Your 100% right on this as I was there in the Pits and these were the only drivers I saw there and got pictures of.

Bodine, Wallace and Marlin ran the 2'nd time they came up.

The first time the guys came up it was Schrader, Stewart, Kenseth, Benson, Blaney & Musgrave. Stewart even jumped into an ISMA Super Modified, as they ran that weekend as well!

I remember talking to Gerry Evans after the first shootout. Did you know he tried to get Kurt Busch and Jimmy Spencer up to race at Cayuga. Remember, that was right after those 2 were at logger heads. It's too bad he couldn't pull that one off, it would have been another one to remember, but I wouldn't want to be the car owners, providing the cars for these two! lol

OK now that I have posted both races where Nascar drivers drove at Cayuga. Why is it not possible to have drivers here again. Why should we believe the doubters?

Why look for the bad in the release? Doesn't make any sense. Ross why not get the drivers you mention and approach a track and put a good race show on for us?

Its sad Evan that you don't see already they are putting on a "good race". I mean you run a race forum here, with even some of the awsome drivers I mentioned online.

See what kinda pisses me off is a track "promises" that they will bring some big names from NASCAR up and that makes all the buzz, you even ask that a track put on a "good show" as if there isn';t one now. Barrie Thunder invitational, you could watch anywhere in the pack and there was a great battle for position. Walter Vs Witty at AC. About anything listed in the 2008 CRO awards as the greatest moment.. And hell yeah I'd pay $35 bucks +++++ to watch any of those... Having blown over 100 bucks a ticket to watch a 200 lap parade at Michigan, so its really a no brainer to me.

So yeah, lets get all excited about some race where NASCAR drivers are going to show up. Even hold out hope that the "mistry" drivers are WOW Dale Jr. Forget that its not likely to happen, because thats negative thinking. If it wasn't for a bunch of overpriced american drivers like Walrip coming to Canada, what would we have to look forward to for the 2009 race season? Right?

Even if NASCAR is your thing and the center of the earth to you, I'd be a heck of a lot more excited to see JR make it there, than to see Waltrip turn laps and get badly beaten at Caygua...

ross for you and me to see the races you were talking about with our home track heros going at it and good side by side racing ( itoo was at barrie for the barrie thunder invi) is great but for the casual fan who only sees "big name" drivers on tv this may be what brings them to a local track for the first time, in the early eightys i went to cayuga to see an ASA race for this reason, mark martin alan kulwiki jim sauter and a few others i cant think of right at this moment. this hooked me for life and i was only 12. i lived in TO and didnt know there was evan a track out side of barrie. now i would'nt spend my saturday night anywhere else and i now have kids who feel the same. 😉

ross for you and me to see the races you were talking about with our home track heros going at it and good side by side racing ( itoo was at barrie for the barrie thunder invi) is great but for the casual fan who only sees "big name" drivers on tv this may be what brings them to a local track for the first time, in the early eightys i went to cayuga to see an ASA race for this reason, mark martin alan kulwiki jim sauter and a few others i cant think of right at this moment. this hooked me for life and i was only 12. i lived in TO and didnt know there was evan a track out side of barrie. now i would'nt spend my saturday night anywhere else and i now have kids who feel the same. 😉

Exactly Charger, it's good for the sport!

And Ross, I agree we have some of the best drivers going up here at our local tracks but come on, really, those guys that do make it to the Cup level, are the elite of the elite! And yes, I can think of several of our drivers, if given the chance could make it down there.

And for everyone concerned up here, from a driver to get to drive against them, a crew member that gets to work with them, a fan that gets to see them for the first time, to the track owner that perhaps brings some fame to his track, the promoter's, the sponsors, etc., etc.... in my mind, it's a win/win situation all around.

ross for you and me to see the races you were talking about with our home track heros going at it and good side by side racing ( itoo was at barrie for the barrie thunder invi) is great but for the casual fan who only sees "big name" drivers on tv this may be what brings them to a local track for the first time, in the early eightys i went to cayuga to see an ASA race for this reason, mark martin alan kulwiki jim sauter and a few others i cant think of right at this moment. this hooked me for life and i was only 12. i lived in TO and didnt know there was evan a track out side of barrie. now i would'nt spend my saturday night anywhere else and i now have kids who feel the same. 😉

I'm not saying its a bad thing. What my comments were dirrect at are those of us here, that are drivers at the tracks and fans that support the local tracks.

If some guy who's never been to a race say, Wow Jeff Gordon is at Cayuga, i've never been to a race, I'm going to go. Thats a good thing.

However for you or me to say Wow Jeff Gordon is at Cayuga, as if its more important than Hanley, Watson and Temersma being at whatever, would be a mistake..

What I worry about is if it doesn't happen, or the NASCAR star crashes on the first lap, all the excitement had been removed. The new fan is "stuck" watching our local guys, and may overlook the fact that its the local guys that will really be putting the show on.