Round 8 Edmonton Race Thread (Race Spoilers)

[marcus]

Round 8 of the Champcar World series is at Edmonton in Canada this week.

this is the 3rd time the Champcars have race at this 1.973 mile street course.

with the previous winners being


2005 Sebatien Bourdais
2006 Justin Wilson

who will add their name to the list in 2007 ?

Check out the tracks website at www.grandprixedmonton.com

and Dont forget your predictions and fantasy teams right here on Ten Tenths in the Champcar Fantasy forum.

Also for Australian Viewers , also note Channel 7 will now start broadcasting the Champcar World series starting with this event , see seperate thread

[marcus]

STARTING GRID

1. Will Power 58.403 (4th Career Pole)
Team Australia Racing
24th Career Start


2. Sebastien Bourdais 58.596 (13th time starting 2nd)
Newman/Haas/Laningan Racing
67th Career Start


3. Justin Wilson 58.410 (11th time starting 3rd)
RSPORTS
48th Career Start


4. Graham Rahal 58.485 (2nd time starting 4th)
Newman/Haas/Laningan Racing
8th Career Start EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING


5. Neel Jani 58.762 (1st time starting 5th)
PKV Racing
8th Career Start


6. Bruno Junquiera 58.846 (9th time starting 6th)
Dale Coyne Racing
95th Career Start


7. Simon Pagenaud 58.868 (3rd time starting 7th)
Team Australia Racing
8th Career Start


8. Ryan Dalziel 59.256 (1st time starting 8th)
Pacific Coast Motorsports
9th Career Start CAREER BEST QUALIFYING


9. Alex Tagliani 59.483 (9th time starting 9th)
RSPORTS
125th Career Start


10. Dan Clarke 59.503 (2nd time starting 10th)
Minardi Team USA
22nd Career Start


11. Robert Doornbos 59.553 (1st time starting 11th)
Minardi Team USA
8th Career Start


12. Jan Heylen 59.561 (4th time starting 12th)
Conquest Racing
19th Career Start


13. Oriol Servia 59.582 (9th time starting 13th)
Forsythe Championship Racing
120th Career Start


14. Paul Tracy 1:00.107 (7th time starting 14th)
Forsythe Championship Racing
255th Career Start


15. Katherine Legge 1:00.222 (9th time starting 15th)
Dale Coyne Racing
22nd Career Start


16. Alex Figge 1:00.937 (2nd time starting 16th)
Pacific Coast Motorsports
7th Career Start


17. Mario Dominguez (substitute for T Gommendy) (8th time starting 17th)
PKV Racing
82nd Career Start

[marcus]

RACE RESULTS

1.Sebastien Bourdais (27th Career Victory)


2.Justin Wilson (7th time Finishing 2nd)


3.Graham Rahal (1st time finishing 3rd)


4.Simon Pagenaud (3rd time Finishing 4th)
EQUAL CAREER BEST FINISH

5.Paul Tracy (10th time finishing 5th)


6.Oriol Servia (8th time Finishing 6th)


7.Bruno Junqueira (6th time finishing 7th)


8.Dan Clarke (2nd time finishing 8th)


9.Neel Jani (1st time finishing 9th)


10.Jan Heylen (1st time finishing 10th)


11.Robert Doornbos (1st time Finishing 11th)


12.Ryan Dalziel (1st time Finishing 12th)


13.Alex Figge (1st time finishing 13th)




DID NOT FINISH

Will Power 3rd Career DNF

Alex Tagliani 32nd Career DNF

Katherine Legge 8th Career DNF

Mario Dominguez 23rd Career DNF

[D.R.T.]

Edmonton, still in those quiet moments think back to the 2005 race, outstanding.

Hopefully the 07 event can be just as enthralling

[luke]

Edmonton is a fantastic AOWR event. Proud I'm sure for OWRS. Should be a great race!

[marcus]

First Practice has just been completed with Team Australia's Will Power coming out on top.

First Practice Results

1 W. Power 59.203
2 S. Bourdais 59.256
3 G. Rahal 59.800
4 B. Junqueira 59.803
5 J. Wilson 59.825
6 N. Jani 59.903
7 A. Tagliani 1:00.001
8 O. Servia 1:00.118
9 S. Pagenaud 1:00.144
10 R. Doornbos 1:00.170
11 T. Gommendy 1:00.506
12 P. Tracy 1:00.556
13 J. Heylen 1:00.585
14 K. Legge 1:00.640
15 D. Clarke 1:00.830
16 A. Figge 1:02.662
17 R. Dalziel 1:02.903

[luke]

Who thinks how will win?

