Penske pair top warm-up
The Penske team dominated the warm-up for this evening Nazareth round of the CART Championship Series
Helio Castro Neves was fastest, narrowly ahead of team-mate and fellow Brazilian Gil de Ferran. The team-by-team symmetry was completed by Player's/Forsythe pair Alex Tagliani and Patrick Carpentier in third and fourth. The latter is making his CART comeback after missing three races with a broken wrist.
Juan Montoya and Christian Fittipaldi, who will start the race from the front row, were back in ninth and 15th places respectively. Points leader Paul Tracy was sixth quickest.
The qualifying order for the race was decided back in April, when the meeting was originally scheduled to take place. However, heavy snowfall on race day forced the event to be postponed until today. The qualifying positions earned in April will still apply for today's race.
Warm-up results from Nazareth:
1 Helio Castro Neves Team Penske Reynard-Honda 20.106s
2 Gil de Ferran Team Penske Reynard-Honda 20.197s
3 Alex Tagliani Player's/Forsythe Reynard-Ford 20.279s
4 Patrick Carpentier Player's/Forsythe Reynard-Ford 20.293s
5 Adrian Fernandez Patrick Reynard-Ford 20.374s
6 Paul Tracy Team KOOL Green Reynard-Honda 20.410s
7 Max Papis Team Rahal Reynard-Ford 20.415s
8 Roberto Moreno Patrick Reynard-Ford 20.463s
9 Juan Montoya Ganassi Lola-Toyota 20.493s
10 Tony Kanaan Mo Nunn Racing Reynard-Mercedes 20.581s
11 Michael Andretti Newman-Haas Lola-Ford 20.644s
12 Dario Franchitti Team KOOL Green Reynard-Honda 20.646s
13 Cristiano da Matta PPI Reynard-Toyota 20.648s
14 Mauricio Gugelmin PacWest Reynard-Mercedes 20.655s
15 Christian Fittipaldi Newman-Haas Lola-Ford 20.744s
16 Tarso Marques Dale Coyne Racing Swift-Ford 20.779s
17 Mark Blundell PacWest Reynard-Mercedes 20.844s
18 Michel Jourdain Jr Bettenhausen Lola-Mercedes 20.862s
19 Oriol Servia PPI Reynard-Toyota 20.899s
20 Kenny Brack Team Rahal Reynard-Ford 20.966s
21 Jimmy Vasser Ganassi Lola-Toyota 21.000s
22 Norberto Fontana Della Penna Reynard-Toyota 21.029s
23 Luiz Garcia Jr Project Arciero Reynard-Mercedes 21.258s
24 Takuya Kurosawa Dale Coyne Racing Lola-Ford 25.192s
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