NASCAR fans, mostly those living close to Montreal, will have their eyes full this weekend as both the Canadian Tire Series and the Nationwide Series drop in at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve. Early on Saturday morning, the Canadian Tire boys will be fighting it for the NAPA 100 road race at the world famous Formula One race track. The race will be shown live on French RDS, later on TSN. Then later on, the NASCAR Nationwide competitors, 44 of them, will try to qualify for the 43 starting spots of the NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge race, another event that will be live on RDS. Among them are quite a few Canadians including Wheeler Boys (Chevy No 0), Trevor Boys (Chevy No 01), Ron Fellows (Chevy No 5) Patrick Carpentier (Dodge No 9), Jacques Villeneuve (Camry No 32), D.J. Kennington (Dodge No 81) and Don Thomson (Chevy No 90). Note that the Armando Fitz Racing Dodge No 22 is on the entry list but no driver is identified to it.Among Sprint Cup drivers, Nationwide point leader Clint Bowyer (Chevy No 2) will be there with David Ragan (Ford No 6), Pat Carpentier (Dodge No 9),Carl Edwards (Ford No 60), David Reutimann (Camry No 99) and Greg Biffle (Ford No 16). The race will be run later in the afternoon and it will be live on RDS and TSN (ESPN in the States)Craftsman Truck Series will be racing the Toyota Tundra 200 Saturday evening at the Nashville Speedway (it will be live on Speed) while the NASCAR Sprint Cup Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 race will be live from the Pocono Raceway on RDS and TSN on Sunday afternoon. Canadian driver Patrick Carpentier (Dodge No 10) will be replaced by veteran Terry Labonte since his duties in Montreal will be too much for him to practice for the Cup race.
So much action in NASCAR this weekend