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Here are some cool videos I found on youtube

A 1993 CASCAR Heat race from Calgary
Stock Car Racing May 1993 CASCAR qualifying heat[/url]

and the 1996 Pit Stop Competition
Stock Car Pitstop competition 1996 Calgary[/url]

From what I remember of the different series in the late 90's, the Super Series consisted of 7-8 races for the eastern championship, 6-7 for the western one and 4 full National weekends. The Nationals were held at Race City in Calgary, Edmonton airport, Mosport road course and Delaware. They were busy weekends as the teams would usually practice and time trial Friday, then they would split the field from the odd (1,3,5,etc) fastest and the even (2,4,6,etc) fastest and run a two shorter (ie. 100 lap) races Friday night for full points. The Friday races would also help set the starting field for Sundays long (ie. 300 lap) races. Saturdays (at the ovals anyways) would be a practice and Saturday nights they would run a usually run a last chance qualifier for the final positions (from approx.25th on back) alongside the tracks local divisions. You probably will only find the results of the "Sunday" races. So, the final results of the National point standings were a result of the eight races (2 at each track) plus your two best results in your "home" (east or west) series........Confused?......Has anybody mentioned yet that along with the Cascar Super Series National,East and West series there was also a Cascar Sportsman series east and possibly west touring series that ran identical cars (except for carbs and radios) during this time as well.......

Steve Roblee's CASCAR Cougar from 1989.
As far as I can recall Whitlock only ran T-Birds and not the Cougar. This is from 1989 but I recall a similar T-Bird in 1990 at the CNE and also in 1991.

Great picture of the '89 steel bodied Cougar. The panels were OEM from Ford. Steve only ran it for one year. He won the Delaware and Super Series Championships with it.

Steve Roblee's CASCAR Cougar from 1989. Don Mallat also ran the earlier style body with the funky rear window as a Late Model for several years in the 80s at Checkered Flag but not in CASCAR.


As far as I can recall Whitlock only ran T-Birds and not the Cougar. This is from 1989 but I recall a similar T-Bird in 1990 at the CNE and also in 1991.

Those are some awesome pictures!

Mike32,

You bring back memories indeed. Though mine are not of native Ontario racers, but the westcoast. Rarely did we see the Cougar version of the 83-88 and 89-97 Cougar's on the race track. But when we did, it was an all-steel affair built on stock body parts since no fabricators "stocked' the thin metal variants. Some guys did buy the first gen 'aftermarket' fenders and quarter panels when they became available - because they were lighter than OEM's.

Most Sportsman West cars were all built on T-Bird platforms, since the Cougar (MN12 chassis) was designed for independent suspension pieces. The T-Bird had the 'option' for an IR (Super Coupe's) but it was easier to use a T-Bird setup, especially 85 to 88 variants. When they allowed full race chassis, the shell's were gone and bodywork became all aftermarket (price), except the Winston West, where only factory sheetmetal was allowed similar to Cup cars of the era.

There was even a Cougar Station Wagon that a guy tried to get through tech (uhhhh no) in Bakersfield, an for a wagon, it sure was a funny lookin stock car !

I remember a test back sometime in the late '80's when a guy dared the Sportman class tech administration to allow him run a bone stock Buick GN with slicks and roll cage. I forget which track it  did invite him to try (Snohomish rings a bell) against the locals, 5/8 mile flat as a rail track. I think he held his own - till midway through the feature, the turbo melted...he was running in the top 5 I think.

if I remember correctly, Bill Rowse Jr and Mallat, seemed to do ok at the "specials" at the CNE. The corner 3&4 was like a hairpin. I remember a big tq race at the CNE and the cars from NJ (Payne & Cicconi for example), with rotax engines, had a devil of a time keeping them from stalling out.
 Definitely good days in the east for Cascar with Delaware, Checker Flag, CNE, Barrie and St. Eustache running them in the east weekly.
 Super series races were often 35-40 cars. Guess that's why I get disallusioned with the NCATS 18 car fields.
 A friend was talking to Flamboro's John Casale a while back about the Cascar race there in 1988 and apparently John can't remember it-LOL. Those were the days when they were still running steel bodies (I think) and I believe there were a few notchback Cougars in competition (Whitlock for example)
 Rebel was talking about Skeeter's TBird and that was a pretty car with the gray and purple paint job. Won a 100 lapper at Delaware too!
 The triple 50s at Barrie were a god send for the body supplier for the series who was you know who......LOL. Usually by the third fifty, it looked like a field of fenderless modifieds.

Quote from: Battalionfan888 on July 11, 2010, 04:47:22 PM

Will looking back at some results I see there were events that were known as "Triple 50's"
I was wondering how those events worked.
I'm assuming there were 3 50 lap races but what im curious to find out is, were they 3 totally seperate races with seperate points?
were they elimination events, for example like a Winston Cup all star race where after each 50 lap segment some cars are emlinated?
Were the first two 50 lappers heat races to determine the lineup for the final 50?
How did these events work?

These events were only at Barrie I believe. The field was split into two separate 50's and the top 12 from each advanced to the final. They all were equal points.

Thanks for the info, however i have seen that in 1994 they did a triple 50 at St.Eustache, as well as at the CNE in 1990

Will looking back at some results I see there were events that were known as "Triple 50's"
I was wondering how those events worked.
I'm assuming there were 3 50 lap races but what im curious to find out is, were they 3 totally seperate races with seperate points?
were they elimination events, for example like a Winston Cup all star race where after each 50 lap segment some cars are emlinated?
Were the first two 50 lappers heat races to determine the lineup for the final 50?
How did these events work?

These events were only at Barrie I believe. The field was split into two separate 50's and the top 12 from each advanced to the final. They all were equal points.