Apparently, the forums are buzzing with the news that Jeff Gordon is involved, although his participation has been pretty well common knowledge for months.
Below are JPGs from a publication called Professional Motorsport Circuit (inaugural edition / March 2009) with a feature on the track and a full page ad on the back promoting "Canadian Motor Speedway" ... with the tagline "A Jeff Gordon Signature Speedway."
The link to the page with the article is here.
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Greg let me know if any of this involves McMaster as I have heard within the Engineering department that it does
Tom
The article mentions the cost and the number of seats but not the size of the track. Anyone know what its supposed to be?
Will the track have a landing strip for flying pigs?
Great news...as Canadian motorsport enthusiasts let's make sure we support it!...especially those that live in the area.
There is another version of this story at www.niagarafallsreview.ca/PrintArticle.aspx?e=1514379. It says:
"According to article, the speedway, which Mohammad described as the Canadian Motor Speedway, will benefit from its unique location – just six kilometres from the Canadian/U.S. border in the centre of a market encompassing 125 million people within a 50-mile radius".
So the article is written by the developer's PR guy who says there are 125 million people within 50 miles of the track. And we are supposed to take this seriously? Sounds like Fantasyland.
Maybe there is a number missing in front of the 50, like a 1, or 2
Nice try but the population of all of Canada is 30 million. The entire population of New York State is 20 million with about half in the New York City area. 125 million is crazy. Maybe they are hoping the middle eastern investors will not know that.
Every few years someone has a big plan for a superspeedway in Southern Ontario. The last one was the Niagara Falls International Speedway. Before that, the ISA was going to build one. Healthy skepticism is an appropriate and realistic response to big plans and PR fluff.
$200 million project in this day and age will never happen!!
Perhaps they dropped a decimal and it should read 12.5 It is within 50 miles of Toronto using Niagara Falls as the center.....Here's to hoping it happens, but I'll get excited when the shovel is in the ground.
Well, if there is "healthy skepticism" to be had, it will most certainly come from the Canadian motorsports community!
Trading Paint on Sirius Radio had Derek Bell on yesterday talking about the track. Derek is designing the Road Coarse and Jeff Gordon is designing the 1 mile oval.
The funding is done, the land is bought, and the final plan is in front of the Regional Council and is slated for approval by June with the Province's blessing.
Derek said they hope to break ground the first of July with completion and ready for the first race by 2011.
Can anyone say "goodby Cayuga".
JUST LIKE CAYUGA SPEEDWAY WAS GOING TO BE UP-GRADED, THIS SPEEDWAY ISN'T GOING TO HAPPEN. TO MAKE THIS WORK IT PROBABLY NEEDS TO CLOSER TO TORONTO. HOW LONG DO WE HAVE TO HEAR THESE PIPE DREAMS ABOUT NEW SPEEDWAYS WHEN NOTHING EVER,EVER HAPPENS
Hmm,,,a 1 mile oval. Will Nascar Kanuckistan, try to be the premier series at that track?
Don't know if any of the cars could handle it.
Can you say: "She blowed up, real good."
Saying it will never happen is easy. No one has a problem finding peoples flaws and failures but, to shout that it "WILL NEVER HAPPEN" when:
- the funding is done,
- the land is bought, and
- the final plan is in front of the Regional Council (slated for approval by June with the Province's blessing)
The scepticism seems to me to be poorly founded, especially with Derek Daily, Jeff Gordon, and investment hungry bankers who are using this complex as a spring-board to bigger and better things.
With that combination it will likely get a NASCAR race on it's calendar, and an Indy Car race, etc., just the NASCAR one will make it a go.
Alan
The major stumbling block for this project will be the narrow-minded residents of Fort Erie. I lived there for quite a while, and have found the inhabitants whish the town to become nothing other than a quiet retirement community. They have vociferously defeated several proposed developments and commercial offerings in the past, and none of those ventures would have as large an ongoing impact on the general populace as this speedway would.
These people are the kings of NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) thinking.
I want to thank the CARS group for working so hard and obtaining information for the town of Fort Erie residents. Most people I have asked how they feel about a motor speedway being proposed for our town have no clue of what is going on. For the people that mention "we need jobs" in our town, please read all the information that is out there against this speedway. If a motor speedway is built in the town of Fort Erie, our pleasant community will be ruined forever. Please think about it!
Alan
are you sure the funding is done?
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