Spending this Saturday afternoon in our temporary broadcast booth at Exhibition Place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We're on site for our broadcast of the Champ Car World Series, and the Champ Car Atlantics, both tomorrow here at this legendary temporary circuit. This track has seen many of the great drivers in open wheel racing go to Victory Lane through the years. Last time we were here, young American standout AJ Allmendinger was in the midst of his surprising win streak for Forsythe Championship Racing. Now, his seat's filled by veteran Spaniard Oriol Servia.

Servia's one of my favorite guys in Champ Car, always smiling, usually fast, and generally unheralded. He qualified well here this weekend and has a good starting spot behind Sebastien Bourdais and Justin Wilson, who staged a great street fight in final qualifying earlier today.

Tomorrow's 1pm Steelback Grand Prix should be a good one...there's some bad blood between reigning champ Bourdais and  rookie Robert (Bad  Bobby D) Doornbos, who held Bourdais off for the win last week at Mt. Tremblant.

The Champ Car Atlantic round here tomorrow should be good as well...with points leader Rafa Matos and last week's winner Franck Periera on the front row.


Last week I got to take a thrill ride for the ages, in the shotgun seat of the F1x2 Minardi two-seater around Le Circuit Mt. Tremblant....of all the ridealongs I've been able to enjoy over the years, that was the wildest. Fast, amazing brakes, high g's in the corners, and some eye-popping technology. Well worth doing if you get the chance.

More to come after tomorrow's race here in Toronto.