U.S. Bank Grand Prix Results
Pole-sitter Paul Tracy - avoiding any first lap, first turn dramatics that has plagued so many Champ Car events in Cleveland - captured his 30th career win on the airport road course.
A.J. Allmendinger returned from a Saturday qualifying crash and a ride on a stretcher finished second. In what can best be described as, “Champ Car what’s that?” the race was shortened from 94 to 91 laps to accommodate TV coverage.
1 Paul Tracy 1 #3 46 91 running — $75,000
2 A.J. Allmendinger 9 #10 19 91 running — $50,000
3 Oriol Servia 6 #2 0 91 running — $40,000
4 Alex Tagliani 5 #15 5 91 running — $35,000
5 Sebastien Bourdais 3 #1 0 91 running — $30,000
6 Jimmy Vasser 8 #12 0 91 running — $27,500
7 Justin Wilson 16 #9 0 91 running — $25,000
8 Andrew Ranger 4 #27 0 91 running — $22,500
9 Ricardo Sperafico 17 #11 0 91 running — $20,000
10 Timo Glock 11 #8 0 91 running — $19,000
11 Tarso Marques 10 #19 0 90 running — $19,000
12 Marcus Marshall 18 #5 0 89 running — $18,000
13 Nelson Philippe 15 #34 0 89 running — $18,000
14 Ronnie Bremer 12 #55 0 80 mechanical — $17,000
15 Bjorn Wirdheim 13 #4 0 51 contact — $17,000
16 Cristiano da Matta 2 #21 21 50 contact — $16,000
17 Mario Dominguez 7 #7 0 38 contact — $16,000
18 Ryan Hunter-Reay 14 #31 0 1 contact — $15,000
I watched most of the race and all in all it wasn’t bad. Considering that they carried a post race segment including interviews I think it was a good trade off. There is nothing worse than a race ending and immediately going to another program. If the decision to cut three laps from the race was made to allow for the interview, good for the director!
Being stuck over here is the hinterlands I didn’t get a chance to see the race. From what you say it does seam to be a good compromise if the after race interviews were included.