PHOTO CAPTION: Pierre Bourque (L) with three-time CASCAR Champion and Team Owner Dave Whitlock.
Bourque, Canada's only full-time NASCAR driver is teaming up with Whitlock Motorsports for the first of three events this season.
“I’m really looking forward to Edmonton this weekend,” stated a confident Bourque this week. “I’m grateful to Whitlock Motorsports for allowing me to be a part of their team. Hopefully we can keep our nose clean and garnish a good finish for everyone.”
Before heading into Edmonton, Bourque tested at Race City Motorsport Park in Calgary on Wednesday preparing for this weekend’s prestige event.
Bourque will use this race not only as experience in the CASCAR Series but as additional seat time in a stock car. Bourque is spending 2006 in a variety of different racecars and sanctions, but anytime an opportunity arises to acquire seat time to boast his racing resume, it’s not a hard decision.
“The NASCAR Busch East Series is off this weekend and I want to keep my rhythm going in a racecar and competing in this weekend’s event allows me to do so. I’m really pumped about the race on Saturday. I’m not going to try and go out and slaughter any records this weekend, I just want to run competitively and finish well. Everyone deserves that.”
Bourque will drive the No. 29 Dodge Charger for Whitlock Motorsports in all Canadian events. Next weekend, he will be back competing for Andy Hillenburg's Charlotte, NC, based Fast Track Racing Team in the 2006 NASCAR BUSCH EAST championship where he currently lies 18th in the points chase.
Driving.Ca will adorn the primary sponsorship role this weekend. Driving.Ca is Canada’s No. 1 Automotive website.
In addition, Canada.com, Canada's biggest online community, Working.com, one of North America's top career sites, and Dose.Ca, a cool site that caters to hip Canadian urbanites coast-to-coast, will all serve as secondary sponsors on Bourque’s machine this weekend.
All four new sponsors are part of Canwest-Global, Canada's largest media company with interests in television, radio, newspapers and the internet. All four will be backing of Bourque’s NASCAR Busch East season, his three CASCAR races, and his forays into ARCA.
“I’m really excited about our new sponsors,” he said, "they are leaders in their respective fields, both in terms of the way they use new technologies and the way they attract a sizable user base. I’m looking forward to helping them expand their reach into the North American stock car base, particularly within NASCAR's Canadian fan base, which according to public opinion polls, number some six million die-hard fans.”
Full Metals Minerals and Pollara Strategic Public Opinion, Bourque’s NBES sponsors will also continue to back Bourque’s racing effort for the balance of the season as associate sponsors. “It’s a great treat for my sponsors to be involved in Canadian event,” explained Bourque. “They have been behind my racing program 100 percent and I really appreciate it. Hopefully everything will go our way this weekend and we’ll perform brilliantly in front of my fans.”
Following his debut in the CASCAR Series, Bourque will board a plane and head to Nashville, Tennessee to participate in the open test session at Nashville Superspeedway on Monday, July 24th. Bourque will utilize the test session in preparation for his ARCA Superspeedway debut at the 1.333-mile concrete racetrack next month.
In addition to running three CASCAR Series races with Whitlock Motorsports, Pierre Bourque will also compete in a full NASCAR Busch East Series schedule and a limited ARCA RE/MAX Series schedule for Fast Track Racing and car owner Andy Hillenburg.
For further in site on Canwest-Global and its associates please log onto http://www.Driving.Ca, http://www.Canada.com, http://www.Working.com and http://www.Dose.Ca
For more information on Full Metals Minerals, please visit http://www.fullmetalminerals.com
For additional input on Pollara Strategic Public Opinion, please logon to http://www.pollara.ca
Prepared by Chris Knight / Fast Track Racing
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