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D4 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday, July 11, 2001 M0LS0N INDY 2001 Getting the green flag to go racing in Toronto the back straight. O pposition to the plan cam e from three groups: 1) residents close to Exhibition Place who feared the noise and crow ds w ould disrupt their neighbourhood; 2) M osport Park, w ho at the tim e felt their business w ould suffer; and 3) those w ho opposed the use o f a public facility by a private com pany. A lthough m any believe that racing didn't com e to Toronto that year because o f governm ent resis tance, the proposal had in fact w on approval from each governm ent level. It w as a threat by the local ratepayers' association to seek a court injunction that persuaded B assett and H unt to scrap their plans. T he idea o f racing at the Exhibition grounds resurfaced in 1975, ironically lead by M osport Park. M osport was the prom oter o f the Canadian G rand Prix at the tim e and felt that the m agnitude and cost o f staging the event had outgrow n their facility. A race in dow ntow n Toronto was an attractive proposition. Like Bassett and H unt before them though, M osport's m anagem ent ran sm ack into the local ratepayers' association. The Form ula O ne race left Southern O ntario for the M ontreal's E xpo site in 1977, w here it has rem ained. In 1984 M olson B rew eries acquired the rights to stage CA RT races in Canada. T hat year they sponsored the S aner M olson Indy ju st outside o f M ontreal on Sagria's 1.2 kilom etre tri-oval. Plans for staging a race in Toronto at Exhibition Place also began. D eterm in ed to learn fro m the p rev io u s attem pts, the M olson group addressed the co n cerns o f local residents and gained the necessary approval from all levels o f governm ent. O n N ovem ber 26, 1985 a press conference w as held to announce that Toronto w ould finally host a m ajor league auto race. T he first M olson Indy took place on July 20, 1986 before a sold-out crow d o f 60,000. T he phrase that w as m ost often used to describe that first M olson Indy in 1986 w as "an idea w hose tim e had com e." But perhaps Toronto Star sportsw riter Frank O rr put it best in an article for that year's program describing the event as "an idea that took a very long tim e to get here." Jo hnny B assett's vision and efforts w ere ack n o w led g ed by the M olson Indy B o ard o f T rustees in 1988 w hen they created the Jo h n F. B assett Jr. A w ard to "recognize a C an ad ian in d iv id u al, o rg an izatio n o r ev en t w h ich has m ade a sig n ifican t co n trib u tio n to the d ev elo p m ent and gro w th o f C an ad ian m o to rsp o rt rac ing." T he first recip ien t - Jo h n F. B assett - w as p resen ted the A w ard posthum ously. T he M olson Indy enters its 16th year as one o f the country's prem ier annual sporting events. A uto racing through the streets o f Toronto has becom e a sum m er tradition, but this event could be celebrating its 30th birthday if his tory had unfolded differently. In 1968 the late John F. Basset Jr., w hose father ow ned the Toronto Telegram , and form er Sun Publishing executive D on Hunt, w ho w as then in public relations, announced that they w ere going to create a race circuit on the E xhibition grounds and stage Indy car and Form ula One events on an annual basis. A n appropriately nam ed com pany, Lakeshore Raceway, was form ed. T he proposal called for a 3.7 kilom etre circuit (the current layout is 2.90 km ) w ith the start/finish line and pits located in Exhibition Stadium and using Lakeshore Blvd. as There's a whole new world out there. discover it today. www. a a division of HaItonSearch.com llebeaver.com connecting you to your community The fastest event of the summer N charities th ro u g h o u t Toronto. o thing m oves you faster than the M olson Indy! J u l y 11 -- G reg M oore G o lf C lassic -- w w w .w oodE xperience w h eel-to-w heel action at speeds o f ensticks.com 230 m ph w hen the fastest ev en t o f the su m m er hits July 12 -- B lack & W hite G ala D in n er -- W estin the streets o f E xhibition P lace in T oronto on July 13, 14 H arb o u r C astle H otel and 15, 2001. C anadian racing superstars P aul Tracy, July 12 -- M olson Pit P arty -- T oronto E ntertainm ent P atrick C arpentier and A lex 'Tags' T agliani, jo in an inter D istrict, John Street national field o f w orld-class drivers, including M ichael July 13 -- D rivers' V IP Party -- W ayne G retzky's A ndretti, C hristian F ittipaldi, D ario F ranchitti, H elio C astroneves and the F edE x C ham pionship Series 2000 F o r fu rth er d etails visit the M olson Indy w ebsite at cham pion, G il de Ferran. www.molsonindy.com/toronto/. T h e M olson Indy w ill celebrate its 16th A nniversary this year and has set its goal to surpass last year's record attendance o f 168,353 ov er the three-day event. O ne o f Which vacation picture will you be in this summer? Past winners Adrian Fernandez, Michael Andretti, and Paul Tracy stand on the podium. 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