Road America RESULTS

[Minardi fan]

Pos Car Driver Nat Chassis/Eng/Tir Laps lag F.Lap Status
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1. 26 Paul Tracy CDN Reynard-Honda 55 0.000 142.404 RUNNING
2. 40 Adrian Fernandez MEX Reynard-Ford 55 7.450 141.231 RUNNING
3. 8 Kenny Brack S Reynard-Ford 55 8.836 142.272 RUNNING
4. 20 Roberto Moreno BR Reynard-Ford 55 23.579 141.198 RUNNING
5. 12 Jimmy Vasser USA Lola-Toyota 55 33.949 140.165 RUNNING
6. 10 Memo Gidley USA Reynard-Toyota 55 94.564 138.999 RUNNING
7. 7 Max Papis I Reynard-Ford 55 100.138 138.966 RUNNING
8. 55 Tony Kanaan BR Reynard-Mercede 54 1LAP 139.665 RUNNING
9. 3 Helio Castroneves BR Reynard-Honda 54 1LAP 140.910 RUNNING
10. 96 Oriol Servia E Reynard-Toyota 54 1LAP 141.434 RUNNING
11. 18 Mark Blundell GB Reynard-Mercede 48 7LAPS 139.582 MECHANICAL
12. 27 Dario Franchitti SCO Reynard-Honda 43 12LAPS 140.385 MECHANICAL
13. 97 Cristiano da Matta BR Reynard-Toyota 43 12LAPS 139.398 MECHANICAL
14. 33 Alex Tagliani CDN Reynard-Ford 37 18LAPS 140.607 MECHANICAL
15. 11 Christian Fittipaldi BR Lola-Ford 31 24LAPS 139.884 MECHANICAL
16. 1 Juan Montoya COL Lola-Toyota 30 25LAPS 140.850 MECHANICAL
17. 17 Mauricio Gugelmin BR Reynard-Mercede 20 35LAPS 139.319 MECHANICAL
18. 16 Michel Jourdain Jr. MEX Lola-Mercedes 19 36LAPS 137.191 MECHANICAL
19. 6 Michael Andretti USA Lola-Ford 17 38LAPS 139.158 MECHANICAL
20. 19 Gualter Salles BR Lola-Ford 16 39LAPS 136.717 MECHANICAL
21. 32 Patrick Carpentier CDN Reynard-Ford 15 40LAPS 138.880 MECHANICAL
22. 5 Shinji Nakano J Reynard-Honda 15 40LAPS 137.166 MECHANICAL
23. 34 Tarso Marques BR Swift-Ford 3 52LAPS 134.997 OFF COURSE
24. 25 Luiz Garcia Jr. BR Reynard-Mercede 2 53LAPS 132.051 MECHANICAL
25. 2 Gil de Ferran BR Reynard-Honda 1 53LAPS 109.988 MECHANICAL


Well well well Mr. Gidley!

At least Mr. Papis was 7th...

[Liz]

Box of Kleenex for Mr. Crash Test please, he won't like these results at all: Tracy won and Gidley finished 6th!

Not a good weekend for Penske, but kudos to Helio for keeping on ...

[Crash Test]

Darn tooten!

Good for Memo, i never said he was a bad driver, i was just hoping that he wasn't being over hyped...but obviously the hype for a good reason. Just look at Mr Kurosawa, everyone was calling him the best thing since sliced bread after Long Beach, but look at where he is now...

As for Mr Tracy, you get that... but Liz sweetie, why haven't you replied to the thread about "why Paul wont be champion"?? I have long been waiting for some replies to that one....myself and Joe Fan give Paul a ragging for the amount of carnage he is involved with, and get flamed ourselves....but as soon as i produce some hard evidence backing our claims there is deadly silence...what's the go there people??

[Jay]

A strange, but in the end good race for Tracy.


I have to feel sorry for Tagliani though. I think he could have won this one.

[bella]

alex had pretty damn much won that bloody race.

i'm still kicking things for christian, and i've got my first session of therapy to deal with such a cruel retirement which denied him his race win. i was ok until they interviewed him on crn.....

all i can say about the race result, is it was literally a lottery. people were dropping out like flies completely randomly.

[Liz]

Looked like a really bad box of gearboxes this time. I hope things improve for Vancouver! I did think it was nice to hear Christian yelling over the scanner that he was faster than Mikey and gethimthehelloutofmyway - and having them listen to him for once. That tells me more than anything else that Mikey is on his way elsewhere ...

Crash, I don't go out of my way to raise my blood pressure so thought you boys should be allowed to play on your "Why Paul Won't Win" thread without my incitement. Everybody needs a "vent" I guess!

Just don't start one that says "Why Penske Won't Win!"

[Crash Test]

Hey, where's my flamin kleenex? If i don't get some shortly, somone is going to trip over in one of these big puddles...

Oh Hi Patrick, how's the wrist?
Oh don't stand over there...
AAARRRRGGHHHH, PAAATTTTRIICCKK!!!


Sorry


"Why Penske Won't Win!"

Umm...are there any freak meteor showers forecast above the Penske factory?

Will Gil fall in love with a Canadian mistress and quit the series?

Will Helio get a job in F1?

Will the replacement drivers be our Paul and Mikey?

[bella]

yeah...*hehehe*...mikey....they'd be doomed.......

it was wonderful for christian to get preferential treatment over mikey. on crn they said that christian was on a really daft fuel strategy, and that he was off like a rocket. funny. his was obviously going to be quicker than mikeys. i don't get what the point is in going one lap longer, though when it wil obviously lose you a lot of time. on an oval, maybe. makes you wonder whether they're putting all the fire power behind #11 instead of #6.....mikey, you're on a loser here......

[Crash Test]

Conspiracy theory time: Since Mikey is leaving NHR, they will shaft his for the rest of the year? Much in the same fashion as Ferrari shaft Rubens?

[bella]

oh please, oh please..
i hope they do. so he can be on the receiving end of what christian's been getting all these years.

[Neil C]

I am certainly no P. Tracy fan. However, credit where credit is due.

Paul ran an incredible race. Fast and clean against huge odds. Although I would have loved to see Tags take the win, Paul Tracy earned it.

[Liz]

I wonder how many people felt a bit foolish for letting him by when they found out he was not actually a lap down ...

Tracy ran his race like Moreno yesterday and if he can just do this a few more times this year, he could actually win!

Not that I want anybody to beat Gil.

[Crash Test]

"he could actually win!"
-Now steady on Liz...read the "why Paul wont win thread"....oh sorry, already been there....

[Jay]

I read the "Why Paul won't win thread, and wasn't impressed."

I doubt anyone let Tracy by thinking he was on the lead lap. They would be told over the radio that it was for position. He did drive quite a race though. Lets see someone in F1 do that! Oh yah, Rubino did .

Bella, you were right that Christian did do quite well considering his last concussion. I guess he has gotten used to the sensation.

[Liz]

Some people thought so. Anyway Tracy said so!

What's with those NH cars catching fire?

[Nuvolari]

Did they have a sale on gearboxes at Wal-Mart?

[bella]

the n/h cars keep bursting into flames cause of that **** paint job.

nuvolari - must have been. i thought they were funny beer crates...