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24 Sep 2004, 23:29 (Ref:1106357)
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Las Vegas Starting Grid
 STARTING GRID FOR LAS VEGAS 400 1. Patrick Carpentier 26.190 (5th Career Pole) (1st pole of 2004) Forsythe Championship Racing 138th Career start  2. Jimmy Vasser 26.278 (15th time starting 2nd) PKV Racing 216th Career start  3. Sebastien Bourdais 26.300 (5th time starting 3rd) Newman/Haas Racing 30th Career start  4. Bruno Junqueira 26.310 (5th time starting 4th) Newman/Haas Racing 69th career start  5. Michel Jourdain Jr. 26.324 (5th time starting 5th) RuSPORT 150th Career start   6. Rodolfo Lavin 26.350 (2nd time starting 6th) Forsythe Championship Racing 30th Career start  7. A.J. Allmendinger 26.362 (3rd time starting 7th) RuSPORT 12th Career start  8. Ryan Hunter-Reay 26.402 (4th time starting 8th) Herdez Competition 30th career start  9. Mario Dominguez 26.488 (3rd time starting 9th) Herdez Competition 49th Career start  10. Roberto Gonzalez 26.579 (1st time starting 10th) CAREER BEST QUALIFYING PKV Racing 14th Career start  11. Paul Tracy 26.644 (10th time starting 11th) Forsythe Championship Racing 221st Career start  12. Alex Tagliani 26.713 (3rd time starting 12th) Rocketsports Racing 89th Career start  13. Nelson Phillipe 26.814 (2nd time starting 13th) EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 9th Career start  14. Guy Smith 26.885 (2nd time starting 14th) EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING Rocketsports Racing 5th Career start  15. Justin Wilson 27.080 (2nd time starting 15th) Mi-Jack Conquest Racing 12th Career start  16. Gaston Mazzacane 27.082 (4th time starting 16th) EQUAL CAREER BEST QUALIFYING Dale Coyne Racing 10th Career start  17. Mario Haberfeld 27.232 (2nd time starting 17th) Walker Racing 30th Career start  18. Oriol Servia DID NOT TAKE PART IN QUALIFYING (7th time starting 18th) Dale Coyne Racing 84th Career start  FAST FACTS Michel Jourdain Jnr will be starting his 150th Champcar race this weekend This is the First time the Champcar World Series has competed at Las Vegas By Taking Pole Position for this event Patrick Carpentier has won a $10,000 bonus from Bridgestone set up for this event , check the full story Here Last edited by marcus; 26 Sep 2004 at 01:20. |
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In Loving memory of Peter Brock I hate it when im driving in a straight line & Seb Vettel runs into me GO THE MIGHTY HAWKS !!!! |
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25 Sep 2004, 02:37 (Ref:1106391)
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Very cool starting grid, Pat's still on form and shocker of shockers, Jimmy's on the front row! They must have finally figured out how to set that thing up! Nelson outqualified Wilson.
Notice the close times between many teammates. I'd say this is further evidence of what we knew going into this race, setup is the most important factor. |
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25 Sep 2004, 05:55 (Ref:1106408)
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Well done to Patrick and Jimmy. This race is going to be close very close the top 16 drivers covered within a second.
Looking at some drivers in qualifing they huged the white line all around the track even on the straits trying to find the shortest way around the track, so much grip it looked so easy for them and i would not be surprised to see them 4 wide at some stage of the race. |
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25 Sep 2004, 08:45 (Ref:1106458)
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What happened to Servia? :confused:
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25 Sep 2004, 16:31 (Ref:1106652)
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Is that the first time Wilson has been out-qualified by his team mate? (Err, this season of course).
Good grid, hopefully a good race. Shame for Servia coming off of that good result last time out. Lavin's oval speed might encourage him to pi...I mean, depart to the IRL for next season 
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25 Sep 2004, 16:47 (Ref:1106667)
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A second covers the grid, which can easily be lost in one slight mistake. When you have a one-mile oval and quick laps as a result, the grid tends to be shuffled much more, which explains some of those strange results.
Lavin is already proven on ovals, but ChampCar needs his Corona money to have 18 cars this year, and might do next year. |
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25 Sep 2004, 20:31 (Ref:1106827)
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25 Sep 2004, 22:06 (Ref:1106895)
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According to Bourdais running on the oval is not challenging and all one has to do is put the throttle down. There is also talk that there isn't much of a draft and that passing may be at a minimum. We may end up with an IRL type race where the drivers run side by side until the laps run out; yaaawwwnnn!!!. Hopefully the push to pass will liven it up a bit. I'll be watching of course but I am not overly excited about the package that Champ Car is using in Vegas. Here's hoping that I am wrong and it does provide good racing.
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A torrential afternoon practice session in Watkins Glen saw Villeneuve out-qualify everyone. By 11 seconds.Scheckter stated: "I scared myself rigid that day, I thought I had to be quickest. Then I saw Gilles's time and - I still don't really understand how it was possible. Eleven seconds !" |
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26 Sep 2004, 22:39 (Ref:1107784)
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For the ovals does champcar use a qualifying session or do they do it NASCAR style where the cars go out one at a time, I believe they used the NASCAR method at Fontana last time they were there.
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27 Sep 2004, 07:12 (Ref:1107966)
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for this event the cars went out one at a time , not sure if thats the way they do it on ovals but for this event thats what happened
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27 Sep 2004, 10:22 (Ref:1108108)
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That's how ChampCar and IndyCar always qualify on ovals.
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