Toronto Grid

[Liz]

Saturday's qualifying results follow:

1) Helio Castroneves, No. 3 Marlboro Penske Honda/Reynard, 57.200sec/110.455mph
2) Cristiano da Matta, No. 97 Pioneer/MCI World Com/PPI Toyota/Reynard, 57.539/109.804
3) Michael Andretti, No. 6 Kmart/Texaco Ford/Lola, 57.666/109.562
4) Juan Montoya, No. 1 Target/Ganassi Toyota/Lola, 57.928/109.066
5) Dario Franchitti, No. 27 Team KOOL Green Honda/Reynard, 57.940/109.044
6) Christian Fittipaldi, No. 11 Big Kmart Ford/Lola, 57.949/109.027
7) Kenny Brack, No. 8 Shell/Team Rahal Ford/Reynard, 57.984/108.961
8) Gil de Ferran, No. 2 Marlboro Penske Honda/Reynard, 58.045/108.847
9) Adrian Fernandez, No. 40 Tecate/Quaker State/Patrick Ford/Reynard, 58.056/108.826
10) Mauricio Gugelmin, No. 17 Nextel/PacWest Mercedes/Reynard, 58.152/108.646
11) Oriol Servia, No. 96 Telefonica/PPI Toyota/Reynard, 58.311/108.350
12) Paul Tracy, No. 26 Team KOOL Green Honda/Reynard, 58.369/108.242
13) Jimmy Vasser, No. 12 Target/Ganassi Toyota/Lola, 58.411/108.165
14) Max Papis, No. 7 Miller Lite/Team Rahal Ford/Reynard, 58.427/108.135
15) Mark Blundell, No. 18 Motorola/PacWest Mercedes/Reynard, 58.428/108.133
16) Roberto Moreno, No. 20 Visteon/Patrick Ford/Reynard, 58.442/108.107
17) Patrick Carpentier, No. 32 Player’s/Indeck Ford/Reynard, 58.556/107.897
18) Bryan Herta, No. 55 Hollywood/Mo Nunn Mercedes/Reynard, 58.570/107.871
19) Alexandre Tagliani, No. 33 Player’s/Indeck Ford/Reynard, 58.772/107.500
20) Michel Jourdain Jr., No. 16 Herdez Mercedes/Lola, 59.022/107.045
21) Shinji Nakano, No. 5 Walker Racing/Avex Honda/Reynard, 59.058/106.980
22) Norberto Fontana, No. 10 Della Penna Toyota/Reynard, 59.190/106.741
23) Tarso Marques, No. 34 Panasonic/Coyne Ford/Swift, 59.198/106.727
24) Takuya Kurosawa, No. 19 Sports Today Ford/Lola, 1:00.783/103.944
25) Luiz Garcia Jr., No. 25 Hollywood/Embratel-21 Mercedes/Reynard, 1:01.268/103.121

Thank You.

[Crash Test]

Who was it that said the toyotas would be uncompetitive on road courses, go on, fess up....

[Liz]

Sight of media people frantically trying to find out who the heck Cristiano da Matta is and what team he drives for.

Interesting sidelight: At post race press conference Helio was upbeat and said he was going to have to be patient during the race and work hard. Cristiano said he was very pleased with what he'd done so far and had the car to go all the way.

Mikey said he would have been first except he had bad tires and Montoya blocked him.