it's a pretty safe bet that dwight brown will stick with mosport so long as rip is there

Turn1 yes I heard about Delaware rewarding the top 5 in each class with a surprise membership for next year.  This is great especially if the team is planning on running in 2008, I'm sure the teams would have preferred the cash value of those memberships at the banquet but every little bit helps.  I'm not bashing Delaware just try to show what Barrie is offering compared to other Ontario tracks.  If Jesse Kennedy hadn't won the big $10,000 to win invintational his dismal points payout would not have helped offset his costs to race in 2007.  As for your comment about the Nascar membership, I take it you are still alittle bitter about Delaware's foray into Nascar a few years ago, I bet you Scott Lindsay has a different view about Nascar.  As for Barrie the Nascar membership was not mandatory for crew members as it was at Delaware, due to the fact the pits were in the infield/pit road area.  It was only required for Barrie drivers and crew members that wanted to go on pit road.  The crew members Nascar membership was not a factor if you were planning on running a full season because the amount a Nascar member saved on pit gate admission on a nightly basis payed for the Nascar membership.  As for the drivers the track helped with the cost of the Nascar membership by waving the normal Barrie drivers fee.  This didn't cover the full cost but with the added insurance coverage and the increase in points payout it was worth the few extra bucks.

As for some of the other drivers mentioned look for McWhirter to go full time NCTS, with Barrie on the off weekends for a few appearances. Quesnelle will be back at Barrie as well as Malcolm. The # of races Darin will do will depend on how well hes doing is my guess!!! I think hes a great driver and while I do think he someday would like to be a track champ like father Brian was, Darin is pretty laid back and just really races for the sport of if and he also values family and spending time at home which if you ever saw his wife you'd know why!!!!LOL I think Kevin Reynolds depends if he can get any sponsorship for the coming year I for one hope he gets it!!! Garry is looking to go OSCAAR from all accounts and thats too bad to lose the man with the most career feature wins at Barrie. I do know he applied to get the race directors job at Barrie and I for one was disappointed when he didnt get it!! And this is no slight to Brian Thomas as I wouldnt know him if I fell over him!! But to me a race director should be more of a schedule maker/ liason between drivers and fans alike as well as over seeing public relations as well as another eye during the races to make on track decisions and that sort of thing where to me it sounds like his specialty lies more in the tech shed!!! I know Garry had some really good ideas with regards to race formats and such that I think would of really helped the speedway for both car counts and fan support alike!! I was pretty choked not to see THE GAMBLER get his due after running at Barrie since 73!!! One thing I wonder is who they going to get to work at Barrie?? I know many former track employees that arent coming back to work there and can only hope they get more than a skeleton crew to do some of these inportant jobs!!! But I guess its really trial and error for the new ownership group and I look forward to attending for at least a few races as I'm not going to be on staff this year. Good luck this season to all drivers from all tracks and heres hoping the Sat nights are filled with sunshine and warm temperatures!!!LOL

And no worries RACE 8 dont mind the correction one bit!! I just didnt realize Downey had that car before Baker!!! I thought Downey's current LLM was the one he ran ALSTAR with!! And ya I'm aware how old that car is and your probably right about is being JR Regan's old ride in the Sportman days as well!!! I'll even go ya one better I think Mike Shaughnessy raced with that same chassis when he did some races in the BUSCH North or Winston West series or whatever it was at the time around 81 or 82 I believe???? What ever the big races Shaughnessy ran in the states that was the car!!!

malcom is not comming back all his stuff is for sale.....look iunder barrie's for sale page,he wants to race ncts!