You guys are looking at this way to narrowly. Sure it may not affect the average street/strip car but it does affect the tracks you race at. What this means is that the tracks like Mission won't be able to run the big spectator drawing classes - Pro Mod, Pro Stock, Top Fuel or Nitro Funny Car. No big spectator classes means no revenue, means no track. Read the Canada Gazette link from the Grand Bend Racetrack article. It is real. Leaded fuels have been banned in Canada but there have been exemptions for use in airplanes, large trucks, farm equipment and competition vehicles. As of January 1, 2009 the competition vehicles exemption has been revoked. The part that kills me (no pun intended) is that the government has decided that the lead emissions pollution from the whopping 1.5% of leaded fuel use in Canada (drag racing) is more dangerous to the population than than the pollution caused by farm equipment dropping lead emissions directly into the soil our food is grown in.
