Lineups at Qualifying

Individual Qualifying Report(Saturday PM Session) - Official

April 8, 2000

1 Juan Montoya 1 19.255
2 Christian Fittipaldi 11 19.306
3 Helio Castro-Neves 3
4 Paul Tracy 26 19.362
5 Gil de Ferran 2X 19.391
6 Kenny Brack 8X 19.409
7 Roberto Moreno 20 19.417
8 Tony Kanaan 55 19.498
9 Adrian Fernandez 40X 19.552
10 Patrick Carpentier 32X 19.554
11 Jimmy Vasser 12 19.558
12 Mauricio Gugelmin 17 19.656
13 Alexandre Tagliani 33 19.695
14 Dario Franchitti 27 19.695
15 Michael Andretti 6 19.755
16 Max Papis 7 19.844
17 Takuya Kurosawa 19X 19.901
18 Oriol Servia 96 19.933
19 Mark Blundell 18 19.969
20 Cristiano da Matta 97 20.075
21 Michel Jourdain Jr. 16 20.083
22 Norberto Fontana 10 20.741
23 Luiz Garcia jr. 25 25.903
0 Shinji Nakano 5 Wthdrn
0 Gualter Salles 34 Wthdrn

Five pilotes qualified in their T cars.

Christian in 2nd, Mikey in 15th? AT MIKEY'S HOME TRACK? This will never do! Do I sense a 5 pit stop strategy for Christian? :)

P.S. Bella you can stop gloating now ... :p

Is Ross Brawn working for Newman-Hass now?? ;)

Yeah Liz, you can't blame Mikey every time Tracy crashes into him....

Oh and before i get blasted, it was only last year the last time they were at it, so give them a few more races and i expect there to be more tears flowing from their eyes.


;)

Oh, and only about 1.5 seconds in the top 21...not too many series can boast that....(ok maybe Nascar....but that doesnt count ;))

Didn't Paul Tracy look smooth out there? Watch him tomorrow.......
By the way Liz . I really like Gil He's a very nice guy and a great driver.

Dear Liz,

Would it be out of line for me to politely request that you stop bashing Michael at every turn? It does tend to get rather old, and leaves a tarnish on all of the other (very astute and intelligent) things you say.

WB

Oh, sorry, that is ill mannered of me isn't it. I will try to control myself and do remind me from time to time. :) I will try only to jeer at Mikey when he crashes out of a race and then blames somebody else.

But that is a marvelously close field, isn't it? Good luck to everybody who is racing today and may Penske get their 100th win.

i would be skipping if there wasn't a snowstorm last night! drat! foiled again!

ah, well. long beach next weekend.

What's the betting for snow at Long Beach?

about the same it is for snow on the sahara :)

what are the bets for rain @ silverstone? there's a strong chance. oh, sorry, wrong forum.

Has it ever snowed at a major race before? What was Tracy talking about testing at Nazareth in a snowmobile suit? Was that just him talking or did he do that?

I heard Penske once had to plow the track for him to get out there at Nazareth...

[This message has been edited by Crash Test (edited 11 April 2000).]

...Liz, it snowed lightly during the Qualifying weekend for the very first US 500 at Michigan. It didn't interrupt any on track activity but get this...I was camping with my dad!...

thanks for reminding me
:D
actually, now i think about it, isn't it time n/h let someone else do the winning and general wise guy things? i mean, it's all very well, this little fairy story of one of the really small number of americans (2?) in cart doing really well, but hey, come on, it's so see through!
join the campaign to deflate mikey's tyres just before the start! no more andretti's!
more brazilians!
ban teenyboppers!

Moving this up to the top so we can all remember how they go!

OR ... we could send various Brazilians to do what Mika said he did to Frenzy at Monza -walk up to him on the grid and say "Have you noticed that all your tires are flat? They look flat to me."