RuSPORT duo top first practice
AJ Allmendinger and Justin Wilson have successfully put their troubled Houston weekend behind them by topping the timesheets in first practice at Monterrey, Mexico
The Fundidora Park course lived up to its reptutation of being 'green' - the track surface was slippery, and even the old hands had some wild moments in the course of the 75-minute session.
However, with lap times of 1:16.250and 1:16.264, Allmendinger and Wilson beat reigning champion Sebastien Bourdais of Newman/Haas by approximately a tenth of a second.
2003 champion Paul Tracy was a further 0.4 seconds adrift in his Forsythe Championship Racing entry.
Bruno Junqueira, last year's winner at Monterrey, didn't break into the 1:16, but it certainly wasn't for the lack of trying, launching the second Newman/Haas car high over the kerbs in the dying minutes of the session.
PKV Racing's Oriol Servia and Katherine Legge finished sixth and tenth respectively, with Legge proving the quickest of the rookies.
In between them lay Nelson Philippe (CTE Racing-HVM), Mexican hero Mario Dominguez (Forsythe), and Team Australia's Alex Tagliani, who is showing no ill effects from his Houston shunt.
Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. A.J. Allmendinger RuSPORT 1:16.250 19 2. Justin Wilson RuSPORT 1:16.264 + 0.014 18 3. Sebastien Bourdais Newman Haas 1:16.373 + 0.123 13 4. Paul Tracy Forsythe 1:16.824 + 0.574 14 5. Bruno Junqueira Newman Haas 1:17.089 + 0.839 17 6. Oriol Servia PKV 1:17.126 + 0.876 15 7. Nelson Philippe CTE HVM 1:17.272 + 1.022 18 8. Mario Dominguez Forsythe 1:17.374 + 1.124 18 9. Alex Tagliani Team Australia 1:17.488 + 1.238 17 10. Katherine Legge PKV 1:18.263 + 2.013 36 11. Charles Zwolsman Mi-Jack Conquest 1:18.268 + 2.018 25 12. Will Power Team Australia 1:18.513 + 2.263 30 13. Andrew Ranger Mi-Jack Conquest 1:18.520 + 2.270 18 14. Cristiano da Matta Dale Coyne 1:18.576 + 2.326 19 15. Jan Heylen Dale Coyne 1:18.935 + 2.685 22 16. Dan Clarke CTE HVM 1:19.006 + 2.756 23 17. Nicky Pastorelli Rocketsports 1:19.408 + 3.158 32
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