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MIAMI - Still just three games into the post-LeBron era in Miami, Chris Bosh has already heard the comparisons. Bosh was the man in Toronto for the better part of seven seasons before signing up to play third wheel on a Heat team that would go on to win two championships in four years. Now, the former Raptor finds himself in a familiar situation. Thrust into the lead role following James return to Cleveland - and in light of Dwyane Wades deteriorating youth - Bosh is finally back in the spotlight after leaving it in Toronto. It must feel like 2009 all over again? 2009? No, it feels like 2014, Bosh insisted. Its a different situation, for the obvious reasons, with this team, he continued, dismissing the comparison. But no. I know everybody wants to look back on the past but its not about that. I feel like Im a much better player, a much better leader. And he is. Bosh is a different player than he was when he left Toronto. One thing that hasnt changed is the All-Star forwards dominance over his former team since that fateful summer in 2010 when he packed his bags and moved to South Beach. Even without James, Miami hasnt missed a beat to begin the young season and had little trouble disposing of the Raptors Sunday, defeating them for a 16th straight time. Im aware of it, admitted Bosh, who has never lost to Toronto. Everybodys aware of it. The Raptors were certainly aware of it. Its definitely on my mind, said DeMar DeRozan before the game - a teammate of Boshs in Toronto when the Raptors last toppled Miami, Jan. 27, 2010 - hes never won in South Beach. So, I think we definitely need to go in there and get this win, just use it as more motivation for us. For the bulk of Sundays loss - their first of the young season - DeRozan looked to be the only motivated Raptor. Playing in the second night of a back-to-back set, the Raptors left their defence in Orlando. Miami looked like the Heat of old, moving the ball at a frenetic pace and shooting the lights out. By halftime they had scored 64 points on 59 per cent shooting. The Raptors, playing without the injured Amir Johnson, had pulled down just 10 rebounds in 24 minutes. It caught up with us, Dwane Casey said following his teams 107-102 loss. We’ve got to set the tone and play with a sense of desperation in the first half and that’s what we didn’t do. It finally caught up with us. We’re scoring, we’re getting opportunities to score, we get to the free throw line 39 times, he continued. Offence is not an issue, defence is our issue. We have to decide collectively to guard people. The final score is misleading. The Raptors were in it until the final moments, but hardly by their own doing. They were out-rebounded 43-28 and missed 15 of their 39 free throws. Despite scoring 102 points they recorded just 11 assists. It was the same old against a Miami team that may not have regressed as much as most expected them to after losing the NBAs greatest player. We needed that, said DeRozan after scoring 30 points in a game he referred to as a wake-up call. [Expletive], they’re a good team still. We still had a chance and this would have been a perfect game for Amir. You know, the rebounding, he gets a lot of the dirty rebounds that we missed tonight. Johnson was a late scratch after tweaking his troublesome left ankle early in Saturdays win over the Magic. With Patrick Patterson - his understudy - struggling, the Raptors could have used his defensive prowess against the versatile Bosh. Bosh paced his team for the third game in a row, all wins, to begin the season, scoring 21 points to go along with his 11 boards. The 12-year vet opted to return to Miami during the summer, turning down a sizeable offer from the Rockets. He says his decision had little to do with being the man. He believes they still have a contender in Miami and while that can be debated, the early returns suggest he may be on to something. After having success in the past four years, twice, it kind of changes your perspective about things, said Bosh, the Raptors all-time scoring leader. You hold things more important. You know whats more important. Having your team or anything like that, thats ego driven. Its not as important. So for me its really just about winning ball games. Thats what it comes down to. And if I can have a major responsibility and contribute to that than thats what I strive for. Rumblings of Miamis demise may in fact be premature. At least on Sunday, Wade looked like the player of old - active, dynamic and all over the floor, he flirted with a triple-double, recording 19 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in the second night of a back-to-back. [As] soon as we can move on from the questions about last year, the sooner I can move on, man, he said before the game, taking issue with a reporter, inquiring about his status in the game after playing Saturday night. Im playing in the game. Its the only way I can approach it. They were both that guy and now it’s back to them being that guy and not worrying about LeBron or that situation, DeRozan said. Both of them have been the man before and theyre doing it again. The takeaway for the Raptors: They still have some work to do. Through three games we havent seen them at their best. As for their winless streak against Bosh and the Heat, theyll have to hear about it for a while longer. “It’s not been fun at all but what do we have? Three more shots at them? DeRozan asked. They actually see them twice more this season. We have to take advantage of those. It was a good test for us tonight. Derrius Guice Jersey . 