Most believe that it's only a matter of time before a Busch Series race is announced, for 2007, at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.
2006 ChampCar event promoter Alan Labrosse is one of them. But he's lobbying to have a combination ChampCar / NASCAR race weekend fill the bill in the future.
I wouldn't hold my breath. Whether or not it would make sense to run a Busch race on Saturday and a ChampCar race on Sunday is irrelevant.
I just can't see NASCAR allowing one of its elite tours – making an appearance on the international stage – to be billed as part of the ChampCar "support class undercard."
Just as I wouldn't expect ChampCar to run a race on Saturday, in advance of a Sunday NASCAR race.
Besides, now that Normand Legault is fully in charge of the facility, the writing is on the wall for ChampCar at that venue. You're more likely to see the IndyCar series at the Montreal facility, given that the IRL teams told to prepare for a race there in 2006 before the mess hit the fan and Legault backed down on pulling the pin on the final year of his ChampCar contract.
More on this story here. (h/t Bourque)
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