Expansion At Canadian Tire Motorsport Park For Driver Development Track

[CanadianRacingOnline]

Expansion At Canadian Tire Motorsport Park For Driver Development Track    As Canadian Tire Motorsport Park continues with its extensive renovations and facility improvements, the next phase of the future will be an expansion to the Driver Development Centre.

 

To accommodate the upgrades to the Driver Development Centre at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, the half-mile Speedway will be closing as of July 27, 2013. The season end point fund will remain intact and as a result of the closure, the weekly purse will increase for the remainder of the Saturday Night Stock Car Racing season.

 

“To accommodate the expansion of the Driver Development Track, the closure of the Speedway will be necessary,” said Myles Brandt, President and General Manager at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

 

“The Speedway has enjoyed an impressive 24-year run as Canada’s fastest half-mile paved oval. On behalf of all of us at the track, I would like to express our thanks to all of the drivers and teams, who have always put on a great show for the fans. Thank you to the staff for all of their hard work and dedication year in and year out. We would also like to thank all of our partners over the years and a special thank you to all of our dedicated fans.”

 

“Canadian Tire Motorsport Park continues to evolve into one of the world’s great automotive performance centres. We look forward to seeing the next crop of top Canadian racers hone their skills here and represent Canada on the world stage.”

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[CanadianRacingOnline]

So where is everyone going to go now? That is a shame as 2 good tracks in one year.



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[CanadianRacer.com]

Peterborough Speedway is the winner again. They fended off several other tracks in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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[snapper]

Last year the rumors were of rebuilding the oval, what happened to that?

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[ernie]

Will they still run specials? NCaTS?

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[JustWondering]

Will they still run specials? NCaTS?

On the road course,,,,,but the oval is done.

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[ernie]

Will they still run specials? NCaTS?

On the road course,,,,,but the oval is done.

Are they trying to get the jump on CMS?

So can Delaware now claim to be 'the fastest track' now?

Maybe Sunset will get a NCaTS date now?

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[Just_A_Fan]

So can Delaware now claim to be 'the fastest track' now?

 Looking at last year's NCATS stats:

- pole time at Mosport (Pete Shepherd III) was 21.517 seconds (83.655 mph)

- pole time at Delaware (DJ Kennington) was 19.281 seconds (93.356 mph)

Looks to me like Delaware is the faster track anyway . . .

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[ford93]

I think Mosport is faster on the straights but slower in the corners. Where as delly is not as fast on the straights but you carry more speed through the corners. So Mosprt might have a faster top end speed and delly has a faster average lap speed

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[slapdown]

The worst part of this whole deal is that Mosport knew this was coming and still let the racers spend their time and money getting ready for a FULL season. Supposedly it nothing to do with the low car or fan count. Now that there is only one track east of TO it is time for JP to take charge and do something to get his track back to where it was before Mosport and KD were around. It would be nice if promoters would quit upping the rules, and thus costs, for every class. It has killed the asphalt crowd over the last two decades. Spending close to 60Gs on a LLM is rediculous. Just one example of many

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[oldbill]

I don't know that Mosport knew this was coming. I know (or I heard) last fall that they were looking at options for the oval including developing and expanding it, turning it in to a dirt oval or closing it. The sad fact is that asphalt tracks today, all of them, are experiencing low car counts and low spectator counts. The dirt tracks, e.g., Oshweken, Brighton, etc. seem to be doing much better.
Everything at Mosport now is about the bottom line. Ovals don't make much money. Driver development tracks do.
I also don't agree that it is the promoters that keep driving up the cost of race cars. Often it is a few drivers who want to use some new and expensive gadget to go faster.

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[madracer]

 If race tracks do not freeze rules for at least 3 years at a time they will die a slow death.  just my opinion  but its true

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