Wilson has always been strong there. He should have won in '05 and did in '06but this year he hasn't really impressed me that much. So I din't know.

Would ne nice to Rahal win for the first time.

[Knowlesy]

Well, Allmendinger should have won in 2005, but after him it was Justin yes. RSports (or Rusport as it was) always go well here.

Wilson hasn't shone particularly this year but he's right in the hunt surprisingly!

[luke]

Sorry for my typos in my above post. And how I miss allmendinger..

[marcus]

FIRST QUALIFYING RESULTS

1 S. Bourdais 58.709
2 S. Pagenaud 58.974
3 G. Rahal 59.112
4 B. Junqueira 59.127
5 W. Power 59.155
6 J. Wilson 59.174
7 N. Jani 59.465
8 A. Tagliani 59.483
9 O. Servia 59.582
10 R. Doornbos 59.941
11 K. Legge 1:00.222
12 J. Heylen 1:00.470
13 A. Figge 1:00.937
14 R. Dalziel 1:01.055
15 P. Tracy 1:01.840
16 T. Gommendy 0.00

[marcus]

well looking at the practice and qualifying times its great to see Junquiera up there , it would be great to see him pull of a win and it would be brilliant for Dale Coyne

[icemachine]

Bruno's been driving well, its been the car thats let him down this season

[luke]

Tracy??????? Terrible. What happened to the 17th car? And I hope Doornbos becomes faster tommorrow after he's fully learnt the circuit.

[icemachine]

Clarke tagged a wall in P1, I don't think the car was ready for Q1. Apparently Gommendy crashed hard at end of Q1 and had to be taken in ambulance, any updates?

[D.R.T.]

Apparently he was complaining about lower back pain, so while a concern nothing to severe.

[mountainstar]

Will Power to win. Hopefully.

[racerkeke]

Originally Posted by icemachine

Clarke tagged a wall in P1, I don't think the car was ready for Q1.

Tagged? Hardly. How about creating an inch-and-a-half leading edge in the barrier? Essentially he ran a wheel off and overcorrected coming back, in exactly the wrong spot. He did it right in front of me, couldn't miss it.

Wobbled off downtrack after with all four wheels pointing in unusual directions. Not surprised we didn't see him in Q1. Hope he makes it tomorrow.

keke

[icemachine]

I was going by what I saw from the live timing - wish I could be there to see the action.

[Dutton]

I was going to go, but forgot to organise it.

I would have found out if I could get tickets still, and would have gone for tomorrow if not for having agreed to work this Sunday .

Ah, well, I will be more organised next year.

Still pondering the Rolex-Busch Montreal w/e (is there any point - is it sold out?).

[marcus]

Practice 3 results


1 J. Wilson 58.931
2 S. Bourdais 59.214
3 G. Rahal 59.331
4 W. Power 59.356
5 P. Tracy 59.362
6 S. Pagenaud 59.436
7 N. Jani 59.576
8 J. Heylen 59.849
9 R. Doornbos 59.881
10 B. Junqueira 59.925
11 O. Servia 59.941
12 R. Dalziel 1:00.074
13 D. Clarke 1:00.077
14 K. Legge 1:00.343
15 T. Gommendy 1:00.352
16 A. Figge 1:01.444
17 A. Tagliani 1:02.279

[marcus]

A fairly dramatic session that one with plenty of cars going off.

Justin Wilson spun , Tagliani backed his car into a tyre wall and didnt return to the track.
Bourdais had a huge spin across the grass.
Will power lost his head brace onto the track , Im sure Servia had a spin or 2.

But the session was haulted early because Katherine Legge hit the wall hard , she looked uninjured in the crash but the car is trashed and it even moved the concrete wall , so with 5 minutes or so to go they ended the session early

[icemachine]

Are the drivers pushing the cars too hard or is it something to do with track setup? So many errors in practice doesn't bode well for the race count

[marcus]

a bit of both I think , the track is bumpy and the drivers are pushing pretty hard.

Final Qualifying is about to get underway.
unsure at this point in time if Katherine legge will make qualifying

[Purist]

P4 times are up, and they're just dropping under the official lap record. Bourdais led the session, but Wilson and Power were pretty close in times.

[marcus]

there seems to be something up with Gommendy as well , it looks like he wont be taking part in qualifying either