Mosport Raceway, Canada's other major track, may be looking for a NASCAR Nationwide date

   By Mike Mulhern
   mikemulhern.net

   THE ATLANTA SUNDAY NOTEBOOK

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   Following up last weekend's NASCAR Nationwide stop in Montreal, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve:
   Executives at Mosport International Raceway -- Canada's other major venue, five hours west of Montreal, near Toronto – are expected to talk with NASCAR officials about getting a spot on the Nationwide tour too.
    When NASCAR was first looking at a Canadian venture a few years ago, it considered considered   MOSPORT  as a potential tour stop.
  Last weekend while NASCAR's Grand-Am sports car series was running Montreal in a companion event with Nationwide, the rival ALMS sports car series was running at Mosport and drew a good 40,000, despite the competition.
  NASCAR still hasn't released any schedules for its national touring series; the Grand-Am series tested at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, on the Formula One course, Thursday, in what could be prelude to a tour stop there next summer.

    
    More on Danica Patrick jumping into NASCAR: Patrick did test a Busch car for a few days several years, with Ford Motor Company's guidance, via team owner Greg Pollack. And she was then considering a NASCAR career, but decided to go open-wheel.
    The behind-the-scenes dueling for a Patrick-NASCAR deal has been primarily betweeen Chevrolet and Ford, with the Tony Stewart-Rick Hendrick satellite Chevy operation and Jack Roush's large Ford operation considered the two front-runners. Chip Ganassi, once in the Patrick game, took himself out of play several weeks ago.
   

         Mosport International Raceway