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Over 800 race tracks have operated in Canada over the years and they're listed here.



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Mosport Speedway - June 21, 2008
Posted: June 24, 2008

Regular racing.

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Mosport drivers: purchase a photo CD of your car.


Kawartha Speedway - June 20, 2008
Posted: June 23, 2008

Regular racing plus a 100-lap Late Model feature.

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Kawartha drivers: purchase a photo CD of your car.


World of Outlaws Late Models at Ohsweken

The rainy spring weather continued to affect racing in Southern Ontario as the June 19 WoO Late Model show was rained out. The rain started falling during qualifying and the night's races were postponed until Friday.

Click for the photos from Thursday's hot laps.


The Ontario Sportsman Series at Mosport Speedway - June 14, 2008
Posted: June 16, 2008

The Ontario Sportsman Series kicked off their 2008 schedule with two 50-lap features at Mosport.

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Mosport International Raceway - June 14, 2008
Posted: June 15, 2008

The Grand-Am KONI Challenge and the NASCAR Canadian Tire Sereies rolled into the Mosport road course for the annual Father's Day Doubleheader. CanadianRacer.com was on hand for the Grand-Am race on Saturday and the NCATS qualifying that followed.

Click here for the Grand-AM KONI Challenge photos

Click here for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series qualifying photos


Kawartha Speedway - June 6, 2008
Posted: June 10, 2008

It was opening night at Kawartha after the May 31 event was rained out. The OSCAAR Super Late Models and the Ontario Pro-Challenge Series were on the schedule along with Kawartha's regular classes.

Click here for the OSCAAR photos

Click here for the Pro-Challenge photos
Click here for the Kawartha regular classes photos
Drivers: purchase a photo CD of your car.


Bockville Ontario Speedway plus SOS Photos - May 31, 2008
Posted: June 2, 2008

The Southern Ontario Sprints made their first-ever visit to Brockville Ontario Speedway, and coincidentally, so did the web master.

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Brighton Speedway Photos - May 24, 2008
Posted: May 26, 2008

The title says it all.

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Ghost Track - Orillia Speedway
Posted: May 19, 2008

Chris Burrage visited the site of the old Orillia Speedway in April of 2008 and sent along these photos.

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May 11 - Opening Weekend for CASC-OR
Posted: May 13, 2008

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May 10 - Opening Night for Brighton Speedway and the Southern Ontario Sprints
Posted: May 11, 2008

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Photo Request - Richard Petty at the CNE in 1958

The Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame is looking for photos of Richard Petty's car that he raced at the NASCAR Grand National event at the CNE Speedway on July 18, 1958. This was Richard's first career GN event. He raced a 1957 Oldsmobile with the #142, not the more famous #43 that he raced for most of his career.

If you have a photo that you can contribute, please email the webmaster at webmaster@canadianracer.com


New Stock Car Racing Book: "Track Talk - Racing Memories by jalopy, hobby and Canadian Vintage Modified drivers"
Posted: January 3, 2007

Wendy Ward Roper has written a book whose title pretty much says it all.

You can order a copy of the book by visiting Wendy's web site at www.tracktalk.ca



Coming Up at Ohsweken


Affordable Web Sites for the Weekend Racer

Drivers - you can have your own 1 page web site for a very reasonable cost

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Mosport & Kawartha Photos

CanadianRacer will be backing up Peter Brand as track photographer on certain nights when Peter is unable to attend.

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Coming Soon
(probably in late 2008)

NASCAR in Canada Part 3- NASCAR North

A Brief History of CASCAR



Player's Challenge GM Motorsport Series

More articles are being researched - can you help?


Site Updates
March 8, 2008: Added a photo to BC Ghost Tracks page of the Lumby Raceway plus several photos from Lumby's racing days.
March 8, 2008: Added satellite photos to the Ghost Track pages for Sutton Speedway, Stampede Speedway, Northern Raceway and Cassidy Speedway.
March 8, 2008: Added photos to the Speedway Park Ghost Track photos page.
March 8, 2008: Add photos from May, 1975 to the Tillicum Speedway Ghost Track page. Also added a satellite photo showing the remains as they appear today.
March 8, 2008: Added the feature winners from 1961-66 for the History of the CNE Speedway article.
Jan 25, 2008: Added aerial photos of Wasaga Beach Speedway and 3 photos of a "B" Modified.
Jan 12, 2008: Added program covers from Green Acres, Agassiz, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Pinecrest, Shannonville, Emo, Tremblant and Hammond River.
Jan 12, 2008: Added program covers from Barrie, Atlantic, Flamboro, Cayuga, Danny's Speedbowl, Onslow, Pinecrest , Riverglade, Riverside, Sauble, Sunset, Varney and Westgate. The covers were courtesy of Rod McLeod.
Jan 1, 2008: Added a link to the Photos page. Photos taken by the Web master at recent events are here.
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