Canadians Kellett, DeFrancesco excited to make Honda Indy Toronto debuts
TORONTO — Racecars will once again be whizzing past Toronto’s scenic Princes’ Gates all weekend, with the statue Winged Victory looming over Turn 1 of the Exhibition Place track.debuts on Sunday after Canada’s only IndyCar event was cancelled the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeFrancesco agreed that the Princes’ Gates make for one of the Honda Indy’s most memorable vistas, but he loves the street track’s bumpy turns. The 22-year-old DeFrancesco was born 15 weeks premature at midtown Toronto’s Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. He visited the hospital’s neonatal care unit on Thursday morning, meeting with the doctors and nurses who helped him survive the first months of his life.
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