The precedent setting rookie season for driver Doug McNair has been chronicled in a London, Ontario television feature report which is now posted on the internet for worldwide viewing

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London’s A-TV team of Sports Director Norman James and reporter Brent Lale collaborated on the report which features footage and interviews taken during the New Year’s Eve program at Western Fair Raceway.

In 2008 while he was 18 years old, McNair’s first career win in the bike was marked last February 22 at Western Fair with pacing filly Eagle Kay. His career took another huge leap forward when he won the $300,000 Battle Of Waterloo at Grand River Raceway.

In the feature story which aired earlier this month on the London, Ontario TV station’s 6 p.m. newscast, Sports Director Norman James compares the upstart driver to London Knights junior hockey standout John Tavares who is expected to be the top pick in the 2009 NHL draft. McNair outlines his near term and longer term driving goals in the story and there are supporting interviews from Doug’s father Gregg and from Western Fair’s 2006 and 2008 driving champion, Brad Forward. The report also features Doug winning Western Fair’s Preferred-2 Pace with Cuban Seelster on the December 29 occasion of his 19th birthday.

Doug McNair on 'A' News Sports

The track’s YouTube page, which features the video, is a creation of Western Fair’s race office assistant Courtney Yake, 18, who also assists with the press box teletimer and track photography operations.

(Western Fair, photo courtesy of Norm Files)