Go Canada Announces Name Change

Effective Feb. 15th, 2012, Go Canada Racing will become GC Motorsports International.  Team owner Steve Meehan explained the move, saying, “The name change is a result of numerous developments in the off-season and more clearly represents our company, our partners, drivers and sponsors going forward.”

The team will continue to compete in the NASCAR Nationwide Series with drivers from both Canada and the United States. ”During the off-season we met with several drivers that we felt could help us build our program and while we are not quite ready to field a two car Nationwide effort we felt that expanding our format offers tremendous benefit to our team and marketing partners” said Meehan.

The 2012 campaign will begin with David Ragan, last season’s winner of the Coke Zero 400 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, behind the wheel at Daytona.  “We feel incredibly fortunate to have David’s knowledge and experience to help launch our 2012 program and hopefully guide the team into the future.” said Meehan.

Ragan said, “I am really excited to be kicking off the 2012 Nationwide season for GCMI. I have known many of the team members for quite some time; it will be great to work with them again. This group has put together many winning efforts in the past and I plan on being part of their winning efforts in the future, hopefully starting with Daytona.”  

Andrew Ranger will also return to the Nationwide team this year, competing in a number of Nationwide Races Including the series’ only Canadian race, the Napa Auto Parts 200 in Montreal.” I am really looking forward to competing for my third NASCAR Canadian Tire Series championship,” he said. “It will be great working with Dave again, and I am really looking forward to get back behind the wheel in the Nationwide series. GCMI is developing a very strong strategy to grow the team and I think I am at the perfect point of my career to grow with them” states Andrew Ranger.

The team will also field an entry in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series this season, teaming with Dave Jacombs Racing to form GC Motorsports Canada. The team plans on fielding a two-car effort anchored by two time series champion Andrew Ranger.  “I am very excited about our organizations working together,” said Jacombs. “I got to know Steve and the team last year and was really intrigued by what they were trying to put together. Over the last few months, Steve and I came to the conclusion that working together could accelerate the growth of both programs. Long term, I see us having dominant programs in multiple series on both sides of the border.”

 The team expects to make more announcements about drivers and sponsors in the coming weeks. “We feel we have a very formidable program, balancing experienced drivers with younger up and coming drivers. This multi-driver and multi-tier approach to our program will allow us to continue to build a very strong program that will enable an evolution to competing in the Sprint Cup Series” states Meehan. ”In addition, it will allow us to develop marketing partnerships all across North America”.