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12 Aug 2006, 19:19 (Ref:1680777)
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Denver Race Thread (includes RACE spoilers)
Only 16 cars this weekend is a little lighter that usual. No second cars for RuSport or Rocketsports. Kasemets will be racing in Grand-Am this weekend and will be back for Road America.
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12 Aug 2006, 19:20 (Ref:1680778)
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Reserved for Marcus' grid post (if he wants it)
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12 Aug 2006, 20:10 (Ref:1680819)
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final qualifying is about to get underway.
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12 Aug 2006, 20:40 (Ref:1680835)
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wow a fantastic battle between Bourdais and allmendinger for pole going on at the moment
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12 Aug 2006, 20:48 (Ref:1680844)
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Looks like our front row is certain (famous last words).
What's Dominguez doing in 6th! |
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12 Aug 2006, 20:56 (Ref:1680859)
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Bourdais gets it. Tracy and Tags 4th and 5th (err, in session two...combined still close if not the same I'm sure?
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12 Aug 2006, 20:58 (Ref:1680860)
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STARTING GRID
1. Sebastien Bourdais 59.096 (24th Career Pole) Newman Haas 55th Career Start   2. A.J. Allmendinger 59.350 (7th time starting 2nd)Forsythe Championship Racing37th Career Start 3. Justin Wilson 59.878 (8th time starting 3rd) Rusport 37th Career Start  4. Paul Tracy 59.903 (26th time starting 4th)Forsythe Championship Racing245th Career Start 5. Alex Tagliani 59.919 (9th time starting 5th) Team Australia Racing 114th Career Start  6. Andrew Ranger 1.00.007 (2nd time starting 6th)Mi-Jack Conquest Racing23rd Career Start 7. Bruno Junqueira 1.00.029 (6th time starting 7th) Newman Hass 84th Career Start  8. Oriol Servia 1.00.096 (9th time starting 8th)PKV Racing109th Career Start 9. Mario Dominguez 1.00.147 (4th time starting 9th) Dale Coyne Racing 74th Career Start  10. Nelson Philippe 1.00.333 (3rd time starting 10th)CTE Racing - HVM34th Career Start 11. Will Power 1.00.405 (2nd time starting 11th) Team Australia Racing 12th Career Start  12. Charles Zwolsman 1.00.453 (1st time starting 12th)Mi-Jack Conquest Racing11th Career Start 13. Dan Clarke 1.00.887 (2nd time starting 13th) CTE Racing - HVM 10th Career Start  14. Jan Heylen 1.01.201 (3rd time starting 14th)Dale Coyne Racing10th Career Start 15. Katherine Legge 1.01.370 (6th time starting 15th) PKV Racing 10th Career Start  16. Nicky Pastorelli 1.03.472 (3rd time starting 16th)Rocketsports8th Career Start
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12 Aug 2006, 21:28 (Ref:1680880)
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Good Job by Mario 9th is not that bad. Looks like Andrew Ranger made it to the show afterall.
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13 Aug 2006, 01:14 (Ref:1680926)
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Ranger has a nice qualifying time too, not just the position. I think that's his best qualifying position of the year too.
CTE seems to be off their recent pace relative to the others. Does anyone know how TA found Tagliani another tub? |
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13 Aug 2006, 01:23 (Ref:1680929)
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the TA tub should be the one that they have pieced together with some bodgy welding and some superglue from all the pieces of cars they have picked up from previous race tracks this season.
