“(Oval racing) is pretty dangerous, and I’m not going to drive for hamburgers and hot dogs,”

Paul Tracy discussing the possibility of driving for Vision Racing.
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Just as the Toronto Grand Prix became a casualty of the final battle before the IRL/CCWS reunion, the home town boy may sit out the 08 season as well. TSN has reported that long time Champ Car team owner Gerald Forsythe has decided to call it a day for the format. Forsythe Racing Inc will apparently continue with their involvement with the Formula Atlantic series, ensuring that fellow Canuck James Hinchcliffe will keep his ride.

Whether Forsythe was fed up with the flip flopping, or not happy with the final terms of the reunification is not clear. Nor is it clear as to how the remaining 4 years of driver Paul Tracy’s 5 year contract will be dealt with.

Perhaps PT would like to come up to Mosport and run in the Arrive & Drive series!

Another summer has come and almost gone, so I thought it might be fun to have a look back and see what we were talking about last summer.

Just like this summer, there were car shows. The big one of course was our visit to Autofest at GM Canada headquarters in Oshawa.

Paul Tracy was doing his best Francophone wrestler impression.

Jim Toumaris visited the Woodward Ave Dream Cruise and hooked us up with some great pictures.

Speaking of GM, it was announced that the new Camaro is going to be built in Oshawa.

Those racer types were pretty erratic last August, with Jacques Villeneuve spouting off again and the Unser boys Dads behaving like rednecks.

For 2007, Woodward was last weekend and Autofest is coming up and hopefully we’ll have some images from both.

How crazy is a day in Paul Tray’s life when he’s at the track? One would assume that it’s action packed to say the least. MTV Canada had some cameras follow PT around for a bit to put together the Diary of Paul Tracy. The show is set to air tomorrow night on MTV and includes some footage of the whacked out Canadian driver tormenting the French Canadian drivers and public.
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It’s become somewhat of a tradition for journalists to use this time of year to reflect upon the year gone by and maybe even make a few predictions. I might be the furthest thing from a traditional journo and I’ve never had much inclination to reflect on the past year and I don’t think I’ve ever made a prediction that’s stuck. Blogging guru Darren Rowse is hosting yet another group writing project and it’s gotten the creative juices flowing. So here, for the first time are some tongue in cheek motorsports predictions from The Garage for 2007.

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Oh, how hypocritical the motorsports press can be. Not long ago, a big to do was made when our boy PT went dune jumping in a golf cart and broke himself. Now, Jimmie Johnson breaks his wrist when he bails out of a golf cart. Officially, it was a result of the driver turning too quickly & I wasn’t holding on tight enough. Come of Jimmie, grow some balls and tell the world the truth. You and the boys had a couple of pops on course and were screwing around.
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NASCAR should be a much different series next year. Names like Montoya and Toyota are sure to shake things up and the good old boys are gonna whine about them furrin guys takin’ all the wins. There have been some other names trolling the paddock for a ride too. Paul Tracy hasn’t been able to get into a seat, and Jacques Villeneuve was said to be in talks with Roush Racing to put a ride together. While PT is fooling around with brewskis and golf carts, the scruffy Jacques has been busy putting together a team.

Villeneuve and former manager Craig Pollack are said to be sinking up to 100 million dollars of JV’s money into building their own NASCAR team, which will be assembled by the Roush Racing folks. Talk about a heck of an arrive and drive program! There has been no word if it will be a one or two car team, or who the second driver might be if there is one. One can assume that JV will take time out of his singing career to tackle roundy rounds.

Source Sportsnet

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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Tonight, Discovery Channel will air the second episode of the new reality series Star Racer. More real than most reality shows, Star Racer pits racers against one another with the prize being a chance to begin a dream career.

Take a look at pretty much any open wheel racer world wide and you’ll see that they’ve gotten their start in Karting. With this in mind, producers have chosen to pit 8 top Karters against 8 racers from other disciplines. Of course the selection process is filled with trash talking, especially from The Others. As can be expected, bike and drag racers seem to think that karts are toys. Unfortunately, some of the karters exhibited some typical, spoiled kid attitudes and their parents weren’t much better.

The show is a slick package that is kilometers miles better than the usual Canadian docucrap. The overall winner scores a fully sponsored ride in the 2007 Star Mazda series after being judged by the likes of Paul Tracy, Derek Daly and Katherine Legge. Any bets on PT dropping the gloves with a smart mouthed contestant?

Depending on your point of view, Paul Tracy is either brilliant or a fool. At yesterday’s aborted Champ Car race in Montreal, PT donned a wrestling mask and a Fleur-de-lis cape as a poke at French Canadian drivers who are afraid to have a go at him without taking off their helmet.

For all you readers from other countries who may not know, the relationship between French speaking Canada and the rest of the country has been tenuous at best over the years. A province full of whining separatists would be considered traitors in the States. This political nonsense has spilled over into some not so friendly ribbing over the years between English and French speaking Canadians.

The fact that Tracy chose to pull this prank in Montreal is HUGE! It shows how little sense of humour these whiners have. In these times of political correctness in racing though, I’d be surprised if Pauly survives this with his wallet intact. Personally, I damn near peed myself when I caught this pic in the paper this morning.
via The Toronto Star