Notes: Mike Wallace steps in 01; Kenny says thanks (cont'd)

"We figured out a few things there, on a track that I was pretty familiar with, and we think we've got a competitive piece for this weekend, along with it looking really pretty special."

Along with being pumped about his fans' support, Wallace -- who last season was devastated when he had to start the Montreal race without a crew or equipment due to lack of sponsorship -- will have back crew chief Chris Rice, albeit for just one race.

Last weekend at Bristol, Wallace was without Rice for the first time this season when Rice amicably left the JRR team to go to ML Motorsports which, despite being a part-time team, could offer him full-time employment.

Two-timers galore

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A spectacular number -- 12 drivers -- will do double duty this weekend, between the three series racing on the Ile Notre-Dame and at Chicagoland Speedway, where the Camping World Truck Series competes on Thursday and Friday.

Nationwide Series championship leader Kyle Busch and Colin Braun, who practiced Carl Edwards' Roush Fenway Racing car in Montreal last year and won the pole for the last Nationwide Series road race in which he competed, at Mexico City in 2008, will commute between Joliet, Ill., and Montreal, where the first Nationwide on-track session is at 9 a.m. Saturday.

Edwards, the '07 series champion and Marcos Ambrose, the series' most recent road-course winner, will double between Montreal and making their Grand-Am Rolex Series debut in a Daytona Prototype. Nationwide regular Brendan Gaughan makes his Rolex Series debut in a TRG Motorsports Porsche, teaming with series-regular Lally, who'll make his first Nationwide start since '07, when he did two of the three road races including a 29th-place effort in Montreal.

Five drivers will double between the Nationwide Series and the Canadian Tire Series' AutoPro 100 including championship contender D.J. Kennington, Andrew Ranger, J.R. Fitzpatrick, Daryl Harr and debuting Nationwide driver Alex Tagliani.

Canadian Jean-Francois Dumoulin, a former podium finisher at Montreal and a two-time Rolex Series winner in GT cars, will race the NAPA Auto Parts 200 for R3 Motorsports and in a Daytona Prototype for Canadian team AIM Autosport.

Edwards, Ambrose in high-profile debut

Edwards predicts the driver change between he and co-driver Ambrose will resemble "theater of the absurd" in Saturday afternoon's Montreal 200 for the Rolex Series, but after testing Kevin Doran's Ford Dallara Daytona Prototype at Virginia International Raceway, where they turned similar lap times, Edwards is enthused about his first race in the car.

"This is my first time in the series and it should be exciting, everyone on the team is really cool and I know it's going to be a lot of fun," Edwards said. "Now we're battling over who's going to do the most driving."

Edwards has two stock-car starts at the 2.709-mile road course and has posted one top-10 finish, sixth last year. In Ambrose's first start at Montreal, he threatened to win before getting spun out by Robby Gordon in '07, when he finished seventh, and last year when he was third.