Carpentier would consider running Montreal race: [Patrick Carpentier’s] Nationwide debut at Montreal’s Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2007 saw him start on pole but finish second to Sprint Cup regular Kevin Harvick. A year later he was runner up again, this time to Mississauga, Ont.’s, Ron Fellows. He also tried Sprint Cup in 2008 with Gillett Evernham Motorsports but the team struggled to get into the top-20 on most days, although Carpentier did take a pole for the team in Loudon, N.H. And while he is officially retired, Carpentier wouldn’t rule out racing in Montreal this summer in the August’s NAPA Auto Parts 200. Should he return to the cockpit for the Nationwide Series race, it would be to raise cash for research into neonatal disorders, which has been the beneficiary of his on track efforts of late. “Montreal would be the only race I would do and I would give most of the money to children’s charities St. Justin’s Hospital [in Montreal] helped Anas quite a bit when she was young and I want to give back” said Carpentier, whose daughter was born with a malformed pancreas but now lives a normal life due to the work of her doctors. “If the TV show works out, it will be part of that too. And it looks like it is going to happen, so I will probably race in Montreal, but that would be the only one.” (Globe & Mail)(1-18-2012)
