STOCKS: Centre For Speed hosts 'Double Header' stock car racing event on June 28

The Centre for Speed (CFS) is set to host a 200-lap 'Double Header' stock car racing event this Sunday afternoon with the first Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 event of the season as well as the Schneiders Mini Stock 50 as part of the rescheduled PEPSI School's Out Celebration.

(Shediac, N.B.)  -- The Centre for Speed, Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and “Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power”, will host a ‘double header’ event with 200 feature laps of stock car racing action on June 28 at 2:00 p.m. with the rescheduled Pepsi Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 along with the Schneiders Mini Stock 50.

As a result of last weekend’s rain cancellation, the CFS has rescheduled the first Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 of the 2009 season, featuring top Sportsman drivers from throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in addition to this weekend’s scheduled Schneiders Mini Stock 50 along with regular South East Challenge Series points racing in Streetstock and Four Fun divisions.

All school-aged children who are accompanied by an adult will be admitted FREE of charge to this Sunday’s action packed stock-car racing program featuring 200 laps of feature action on top of the various heats and semifinals for all divisions. Front gates and grandstand will open at 1:00 p.m. while pit gates will open at 10:30 a.m.

A number of prizes will awarded during Sunday’s event to children and fathers in attendance as part of the ‘School Out’ and Fathers’ Day celebrations, as well as a special ‘Red Fisher Go Till Ya Blow’ burnout event during the intermission.

During the first stock car racing event of the season on June 14, a total of 47 competitors were on hand for the first event of the South East Challenge Series, a partnership between the CFS and Riverglade Speedway where drivers in all four regular divisions of Sportsman, Street Stock, Mini Stocks and Four Fun race cars will compete at both tracks for the overall 2009 points championships in their respective divisions.

This action packed ‘double header’ event gets underway on Sunday, June 28th at 2:00 p.m. with admission of $15 for adults and FREE admission for school-aged children.

Full schedule details are available at www.centreforspeed.com.

About CFS: The CENTRE for Speed, built in 1996, is home to the Atlantic region’s largest and fastest paved 3/8 of a mile stock car oval as its centerpiece. The CENTRE overlooks the Northumberland Strait and is located 5 kilometers east of Shediac’s Parlee Beach on Route #133 in the village of Grand Barachois.

From Tim Wile and Richard Gauther / CENTRE for Speed (CFS)