CART Montreal - A home run for Carpentier and Tagliani
Montreal, Quebec, August 22, 2002 - The last time Patrick Carpentier and Alex Tagliani raced on Montreal's Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve both Team Player's drivers produced victories in front of their enthusiastic home fans. The victories - by Carpentier in 1996 and Tagliani in 1999 - came while they were competing in the Atlantic series, and this Sunday the two Team Player's drivers get the chance to duplicate the feat in the first-ever Molson Indy Montreal, the last of three Canadian events on the 19-race FedEx CART Championship schedule. Eight of 18 drivers in the CART series have some previous experience racing on Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, which is also the venue for the annual Canadian Grand Prix in Formula One and the site for a number of support series events, such as Atlantic. When the CART drivers take to the track on Sunday for the 80-lap event, the 2.71-mile Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve will become the first track to play host to an F1 and CART race in the same season. While Carpentier and Tagliani were born and raised in Montreal suburbs that are less than an hour's drive from Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, neither Team Player's driver believes they have a "home-track" advantage heading into Sunday's race, which is Round 13 in the series. "When I started in the CART series in 2000, there were a lot of tracks that I hadn't raced on before, and it took me about 10 practice laps to get used to these new tracks," said Tagliani, who earned his second podium finish of the season last Sunday, taking second place on the Road America circuit.
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