Portland Race Weekend Thread (includes race results) - 10-Tenths Motorsport Forum

luke · 15 Jun 2005, 09:47

Race 4 of 14 G.I. Joe’s presents the Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland Portland International Raceway

Weekend schedule: (ET)

Practice 1
Jun 17, 1:15 pm ET

Practice 2
Jun 17, 5:00 pm ET

Qualifying 1
Jun 17, 5:25 pm ET

Practice 3
Jun 18, 1:30 pm ET -Race Director avalible

Practice 4
Jun 18, 5:00 pm ET -Race Director avalible

Qualifying 2
Jun 18, 5:25 pm ET -Race Director avalible

Warm-Up
Jun 19, 12:00 pm ET

Race
Jun 19, 3:45 pm ET -Race Director avalible

Weekend weather forcast:

Friday
66°F (19°C) | 52°F (11°C)
Showers

Saturday
66°F (19°C) | 52°F (11°C)
Showers

Sunday
73°F (23°C) | 54°F (12°C)
Showers

TV

U.S. :Race Live CBS Sports Jun 19, 3:30 pm ET

U.K :Race Live Eurosport Jun 19, 20:45 pm GMT

Australia : Live on Race Director Monday Morning at 5.30am approx.
Channel 10 late Monday night after Sports tonights and Big brother.

Canada: CBS feed as shown above. Also replayed on TSN at 2AM SunNight/MonMorn (Immediately after US-GP) (Only for 90mins)

Live timing
(Live Timing and Telemetry are both available for every session)

Support series:

» Toyota Atlantic
» Trans-Am

Website: Website

First Champ Car race: 1984

Total Champ Car races 21

Defending champion: Sebastien Bourdais

Track length: 1.969 mile road course

marcus · 15 Jun 2005, 10:37

STARTING GRID

1.Justin Wilson 57.597 (1st Career Pole)
Rusport
18th Career start

Career Best Qualifying

2.AJ Allmendinger 57.816 (3rd time starting 2nd)
Rusport
18th Career start

Equal Best Career Qualifying

3.Paul Tracy 57.911 (18th time starting 3rd)
Forsythe Racing
227th Career start

4.Alex Tagliani 57.956 (6th time starting 4th)
Team Australia/Walker racing
95th Career start

5. Sebastien Bourdais 57.989 (3rd time starting 5th)
Newman Haas
36th Career start

6. Mario Dominguez 58.093 (4th time starting 6th)
Forsythe Racing
55th Career start

7. Andrew Ranger 58.097 (1st time starting 7th)
Conquest
4th Career Start

Career Best Qualifying

8. Jimmy Vasser 58.134 (12th time starting 8th)
PKV
222nd Career Start

9. Ronnie Bremer 58.331 (2nd time starting 9th)
HVM
4th Career Start

Equal Best Qualifying

10. Cristiano da Matta 58.343 (5th time starting 10th)
PKV
83rd Career start

11.Timo Glock 58.407 (1st time starting 11th)
Rocketsports
4th Career start

12. Oriol Servia 58.669 (8th time starting 12th)
Newman Haas
90th Career start

13. Bjorn Wirdheim 58.759 (2nd time starting 13th)
HVM
4th Career start

14. Ricardo Sperafico 58.894 (1st time starting 14th)
Dale Coyne Racing
4th Career start

Career Best Qualifying

15. Michael Valiante 59.055 (1st time starting 15th)
Dale Coyne Racing
2nd Career start

16. Ryan Hunter-Reay 59.140 (3rd time starting 16th)
Rocketsports
36th Career start

17. Nelson Phillipe 59.345 (3rd time starting 17th)
Conquest
15th Career start

18. Marcus Marshall 59.362 (1st time starting 18th)
Team Australia/Walker racing
4th Career start

Portland fast facts

as stated above by Luke there have been 21 Champcar races held at Portland the first being in 1984.

Previous winners

1984 :: Al Unser Jnr
1985 :: Mario Andretti
1986 :: Mario Andretti
1987 :: Bobby Rahal
1988 :: Danny Sullivan
1989 :: Emerson Fittipaldi
1990 :: Michael Andretti
1991 :: Micahel Andretti
1992 :: Michael Andretti
1993 :: Emerson Fittipaldi
1994 :: Al Unser Jnr
1995 :: Al Unser Jnr
1996 :: Alex Zanardi
1997 :: Mark Blundell
1998 :: Alex Zanardi
1999 :: Gil de Ferran
2000 :: Gil de Ferran
2001 :: Max Papis
2002 :: Cristiano da Matta
2003 :: Adrian Fernandez
2004 :: Sebatien Bourdais

Track Changes

there have been 7 track changes at portland since 1984 and apparently they have slightly changed the tricky turn 1 section again this year you can have a read about these changes HERE

Qualifying lap record

Qualifying lap record on this track (in its 2001 - 2004 config) was set by Max Papis in 2001 with a time of 57.785 secs

Race lap record

The fastest Race lap on this track (in its 2001 - 2004 config) was set by Bruno Junqueira last year (2004) with a time of 1.00.573 secs

luke · 15 Jun 2005, 10:43

Im hi jacking Luke's post here for the Race results.

