Toronto (ON), June 17, 2014 – The Canadian Touring Car Championship (CTCC) presented by Continental Tire, in collaboration with ClearWater Design Canoes & Kayaks are happy to announce that the recipient of the Sportsperson of the Event for Rounds 3 & 4 in Montreal is Roger Ledoux.

The Sportsperson award is given to someone who distinguishes themself by accomplishing something out of the ordinary or by showing support to a fellow racer in a very sportsmanship way. Due to his strong involvement and dedication to the series, he demonstrates his passion for the sport every day, even through difficult times. Roger lost a very close member of his family just before the race event and when he arrived at the event, we were awestruck by his capacity to focus in such difficult moments.

Roger fought through his emotions and was rewarded with two podium appearances, one of which was victory in Round 4.
For all these reasons, we believe he deserves to be declared the Sportsperson of the event.

The next round of the CTCC presented by Continental Tire will take place on June 21 and 22 in Ontario, at the Calabogie Motorsports Park, a 5.5 km road track located southwest of Ottawa.

VALLÉE-JONCTION, Quebec – Jason Hathaway survived a ferocious battle with Mark Dilley and won the Budweiser 300 on Sunday.

Hathaway and Dilley swapped the lead six times in the inaugural NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 race at Autodrome Chaudière and battled to the end on a green-white-checkered finish before Hathaway emerged with the win. It was the fourth series career victory for the driver of the No. 3 Rockstar Energy Drink/HGC Chevrolet out of Dutton, Ontario. Dating back to last season, it was Hathaway’s third triumph in his last five starts.

Dilley settled for second while Steve Mathews, who won his third career pole position earlier in the day, crossed the line in the third position. Defending and three-time series champion Scott Steckly battled back from a start toward the rear of the field to finish fourth followed by Louis-Philippe Dumoulin in fifth.

Alex Guenette, D.J. Kennington, J.R. Fitzpatrick, Noel Dowler and Jason White completed the top-10 finishers on the day.

POS DRIVER
1 Jason Hathaway
2 Mark Dilley
3 Steve Mathews
4 Scott Steckly
5 L.P. Dumoulin
In the championship standings after just two events, Fitzpatrick leads Dumoulin by five points followed by Kennington, Hugo Vannini and Hathaway.

The race was postponed to Sunday after persistent rain showers washed out all on-track activity on Saturday.

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 returns to Quebec for a July 6 date at Mirabel’s Circuit ICAR for the Jiffy Lube 100 presented by La Petite Bretonne, the season’s second of four road course events.

Paul Dalla Lana finished 6th in class and 26th overall in the  Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage GTE in the LMGTE-Am class.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The second round of 2014 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 action is set for this Saturday with the inaugural Budweiser 300 at Autodrome Chaudière in Vallée-Jonction, Quebec.

The Budweiser 300 will mark the series’ first visit to the fast quarter-mile oval, located approximately 40 miles southeast of Quebec City. In the first seven seasons of Canadian Tire Series competition, no driver has posted more oval track wins than D.J. Kennington.

Kennington will have to lean on a career of oval experience and success this week in Quebec. He’s never even seen Autodrome Chaudière before, let alone raced there. The scope of his preparation to this point has been browsing online videos.

“I’ve just watched a couple of in-car cameras from when Kyle Busch was there running a late model,” Kennington said. “Other than that I have not done a thing.”

Fortunately for Kennington, he has two decades of oval expertise to lean on heading into the weekend.

“I was brought up at Delaware Speedway – I started racing there when I was 16 – so my background is oval,” Kennington said. “I used to race a lot of short tracks in Quebec. I ran the Quebec Sportsman Series and traveled all over Quebec racing short tracks, along with Delaware on Friday nights.

“I think there was one year we ran 39 races and they were all ovals. I just basically have an oval background from when I started. I enjoy ovals. l like the road courses as well, but I consider myself an oval guy for sure.”

A two-time series champion, Kennington has earned 16 of his 19 career Canadian Tire Series victories on ovals. The St. Thomas, Ontario veteran will look to make Autodrome Chaudière the ninth different oval track on his list of triumphs.

A Budweiser 300 victory would also give Kennington a third inaugural race victory. He won the series’ first event at Ontario ovals Barrie Speedway in 2007 and Delaware in 2009.

“I think we’re all going there to try and get a win, anytime you can get a win in this series it is big,” Kennington said. “Hopefully we can go there and have a good, solid run and set us up for the rest of the season.”

Kennington and the No. 17 Castrol Edge/Mahindra Tractors Dodge team, along with the rest of his Canadian Tire Series competition, will get a first look at the track with optional open practice on Friday.

“It looks like it’s going to be one of those tight short tracks, but it also looks like they can run two-wide from the racing I’ve seen online,” Kennington said. “Hopefully we can run two-wide there as well and put on a good show.”