I’m not sure how I missed this story last year, but I learned about it in a fun way.

I was about to take a photo of Charles Espenlaub on the mock grid at Mosport, while he was sitting in the Mazda6, when a Speed official approached him. She said something to the effect of “now, what are you not going to do this year?”

Charles looked at me, smiled and looked back at her…

She turns to me and says: “last year, Charles went off track and somehow ended up sharing a beer with the fans, right in front of the cameras!”

Truly an act of a racer who understands racing in Canada! Big Ron would be proud!

Maybe you can live without barley soup in favor of doing your part for the environment by supporting ethanol use. But beer? Well that’s a different story.

Many farmers in the Pacific Northwest, where our nations hop production is concentrated, have turned to more profitable lines, especially corn, which can be made into ethanol. The decrease in hop production, put at some 50 percent over the past decade, has sent hop prices through the roof, according to The Economist.
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Canada and the United States may be next door neighbours, but there are still some subtle cultural differences. We have Tim Hortons, they have Krispy Kreme. Our light beer is stronger than your regular beer. Your athletes get all lubed up, hop in the Escalade and beat up their baby mamma. Our athletes get all lubed up and go crazy on whatever is nearby that can go faster than it was designed to go. Ski-Doo, jetski, golf cart, it doesn’t matter.

Enter Paul Tracy, the consumate Canadian good old boy. What better to do while half in the bag, but tear up the golf course in a golf cart ATV! Even better, let’s try to get some air off a sand trap. Yeah baby, make that sucker fly! Like so many other Canadian weekend warriors, PT flipped the buggy which then landed on him causing a broken shoulder blade.

“Sorry to say it was self-inflicted. I was at a party and had had a little too much to drink, and we thought it was a good idea to go out on a golf cart and try and jump sand dunes with it,”

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Those guys at DC are trying all sorts of things to keep us entertained. The 2007 Sebring will keep your coffee hot or your beer pop cold. This will excite our resident coffee fanatic on those long drives up north. Next thing you know, just like a Starbucks cup, they’ll have to put a warning on the door. Caution: the beverage you are about to enjoy is hot.
Via Gizmodo

With a 21 year history in Toronto, the Molson Indy was one of the most recognizable spots on the Champ Car circuit. Even when the name was sold, it became the Molson Grand Prix of Toronto. Now, Molson has decided to bow out of the event.

The news doesn’t come as too much of a surprise, as organizers have been expecting it since Molson also dropped the Champ Car race in Montreal.

Stay tuned over the weekend for an assortment of race programs from years gone by.

Source Inside Track

Here I was, minding my own bidness, napping on the mother in law’s couch, when the news flashed on the TV. Colombian racing superstar is leaving his cushy gig in Formula 1, for the chicken and ribs atmosphere of NASCAR. I figured I could cruise home and blog about it before anyone else caught the news. Damn…those guys at Jalopnik are on the ball, they beat me to it. What’s even worse is they grabbed their info from TSN, the Canadian sports TV channel. To get all the news, visit TSN, but the short version is…get ready to cry in yer beer good ole boys. The guy from the real south is gonna whip some ‘merican butt!

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