Monterrey race weekend thread

[luke]

Unfortunately I'm real hectic this week so I couldn't spend the time for the info so sorry if anyone is annoyed hope not...enjoy the race, I'll be away for the weekend. The first road race of the year!

[marcus]

wellI= Ive stuck the thread anyway so we can get discussing the weekend on this thread

[icemachine]

1:15pm IIHF Gold Medal game
2:00pm Grand Prix of Monterrey

Damn poor scheduling

[andy_b]

Two RuSport guys quickest in practice

[Knowlesy]

Yep, Allmendinger from Wilson.

Very promising!

[Knowlesy]

Here are the first qualifying times and it's Justin Wilson on top! Yipee!

1. Justin Wilson GB RuSPORT 1:14.305
2. Sebastien Bourdais F Newman/Haas Racing 1:14.658
3. A.J. Allmendinger USA RuSPORT 1:14.860
4. Paul Tracy CDN Forsythe Racing 1:15.144
5. Bruno Junqueira BR Newman/Haas Racing 1:15.162
6. Andrew Ranger CDN Conquest Racing 1:15.438
7. Alex Tagliani CDN Team Australia Racing 1:15.571
8. Oriol Servia E PKV Racing 1:15.731
9. Charles Zwolsman* NL Conquest Racing 1:15.842
10. Cristiano da Matta BR Dale Coyne Racing 1:16.359
11. Mario Dominguez MEX Forsythe Racing 1:16.424
12. Nelson Philippe F CTE Racing-HVM 1:16.871
13. Nicky Pastorelli* NL Rocketsports Racing 1:16.954
14. Will Power* AUS Team Australia 1:17.180
15. Jan Heylen* BEL Dale Coyne Racing 1:18.003
16. Katherine Legge* GB PKV Racing 1:18.159
17. Dan Clarke* GB CTE Racing-HVM 1:18.520

[okeefe]

That's different than the one I saw earlier today - here's the one I saw this afternoon. Did something happen to make it change or something?
1 9 J Wilson 01:14.3 101.937
2 1 S Bourdais 01:14.7 101.455
3 10 A.J. Allmendinger 01:14.9 101.181
4 3 P Tracy 01:15.1 100.799
5 2 B Junqueira 01:15.2 100.774
6 27 A Ranger 01:15.4 100.406
7 15 A Tagliani 01:15.6 100.229
8 6 O Servia 01:15.7 100.017
9 34 C Zwolsman (R) 01:15.8 99.871
10 19 C da Matta 01:16.4 99.195
11 7 M Dominguez 01:16.4 99.11
12 4 N Philippe 01:16.9 98.534
13 8 N Pastorelli (R) 01:17.0 98.428
14 5 W Power (R) 01:17.2 98.139
15 14 D Clarke (R) 01:17.7 97.518
16 11 J Heylen (R) 01:18.0 97.104
17 20 K Legge (R) 01:18.2 96.91

Oh la la - Ranger got by Tags!

[enemy-ace]

Great to see Wilson on provisional. Hopefully it will be somebody other than Bourdais on pole tomorrow as well. Thinking of it, I really like this Friday provisional pole thing.
Surprised to see Ranger so high and Dominguez and Power so low. Monterrey is a strange track though with it's slippery surface and all.
God it's nice to have the ChampCar season kicking into gear finally.
Adding 2 and 2 together, I would guess Clarke was assessed some kind of penalty.

[D.R.T.]

Excellent run by the Rusport guys.

What I am impressed the most by, was Bourdais huge disappointment over running 2nd in provisional qualfying. No wonder the guys so successful.

Hopefully AJ can jump the two of them for Saturday qualifying.

Really looking foward to this race, hopefully we can go mostly yellow free and we can see these guys run hard for most of the race.

[Snrub]

It's nice to see that there's no one completely out of their depth this season. Given the cars that they're in everyone is competitive. (granted Legge isn't yet in Monterrey, but she has been so far given her experience)

[andy_b]

Originally Posted by Snrub

It's nice to see that there's no one completely out of their depth this season. Given the cars that they're in everyone is competitive. (granted Legge isn't yet in Monterrey, but she has been so far given her experience)

I don't know. Dan is fast, but he's always having accidents and collisions.

[georges1]

GREAT POLE for JUSTIN

[SALEEN S7R]

Nice to see Justin on pole, lets hope he can go on to convert it into a win tommorow.

[marcus]

ummm Not sure where you guys are getting that from.
The CART site are saying Bourdais has pole ???

