It's been four weeks between Champ Car World Series races for Team Player's drivers Paul Tracy and Patrick Carpentier but the month-long break in the action hasn't dulled their intensity leading into Sunday's 135-lap Grand Prix Americas on the 1.314-mile Miami street course.
The Miami race is highly significant in the history of Team Player's because it is the last time the familiar blue and white Team Player's cars will bear the Player's logo. The full extent of Canadian government legislation banning tobacco sponsorship comes into effect on October 1, and Player's, which is ending its sponsorship following the 2003 season, will be running without the Player's logo for the last three races. Team Player's will announce shortly what design features it is planning for its cars for the final three events.
For Tracy, the Miami race is the resumption of a torrid battle for the drivers' championship, as he tries to extend his 18-point lead (204-186) over Brazilian Bruno Junqueira, who closed the gap slightly in the last race with a dominant performance on a short, tight and bumpy Denver street circuit that is not unlike the Miami course.
Tracy is well aware that the Miami circuit poses a formidable challenge, but, as his lead in the drivers' standings would attest, he is used to racing on the edge and emerging with strong results.
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