Interesting grid

[Lizzerd]

1) Paul Tracy, No. 1 Indeck/Forsythe Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:00.870sec/105.333mph
2) Rodolfo Lavin, No. 3 Corona/Forsythe Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:00.980/105.143
3) Sebastien Bourdais, No. 2 McDonald¹s/ Newman-Haas Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:00.974/105.153
4) Mario Dominguez, No. 55 Herdez Competition Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.168/104.820
5) Memo Gidley, No. 17 U.S. Air Force Reserve/Rocketsports Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.365/104.483
6) Patrick Carpentier, No. 7 Indeck/Forsythe Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.398/104.427
7) Justin Wilson, No. 34 MiJack Conquest Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.434/104.366
8) Bruno Junqueira, No. 6 PacifiCare/Newman-Haas Racing, Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.459/104.323
9) Alex Tagliani, No. 8 Johnson Controls/Rocketsports Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.539/104.188
10) Ryan Hunter-Reay, No. 4 Herdez Competition Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.566/104.142
11) A.J. Allmendinger, No. 10 BG Products/RuSPORT Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.588/104.105
12) Michel Jourdain Jr., No. 9 Gigante/ RuSPORT Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.777/103.786
13) Oriol Servia, No. 11 YokeTV.com/Dale Coyne Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.904/103.573
14) Mario Haberfeld, No. 5 Cummins/Walker Racing Reynard/Ford-Cosworth, 1:01.911/103.562
15) Jimmy Vasser, No. 12 Gulfstream/PKV Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:01.936/103.520
16) Roberto Gonzalez, No. 21 NII Holdings/PKV Racing Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:02.163/103.142
17) Alex Sperafico, No. 24 MiJack Conquest Racing Reynard/Ford Cosworth, 1:03.347/101.214
18) Gaston Mazzacane, No. 19 AMR/Dale Coyne Racing, Lola/Ford Cosworth, 1:03.757/100.563

Some of the usual suspects up front. PT, Kermit, Dominguez (mildly surprising, though).

Lavin P2. Is he really not a wanker? Is Forsythe's team just that good to give him a great car? Or was Walker's team just bad last year?

Gidley P5. Got some practice time this week, 'eh, Memo? Good for you!

Mid pack a little unusual. Blinky and RHR have had better days.

Vasser dissapointing. Should be better than P15, only ahead of King Roberto, King Alex, and King Gaston. No surprises in the last three.

[nrc]

The grid got shaken up by the fact that a lot of folks waited until late in the session to go out and then had their sessions interrupted by traffic an red flags. I still think Memo will be faster than his teammate on a regular basis given time, but this round he got the advantage by going out early.

[Winston Wolfe]

Vasser aint so bad... yeah, he's 15th, but he is only 1.1 sec off pace, and he has been to this track many, many times, and will soon figure it out.... I just hope he can stay out of the 1st lap melee that has taken him out of way too many races, too early in the last couple of years.

GO JEEMY !!!! :thumbup:

[tllips]

Vasser aint so bad... yeah, he's 15th, but he is only 1.1 sec off pace, and he has been to this track many, many times, and will soon figure it out.... I just hope he can stay out of the 1st lap melee that has taken him out of way too many races, too early in the last couple of years.

GO JEEMY !!!! :thumbup:

Yeah but, P15 is long way back on a street course that is difficult to pass on. Jeemy will need to have a lot of luck in missing the melees to move all the way up to a podium.

But I will still be rooting for him!!!!! :D