Tracy tops morning warm-up

The Forsythe Championship Racing ace, who has won this race four times, set a time
of 22.374, just 0.01sec ahead of pole-sitter Sebastien Bourdais, and is much happier with the car set-up.

"Yesterday there was a major screw-up with the weight-jacker that was wired up wrong, so it was working in the opposite way to what you need. So when I felt I had too much push on the warm-up lap, I cranked it one way to dial it out, and I got more understeer, cranked it again... even more, cranked it again and so on. At those speeds and on this track, you don't have time to consider 'well, what if this has been done back to front'.

"Today though the car feels good, we're on the pace. I just wish we hadn't got to work through so much traffic ahead."

Bruno Junqueira was 0.15 off Newman/Haas Racing teammate Bourdais in third, while AJ Allmendinger continued to impress with fourth fastest, despite admitting he's nervous on ovals. RuSPORT teammate Justin Wilson was 11th.

The revelation of the warm-up was the CTE Racing-HVM cars of Dan Clarke and Nelson Philippe who ended the session fifth and sixth quickest, suggesting they, like Tracy, have the potential to carve through from their midfield grid slots.