Grand-Prix of Cleveland: Team Player's ready to make its voice heard in "The roar by the shore" In addition to it being
the first night race on a road course in Champ Car World Series history,
Saturday evening's Grand Prix of Cleveland, dubbed "The Roar By the
Shore", has plenty of significance for Team Player's drivers Patrick
Carpentier and Paul Tracy. Carpentier arrives in
Cleveland as the defending champion, after withstanding the intense heat last
year and the rigours of the 10-turn, 2.106-mile circuit that is like no other in
the Champ Car series - laps are run on the Burke Lakefront Airport runway, a
configuration that is almost a combination of a road and street surface. Tracy, who posted the
fastest time (65.86 seconds) - his teammate Carpentier was third quickest -
in a multi-team testing session earlier this week on the Mid-Ohio road course,
where the series will be racing next month, will be making his 200th
career Champ Car start when he lines up on the Cleveland grid Saturday evening.
Tracy, currently the leading driver in the series, has a long history with
Cleveland - he won from the pole there in 1993 and has two other podium
finishes, including third place last year, when he joined fellow Canadian
Carpentier on the podium. "Two hundred career starts simply means I've been around a while," said Tracy. "It's a milestone, I guess, but it's only something you remember if you win the race. Winning the first night road-course race would make the 200th start all the more memorable."
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