Indycanuck Grand Prix of Western Lake Ontario

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Justin Trudeau presents: the Indycar one-race Canadian championship and round 12 of the 17-race American and Canadian Indycar championship

 

I hope you’re paying attention because things are about to get Canadian. Unless this is literally your first year watching the Indycars or alternatively you haven’t watched them since the early 1980s and have decided to return to the series exclusively by reading this forum for some reason secret to you, you will know that at this time every year, Planet Earth’s trendiest and coldest country plays host to one or more races that will make you feel either happy or disgusted to be alive.

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Yes! It’s July! And that means Canada’s second most important motorized sporting event, the Honda Indy Toronto, is just around the corner. It’s the northernmost race on the calendar except maybe Road America, the narrowest and most awkward Indycar street course except maybe all the others, and a glorious marriage of the non-Mexican segments of North America. Let’s pretend the years 1776, 1812 and the events depicted in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America never happened. Let’s, er, remember the events of 2016 when Josef Newgarden stacked it and handed Scott Dixon’s race to Will Power. Or 2015, when James Jakes stacked it and handed Will Power’s race to Josef Newgarden. (2014 was a mess even by those standards but the thread was fun.)

 

 

Track fax

Track length: 1.786 miles

Number of turns: 11

Lap record: 57.143, Gil de Ferran, Reynard-Honda (1999)

Number of years that lap record has stood for: 18

 

Race schedule? Yes?

Here are the dates, times and details. All times are local to whichever timezone they have in Toronto. Pictures of the race are on something called CNBC, but still starring Paul Tracy, the only Canadian ever to have won an Indycar race in Canada. Townsend Bell, who was actually disqualified from his one Indycar race in Toronto, will also presumably be in the booth. If you're reading this, NBC producer, please make them tell us the details.

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Friday, July 14

10.40: Indycar practice 1

12.55: USF2000 qualifying

14.15: Indycar practice 2

15.35: Canadian NASCAR (what?) qualifying

 

Saturday, July 15

08.00: USF2000 qualifying

08.35: Indy Lights qualifying

10.00: Indycar practice 3

12.00: USF2000 race 2

13.00: Indy Lights race 1

14.15: Indycar qualifying

15.45: Canadian NASCAR Canada race

 

Sunday, July 16

09.40: USF2000 race 2

11.30: Indycar warm-up

12.15: Indy Lights race 2

15.40: Indycar race race race (85 laps)

 

 

I hope this track map has enough pixels for you.

 

Any news? Anything I should be aware of?

No! The whole point about these back-to-back races is NO NEWS. What a relief. The only thing there’s time to happen in one week is for Mikhail Aleshin’s backers to mirror-image from sanctions-busters to sanctions-busted. Sebastian Saavedra will do replacement duties for what feels like the eight-thousandth time.

 

Oh, and Sebastien Bourdais, winner of the 2014 race that was carried over from the Saturday when a minor flood caused the pace car to crash, will be back in the paddock this weekend. Warming everyone’s hearts, and presumably making Esteban Gutierrez feel a little uncomfortable. But isn’t that what makes live worth living?

 

(Also featured in that Indycar.com news story: Charlie Kimball is bringing his message of hope and insulin north, or perhaps that should be east, of the border. Look at a map of Ontario! I know I just did.)

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