Paul Tracy gets his own back

rpolinski · 27 Oct 2002, 00:39 (Ref:414317)

In the wet morning warm-up Paul Tracy issued his own gag order. He spun and was told on the radio that they wanted four wheels left at the end. On the same lap he ran straight threough a chicane, and when they radiod him to take it easy he told them to shut up on Australia television.

Liz · 27 Oct 2002, 00:43 (Ref:414319)

Good for him!

I hope he wins.

Jay · 27 Oct 2002, 00:59 (Ref:414328)

Paul did spin a number of times during the session, but kept the car in one piece...relatively at least. Franchitti also spun a few times and destroyed the right front of his car...how unfortunate.

f1manoz · 27 Oct 2002, 01:06 (Ref:414331)

That's PT for you!

Liz · 27 Oct 2002, 01:25 (Ref:414338)

PT has a great future in World Rally when he finishes in CART.

enemy-ace · 27 Oct 2002, 01:27 (Ref:414339)

Those Lola's sure are areodynamic

I think Enzo would have loved Paul!

Liz · 27 Oct 2002, 01:28 (Ref:414341)

They need better shocks though. They don't bounce worth a darn.

tanalised · 27 Oct 2002, 01:40 (Ref:414347)

nice photo that. reminds me of shots from the old Nurburgring when the drivers could get plenty of air

Tailwind · 27 Oct 2002, 01:57 (Ref:414354)

Enemy-Ace, that's a great pic!

Jay · 27 Oct 2002, 02:34 (Ref:414360)

Damn! could I get that in wallpaper size?

enemy-ace · 27 Oct 2002, 03:07 (Ref:414369)

I pinched the photo from a thread at seventhgear.com
It was just too good not to share!

Dave S · 27 Oct 2002, 04:42 (Ref:414405)

Jay, just right click the pic & choose 'set as background. (At least with Windows 2000) should be able to save somehow whatever your running.

Jay · 27 Oct 2002, 05:21 (Ref:414434)

yeah, but I needed it larger and it doesn't look good stretched... it's ok, I have a nice background from the montreal race

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Crash Test · 27 Oct 2002, 11:48 (Ref:414628)

Actually, I must admit, after seeing the new paint jobs on the TKG cars, they are way better than the old ones.

Down F0rce · 27 Oct 2002, 12:01 (Ref:414634)

fantasic pic!

Onlooker · 28 Oct 2002, 04:40 (Ref:415221)

Quote:

Originally posted by rpolinski
In the wet morning warm-up Paul Tracy issued his own gag order. He spun and was told on the radio that they wanted four wheels left at the end. On the same lap he ran straight threough a chicane, and when they radiod him to take it easy he told them to shut up on Australia television.

That lap was his out-lap and he spun 3 times,went up the up the escape road once,shortcut a chicane and had contact with the wall breaking the rear end plate,stalled it resulting in a red flag and got an 8 minute penalty.

Troy · 28 Oct 2002, 07:40 (Ref:415254)

Quote:

Originally posted by Jay
yeah, but I needed it larger and it doesn't look good stretched... it's ok, I have a nice background from the montreal race .

Try speedcenter.com's race report photo gallery.

Crash Test · 28 Oct 2002, 11:20 (Ref:415354)

I took this one a couple of minutes after he gave Barry Green a spray

Liz · 28 Oct 2002, 12:08 (Ref:415395)

Those new Kool colours are gorgeous. Too bad we won't see them any more after this year.

macdaddy · 28 Oct 2002, 15:56 (Ref:415543)

Since when have Jim Beam had such prominent exposure on the cars? They had the entire rear wing at Surfer's.

mac · 28 Oct 2002, 23:26 (Ref:415972)

Maybe it's a sign for next year. They could be with Mikey's team in IRL. They could also be with Barry in CART - any relation to Molson?

Mattracer · 29 Oct 2002, 00:04 (Ref:415994)

Hey, didn't I see Michael Andretti do that in '94 (same chicane). Very cool shot! Despite some of his "bonehead" moves (to quote Dario), one of the most exciting drivers around. World need more of them.

racer69 · 29 Oct 2002, 02:04 (Ref:416031)

Quote:

Originally posted by mac
Maybe it's a sign for next year. They could be with Mikey's team in IRL. They could also be with Barry in CART - any relation to Molson?

In an interview on Channel 10 during the Honda Indy weekend Kim Green said that Barry Green was contracted as a consultant to Andretti-Green Racing for quite a while into the future. Plus Barry was one of the people complaining that CART said the race would end on lap 36 rather than 41.

Liz · 29 Oct 2002, 02:56 (Ref:416050)

It's still his team until December. He has to toe the party line or Mikey will void the agreement, maybe.

senna12 · 29 Oct 2002, 04:34 (Ref:416087)

Definitely don't like the shaved head, though. Doesn't suit him.

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