De Paddock - CART ook op "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve"

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CART ook op "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve"

Voor het eerst sinds lang zullen zowel de Formule 1 als CART hetzelfde circuit delen.
Het zal dus weldra mogelijk zijn om een vergelijking te maken tussen de moderne F1 en CART. Dit is niet evident omdat in het verleden alles in het werk is gesteld om beide series zo ver mogelijk van elkaar verwijderd te houden.

De F1 heeft haar race reeds achter de rug (09/06/2002) terwijl de amerikaanse tegenhanger er op 25 augustus aanstaande z'n opwachting zal maken.

Meer info over het CART-gebeuren vind je hier

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Zoals je al aangaf hier zal bernie ecclestone niet blij mee zijn die probeerde de f1 en cart altijd zo strik mogelijk gescheiden te houden..

vgl tijden vrijdag F1 - CART

1.C. da Matta
1:19.465

1.David Coulthard
1:15.407

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Conclusie : vrij logisch dat F1 veel sneller is , zij hebben de ontwikkeling en de ervaring op het circuit mee

C. da Matta vs Alex Yoong in zijn (ex)Minardi had anders voor mooi spektakel kunnen zorgen :D

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Team KOOL Green driver, Paul Tracy has promised fans present at this weekend's Montreal Molson Indy an exciting race, despite the fact that the CART drivers are running several seconds a lap slower than their European rivals.

Formula One's pole position on the same track this season was set by Juan Pablo Montoya, a time over six seconds faster than the eventual pole set by Cristiano da Matta on Saturday, however Tracy has defended the CART series saying that the competitiveness is greater than that in Formula One where Michael Schumacher basically wins every race before it even starts.

Tracy qualified tenth for Sunday's race while KOOL Green teammate Dario Franchitti will start from second. But despite his lower spot on the grid, Tracy knows a win is still possible, even from the fifth row as that's what racing's all about.

"In F1, you have one guy that is basically going to win the race, Michael Schumacher," said Tracy, who qualified tenth. "If he has a problem, then you might have a race. In our series, a guy like Tony Kanaan can start dead last in the field and finish fourth. That doesn't happen in Formula One. Everyone's excited about racing on an F1 track this weekend. We all know our times will be slower. It's simple physics. Our cars are bigger, heavier and have harder tyres than F1. But our cars will be close in speed and the track suits our cars. It has long straights and deep, heavy braking zones that will give guys opportunities to pass. You don't see that in Formula One. We're going to put on a good race. Racing is what the fans want to see."

Cristiano da Matta, pole sitter for today's race, agrees with Tracy's observations and despite the fact that, just like Schumacher, the Brazilian driver is breaking records in the series, he knows his rivals have every chance of beating him on the Gilles Villeneuve circuit later today and closing the gap on his current lead.

"The biggest difference is that fans won't see one car going five or six seconds per lap quicker than the other cars," he explained. "All the field will be within 1.5 seconds of each other. All the chassis and the engines are very similar and that makes it more interesting."

bron: f1-live.com

Bernie gaat blij zijn dit te horen, amai :)
Cart lijkt me momenteel inderdaad wel een pak boeiender dan F1.

Dario Franchitti won the inaugural Molson Indy Montreal at Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, Round 13 of the 2002 CART FedEx Championship Series.

Driving the KOOL Honda/Lola, Franchitti scored his second victory of the season and moved into the second in the point standings. Franchitti, who also won at Vancouver, crossed the finish line 2.588 seconds ahead of points leader Cristiano da Matta in the Havoline Toyota/Lola

Tony Kanaan finished third in the Pioneer/WorldCom Honda/Lola, Paul Tracy was fourth in the KOOL Honda/Lola and Jimmy Vasser placed fifth in the Shell Ford-Cosworth/Lola.

For all practical purposes, the key to the race turned out to be the decision to bring da Matta into the pits on Lap 10 during a caution period for the stalled car of rookie Mario Dominguez. That gave Franchitti his first lead of the day and da Matta proved to be the only member of the lead pack to pit at this time. The result was that the Brazilian was forced to make an extra stop.

Da Matta got the lead back when Franchitti pitted on Lap 21, the designated pit window.

From that point on, the lead would change each time da Matta or Franchitti pitted. Da Matta made his fourth and final stop on Lap 69, handing the lead over to Franchitti, who only needed to stop three times.

Despite a late-race caution for Adrian Fernandez's accident, da Matta was unable to draw close enough to make a pass attempt for the lead. When the race restarted on Lap 74, Franchitti and da Matta were separated by the lapped car of Shinji Nakano. Although Nakano did not appear to block da Matta, he was ultimately ordered out of the way to allow da Matta a clear shot at the race leader.

At that point on, however, Franchitti was beginning to pull away and he built a 3.16-second lead heading into the final lap.

Rounding out the top 10 were Michel Jourdain Jr. in the Gigante Ford-Cosworth/Lola, Christian Fittipaldi in the Lilly Toyota/Lola, Michael Andretti in the Motorola Honda/Lola, Nakano in the Alpine/ Mitsuba Honda/Lola and Scott Dixon in the Target Toyota/Lola.

The point standings changed somewhat thanks to the retirements of co-second-place occupants Patrick Carpentier and Bruno Junqueira. Both drivers retired with mechanical problems and did not score points. Da Matta now leads Franchitti by a 161-106 margin while Carpentier and Junqueira remain tied for third with 101 points. Fittipaldi and Jourdain are tied for fifth with 88 points each and Jourdain continued his amazing by scoring in his 13th straight race.

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