Carpentier on cloud number 9
source: cart.com MERRILL CAIN: Your pole sitter for tomorrow's CART Grand Prix of Mid-Ohio is Patrick Carpentier, driver of the #32 Player's/Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Reynard/Bridgestone, who took the top spot with the best lap of 1:06.128 seconds, that's a speed of 122.925 miles per hour. Patrick gives Reynard its first pole of the season and earns the second of the season for Ford-Cosworth. The championship point he earned for winning the pole this afternoon moves Patrick into a three-way tie for third place, giving him 74 points on the season. That knots him with Bruno Junqueira and Michel Jourdain Jr. Patrick, you proved yesterday was no fluke. No red flag today; you earned it. PATRICK CARPENTIER: No, I'm extremely happy. I thought it was a fluke yesterday, too. I thought I got lucky with the red flag (laughter). I'm pretty surprised. The guys did a fantastic job. The tires came on right. The car was perfect. We had a good lap. A couple of times it went sideways. I stood on it and it just shot me forward exiting the corner. After that, I tried to redo it. I couldn't do it. But, hey, I just needed to do it once, and the team gave me the car to be able to do it today. Ford did a really good job. They came up with some new stuff. It seems to be helping quite a bit. I just want to say thanks to the team and everybody. It's my first pole on a road course. It's fantastic. It's my 100th race this weekend and it's my birthday on Tuesday. So yesterday was for the 100th race and today was for my birthday. We'll see tomorrow. Hopefully I get another birthday or something (laughter). But it's going to be a long race and a tough race. I think it's going to be tougher than Cleveland. I know these guys are going to be pushing really hard. So hopefully I'm there at the end. Hopefully we can battle it out. more at CART.com
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