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Toronto, August 10, 2003
It was announced today that Sunoco will be expanding a long-time and valued relationship with Ron Fellows at the ALMS Race at Mosport on August 15, 16 and 17 by putting the Sunoco logo on the side of his C5R Corvette for this event.
It was
also announced that GM Racing, worldwide racing arm of General Motors, and
Sunoco Ultra 94, the performance brand of Suncor Energy Products, have signed as
sponsors of the 2003 Canadian National Karting Championships taking place at
Mosports Driver Development Track on the same weekend. The event will be called
Sunoco Presents the GM Racing 2003 ASN Canada FIA National Karting Championships
and will also run August 15, 16 and 17.
I am delighted that these two performance-focused companies have decided to get involved in our National Championships, said Paul Cooke, Vice President of Competition, ASN Canada FIA, and National Director of KartSport. Sunoco and Ron Fellows took the plunge last year when we formed the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting Championship, Cooke continued, and this series has changed the face of kart racing competitions in Ontario forever. This year GM Racing, as well as Pratt & Miller, the constructor of Rons race cars, got involved as well and the series did not simply grow it tripled!
Fellows, of course, gets to race in front of his home town fans at Mosport. This is my most important race of the year, Fellows said. After all, you want to do well when you are the local guy and everyone is rooting for you. The addition of the National Karting races at this event means that I get to be a racer, a series principal and spectator all on one weekend. This should be one great event.
Ron is a great partner in our Ultra 94 brands performance
positioning, said Patricia Anderson, Sunocos Director of Marketing, so it
makes sense for us to be involved in his ALMS race on our home turf. We are so
proud of everything that has been achieved in the Sunoco Ron Fellows Karting
Championship in such a short time that we want to grow awareness of the
excitement that exists at these Karting races and we want to ensure the
continued growth of extraordinarily capable racers coming from Canada. Naturally
I hope that lots of race fans will come to cheer Ron on, she continued, but I
hope they take the opportunity while they are at Mosport to take in some of the
karting action as well; they certainly wont be disappointed.
The action gets underway at both events on Friday, August 15 with the racing action happening on Sunday, August 17. Tickets can be purchased from www.mosport.com for the ALMS race and entry to the Sunoco Presents the GM Racing 2003 ASN Canada FIA National Karting Championships is free. For more information on the Sunoco Presents the GM Racing 2003 ASN Canada FIA National Karting Championships, visit the ASN website at www.asncanada.com.
For further information, contact Brad Brown (416) 233-8727 or [email protected]