Matthews actually didn't run full time at Barrie. As the year went on he missed a number of nights and even ran Sunset some in the second half. He was fun to watch, quite aggressive which caused a few incidents too and some of the veterans had to bumper him here and there. If I recall correctly, he pretty much totalled his LLM at Barrie very late in the year.

Yeah, once he found his feet at Delaware he was pretty agressive too. Caused a few small problems, but towards the end of the season he was starting to pull it all together. If he runs the full Delaware sched this year, he'll be a force to be reckoned with. Bank on it.

As far as what he did at Barrie, I wasn't sure - but he posted not quite twice as many races as Robblee did.

Ya the SIS name change came about somewhere at or around the first month or two of last season if memory serves, and I dont think it has anything to do with NASCAR but I'm not really "in the know" down there either.

I can't think of any other reason they would go through the expense of building a pit road for regular Sat nite racing.

Safety.  Mark does not want cars with flat tires, damage etc, racing through the pits endangering people's safety trying to get it fixed within 2 or 3 laps.  I believe it also helps with insurance to not have a 'hot pit' and have all the action in the infield with minimal amounts of people in it.

OK. Well've never been to a regular race where there's a pit road on the infield, yet the actual pits are outside the track. How would that work with 3-4  racing divisions lugging all their crap back and forth all night?

Of course, they could take the emphasis off points racing. (regular weekend racing ceased to need points systems years ago) If not for points, there's no other reason Johnny Street Stock would be barrel assing thru the pits with a flat tire. And if he's causing undue danger, then fry him. No pit road necessary.