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"We didnt have to go far down those roads," says Peart. "The first idea was always going to be the best." After 30 minutes, he phoned his interlocutor back to tell him yes, Montreal could accommodate a full-fledged Formula One Grand Prix, and that the best venue was Île Notre-Dame – a man-made island built to host Expo 67 a decade earlier – if for no other reason than its excellent access to public transit. The timing was perfect. Montreals then-Mayor Jean Drapeau had just announced that the artificial island would be devoted to sporting events, while the neighbouring nature-made Île Sainte-Hélène would host cultural-type events. By April 1978, Montreals city council had accepted the idea of a racetrack — "on the express condition that it cost the taxpayers nothing," recalls Peart. Peart, an engineer, is well-known in the world of international racing. Over the past five decades, he has not only competed as a driver (largely in amateur races) but has monitored and inspected racing circuits all over the world. Now 80-years-old, Peart is still president of the Canadian National Sports Authority (ASN Canada), and the only sports commissioner in the country recognized by the Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA), Formula Ones governing body. Unsurprisingly, it was Peart who was given the mandate to design the Île Notre-Dame track, which would need to meet Formula Ones rigid standards. The Briton, who was then living in Montreal (he now calls Ontario home), still remembers the moment he went to first inspect what would become Canadas most famed racetrack. Mother Nature had dropped a major snowfall on top of the island, forcing him to develop the initial drafts without even being able to inspect the actual ground he was surveying. "I remember those days at my cottage in Saint-Sauveur in the Laurentians; when skiing conditions were poor, I drew up plans, plans and plans again." The challenge was more than he expected. "First, I had to ignore the old pavilions of the Expo 67 scheduled for demolition. Then I had to deal with some elements – the lake and park in the center, the river on one side, the Olympic basin on the other – that were obviously there to stay." "There wasnt much space and I had to fit a circuit in there, with rights and turns." Despite the challenges, the track, by and large, remains almost the same as Peart originally designed it. The buildings to the east of the island, where the boathouse was situated and where the hairpin turn is still today, were originally used as the pits. One weekend a year, the boats would then give way to the F1 cars — "It was an economical solution," recalls Peart. Because of the impracticality of this arrangement, new pits have subsequently been built in their current location, to the west, just before the Senna turn. This is the most significant change in the circuits 36-year history, a testimony to the excellence of Pearts original design. "Everything Was Going Too Fast!" The consttruction of the circuit that would later bear the name of Gilles Villeneuve was executed in record time.dddddddddddd "It was a crazy time," says Peart. "Everything was going too fast!" After a winter spent developing the best possible layout, the British engineer travelled to Europe to attain approval for the plans by the FIA. By May 1978, after a meeting in Monaco, approval was granted and the construction began shortly thereafter, in July 1978. The first F1 race was held barely three months later. A Fairy Tale for All Sunday, October 8, 1978. The first of 35 Grand Prix of Canada races to be held on the new Circuit Île-Notre-Dame – its been held there every year since 78, except in 1987 during a sponsorship dispute between Labatt and Molson, and in 2009 when event funding became an issue – unfolds like a fairy. Its a fairy tale for Peart, who, serving as the race director, gets to hear firsthand from racers like Jackie Stewart that "his circuit" is "a little paradise in the middle of a great river." Its also a fairy tale for the Quebec public. In a race seemingly scripted by the gods of motor racing, Quebecs own Gilles Villeneuve takes the inaugural checkered flag in his Ferrari to the delight of more than 72,000 excited spectators. Its Villeneuves first win in 19 races, and he receives his much-deserved trophy from Prime Minister Pierre-Elliot Trudeau. For Ferrari, it is the companys first success in eight years. The track would be renamed in 1982 to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in honour of its first champion after Villeneuve tragically died in a crash during qualifying for the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix 36 Years Later: Peart Still Hasnt Missed a Race A technical track - Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve requires full concentration at all times and leaves little room for error. It is a circuit of long fast rights, interrupted by tight corners where, even today, the tires, brakes, engines and transmissions are strained to their limits. However, "unlike so many other F1 racetracks, Montreal has several opportunities for overtaking," says Peart. "That means the races are always exciting." Peart has not missed a Canadian Grand Prix since 1978. He watches every race from the control tower, as one of the three sports commissioners delegated by the FIA. This year will be the first exception as Peart has delegated his position to another steward — hell still be there, just with a different view. And if you happen upon him and ask if, after all these years, he would change anything about his original design? Hell tell you that, to this day, throughout the world, he has never seen a track as perfect. Encounter With A Young Gilles Villeneuve Early 1970s. Peart is, at the time, chief instructor at the Fédération Automobile du Québec, when as he recalls, "a quiet little man from Berthierville comes to see me." "He wanted to drive race cars. I asked him about his experience, and he replied that he was racing, of all things, snowmobiles. "As our summer events were all finished, I suggested he rent [some time at] Sanair [Super Speedway], bring along a car and we would see what kind of automobile racer he would make." "The day he showed up with his brothers Mustang, I had to leave for a business appointment. But I asked a fellow instructor to work with him and give me a report. Later in the day, the instructor called me, excitedly saying, Hey, boss, we may have something here!" "Each and every lap, the young Gilles Villeneuve was faster than his instructor. Obviously, we gave him his racing license." "I remember that to thank me, he wanted to give me a five-dollar tip." Via www.Autofocus.ca ' ' '