Paul Tracy has admitted that his come-from-behind victory in the Grand Prix of Cleveland is taking its time to sink in, the Canadian having had to overcome early setbacks and rely on strategy to take his first victory in two years. source: crash.net Qualifying seventh, the Forsythe Championship Racing driver was forced to make two front wing changes after contact in the opening eight laps, both incidents he admitted were largely his fault despite the frenetic start to the race. "I got off to a really bad start, got into the mix with Robert [Doornbos] and Graham [Rahal] fighting," he recounted of the first skirmish, "They both kind of ran wide in turn three, and Graham was kind of way out in the dusty part of the track. When he turned to change direction, he had to come to a stop in the middle of a corner without kind of half spinning out.'' ''I was coming pretty hard, and knew he was going to have to slow down at the apex, but I thought I could kind of cross under him. He basically parked the car right in front of me to avoid spinning out, and I ended up running into him. We both went out in the grass. That was wing number one." The second incident came at the restart following a yellow to cover Tracy's first clash, when the Forsythe driver ended Bruno Junqueira's race at turn one. "It was kind of the same thing with Bruno and Oriol [Servia]," he admitted, "Oriol made a move on Bruno, and Bruno tried to cross under Oriol at the apex of turn one. I had to come to a complete stop in the centre of the corner to cross underneath Oriol. I thought 'okay, I can kind of swing through the corner here and get a good run on the straightaway', but I ran right into the back of Bruno. That was wing number two and we were at the back of the field."
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