Organizers for the NASCAR Nationwide series race signed a three-year deal Monday to keep the event at Gilles Villeneuve Circuit. This year’s NAPA Auto Parts 200 will be held Aug. 29-30 — a Saturday and Sunday. In its first two years, the Montreal event was held on Friday and Saturday, on the same weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup series was competing in another city. The fate of the Nationwide series event was up in the air after the city lost its popular Formula One race in October and promoter Normand Legault announced he was pulling out of the business. But Daytona, Fla.- based International Speedway Corporation, which previously owned 50 percent of the event, bought out Legault’s half so the stock car race could continue, said Dumontier. It’s one of the best-attended races on the Nationwide schedule.(Associated Press / ESPN.com)(3-2-2009)
