BRANTFORD, ON – Doug Brown and his NAPA Autopro team mates head to Barrie Speedway this weekend determined to kick start their season with a solid run and strong finish in CASCAR’s 2006 Super Series opener.
The Brantford racing veteran is also hoping to erase the memories of the past two season openers when engine problems brought about early ends to the afternoon activities.
“We definitely need better results to start the season and we’ll need to put forth some solid and consistent runs throughout the year to crack the top-ten when the final season points are tallied,” he commented when discussing his thoughts for improving upon his finish in last season’s standings. “ We’ve spent a great deal of time and money to refresh our engines and refurbish the chassis in order to improve our competitiveness, now it’s a case of racing one race at a time”.
Brown finished eleventh in the national standings last year –his first full season on Canada’s premier stock car racing circuit. With eight top-10 finishes in the 12-event/14-race series, he’s quietly optimistic a 10th-place or better finish in this year’s national series standings is an attainable goal.
This year’s Super Series schedule will see the Brantford-based team compete in six Ontario events; a special appearance at the CHAMP Car World Series event in Edmonton; a weekend special at Vernon, BC’s Sun Valley Speedway; a three-day weekend at the historic road racing Grand Prix des Trois Rivieres and a Saturday night special at Autodrome St. Eustache, north of Montreal. The site of an eleventh event is still to be confirmed.
The ten confirmed events on this year’s schedule are projected to draw upwards of 355,000 live fans and with Rogers Sportsnet and US-based Speed Channel again providing tape-delayed coverage of Super Series events, the series will again receive the most television coverage of any Canadian motorsports series.
The CASCAR schedule for this weekend at Barrie begins on Saturday afternoon with time trails and two 50-lap qualifiers with the “GO-RACING.CA 300” scheduled to get underway at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday.
Prepared By: Ken Spencer // Marketing and Media relations // Brown Auto Racing
kenneth.spencer@sympatico.ca (905) 844-7902
For additional information on Doug Brown/Brown Auto Racing contact Doug Brown at (519) 752-9531 or go to www.dougbrown.net
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