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spinner26
09-12-06, 02:09 PM
http://jayski.com/cupnews.htm#myprints

NASCAR buying CASCAR UPDATE Official: [after years of rumors...] NASCAR today will unveil a Canadian-based stock car series that will feature a season-long points battle among the country's best drivers and end with the awarding of the Canadian Tire Cup. The Toronto Sun has learned that a deal to sell CASCAR -- Canada's top stock car racing series -- to the France family business that is NASCAR will be made official at a news conference today in Toronto and that Canadian Tire has signed on as the title sponsor. The deal, which has been two years in the making, will see NASCAR sanction a national stock car racing series in Canada on the foundation that has been laid by Tony Novotny and his wife, Linda, over the past 20 years. "It's finally going to happen," Linda Novotny said yesterday. At the Champ Car Grand Prix of Montreal last month CASCAR also became the first stock car series to race on an active Formula One track at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. It is the same track where the NASCAR Busch Series will hold its first-ever Canadian race in 2007. Robbie Weiss, NASCAR's international director, is flying in from his Los Angles office to make the proclamation about his company's future in the Great White North and while his office would not reveal why he is visiting Toronto, it's not likely just another glad-handing affair where Brian France gets his hands on some of that Canadian Tire money.
Speaking of CASCAR, all of a sudden it seems to be the place to be for two of Quebec's top open wheel racing drivers. A week ago Patrick Carpentier, a veteran of both Champ Car and the Indy Racing League, drew high praise for his sixth-place finish after he climbed into the Dave Jacombs Racing #88 Ford for CASCAR's Labour Day Classic at Cayuga Speedway. And this past Saturday at Montreal's Autodrome Ste. Eustache, 19-year-old Andrew Ranger, driver of the #27 MiJack Conquest Racing Lola in Champ Car, drove the same car to a 13th-place finish in his first try in the big sedans. Both Carpentier and Ranger have been paying attention to the NASCAR talk in their home province and both are likely to make bids to be part of the show there next season.(Toronto Sun)

oddlycalm
09-12-06, 03:10 PM
All your bases are belong to us.

NASCAR and the Frances are a black hole that his sucking the air and light out of racing in North America. Since :tony: played into their hands and screw fomula car racing it's been a long slow slide. Now they mean to gut Canada the same way they gutted the US.

oc

Don Quixote
09-12-06, 03:16 PM
In a related story, Quebec has just surrendered.:p

spinner26
09-12-06, 03:17 PM
[CHEST THUMP CHEST THUMP] ME BIG GORRILA, ME EAT YOU FOR LUNCH[chest thump chest thump]:gomer: :laugh: :shakehead

The France Family Circus rides on.

devilmaster
09-12-06, 03:19 PM
Wonder if that means the cars will be changing..... CASCAR has always used fiberglass bodies instead of sheet metal.

Kinda curious to see if there are new rules.....

pferrf1
09-12-06, 03:38 PM
Pray that the NASCARites see the light and take the inevitable Cup race to a redeveloped Cayuga Speedway where it belongs. Get the hell away from Montreal and Toronto area road courses.....

pchall
09-12-06, 03:44 PM
In a related story, Quebec has just surrendered.:p

Dang. A possible successful invasion and takeover of Canada and my family didn't get invited along on the expedition. :irked:

Maybe we can all get together and retake Canada from those danged Southreners for real racing and real sport someday.

RichK
09-12-06, 03:53 PM
Dear Canada,

Sorry about that. And the Wal-Mart thing while we're at it.