundation laid by Tony Novotny and his wife, Linda, over the last 20 years, working out of a Komoka office.
"It's finally going to happen," Linda Novotny said yesterday.
The Novotnys have built, sold and rescued the series a number of times, resisting all bidders who wouldn't or couldn't guarantee the Canadian identity of the series would prevail.
It grew into the only North American stock car body to race on ovals, road courses and temporary street circuits.
At the Champ Car Grand Prix of Montreal last month, it also became the first stock car series to race on an active Formula One track at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
It's the same track where the NASCAR Busch Series will hold its first Canadian race next year.
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