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Toronto Sun
a day ago
- Automotive
- Toronto Sun
Letters to the Editor, July 24, 2025
INDY CLASSIC This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account As Toronto enjoyed another annual Honda Indy on a beautiful summer weekend, let's flash forward to 2034. That will inevitably be the last running of this fabulous motor event, I guess, because the following year all gasoline-powered cars will be outlawed?! Ron Lindemann Scarborough (Let's hope not) RAT THEM OUT We don't want the city rat situation to get worse, so we need to use every opportunity to get rid of them. First, whenever a house or building is scheduled for demolition, the city pest control should take this opportunity to eliminate the rat problem first. The distribution of rat killing food followed by the removal of the dead rodents will make it better for those dismantling the building and at the same time stop the exodus of rats to nearby structures. Preventing the spread makes more sense than dealing with the spread after the fact. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Tim Devlin Toronto (That would require planning ahead — something the city is terrible at doing) PANDEMIC TRUTHS Re 'Crown seeks to make Convoy organizers political prisoners' (Brian Lilley, July 22): When will someone finally be held accountable for the invocation of the Emergencies Act, which our Federal Court has ruled was absolutely illegal? This outrageous sentencing request is just one more example of the contempt in which we are held by our controlling overlords and their minions. The truth is we're living in a country where democracy has become nothing more than an unattainable illusion! To believe otherwise is self-delusional. Wake up and pay attention, Canada! Bernie Carroll (There will be no accountability for the madness we endured during the pandemic) HALF MEASURE Britain wants to lower the voting age to 16 hoping to get a larger turnout at the polls. Why the half measure? While you're at it, take it down to 12 — that way you could set up polling booths right in the schools and the kids could skip math while they go down to the cafeteria to cast their little votes. Tim Conway Toronto (This is a terrible idea which we should not adopt here) Sports Golf Canada Columnists Columnists
Indianapolis Star
6 days ago
- Automotive
- Indianapolis Star
Best in class: Pato O'Ward targeting 2nd-place IndyCar championship finish as his toughest tracks near
TORONTO — Pato O'Ward looks at this closing stretch of the IndyCar season a bit like a multi-class endurance sportscar race. Would an overall victory, in the form of hoisting the Astor Cup come the checkered flag at Nashville Superspeedway, be sweet? Magical wouldn't even begin to describe it. But the Arrow McLaren veteran would be plenty happy to take a win in class — the "drivers not named Alex Palou" class, that is. Such is the life of a championship contender competing against a three-time series champ who's in the midst of one of the most dominant campaigns a unified American open-wheel series has seen in recent memory. 'What's the gap, 129 points? So, Palou's just got to (crash) this weekend and next, and I've got to win both of them, and I might still be 60 or 70 points back,' O'Ward told IndyStar ahead of the Honda Indy on the streets of Toronto, a track and an event that historically marks the Mexican's worst on the calendar. 'Weirder things have happened.' Though O'Ward's math is a bit off: if he were to win both races (at least 51 points each) and Palou crashed out of both (let's give him a generous 20th place for both, or 10 points each), O'Ward would be staring at just under a 50-point gap with three races to go — the odds of such an occurrence almost makes it moot. For starters, Palou arrives in Toronto this week with an average finish of fourth place in three career starts at the venue. O'Ward? An average finishing position of 12th, including a pair of finishes outside the top 10 — both on race weekends where he failed to advance out of the first round of qualifying. Last year's 17th-place result distorts this picture a bit. After all, O'Ward was running in sixth late in the race when he slid into the tires on the exit of Turn 1 and sparked a massive pile up that ended his day well outside the top 10. But it's not a stretch to say it's maybe the track where he feels least comfortable and one where he's least confident of producing a result in a pressure-packed situation that could in any way keep him realistically alive in the championship. And it's why, he said, Arrow McLaren has thrown the proverbial kitchen sink at his car ahead of this weekend. 'We called Rolls-Royce to get some of that amazing suspension they've got on their cars,' O'Ward joked in referencing to racing around what may be the bumpiest street circuit on the calendar. 'We're coming with something completely new, at least on my car, because I feel like if we just arrive with what we've had (before), we're just accepting defeat at that point, so we're just going to be hoping to get better. 