Labour
Day weekend found Team Player's driver Paul Tracy working harder than ever at
the Grand Prix of Denver, the seventh race in a nine week summer stretch
source: Team
Players
Tracy
began the race in ninth spot but made
short work of climbing up the grid to finish in fourth place. Brazilian Bruno
Junquiera, who held the pole, took the chequered flag, followed by his teammate
Sebastien Bourdais in second and Oriol Servia in third. Team Player's Patrick
Carpentier hit a tire wall on lap 62 and did not finish the race.
Tracy
's fourth place finish gave him
another twelve points in the driver's standings. Despite his win in
Denver
, Junquiera remains stalled in second
place in the points behind the Team Player's driver, who holds an eighteen
point lead over the Brazilian. Tracy, who was quickest in morning warm-up, also
had the second-fastest time of the race (one minute, 2.083 seconds, one
one-thousandths of a second off the fastest).
"I
passed a few cars at the start (three), but after that it was impossible to
pass," says
Tracy
. "Once I went by Pat (Carpentier), I
was real quick. In clear air I was fast. I could get within a car length but you
could not pass. There was no passing. The cars have little down force because of
the altitude, the corners are slow and there are no braking zones. Team
Player's was hoping for a podium, but we were one step short of it. We have
three weeks off and we will have to rebound by improving our qualifying.
That's especially true for
Miami
(the next race.)"