36 - Friday, March 26, 199 - North Shore News

| North Shore racers

Andrew McCredie

Automotive Edsror
andrewOnsuews.com

LOCAL race car dri-
vers are hoping that
Greg Moore’s win at
Homestead last week-
end is a sign of good
things to come at
home.

Neat weekend {April 3-4;
will see 150 of the top drivers
in the Pacific Northwest take
to the road course at Mission
Raceway Park.

The Easter weekend event
is the first of an cight-race
schedule at) the popular
Lower Mainland multi-use
motorsport facility.

“This is the most aggres-
sive schedule of local racing
since the days of Westwood in
the late 1980s," reports
Sports Car Club of B.C,
spokesman Mare Rovner,
“Our recent driver training
course was sold out and we're

receiving an amazing level of

interest from alot of new dri-
vers looking to get involved.”

A wide variety of cars,
from — purpose-built cube
trame open-wheelers to mar:
ginally modified street cars
compete on Mission’s two
kilometre course. Club level
racing is the grass roots of the
sport and has traditionally
provided some of the best
spectator entertainment.

“So far it looks like 1999 is
going to be a year of tremen-
dous growth which means
better entertainment for focal
race fans.” says Rovner.

NEWS photo Terry Peters

Bid on a Beetle

DIAMOND Ball co-chairs Stephanie Nicolls (left) and Lesley Stowe pose with a
bright yellow New Beetle which was donated by Capilano Volkswagen for auction
at the Apri! 17 Canadian Cancer Society fundraising event. Diamond Batt organi-
zors are still accepting donated items for auction. Call 734-8749 for more details.

B.C., established in 1956, is
in the final stages of a track
expansion that will add a few
new turns to the Mission cir-
cuit. According to Rovner,

We couldn't think of a better way to thank you
for making tie Civic Canada’s best selling car.

Introducing the
Civic Special Edition

The Sports Car Club of

racers are Jooking forward to:
anew “held on netic” high
speed corner directly in front
of the grindstands. The tin
will adda new denension to
the track.

The North Shore tigures
prominently in the Jocal race
scene. Over a dozen drivers
call the area home and histor
ically North Shore drivers
have raken home mere than
their fair share of the trophies.
fohn Beaudoin, Rol Issac.

airs. &.

gear up for Mission

Rovner, Greg Stath Derrick
Moenick, Jack Zawroney wind
fan Lambert are justia few ot
the locals capected to com
pete for the checkered flag
next weekend.

Race action runs fron: 9
am. to 3 pan. Saturday and
Sunday with qualtfving and
Novice races on Saturday and
final qualitving, and races all
dav Sunday Read) racing is
held rain ar shine. For more
information call 208-9555.

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