Allmendinger tops Toronto warm-up
AJ Allmendinger set fastest lap in an incident-packed race day warm-up for the Grand Prix of Toronto
The Forsythe Championship Racing driver set a time of 1:00.057, but all the talk was of two major accidents.
The first happened in the opening minutes of the session, when Alex Tagliani's car snapped left on the back straight and nosed into the wall at high speed.
The Team Australia car was quickly taken back to the pits in order to get it rebuilt in time for the race, which starts less than four hours after the accident happened.
The second shunt looked more serious, where Paul Tracy dived down the inside of Tonis Kasemets who, unaware of the Forsythe driver's presence, turned in and launched himself into the air and into the wall at high speed.
Tracy's car looked relatively undamaged in the accident.
Oriol Servia (PKV Racing), Sebastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) and Justin Wilson (RuSPORT) filled out the top four places.
Katherine Legge (PKV) and Nelson Philippe (CTE Racing-HVM) also spun at the end of the session, but not before Philippe had set fifth quickest time.
Pos Driver Team Time 1. Allmendinger Forsythe Championship 1:00.057 2. Servia PKV 1:00.412 + 0.355 3. Bourdais Newman/Haas 1:00.450 + 0.393 4. Wilson RuSPORT 1:00.775 + 0.718 5. Philippe CTE - HVM 1:01.003 + 0.946 6. Power Team Australia 1:01.396 + 1.339 7. Tracy Forsythe Championship 1:01.456 + 1.399 8. da Matta RuSPORT 1:01.592 + 1.535 9. Junqueira Newman/Haas 1:01.612 + 1.555 10. Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 1:01.788 + 1.731 11. Dominguez Dale Coyne 1:01.876 + 1.819 12. Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 1:02.238 + 2.181 13. Clarke CTE - HVM 1:02.466 + 2.409 14. Legge PKV 1:02.527 + 2.47 15. Heylen Dale Coyne 1:02.554 + 2.497 16. Kasemets Rocketsports 1:06.815 + 6.758 17. Tagliani Team Australia No time
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