Team
Player's shines at Grand Prix of Cleveland night race as Paul Tracy and Patrick
Carpentier finish 2nd and 4th respectively Paul Tracy of Team Player's posted his
third straight podium finish and sixth in nine Champ Car World Series races this
season by taking second place at the Grand Prix of Cleveland on Saturday, a
performance that enabled him to extend his lead in the drivers' championship.
The race was the first night road-course event in the history of the series. Tracy's teammate Patrick Carpentier,
driving with a tender left wrist and a crumpled front wing for the last 45 laps
of the 115-lap race, recorded a gritty fourth-place finish, an effort that
maintained his fourth position in the standings and kept him in contention for
the championship. French rookie and pole-sitter Sebastien
Bourdais, who yielded the lead to Tracy on the first turn of the opening lap,
finally recaptured the lead on lap 69, inching ahead of Tracy as the two drivers
came out of the pits. But Bourdais's third victory of the season was
threatened because of a yellow flag with four laps remaining. The field was
bunched up for the re-start, on the final lap, and with a good burst on the
re-start Bourdais drove to a 2.24-second margin of victory. Tracy, meanwhile, had a battle on his hands with Bruno Junqueira, his main rival in the championship hunt. Attacking immediately on the re-start, Junqueira squeezed past Tracy in the final half-lap, but Tracy promptly regained the position, getting around Junqueira when the Brazilian driver went wide.
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