Nascar Canadian Tire Series Awards Banquet Photos

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Sirius finished off its first season with its awards banquet Saturday, Oct. 13 at the Hilton Markham Convention Center in Toronto, Ontario.

Andrew Ranger, No. 27 Wal-Mart/Tide Ford Fusion, was officially celebrated as the Champion of the Nascar Canadian Tire Series. Even his car was there!

The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season began May 26 at Cayuga Speedway Park in Hamilton, Ontario and finished Sept. 23 at Kawartha Speedway in Peterborough, Ontario. The 12-race schedule stretched sea to sea across the country, from Nova Scotia to British Columbia.

Back in June, George Silbermann, NASCAR Managing Director of Racing Operations stated, "We look forward with great anticipation to celebrating the inaugural season of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Sirius with the season-end awards banquet in Toronto, We also look forward to a lot of exciting racing action at racetracks across Canada between now and then." Saturday night he was a speaker whose dreams for the series had come true.

While there is no question that the success of the Series was the result of just awesome racing on the part of the drivers and their teams, there was also a tremendous effort on the part of the Series' management team. They celebrated the success of the Series right along with the award winners. In this next picture, you can see some of the movers and shakers on the business side:
From left, NASCAR Canada managing director, Randy Paul, NASCAR Canadian Tire Series director, Richard Coughlin, Series Champion, Andrew Ranger, Canadian Tire Corporation's Vice President, Automotive, Tony Kuczynski and NASCAR's Director of Touring Series, North America, Richard Buck.

While much of the attention centered on the Series Champion, Andrew Ranger, there was well earned recognition for the No. 27 Wal-Mart/Tide Ford Fusion Champion crew chief, Bill Burns. He is shown in the next picture holding his 'Champion Crew Chief' award with NASCAR Canadian Tire Series technical director Tim Ellas.

Finally, the entire Championship team was present and accounted for. Here they all are celebrating with their trophy hardware.











Many thanks to Shon Sbarra, Nascar Public Relations, who expedited getting these photos to us. Also thanks to Christopher Coughlin, photographer at the event.