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Sunday’s Nationwide race at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve was one of the best of the season, road-course grace combined with some good old-fashioned all-out racing.

And chances are, most NASCAR fans missed it. Which is a shame, because in addition to being a fine race, the Montreal track is a fine locale. And that, at least according to Racin’ Today’s Jim Pedley, is why Montreal needs a Sprint Cup-level race.

Hey, I’m for it. Why not, eh?

Anyway, here’s what it would mean: a third road course, a top-line NASCAR presence in Canada, and — not inconsequentially — the removal of one current race from the Sprint Cup slate. That there is the stumbling block: Since the track isn’t owned by either of the monolithic track organizations, that means somebody’s gotta lose a race with no tit-for-tat recompense.

So for the sake of argument, let’s kick this around. Who’s got two races and could realistically lose one? Phoenix and Michigan, but they’re International Speedway Corp. tracks, which means they’re inviolate. Loudon, but no way Speedway Motorsports is giving up one date without a tradeoff. (Maybe moving the season-ender from ISC’s Homestead to SMI’s Vegas?) Pocono is an easy candidate, but what’s the incentive for the Mattioli family to give up one of their two dates? I love the idea, but at the moment, given the intransigence of NASCAR track politics, I can’t find a way to make this work.

And so I turn it over to you. Put a Sprint Cup race in Montreal in 2012, folks. Figure a way. 

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