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Edmonton International Speedway
For the existent day eggshaped race railway near Wetaskiwin, see Edmonton International Raceway.
September Can-Am race | |
| Location | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada |
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| Coordinates | 53°36′25″N°33′25″W / °N °W / ; |
| Capacity | 30, |
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| Former names | Speedway Park |
| Major events | Can-Am, Formula Ocean, Formula , Formula , Trans-Am, NHRA |
| Length | km ( miles) |
| Turns | 14 |
| Race tint record | (Mark Donohue, Porsche /30 TC, , Alliance 7) |
| Length | km (1&#;4 miles) |
| Length | km (1&#;4 miles) |
Edmonton Cosmopolitan Speedway, along with known importation Speedway Park, was a acre (&#;km2) multi-track machine racing smoothness located embankment the exclude Cumberland champion Hudson neighbourhoods[1] of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. The readiness featured a 1&#;4-mile (&#;m) dragstrip, a mile (&#;km) turn side street course, other a 1&#;4-mile short obovate. At loom over peak, front had volume for double 30, fans.
History
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Canadian drivers in the U.K.
Excellent post, Manfred. IIRC the "Driver to Europe" award was rather a paltry one, so much so that few of the "winners" could afford to accept it.Originally posted by Manfred Cubenoggin
Back in the early to mid 70's, Canada had a premier Formula Ford series in the 'Shopper's World FF Championship'() and the Bulova FF Championship from thru ' Winners of the season long championship, run exclusively at Mosport, would be partially financed in a quasi 'Driver to Europe' programme to compete in British FF events for a full season.
Whatever the details of the Australian and NZ schemes, Vitesse rightly points out that our antipodean friends have always been better at supporting their young drivers efforts abroad. With the exeption of Player's driver development program in the mid '90s (which did not send drivers overseas), Canada has rather a poor track record when it comes to supporting its young racers. Billy Asaro would have been a real threat in British F3 this year, but had the sponsorship rug pulled out from under him. David Rutledge missed the whole of the season while "working on a deal", and doesn't seem to be racing this year, either.
Originally posted by Gerr
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David Empringham (born December 28, ) is a Canadian auto racing driver. He is a two-time Toyota Atlantic, one-time Indy Lights and two-time Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge champion. Most recently, Empringham won the Grand-Am Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge GS class driver's title with co-driver John Farano. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Empringham began his racing career in , competing in the Spenard/David Formula series. He then competed regularly in the GM Motorsport series (teammate of Canadian racing legend Richard Spenard) for several years, drove a handful of races in the IMSA Firestone Firehawk series, the Porsche Turbo Cup and Formula Toyota Atlantic. In , Empringham began competing full-time in the Toyota Atlantic Championship, where he won back-to-back championships in and In David won the Championship with "underdog" CANASKA racing and Canadian Tire sponsorship, based out of Toronto, Ontario. saw Empringham move to the BDJS racing team, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, taking the Canadian Tire sponsorship with him. saw Empringham narrowly miss winning a third championship, being beat out by Richie Hearn for the title. saw Empringham make the move to Indy Lights, replacing Greg Moore, who had moved up to the team's CART operation, in the Player's/Forsythe raci