Tagliani fastest in warm-up
Alex Tagliani continued his strong form at Road America this weekend by topping the Sunday morning warm-up
The RSPORTS driver, who should have won his first Champ Car race here in 2000 and eventually scored his only Champ Car win here in 2004, lapped the 4.048-mile Elkhart Lake course at an average speed of 139.259mph, putting himself 0.15 seconds ahead of PKV Racing's Tristan Gommendy.
Sebastien Bourdais and Graham Rahal were in third and fifth places for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, split by the Team Minardi USA entry of Robert Doornbos, and ahead of Team Australia duo Simon Pagenaud and Will Power.
Dan Clarke's 10th fastest time, 0.7 seconds off Minardi teammate Doornbos was unrepresentative as he was black-flagged for spraying fluid on the track, but his compatriot Justin Wilson continued to struggle with his RSPORTS machine.
As per most of the weekend, the slowest two cars on track were the Forsythe Championship Racing entry of Paul Tracy and the Dale Coyne Racing car of Katherine Legge. The latter was 3.6 seconds off Tagliani's pace.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Alex Tagliani RSPORTS 1:44.645 2. Tristan Gommendy PKV Racing 1:44.814 + 0.169 3. Sebastien Bourdais Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:44.840 + 0.195 4. Robert Doornbos Minardi Team USA 1:44.891 + 0.246 5. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:44.946 + 0.301 6. Simon Pagenaud Team Australia 1:44.963 + 0.318 7. Will Power Team Australia 1:44.986 + 0.341 8. Oriol Servia Forsythe 1:45.244 + 0.599 9. Jan Heylen Conquest Racing 1:45.444 + 0.799 10. Dan Clarke Minardi Team USA 1:45.535 + 0.890 11. Justin Wilson RSPORTS 1:45.615 + 0.970 12. Ryan Dalziel Pacific Coast 1:45.681 + 1.036 13. Alex Figge Pacific Coast 1:46.007 + 1.362 14. Neel Jani PKV Racing 1:46.243 + 1.598 15. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 1:46.335 + 1.690 16. Paul Tracy Forsythe 1:47.998 + 3.353 17. Katherine Legge Dale Coyne Racing 1:48.257 + 3.612
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