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Mexico Race Thread (includes RACE spoilers)
Here we go with the final race of 2006.
Mexico City PREVIOUS WINNERS 2002 : Kenny Brack 2003 : Paul Tracy 2004 : Sebastien Bourdais 2005 : Justin Wilson Qualifying Lap record is held by Sebastien Bourdais with a time of 116.7332 mph (or 1:25.919 ) set in 2004 Race Lap record is held By Shinji Nakano (wow) with a time of 114.9551 mph (or 1:27.248 ) set in 2002 who will take the win in 2006 ? DRIVER ADJUSTMENTS *Paul Tracy will not race this weekend in Mexico due an injury *Justin Wilson may not race due to an injury *Buddy Rice will Make his Champcar debut with Forsythe *David Martinez will make his Champcar debut with Forsthye *Adam Carroll is on stand by in case Justin Wilson cannot start for Rusport *No other driver changes have been announced as of yet , Andreas Wirth made his debut with Coyne last meeting unsure if he will be in the car for Mexico. There was talk Alexandre Premat would make his debut for Rocketsports no more information has come to light on this. There was also talk Michel Jourdain Jnr would return to Champcars but no more Information has surfaced about this. There we go folks the final time for 2006 and the final time for the Lola's. who will win ??? |
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STARTING GRID
1. Justin Wilson 1:24.801 (4th Career Pole) Rusport 40th Career Start 2. Sebastien Bourdais 1:24.986 (11th time starting 2nd) Newman Haas 59th Career Start 3. Bruno Junquiera 1:25.491 (12th time starting 3rd) Newman Hass 88th Career Start 4. Will Power 1:25.624 (1st time starting 4th) Team Australia Racing 16th Career Start 5. Ryan Briscoe 1:25.643 (1st time starting 5th) RuSport 2nd Career Start CAREER BEST QUALIFYING 6. Dan Clarke 1:25.942 (2nd time starting 6th) CTE Racing - HVM 14th Career Start 7. Oriol Servia 1:26.068 (8th time starting 7th) PKV Racing 113th Career Start 8. Alex Tagliani 1:26.087 (9th time starting 8th) Team Australia Racing 117th Career Start 9. David Martinez 1:26.146 (1st time starting 9th) Forsythe Championship Racing DEBUT RACE 10. Nelson Philippe 1:26.278 (5th time starting 10th) CTE Racing - HVM 38th Career Start 11. Mario Dominguez 1:26.450 (6th time starting 11th) Rocketsports 78th Career Start 12. Charles Zwolsman 1:26.480 (2nd time starting 12th) Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 15th Career Start 13. Katherine Legge 1:26.607 (1st time starting 13th) PKV Racing 14th Career Start 14. Buddy Rice 1:26.736 (1st time starting 14th) Forsythe Championship Racing DEBUT RACE 15. Antonio Pizzonia 1:26.948 (1st time starting 15th) Rocketsports 4th Career Start 16. Andrew Ranger 1:27.089 (3rd time starting 16th) Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 27th Career Start 17. Jan Heylen 1:27.214 (2nd time starting 17th) Dale Coyne Racing 14th Career Start 18. Andreas Wirth 1:27.842 (1st time starting 18th) Dayle Coyne Racing 2nd Career Start Last edited by marcus; 11 Nov 2006 at 21:40. |
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i hope Power can get the race win that was taken away from him at Surfers.
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Well, about time Bruno Junquiera won. It would be great to see him win after his horrific crash at Indy last year. He hasn't seemed to be on the pace at all since that wreck.
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It's really bad luck for ChampCar to lose so many top drivers for this race (Tracy, Wilson, AJ), especially as the reasons are all completely unconnected.
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the last ever race of a Lola happy and sad at the same time.
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Yep.
A very mixed feeling. Obviously not quite so much when it was the last race of the Reynard as there was still the Lola and the Reynard was not as competitive and some at quite a disadvantage. I remember Paul Tracy trying to get Mr Forysthe to change to Lola for 2003 and sure it worked. Image it would have been different for PT and his championship winning year some what...But that's neither there or here... I however remember the Reynard in 2003 being the fastest on a street course and that was about it, everywhere else it was not the same as a Lola. Maybe now it would have been better suited for teams as Champ Car is now you could say a street based series. There is alot to look forward to being a Champ Car fanatic, fan, follower and even a hater looking into 2007. Many mixed feelings as the Lola and CART era Champ Car cars were such amazing looking race cars. The only cars I like looking at and feel a similar way is when I look at the Renault World Series cars and perhaps maybe even Formula Renault cars. |
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When will we officially know if Justin is not racing? He should have made some sort of announcement by now...which leads me to believe that since there has been no definite announcement, he will probably not race.
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I think as there has been no announcement it means he'll race. I don't knnow if it has been mentioned elsewhere but what he suffered from there should be no problems with racing. He practiced driving from the race cockpit postion etc and had no problems.
I'm sure we'll see an official annoucment from RuSPORT soon. |
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Wilson's website said he would do 10 laps today, to decide if he was fit to compete
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i think u may find that the fact he hasnt made an announcement means he is unsure that he will race. quite obvious really lol
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I'm looking forward to the race to see what all these new guys do.
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Looks like Wilson's OK to race, although his wrist will be checked up on after each session to make sure he's still fine.
http://www.crash.net/news_View~t~Wil...~id~140029.htm |
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thats good news hope it stays that way and dosn't get re-injured in one of the sessions or he has to pull out half-way through the race.
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Well who wouldve thunk it?!?!
Justin Wilson is quickest in Practice 1 |
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QUALIFYING 1 RESULTS
1 S. Bourdais 1:25.449 2 J. Wilson 1:25.560 3 W. Power 1:25.624 4 B. Junqueira 1:26.118 5 R. Briscoe 1:26.494 6 O. Servia 1:26.527 7 N. Philippe 1:26.708 8 D. Martinez 1:26.819 9 A. Ranger 1:27.089 10 M. Dominguez 1:27.151 11 J. Heylen 1:27.214 12 C. Zwolsman 1:27.268 13 B. Rice 1:27.336 14 A. Tagliani 1:27.436 15 D. Clarke 1:27.516 16 A. Pizzonia 1:27.566 17 K. Legge 1:27.720 18 A. Wirth 1.29.148 |
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whoa martinez outqualified Buddy Rice. Will Poer doing another great job, he might win this won if can get some good luck going.
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DOH !!!!!!!!!!
Ive managed to get my times mixed up , I have just got up at 5.30am to watch qualifying to find out its still an hour away I could have stayed in bed longer LOL |
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PRACTICE 3 RESULTS
1 S. Bourdais 1:26.231 2 J. Wilson 1:26.417 3 W. Power 1:26.437 4 B. Junqueira 1:26.682 5 R. Briscoe 1:27.268 6 O. Servia 1:27.479 7 A. Tagliani 1:27.729 8 D. Martinez 1:27.755 9 B. Rice 1:27.839 10 A. Ranger 1:27.910 11 N. Philippe 1:27.922 12 J. Heylen 1:27.987 13 M. Dominguez 1:28.119 14 C. Zwolsman 1:28.174 15 K. Legge 1:28.231 16 D. Clarke 1:28.272 17 A. Pizzonia 1:28.404 18 A. Wirth 1:29.441 well practice 4 has started and I dont have any vision I hope I get some soon before qualifying at least |
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Starting Grid has been posted (2nd post in this thread)
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