Busch in Montreal in 2007? Good for Quebec, not to good for Ontario!
Here I was thinking NASCAR was leaning towards Mosport? Come on Ontario fans, let NASCAR CEO George Pyne know your views!
Myself, I was thinking they could run either CASCAR (hopefully NASCAR buys them out) or NCTS on the 1/2 mile oval at Mosport while Busch runs on the road course, and make a big weekend out of it!
Great idea auto, besides, i thought the race was comming to Canada, not quebec? Cmon outsider, you guys need a checkmark in the calgary slot lol.
That wouldnt be good if they went to Quebec.... I can just see the headlines:
"50+ NASCAR haulers stolen in Canada... Canadians are now considered A-Holes"
Now that just wouldn't look good on Canada because they'd blame it on the whole country rather than just Quebec. haha
if it has to be a road course, Mosport for sure. The Villeneuve track in Mtl is way too tight for anything but formula cars. It would be easy to bring in all the portable seating from the Molson Indy to Mosport. Too bad that the big grandstands at Mosport on the front straight and at the top of the Andretti straight were never replaced after being condemned and torn down back in the Harvey Hudes era. (remember Harvey's famous statement that they tore the grandstands down so fans could see better--never admitting they were too broke to fix them)
I'm surprised they haven't thought about adding a Busch North event to an exisiting race weekend in recent years. That series is down to about 15 races. I think they lost their Watkins Glen race and just have Lime Rock Park on their road racing part of the schedule. People seem to forget that we used to have this series predecessor (Nascar North) run at Cayuga, Little Sanair, and various Quebec tracks before Tom Curley got the boot and formed ACT. I love Calgary but the track barely gets 4500 people for a Cascar race and Race City can't hold much more than 7000, maybe double if portables were set up on the back straight.
Perhaps it would make sense to invest $$$$ into Sanair which is almost a mile oval, but needs much investment in the physical plant to bring it up to current standards. This might be the most logical oval available.
one strike against Mosport is that Mosport owner Don Panoz is highly affiliated with the American Lemans Series. Their biggest rival in sports car racing in North America (The Grand Am Series-- that runs the "Daytona" Prototypes --those look alike rear engine cars which are barely faster than the GT Porsches they compete with) is owned by International Speedway Corp, in other words Nascar. Wonder if they'll force Panoz to take a Grand Am race as part of the conditions to get a Busch Race?