Report: NASCAR favours Mosport

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Report: NASCAR favours Mosport

TSN.ca Staff
3/24/2005

TSN.ca - Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ontario, is the leading candidate to land a NASCAR stock car race as soon as 2006, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.

The Sunreported that a group of NASCAR executives met Tuesday in Daytona Beach, Florida., to map out an expansion strategy. Part of that strategy will include a meeting with Myles Brandt, president and general manager of Mosport.

Brandt said Wednesday he already has had meetings with NASCAR officials about Mosport. He told the newspaper that NASCAR bosses are serious about a race at his four-kilometre road course.

"They have actually already been to Mosport," Brandt told the Sun. "And within the next 30 to 90 days they are going to be back to take another look at the track."
The Sun report says Mosport has moved ahead of Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve because of its ability to host races from the Nextel Cup, Busch Grand National or Craftsman Truck series.

The contract between promoter Normand Legault and the city of Montreal, which owns Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, limits its use to twice a year - once for the Canadian Grand Prix and once for the Champ Car Molson Indy Montreal.

While speculation has been rampant that Legault would dump Champ Car in favour of a NASCAR Nextel Cup race, he might not do so for a Busch or Craftsman Truck race.
NASCAR made its first foray outside of continental U.S. this season when the Busch series raced in Mexico City.