NASCAR Nationwide Series Hits Montreal, Live This Saturday Sports Programming / TSN Posted by RAD on Jul 30, 2008 - 03:05 PM Canadian drivers Jacques Villeneuve, Patrick Carpentier and Ron Fellows will be among the NASCAR stars in Montreal this weekend as the NASCAR Nationwide Series heads north for the second annual NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge. TSN and TSN HD have all the live action from Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on Saturday, Aug. 2, beginning with qualifying at 12:30 p.m. ET immediately followed by the race at 2:30 p.m. ET. TSN's Brent Wallace will be in Montreal filing daily reports for SportsCentre leading up to and following the race, including a one-on-one interview with the winning driver. Villeneuve, who raced in two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races last year, makes his return to stock car racing this weekend at the track named for his late father. Villeneuve will drive Braun Racing's No. 32 Toyota. Fellow Quebec native Carpentier, racing in the No. 9 Subway Dodge, will look to improve upon last year's impressive performance where he started on the pole and finished in second place. Fellows, a Windsor, Ont., native and road course specialist, will aim for another top-5 finish in the No. 5 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet after placing fourth in this event last year. A number of homegrown drivers from the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series are also entered in Saturday's race, including, Scott Steckly of Milverton, Ont., and DJ Kennington of St. Thomas, Ont. Current NASCAR Nationwide Series points leader Clint Bowyer will look to increase his lead in the standings over Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards who currently sit second and third in the standings, respectively. Keselowski and Edwards are both less than 200 points behind Bowyer and will aim to shorten that gap this weekend. Edwards and Bowyer are also regulars in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and are fifth and 12th respectively in that series' point standings. The 74-lap road course race is the 23rd event on the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule and joins the Corona Mexico 200 as the only other race taking place outside of the U.S. this year. This article is from CHANNEL CANADA   http://scifi.channelcanada.com/ The URL for this story is:   http://scifi.channelcanada.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2341