Year two of the NASCAR Camping World Chevrolet Silverado 250 race at Canadian Tire Motorsports Park was everything it was hoped to be - an enormous success both on and off the track.

The campgrounds at CTMP’s 750-acre facility 80 km east of Toronto were jam packed and the drive in crowd was just as impressive, even on a day that promised but never delivered rain.

NASCAR bosses have already made the decision to come back to CTMP next season with the Trucks, but is there more in store for the Carlo Fidani, Ron Fellows owned track?

Sources close to the sanctioning body in Daytona have told the Toronto Sun that something else - a Nationwide Series race perhaps - is already in the discussion stage for 2016.

NASCAR has always recognized that Canada was an important market it needed to cultivate. However, there was an announcement on Tuesday making it clear bigger things are in the wind for the land north of the 49th parallel.

In the lead up to the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship that starts next week at Chicagoland Speedway, NASCAR always sends its playoff bound drivers to big markets across the U.S. to trumpet the start of the post season.

This season that program will be expanded to include Toronto.

NASCAR will send four-time champion Jeff Gordon to Toronto - the No. 1 seed in this year’s Chase to Toronto - a clear signal that the stock car gods have something better in store for Canada than a Truck series race.

All the signs were there to see on the weekend at CTMP as a large contingent of NASCAR executives made the trek to the 3.9-km road course to check things out.

On a normal Camping World Truck Series stand-alone weekend, there might be two or at most three representatives from NASCAR’s Integrated Marketing Communications department at the track.

On Sunday at CTMP there were five: Tracey Judd, Director, Racing Operations Communications; Amanda Ellis, Senior Manager, Competition Communications, NASCAR Nationwide Series; Laura Finley, Co-ordinator, Competition Communications: Jason Cunningham, Co-ordinator, Competition Communications; and Becky Williams, Senior Co-ordinator, Stakeholder Communications.

Also there was Joe Balash, NASCAR’s International Competition Liason.

For Canadian NASCAR fans, that is a truckload of good news.​