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

Yes, I remember now! Thanks for refreshing my memory.

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.

I remember too, when Payne & Cicconi came up - believe it was June 3rd 1990 & I have a few pics from that day as well, but again they are on my computer back home & won't get to that until next year some time LOL.

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.