[vincesanity82]

With Canada's first taste of a NASCAR Busch Series race just days away at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, it's only fitting we line up the home-grown talent who will take on -- and may even win -- against the array of NBS and Nextel Cup drivers expected to qualify.
Ron Fellows: The Toronto native will be among the pre-race favourites to take the checkered flag in the No. 33 Kevin Harvick Inc, Chevrolet. Fellows has three Busch series wins and the No. 33 car knows it's way to Victory Lane. Tony Stewart won three times with it last season. And Fellows has a victory at Montreal's Formula One track back when he was racing in the Player's GM series.
Michael Valiante: The open-wheel racer from Vancouver was passed over for a ride in the Champ Car series in 2004 after winning five races in Formula Atlantic championship but has gone on to a respectable career racing sports cars in the Rolex Grand Am series. The 27-year-old will be driving a Chip Ganassi Racing Dodge from the same garage that prepared Juan Pablo Montoya's winning car at Mexico City earlier this season. That, and his credentials at turning both left and right, will make him a contender right off the trailer.
Patrick Carpentier: One of the most popular race car drivers to come out of Quebec, Carpentier also knows how to win at the 4.361-km permanent road course that is home to the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix. -- Toronto Sun



TorontoSun.com - Other Sports - Canadians all revved up

[Quality88]

Out of the states again huh.... well how bout a game of chase the northerners, eh.

[clutch]

Originally Posted by Quality88

Out of the states again huh.... well how bout a game of chase the northerners, eh.

May well turn out that way......they have some good racers entered up there. Would be great to spend the weekend in Montreal

[Quality88]

Originally Posted by clutch

May well turn out that way......they have some good racers entered up there. Would be great to spend the weekend in Montreal

My vote is for Fellows

[clutch]

Originally Posted by Quality88

My vote is for Fellows

Mine too Dustin.......I really like his ability

[Bob Tanner]

Quebec has a much more European sense of values, compared to the rest of English-speaking Canada (Simple Simon might back me up on this ). I've been to Montreal and Quebec City, plus to Ontatio and Manitoba, numerous times and there is literally a world of difference between the two Canada's.

Montreal is more of an F1 city, and hosts the Canadian GP. They did host it in Mosport, in Ontario but moved it to Montreal awhile back. Montreal is more like a street course, more in the European tradition.

If the Quebec'ers like it, it'll probably be because of the international flavor of the field with...? nine different countries represented. The Ontario'ers and the rest of the Canadians will maybe like it because it's stock car racing.

Over all the race will probably, for the first couple of years, have double the interest the Mexico City race had, but... what does THAT really say about the acceptance?