[marcus]

STARTING GRID

1. Sebastien Bourdais 1:13.253 (20th Career Pole)
Newman Haas
48th Career Start


2. Justin Wilson 1:13.532 (5th time starting 2nd)
Rusport
30th Career Start


3. A.J. Allmendinger 1:13.796 (1st time starting 3rd)
Rusport
30th Career Start


4. Bruno Junqueira 1:13.911 (6th time starting 4th)
Newman Hass
77th Career Start


5. Paul Tracy 1:14.009 (16th time starting 5th)
Forsythe Championship Racing
238th Career Start


6. Alex Tagliani 1:14.534 (6th time starting 6th)
Team Australia Racing
107th Career Start


7. Oriol Servia 1:14.553 (6th time starting 7th)
PKV Racing
102nd Career Start


8. Mario Dominguez 1:14.692 (6th time starting 8th)
Forsythe Championship Racing
67th Career Start


9. Will Power 1:14.884 (2nd time starting 9th)
Team Australia Racing
5th Career Start
EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING

10. Charles Zwolsman 1:15.162 (1st time starting 10th)
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
4th Career Start
CAREER BEST QUALIFYING

11. Jan Heylen 1:15.220 (1st time starting 11th)
Dale Coyne Racing
3rd Career Start
CAREER BEST QUALIFYING

12. Cristiano da Matta 1:15.253 (6th time starting 12th)
Dale Coyne Racing
95th Career Start


13. Andrew Ranger 1:15.410 (3rd time starting 13th)
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing
16th Career Start


14. Dan Clarke 1:15.484 (1st time starting 14th)
CTE Racing - HVM
3rd Career Start


15. Nelson Philippe 1:15.540 (5th time starting 15th)
CTE Racing - HVM
27th Career Start


16. Nicky Pastorelli 1:16.285 (2nd time starting 16th)
Rocketsports
2nd Career Start
EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING

17. Katherine Legge 1:16.351 (2nd time starting 17th)
PKV Racing
3rd Career Start

[marcel82]

Originally Posted by marcus

ummm Not sure where you guys are getting that from.
The CART site are saying Bourdais has pole ???

they probably forgot this race is on Sunday, and there still was a final qualifying today

[marcus]

can you believe that.

This is Bourdais 20th Pole in just 48 races , compare that to Paul Tracy who only has 25 poles , what an increddible record that is

[D.R.T.]

That is insane.

And 4 years straight at Monterrey

[Knowlesy]

I had an inkling Sea Bass would take the pole on the Saturday.

Still, I remain hopeful that he is beaten in the race!

[luke]

Damn Bourdais can never be beaten! I really hope JW can pass him...Kathrine really is quite off the pace, 3 and a half seconds...not good..

[Jordi]

According to autosport.com, Katherine caused two red flags and that took her best two laps away, though I don't know how much of an improvement those laps were.

In the warm-up Allmendinger has been quickest followed by Tagliani. The track was damp but drying and most people spun off, though only a red flag was caused by CTE Racing-HVM's Dan Clarke.


1 A. Allmendinger 10 RuSPORT 1:15.100
2 A. Tagliani 15 Team Australia 1:15.219 0.119
3 S. Bourdais 1 Newman/Haas Racing 1:15.236 0.136
4 P. Tracy 3 Forsythe Championship Racing 1:15.245 0.145
5 J. Wilson 9 RuSPORT 1:15.330 0.230
6 O. Servia 6 PKV Racing 1:15.838 0.738
7 C. da Matta 19 Dale Coyne Racing 1:16.055 0.955
8 B. Junqueira 2 Newman/Haas Racing 1:16.104 1.004
9 N. Pastorelli 8 Rocketsports Racing 1:16.182 1.082
10 M. Dominguez 7 Forsythe Championship Racing 1:16.202 1.102
11 C. Zwolsman 34 Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 1:16.341 1.241
12 A. Ranger 27 Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 1:16.389 1.289
13 N. Philippe 4 CTE Racing - HVM 1:16.400 1.300
14 W. Power 5 Team Australia 1:16.618 1.518
15 J. Heylen 11 Dale Coyne Racing 1:17.245 2.145
16 D. Clarke 14 CTE Racing - HVM 1:17.311 2.211
17 K. Legge 20 PKV Racing 1:17.571 2.471

[Knowlesy]

Off topic, but did anyone else have a totally random interruption to the Champcar coverage when they were running through the grid?

I don't know what that was all about!

[L-B]

Originally Posted by knowlesy

Off topic, but did anyone else have a totally random interruption to the Champcar coverage when they were running through the grid?

I don't know what that was all about!

It looked like finger trouble on the satellite, that was a priest being primed for a live interview with someone.

I see Dangerous Dan's nickname has followed him.

[Bernard Bram]

Are there more than 4 cars on track? I can only see Bourdais and Wilson. Hey Mr. Director: wake up!

[luke]

It's a good race so far, shame Kathrine can't stop spinning.