Pierre Bourque Ready to Hit the Road (Course) at Watkins Glen

Busch East Driver Will Drive Porsche for The Racers Group This Weekend

CONCORD, NC (July 2007) – Lately, Pierre Bourque has been making headlines in the NASCAR Busch East Series and the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series, behind the wheel of Dodge Charger racecars. Generally speaking, he’s been getting plenty of practice turning left as the majority of both tour schedules are on oval tracks.

This coming weekend though, Bourque will return to his racing roots in a full-blown road racing machine on the road course at Watkins Glen International. Bourque will drive a Porsche for The Racers Group in Saturday’s three-hour KONI Challenge event.

"I am thrilled to be re-joining Kevin Buckler's Team TRG,” said Bourque. “They are ultra-competitive and are the consummate professionals. Earlier this year, I ran for them in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, where I finished 12th in the GT class and won the Hard Charger Award for most passes during the race."

This will be Bourque’s first event at Watkins Glen, but he already has made plans to return to the track later this summer when the NASCAR Busch Series competes there on August 11th.

"I've never raced at Watkins Glen, but since I will be doing the NASCAR Busch Series race there in August for Fitz Motorsports, I figured this would be a perfect opportunity to do some serious sports car racing in the Grand-Am KONI Challenge, but to also get in a lot of track time in advance of the Busch race.

"The deal came together quickly. I met with Kevin when he was at Mosport a couple of weeks ago when both the KONI series and my NASCAR Canadian Tire Series were together. From there things just clicked and so I will be running the #42 DRIVING.CA-CANADA.COM-WORKING.COM-DOSE.CA TRG Porsche this coming weekend at Watkins Glen."

The Supercuts 200 for the Grand-Am KONI Challenge Series will take the green flag at 3:30 PM on Saturday, July 7th.

Race fans will now have a new tool to keep up with Bourque’s busy racing schedule. His new website, www.pierrebourque.net has been launched. The site features all kinds of news, results and background information on the Canadian race driver, as well as a number of multimedia goodies for race fans. Be sure to check Bourque’s new site out, as well as his primary sponsor’s website, Driving.ca.

“I am as passionate about motorsports as my primary sponsor Driving.ca is about motoring. Driving.ca is a fantastic website for people looking to research a new vehicle purchase, learn about the latest industry developments, or follow the very latest in racing. We're both all about passion, which makes Driving.ca and perfect match for me."

For more information on Pierre Bourque, please contact Mike Twist at (207) 590-1786 or (207) 499-2565 and be sure to check out the all-new www.PierreBourque.net