Milwaukee Starting Grid & official Race Thread (Includes race spoilers)

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1. Jimmy Vasser 21.081 (9th Career Pole)
PKV
221st Career Start


2.AJ Allmendinger 21.109 (2nd time starting 2nd)
Rusport
17th Career start
Equal Best Career Qualifying

3.Justin Wilson 21.125 (3rd time starting 3rd)
Rusport
17th Career start


4.Cristiano da Matta 21.261 (2nd time starting 4th)
PKV
82nd Career start


5.Paul Tracy 21.268 (13th time starting 5th)
Forsythe Racing
226th Career start


6. Sebastien Bourdais 21.356 (3rd time starting 6th)
Newman Haas
35th Career start


7.Ryan Hunter-Reay 21.454 (4th time starting 7th)
Rocketsports
35th Career start


8.Bjorn Wirdheim 21.584 (1st time starting 8th)
HVM
3rd Career start
Career Best Qualifying

9. Oriol Servia 21.609 (6th time starting 9th)
Newman Haas
89th Career start


10. Mario Dominguez 21.632 (4th time starting 10th)
Forsythe Racing
54th Career start


11.Alex Tagliani 21.722 (8th time starting 11th)
Team Australia/Walker racing
94th Career start


12.Nelson Phillipe 21.883 (1st time starting 12th)
Conquest
14th Career start
Career Best Qualifying

13.Andrew Ranger 21.954 (1st time starting 13th)
Conquest
3rd Career Start
Career Best Qualifying

14.Timo Glock 22.281 (1st time starting 14th)
Rocketsports
3rd Career start


15. Marcus Marshall 22.283 (1st time starting 15th)
Team Australia/Walker racing
3rd Career start
Career Best Qualifying

16.Ronnie Bremer 22.424 (1st time starting 16th)
HVM
3rd Career Start


17.Ricardo Sperafico 23.379 (1st time starting 17th)
Dale Coyne Racing
3rd Career start



Milwaukee Mile Fast facts

This will be the 31st Champcar race to be held at Milwaukee first starting back in 1979.
in 1979,80,81 and 1982 they ran 2 rounds at the Mile Oval in the season.

Previous winners include

1979: AJ Foyt
1979: Roger McCluskey
1980: Bobby Unser
1980: Johnny Rutherford
1981: Mike Mosley
1981: Tom Sneva
1982: Gordon Johncock
1982: Tom Sneva
1983: Tom Sneva
1984: Tom Sneva
1985: Mario Andretti
1986: Michael Andretti
1987: Michael Andretti
1988: Rick Mears
1989: Rick Mears
1990: Al Unser Jnr
1991: Michael Andretti
1992: Michael Andretti
1993: Nigel Mansell
1994: Al Unser Jnr
1995: Paul Tracy
1996: Michael Andretti
1997: Greg Moore
1998: Jimmy Vasser
1999: Paul Tracy
2000: Juan Pablo Montoya
2001: Kenny Brack
2002: Paul Tracy
2003: Michel Jourdain Jnr
2004: Ryan Hunter-Reay

The Track was originally only 1 mile in length but some slight changes to the circuit meant from 1997 onwards the track length is actually 1.032 miles.

the 1998 round at the Mile seems have been the fastest the cars have gone with Patrick Carpentier setting the fastest Qualifying lap to be recorded with a time of 20.0280s.
Fastest Race lap was also set in that round by Scott Pruett with a time of 21.5190s