Race Results

1.Cristiano da Matta

12th Career victory

2. Sebastien Bourdais

3. Paul Tracy

4. Mario Dominguez

5. AJ Allmendinger

6. Jimmy Vasser

7. Andrew Ranger

8. Ronnie Bremer

9. Bjorn Wirdheim

10. Timo Glock

11. Michael Valiante

12. Nelson Phillipe

13. Ricardo Sperafico

14.Marcus Marshall

15.Ryan Hunter Reay

Did Not Finish

Oriol Servia

Justin Wilson

Alex Tagliani

FASTEST LAP

Fastest lap was set by Sebastien Bourdais on lap 79 with a time of 59.923

MOVER OF THE RACE

This weeks mover of the race was Cristiano da Matta who started 10th and moved forward 9 places to take the race win

FALL FROM GRACE

AJ Allmendinger took the fall from grace award this week by falling 3 places during the race (started 2nd , Finished 5th)

CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS

1 Sebastien Bourdais 106
2 Paul Tracy 95
3 Justin Wilson 77
4 A.J. Allmendinger 74
5 Cristiano da Matta 73
6 Mario Dominguez 71
7 Jimmy Vasser 63
8 Bruno Junqueira 59
9 Andrew Ranger (R) 54
10 Timo Glock (R) 54
11 Oriol Servia 53
12 Ronnie Bremer (R) 52
13 Alex Tagliani 45
14 Bjorn Wirdheim (R) 44
15 Ryan Hunter-Reay 35
16 Nelson Philippe 31
17 Marcus Marshall (R) 27
18 Ricardo Sperafico (R) 21
19 Michael Valiante (R) 10
20 Fabrizio Del Monte (R) 5
21 Jorge Goeters (R) 3

NATIONS CUP

1 Canada 112
2 France 101
3 Brazil 98
4 USA 81
5 England 74
6 Mexico 69
7 Catalonia 53
8 Germany 53
9 Denmark 49
10 Sweden 43
11 Australia 27
12 Italy 5

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

1 Andrew Ranger (R) 54
2 Timo Glock (R) 54
3 Ronnie Bremer (R) 52
4 Bjorn Wirdheim (R) 44
5 Marcus Marshall (R) 27
6 Ricardo Sperafico (R) 21
7 Michael Valiante (R) 10
8 Fabrizio Del Monte (R) 5
9 Jorge Goeters (R) 3

PASSING POINTS

1. Andrew Ranger +12
= Bjorn Wirdheim +12
3. Ronnie Bremer +11
4. Ryan Hunter-Reay +10
5. Marcus Marshall +9
6. Oriol Servia +7
7. Timo Glock +6
8. Michael Valiante +4
= Ricardo Sperafico +4
10. Bruno Junqueira +3
= Fabrizio Delmonte +3
= Cristiano Da Matta +3
= Paul Tracy +3
= Mario Dominguez +3
15. Sebastien Bourdais +2
= Nelson Phillipe +2
17. Jimmy Vasser 0
= AJ Allmendinger 0
19. Justin Wilson -2
20 Alex Tagliani -6

NEXT EVENT

Cleveland June 26

PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS

RND 1 LONG BEACH
RND 2 MONTERREY
RND 3 MILWAUKEE

luke · 15 Jun 2005, 11:15

All time best race at Portland?

Has to be 1997 for me.

What an exciting race.

BootsOntheSide · 15 Jun 2005, 12:08

1997 was pretty crazy, especially as Blundell was completely oblivious to the fact that he'd won when he passed de Ferran on the line.

macdaddy · 15 Jun 2005, 12:30

Certainly, 1997 goes down in the history books as one of the most-exciting ChampCar events ever staged.

TedN · 15 Jun 2005, 12:46

For those interested, you can find local print coverage here

Ted

Snrub · 15 Jun 2005, 14:23

For the life of me I cannot remember Papis winning in 2001. Maybe I missed the race? Can anyone give me a quick synopsis of it?

jjspierx · 15 Jun 2005, 17:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by luke

All time best race at Portland?

Has to be 1997 for me.

What an exciting race.

I was at the start/finish line for that race. It was quite fantastic.

mandretti39 · 15 Jun 2005, 17:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Snrub

For the life of me I cannot remember Papis winning in 2001. Maybe I missed the race? Can anyone give me a quick synopsis of it?

Here ya go...http://www.champcarworldseries.com/N...le.asp?ID=1019

mac · 15 Jun 2005, 23:40

My favourite Portland memory is being at the snow, waking up in the middle of the night to watch Alex Zanardi win in 1998.

He then stopped at the end of the main straight and motioned to the crowd as if to ask, "do you want the donuts?"

The crowd went berserk and he went to start doing some donuts, but stalled his engine.

He needed a push start so he could complete his pirouettes.