Krosnoff memorial to be unveiled.

A plaque in memory of CART FedEx Championship driver Jeff Krosnoff and track worker Gary Avrin is to be unveiled on Wednesday, July 3rd at Exhibition Place in Toronto, replacing a makeshift memorial which stood at the site of the accident that took their lives during the 1996 Toronto Molson Indy.

Fans had placed flowers, a plaque and a Krosnoff decal on the elm tree that Krosnoff's car struck after an on track incident redirected his car into track workers, resulting in the death of Avrin and Krosnoff and the injury of two others. When it became known that the elm tree was dying of disease, an effort began more than a year ago to place a proper, permanent memorial at the site. At last, that plaque has become a reality.

"We have asked several CART drivers who knew Jeff to attend, along with friends and family of both Jeff and Gary, as well as other members of the motorsports community in Canada and the United States," said Douglas Graves, Avrin's fellow track worker who spearheaded the effort to install a permanent memorial.

The site of the plaque looks over the accident scene at Turn 3 of the Exhibition Place racing circuit, just west of the footbridge over Lake Shore Boulevard.

The 2002 Molson Indy Toronto will take place on July 7th, exactly one week short of the sixth anniversary of Krosnoff's crash.