'We don't have to be fighting for pole, but just every little bit we can get would be helpful.' O'Ward finished Friday afternoon's practice seventh fastest on the timing charts. Maybe even more important to keep an eye on heading in Saturday's practice and qualifying, though, is his gap to the fastest cars — one that sits at seven tenths after practice No. 1. On-track this weekend: What is the start time for the IndyCar race at Ontario Honda Dealers Indy in Toronto? 'Qualifying at street courses has been the challenge this year, but I'm kinda glad we're at one to try and end the year on a good note and help turn it into a good race. We can have a great weekend here, but it's going to take an improvement in all-around pace,' O'Ward said. 'This is a track that I've been to (three times), and (that gap to the front) is always five-tenths, and I don't get closer. 'Even as the track progresses, I keep progressing, but that (gap) stays the same (to the leaders). It's been such a difficulty and such a challenging place, just even to catch a whiff of the Fast 12. You know I'll be giggling if I'm in the Fast Six. That would mean we've found something.' O'Ward's unlikely road to putting some serious pressure on Palou won't come easy even after heading back to the States, with two more permanent road courses up next, which the young Mexican driver has never scored even a podium in eight combined starts at Laguna Seca and Portland. Palou, on the other hand, has eight podiums in 11 combined starts at the next three tracks, including four wins and just a single result worse than sixth place. And that's why O'Ward's hopes are realistic with just over a month to go in his 2026 campaign. Still, there's personal history to target, he pointed out. 'Hand him over to the world': How Pato O'Ward became IndyCar's biggest star 'I've never been second in the championship. I've always been fighting for it, but at the end of the year, there's always been things that get us out of the running, so it would be great to get that off the list,' he said, pointing to a third place championship finish (2021), a pair of fourth place runs (2020 and 2023), a fifth place finish (2024) and seventh (2022). 'So I've basically crossed all of them off except for (first or second), and second is the first step. I would've loved to be first, and we still don't know what it's going to be, but we're going to strive to keep building on this.'
CTV News
6 days ago
- Automotive
- CTV News
Gearing up for the Honda Indy Toronto
Video Indycar Safety Director Tim Baughman on what goes into making high octane events like the Honda Indy safe for drivers and fans.
Hamilton Spectator
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Hamilton Spectator
Honda Indy road closures in effect in Toronto. Here's how long they'll last
Race cars will be whirling around the tracks this weekend but Toronto drivers may be at a stand still as the Honda Indy brings plenty of road closures to the city. Events kick off Friday and last through the weekend, capped with an IndyCar Series race on Sunday . Here's everything you need to know. The event kicks off with a fan event on Friday with gates opening at 9 a.m. before qualifying races and practice rounds begin at 3:05 p.m. Fans will be able to see practice sessions, get autographs and get themselves plenty of food and beverages around the concourse which also features merch stands and interactive displays. Saturday starts with more qualifying races that go live around 8:30 a.m. with more practice rounds and races throughout the day. The main event is on Sunday with final races at 2:20 p.m., 2:50 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. The races are shutting down southbound lanes along Strachan Avenue from Fleet Street to Lake Shore Boulevard West until Monday at 1 a.m. Lake Shore Boulevard West will also be fully closed in both directions between Strachan Avenue and British Columbia Road. The closures began on Wednesday night and will also last until Monday at 1 a.m. The organizers are encouraging fans to use the GO Lakeshore West Train to Exhibition Station to avoid traffic and any parking difficulties. The city said in January that the closures are not costing them any money and the organizers are footing the bill, as well as a payment for occupancy of the right-of-way. Error! Sorry, there was an error processing your request. There was a problem with the recaptcha. Please try again. You may unsubscribe at any time. By signing up, you agree to our terms of use and privacy policy . This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google privacy policy and terms of service apply. Want more of the latest from us? Sign up for more at our newsletter page .
Toronto Star
7 days ago
- Automotive
- Toronto Star
Honda Indy road closures in effect in Toronto. Here's how long they'll last
Race cars will be whirling around the tracks this weekend but Toronto drivers may be at a stand still as the Honda Indy brings plenty of road closures to the city.
