yes thats what I meant ... thanks pinecrest --- I knew we are still buddies !!  😀 😀

I just added the rumors section back to this forum as this might help.

People please try and not fight ever message this is almost like the race with all the cautions. We have a few good messages then we have a little fight between a couple of users.

There was a good turn out and if I remember correctly there was more people at the shootout.

I was surprised not that many people from the press were there and that has been one of the biggest problems we have faced over the years in CASCAR and now with NASCAR. I thought the NASCAR name would bring more press to the race. Lets face it if something major doesn't happen in the series I think the press will give the same coverage as before nothing. Maybe it will take a driver to jump out of the car and drop kick another driver through the windshield to get some coverage. Just joking drivers don't do it it.

Just for the record, my statements are directed at the lack of Media coverage, focused more on our home town paper's lack of intent to publish a storey about the first race for NASCAR in Canada.
By no means am I trashing Tim Miller because if it wasnt for Tim we would have nothing at allto read about with regards to local racing.
As Pinecrest pointed out, This series needs a Canadian to cover all of the events, then release the story's to every paper across Canada.
Would Tim be a good choice ? Who knows !!
It seems that the Spectator only wants to cover what they classify as top ranked sports happenings and if that is the case then they need to understand that the NASCAR CTS is the biggest in Canada.
Its to bad they are not as supportive to the local happenings as some other cities are.
Take Buffalo for instance.
If a Joe Blow bowls a perfect game it makes the front page, channel 7, cahnnel 4, channel 2, and Radio 550...        Now thats great local media coverage !! 

A couple of comments on some of the topics on this thread.

- Tim Miller would fill 10 pages on what happened at Cayuga Speedway if given the space. He was there. I'm sure he filed. Whether it gets on the page or not isn't his call. I wonder how much ad revenue the Spec (and every other daily in this country) gets from Canadian Tire and Dodge ads? Someone should point this out to the Publisher... who might mention it to the Sports Editor. The series has some big friends and that leverage that should be used, IMO.

- The crowd... 10 minutes before they got into the car, I was chatting on pit road with Bob Merrifield. He was sick that there was no one in the grandstand. I started the race shooting photos in the starter's stand. When I turned around to head down the ladder, I couldn't believe how much the place had filled up. Relative to most Canadian tracks, Cayuga has massive grandstands. The stands near the start/finish line were mostly full. And there were people 1/2 to 1/3 of the way down the stands for the entire length of the front straight. For the big Canada Day Shootout a few years back, there was a grandstand in turn 3 and the place was jammed. They said there were 12,000 people there. This is just a guess, but using that as a baseline, I'd say there were 4000+ there on Saturday. IMO that's not too bad for a series that didn't have a schedule until six weeks ago. I remember seeing the Cayuga guys at the Toronto Auto Show several months ago in the bizarre position of trying to sell tickets for an event that they weren't technically allowed to say existed. No, 4,000+ (again, my guess) isn't a full house, but it's about 10 times as many people as I've seen at some Cayuga CASCAR races in the time since the Canada Day Shootout. Progress.

- I have never seen so many media people at Cayuga, since the first Canada Day Shootout. CBC had a satellite transmission truck in the infield (to file to Radio Canada about Ranger, I'd guess). It was like a rugby scrum after the race in victory lane. In the media room... which for years consisted of myself and 2 other regulars... there was Vic Rauter from TSN (one of several), a guy from Sportsnet and several others I'd never seen before. In addition to the Robinson's camera guy Frank who walks in front of everyone in victory lane, there was another cameraman doing the same thing (argh!), apparently from Canadian Tire. Who knows how they're going to use that footage to promote the series? Progress.

- The nationality of the person filing the stories is irrelevant. I did it for 10 years as a sideline to my main work on my company (ITMN). It worked for CASCAR and it worked for me. But it wasn't ideal. The series now has a dedicated NASCAR employee sending out information from a nascar.com e-mail address. Progress.

Finally, no one said everything was going to magically change overnight. The ISA said that, and we all saw how that worked out. The drivers and sponsors are the ones who have put their money on the line for this series and I can't find one who feels things are heading the wrong way. Anyone who WANTS to avoid seeing the silver lining will be successful.

Greg;

Your points are all very valid.  Very well said.