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Canadian Tire Motorsport Park's Racefest will roar into Toronto

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Khatir Soltani
Canadian Tire Motorsport Park's Racefest will take over Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square Wednesday, July 17 to offer racing fans a taste of racing action in advance of the Mobil 1 Grand Prix of Mosport, a few days later.

The event will be staged July 17, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Yonge-Dundas Square in Toronto.

Canada’s biggest sports car race of the year, the Mobil 1 SportsCar Grand Prix will featurw the American Le Mans Series for exotic prototype and GT race cars. A world-class field of drivers pilot the globe’s top marques such as Aston Martin, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Lotus, Mazda, Porsche and Viper on Canada’s classic, challenging road course.

Four other U.S.-based series will be on track; the Cooper Tires Prototype Lites, IMSA Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge, SCCA Pro Racing Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup and the Pro Mazda Championship. The Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada by Michelin returns for their final Canadian Tire Motorsport Park event of the season to round out an exciting weekend of racing.

The RaceFest is a dynamic public and media event, with great on-site visuals, sounds and personalities.

It includes:

• Live Pit Stop demonstrations by the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) Corvette Racing team with Ron Fellows back behind the wheel for this special event

• The first Canadian showing of the unique and revolutionary DeltaWing prototype, a new generation race car, joined by team driver Andy Meyrick (Great Britain)

• "Team Canada's" ALMS drivers, Tony Burgess (Toronto) and Kyle Marcelli (Barrie), who will compete against an international field of top Sports Car drivers

• Drivers and race cars from other event weekend series, including Martin Barkey (Huntsville) and Tim Sanderson (Pickering) of the Ultra 94 Porsche GT3 Cup Challenge Canada presented by Michelin, and James Vance (Stouffville) of the Playboy Mazda MX-5 Cup

• Driver Autograph Sessions and draws to win event tickets



Khatir Soltani
Khatir Soltani
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