A whole week without an update? What kind of blogger are you? You better have a pretty darn good excuse as to why you are wasting cyberspace with an empty blog site while thousands of others are waiting for room to free up on the Internet. It’s like owning a parking space downtown and never using it. So what’s your excuse wise guy? Well, nothing really. I have been doing very little this week in terms of computer-stuff. Save from the Overheard at the track that came out last week, I have pretty much done nothing. Yes, I considered this week my vacation week. What do people do when on vacation? They go somewhere with their loved-one. Maybe down to Cape Cod, or Florida. Well, I did neither. You see folks, recently my life has changed. It may appear to be a little change, but it’s had a major impact. You folks know how hot it can get in Toronto. Well, for two years I was living in a one-room apartment on the 15th floor with no AC. Then, right before the Toronto Grand Prix I decided it was time to get an air-conditioner. So I did and it has changed everything. So, why did I do for my week’s vacation? Stay right in! I went nowhere! Sure, in the evenings I would venture out with some friends on patios and whatnot, but that wasn’t the point of this vacation. Staying I was the point! As I write this, it’s about 9am on Monday at its nearing 30 degrees (about 112 degrees for Americans). It’s hot in Toronto. So, I loved my week of doing NOTHING! Did I get a bad cold because I put the AC wayyyy to cold and now am suffering through one? Maybe. Yes, in fact. But I still love my AC!!


Now, its time to get back in the game and I’ll tell you this much, Sunday was about as good of a way to get back to business as possible. What a race-fans paradise day on television. Throw in a Champ Car event in there and Sunday was the best day for racing on television ever! ALMS, F1 and NASCAR? Not too shabby. Needless to say, I didn’t much leave the couch on Sunday.

Edmonton, one of the most successful first-time events of all time. Will it be the same this year? Tough to say. The ‘newness’ is gone, but I believe the ‘it’ factor is still there. I believe that its still going to be the place to be this weekend and ticket sales and attendance should be where they were last year. Can we expect 200 thousand over the weekend and 90 thousand on race-day? Hmm, not sure about that one. But I have to believe the measure of success would be Toronto-like numbers, somewhere north of 160 over the weekend.

The big talk these days is the 2007 schedule with the possibility of an oval being left out. Hmm, that’s a tough one, isn’t it? No ovals for the first time in Champ Car’s schedule. I don’t know the details, I don’t know the back-story, but I have to believe that if it’s not Milwaukee, then its somewhere else. I know that we don’t have access to most ovals given who owns them and who is in bed with whom. But, there must be one oval out there that we could run on a weekend. Doesn’t have to be Milwaukee, doesn’t have to be a moneymaker, just be an oval. Make it a two-day weekend at huge discounted ticket prices. Practically give them away. Just have an oval to keep the diversity of the series going. Again, I don’t know the situation and I am not a businessman, but I have to believe that you need to spend money to make money and if it means a cost-spending race to keep the series’ traditions alive, then I have to believe its for the betterment of the sport.