MOTORSPORTS SUNDAY: Dixon is IndyCar champion; Tagliani can't win his 4 in 4 ... - Toronto Star
2) For the third year in a row, a crowd in the vicinity of 70,000 turned up at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park for a NASCAR trucks race. Which makes the 25,000 or so who show up on race day for the Honda Indy each year a curiosity, a mystery. Although he won his class in both Canadian Touring Car Championship Series races, Tagliani was only able to finish eighth in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series stock car race Sunday morning and then, while he was right in the running to win the... In only his second road-course start, the Chevrolet Silverado 250 was won by 18-year-old Michigan native Erik Jones, who is so good he will be making some NASCAR Sprint Cup starts next year for Joe Gibbs Racing. Second was defending series champion Matt Crafton and third was Ben Kennedy. “These guys are really funny,” Tagliani said. “Ìf they really like the bump-and-run, then it‘s very easy for me to do. In this case, I went inside of him in Turn 3 and we went door-to-door, wheel-to-wheel. There was so much hard work by the Pfaff guys, Castrol backing us 100 per cent all season. My entire team is all full-time employees of Pfaff, except for my engineer and chief mechanic, and everybody has given their 110 perc ent this year. So the least I could do was bring home the championship for them this year. Source: www.thestar.com
