Carpentier gets ‘The Call’

Two NASCAR teams have contacted Montreal's Patrick Carpentier about a future in the stock car series. A refugee of the Champ Car and Indy Racing League, Carpentier has had offers to join a NASCAR Busch Series team and a Craftsman Truck series team this season as a prelude to a full season deal in 2007. It is believed Carpentier will race a couple of ARCA events this season to show NASCAR teams his prowess on ovals in the big sedans. Toronto Sun

[Editor's Note: Everything happens in NASCAR for a reason, and we do mean everything, including which drivers get a call for a possible ride and who does not. If not for a race in Montreal in 2007, no one in NASCAR would look twice at Carpentier. Maybe he will sit on the pole in the first Montreal Busch race just like Mexican Jorge Goeters sat on the pole in Mexico City. Happens all the time, it's very transparent.]