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Paul Tracy reveals what happened after his now infamous scrap with Alex Tagliani in San Jose, how he's getting used to left-foot braking and, above how all this pales in comparison to Cristiano da Matta's current condition...
I expected this week's column to be one of our usual 2006 things - shooting the breeze about some positives and negatives from our last couple of races, and hopefully giving you fans a bit of insight that you can't get in regular race reports. That's the basic idea of this stuff.
But this time around, it just can't be that way: our little Champ Car world has a big, dark cloud over it because of what happened to one of our ex-champions during our test at Road America last week. Cristiano da Matta hit a deer at almost 100mph. As I write this, he's being gradually brought out of his induced coma, a process which I understand can take three or four days. And we've all got our fingers crossed for him.
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