Team Player's members getting ready for Europe and beyond
source: Team Players
Homestead, Florida - With a short break in the Champ Car World Series schedule before races in England and Germany early next month,
Team Player's drivers Patrick Carpentier and Paul Tracy used testing sessions
in Homestead and Portland this week for some fine-tuning and preparatory work
for future races.
Carpentier ran close to 300 laps during his two-day session that concluded
Thursday on the 1.5-mile Homestead oval. He put in the laps using the same
aerodynamics package front and rear wings and undertray - that, under
Champ Car regulations, will be in effect for both of the European races on
the road course in Brands Hatch, England and the super speedway at Eurospeedway
in Lausitz, Germany.
"We were the only ones using the Homestead track and the testing that we did
was, in some respects, almost like wind-tunnel testing, so that we could see how
the aerodynamics package reacted to certain situations," said Carpentier.
"The testing went really well, although the Homestead track isn't an exact
simulation of the one in Germany, which has longer straights and tighter
corners."
Carpentier expects that the aerodynamics package used on the Lausitz super
speedway will lead to "pack" racing, much like it was on the Michigan super
speedway, a venue where Carpentier earned the first Champ Car victory of his
career, in 2001.