Monday, January 21, 2008

INSIDE TRACK NOTEBOOK: Mon., Jan. 21, 2008

Brighton Speedway's Winterfest next weekend:
Brighton Speedway’s annual Winterfest kicks off on Saturday January 26th , when 4 Wheelers, Snowmobiles and Endurance Cars take to the 1/3 mile iced oval. An annual tradition at Brighton Speedway the ever popular Winterfest breaks up the long off season, and invites everyone, from the age of 8 years old, to hit the track in twelve different classes of 4 wheelers, snowmobiles and cars. Green Flag flies at 11am. A second serving of ice racing will be served up on Saturday, February 9th. For complete details on these events and registration visit the track's website or e-mail info@brightonspeedway.com.

DJ Kennington at Daytona
NASCAR Canadian Tire Series points runner-up DJ Kennington took part in Nationwide Series testing at Daytona Int'l Speedway on Sunday in advance of the season-opening Camping World 300 on Feb. 17. In the morning session, the driver of the #72A Chevy was 45th fastest (of 45), 10 mph off the pace of session leader Tim McCreadie (180.032 to 170.684). In the afternoon session, Kennington picked up the pace considerably (to 174.710 mph) but was still about 10 mph slower than the leader (Brad Coleman @ 184.042). The Canadian was 40th fastest of 44 who took part in the post-lunch session.
UPDATE: Visitors to CanadianRacingOnline have posted some shots of DJ in action at DIS here.

John C. Bassett is a posting machine
John C. Bassett is an Inside Track Motorsports News Facebook Group member (among several other groups he contributes to). Since the group was started, John has been kind enough to post several videos and photos galleries, including this one where he gets a wild ride from Alex Tagliani in a two-seat Champ Car around the GP of Toronto track. In the past few days, he's added several interesting photo galleries to his and other sites. You can see them on John's personal Facebook page.

Honourable Mentions...

In the past few days, the Inside Track Breaking News Blog has been referenced in discussions here, here , here and thanks to Gary Grant for his nice mention on his site, The Garage Blog.

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