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13 Aug 2006, 02:46 (Ref:1680972)
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Andrew Ranger also qualified 6th at Tpronto Snrub , so he has equaled his best performance this year
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13 Aug 2006, 03:52 (Ref:1680989)
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13 Aug 2006, 04:33 (Ref:1680997)
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Saturday Report-
I made the mistake of over working the past few weeks(100+ hours in the past week alone), so I was already exhausted before going to denver. It all pretty much came together today(exhaustion, heat, sun, lack of water) and I pretty much collapsed at the end of the day. I missed the CCIC dinner to great regret, but didn't think it worth going as miserable as I was. I'm better now, so hopefully after a good nights rest and plenty of gatorade I'll be ready to go for the race tomorrow. Bourdais is pretty much the model of perfection, so I expect him to win tomorrow. AJ is looking good. Tracy appears to have had his cage rattled by AJ, which is fun to watch. He was up there on the board, but he made plenty of mistakes. Ranger and Dominguez really did well and both have a chance of a good placing in the race. Dan Clarke drives like a scatterbrain. Katherine was making huge mistakes left and right. I believe she is quite talented and just based on everything I've heard and seen, she isn't fit enough and has some confidence problems. I think what she needs is a good driver coach. I firmly believe she has heaps of potential, but has to tie all that together now. I didn't realize we only had 16 cars until the end of the today! Everyone is excited about the DP01 and I believe that is going to boost the series, much like the new car did with atlantics. The FBMW race was quite entertaining with a lot of good passing. Friday crowds seemed to be up on last year, but this saturday crowd seemed to be the same or down from last year. No Speed World Challenge GT cars this year which is total bs. Only the touring cars. With transam gone I felt the supports were lacking but maybe I'm spoiled. The vintage race came off better than expected and it seemed everyone really enjoyed it and competitors seemed to have a blast too. No drifting this year which sucks. Also the motorcross stunt team sucks. Not in talent, but they do 2-3 short shows a day. Last year they seemed to be constantly at it when there was no action on the track. They have reprofiled some areas slightly. One can now see the long straight quite well. And they have added some cool things like beach volleyball when there is no racing on track. Overall they have made things very fan friendly and everyone was pleased when they kept blasting champcar t-shirts and caps into the crowd. No official program, only a free booklet which is fine by me. A lot of sponsors/vendors are using scantily clad women with low cut tops. Thumbs up. A former Miss Cleveland GP is doing some pit lane commentary. She is a nice girl and knowledgable champcar fan, but a terrible broadcaster. The voice shrillness is ear drum shattering. She definitely needs some vocal lessons, but if she can temper the voice a bit, she might have potential in the future. I applaud champcar(or the production team) for actually giving a knowledgable fan a break in the media. I know the centrix bit disrupted things a bit, but some other sponsors like frontier airlines, chick-fil-a, cingular and bridgestone have stepped up. All in all it's a great event and tomorrow should be good. If I'm here next year, I'll spring for the hospitality seats. For $349 or whatever the shade, nice seats, free food and drink is worth it. |
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13 Aug 2006, 17:15 (Ref:1681343)
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Tracy fastest in warm-up. Hope it translates to the race, he's due a good result.
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13 Aug 2006, 19:30 (Ref:1681425)
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Carlton Kirby Surely not |
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13 Aug 2006, 19:45 (Ref:1681433)
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Im not sure what that means bigjon , but the race is about to get underway
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13 Aug 2006, 19:50 (Ref:1681435)
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oops.
Paul Tracy and Alex Tagliani make contact at turn 1. looks like Tags is out , blam would have to be on alex there |
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13 Aug 2006, 19:51 (Ref:1681436)
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What a coming together in the first corner!
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13 Aug 2006, 19:59 (Ref:1681442)
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13 Aug 2006, 20:04 (Ref:1681449)
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Servia out
Rain on its way, maybe!!!! |
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13 Aug 2006, 20:06 (Ref:1681451)
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Allmendinger pits early
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13 Aug 2006, 20:07 (Ref:1681452)
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Ranger off
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13 Aug 2006, 20:07 (Ref:1681453)
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ceratianly does look dark
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13 Aug 2006, 20:07 (Ref:1681454)
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Apparently he doesn't like the red tyres as much as the blacks.
The pit stop hasn't helped as he now has traffic, although he is clearing it fairly quickly. Seb has stopped... |
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13 Aug 2006, 20:09 (Ref:1681455)
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Pastorelli off
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