1st Practice results

[devilmaster]

1 S. Bourdais 1:08.948 102.756

2 A. Tagliani 1:09.030 102.634 0.082

3 A. Allmendinger 1:09.043 102.614 0.095 0.013

4 J. Wilson 1:09.180 102.411 0.232 0.137

5 P. Tracy 1:09.225 102.345 0.277 0.045

6 B. Junqueira 1:09.406 102.078 0.458 0.181

7 M. Dominguez 1:09.570 101.837 0.622 0.164

8 O. Servia 1:09.735 101.596 0.787 0.165

9 N. Philippe 1:09.963 101.265 1.015 0.228

10 W. Power 1:10.167 100.971 1.219 0.204

11 J. Vasser 1:10.277 100.812 1.329 0.110

12 A. Pizzonia 1:10.859 99.984 1.911 0.582

13 K. Legge 1:10.900 99.927 1.952 0.041

14 D. Clarke 1:10.911 99.911 1.963 0.011

15 A. Ranger 1:10.943 99.866 1.995 0.032

16 J. Heylen 1:11.187 99.524 2.239 0.244

17 C. da Matta 1:11.189 99.521 2.241 0.002

18 C. Zwolsman 1:11.732 98.768 2.784 0.543

[G.]

CdM has FIVE (5!) rookies faster than him?!? I know it's practice and all...

[pchall]

Legge's jump from the bottom to P13 in the last couple of minutes was promising. And it certainly stirred Pizzonia to put in a flier to get back ahead of her: "Jungle Boy not be beat by Jane". ;)

[NismoZ]

At this point I think you need to judge daMatta from the standpoint of his being only.002 from his teammate. You know it's a whole new ballgame for him. It's not Neuman/Haas '02, but he's not home watching TV either. Biggest surprise I saw was P-2.

[rabbit]

Biggest surprise I saw was P-2.
Yep, I have a feeling Tag is going to stir things up a little bit this year.

[gjc2]

I really thought (hoped) we'd have a couple more cars on the grid.

George

[NismoZ]

Practice 2...If Bourdais finds Tracy to his left and Bruno to his right as they enter the new wider turn 1, I suggest he brake a little early and watch the fun. He could go from 1st to 3rd to 1st by turn 2! :)