CASCAR's Super Series & Sportsman Series will be in action during the MOPAR
Canada Day Weekend at Barrie Speedway

TORONTO, ON - For the second year in a row, CASCAR will be at Barrie Speedway
for the MOPAR Canada Day Weekend, presented by the Dodge Dealers of Ontario.
Sunday afternoon's 300-lap feature race will be the focus of a busy three-day
festival of motorsports at the speedway, as well as in downtown Barrie.

And while it will be the Super Series' second visit of the season to the
1/3-mile tri-oval, located just north of Barrie, ON, the setting will be very
different from the May long weekend when CASCAR held its season opener at the
popular speedway.

For starters, the May event was held during winter's last gasp in the Central
Ontario region. And in the time since the May 22 opener, track owner Brad
Moran has completed extensive work on the facility, which included building
up the banking in turn 4 and laying down a high-tech asphalt surface around
the entire speedway.

Former Super Series champion Mark Dilley won last year's MOPAR Canada Day 300
at Barrie Speedway and he's excited to be returning, especially under warmer
conditions and with work on the new track layout complete. The Barrie, ON
resident recently had an opportunity to test the reworked configuration. "We
put on a racing school up there since the track was re-done, so I had a
chance to do quite a few laps at Barrie. The track feels good and I'd really
like to do well there again, since it's my hometrack." The Dodge Charger
driver continued, "We're really excited about the MOPAR Canada Day 300 at
Barrie Speedway. It's a great race and hopefully we can be as good as we were
last year."

But Dilley is not the only one who is enthused about returning to Barrie.
Scott Steckly broke through to CASCAR's victory lane for the first time in
his career during the May race and he's looking forward to continuing his
strong start in 2006. The ERB Dodge Charger racer came home third in Race #2,
on the road course at Mosport Int'l Raceway on Father's Day, and is currently
second in the points.

The man they will all be chasing in the MOPAR Canada Day 300 is Ford Taurus
driver Kerry Micks, a former CASCAR champion who is riding high after his win
at Mosport. Micks hails from Mt. Albert, ON and he holds a four-point lead
over Steckly in the championship chase.

Incidentally, this will be the first race since June 2, 2005 at Autodrome
St-Eustache that a driver other than Don Thomson Jr. has led the points
heading into a Super Series race weekend. MOPAR Dodge Charger driver Ron
Beauchamp Jr. led after two events last season. But in every race since with
the exception of this year's season opener at Barrie Thomson has entered the
race as the points leader. This weekend, however, the five-time and current
National Champion finds himself in fourth, in the standings, following his
23rd-place finish at Mosport.

The CASCAR Sportsman Series will also be in action this weekend at Barrie
Speedway. Hometown favourite Ron Lethbridge won last year's Canada Day
Weekend Sportsman race at Barrie en route to capturing the Rookie of the Year
Award. The MOPAR 100 Sportsman Series feature event is slated to start at
12:45 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, while the MOPAR Canada Day 300 is scheduled
to commence at 3:30 p.m on Sunday. Additional festivities include the
$1,000-to-win MOPAR Pit Stop Challenge in downtown Barrie (on Lakeshore Dr.)
at 6:00 p.m. on Friday evening, while the Super Series Time Trials and Twin
50 Sprint Races will be the focus on Saturday evening at Barrie Speedway.

NEW PROMOTIONAL PARTNER: Last week, Headz Gamez Enterprises Int'l and CASCAR
jointly announced a new promotional partnership that will see the company's
'Griddly Headz' brand take a prominent position in the 2006 CASCAR Super
Series Championship. The CASCAR race at the Grand Prix of Edmonton will be
named the 'Griddly Headz 100', while the Labour Day event at Cayuga Int'l
Speedway will be the 'Hot Head Henry 200, powered by Griddly Headz'. For more
information, visit www.griddlyheadz.com.

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