NASCAR today will unveil a Canadian-based stock car series that will feature a season-long points battle among the country’s best drivers and end with the awarding of the Canadian Tire Cup.

The Toronto Sun has learned that a deal to sell CASCAR — Canada’s top stock car racing series — to the France family business that is NASCAR will be made official at a news conference today in Toronto and that Canadian Tire has signed on as the title sponsor.

The deal, which has been two years in the making, will see NASCAR sanction a national stock car racing series in Canada on the foundation that has been laid by Tony Novotny and his wife, Linda, over the past 20 years.

“It’s finally going to happen,” Linda Novotny said yesterday.

Toronto Sun