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-f rw-e-vw rrTT fT" 7 7 7 7 i jfJJr'iftJ-JJ -v I) I CB Monday, April 6, 1992 THE TORONTO STAR sr Al- KNTMPKSaiTS BRUINS" SUPER SHOW wan-ait -wnm mmmmimaom wtmm ramom mi aamtmm ter nee reiiw ew BUI MM lESSTCIIEEVESS pmmmmi -mum- immu mmmnmtrnumuimruutimmr at Phoenix GOLFJOURNAMENTS: By Frank Orr TORONTO STAR the race in sixth spot He drove a canny, patient and very fast race in what he called hu major for next months Inala-500. car worked very well In all condition. especially the traffic," Tracy said. But irtt had not been for the two mistakes, or whatever theyre called, on the yellow flags, 1 could have been in the top three. Tt was myidf to gain confidence here for Indy.

I really want to do there and, in fact, I want to have a good shot at rookie of the year." The first lap Tracy lost came on a yellow flag mlxup that saw the pace car plot up the when it entered the track to'alow the field, a mistake to which dyCar On a later yellow that was about to go green, Tracy passed Bettenhsusen before Tony green dropped, leading to the IftywIlllTtll pCOUDf Tdario Andretti wu pushing me really hard, sitting right on my tail, and I jumped a little too Tracy said.Tf he hadnt soon," been pushing me, I would have stayed wherel Rumors persist that Tracy will drive in the Molson Indy races in both Toronto and Vancouver, but Penske team officials say no decision has been made. Goodyear led Tracy Into a turn and dropped down on the track ass Mario Andretti on the in to pass Mai side when the passing space disappeared. al moved down to pass and my inside wheels were past the centre of Marios car when, suddenly, there was no room," said. Mario just moved down, shut off the hole and I had to go over the curb to avoid hitting him. The car went a little airborne and tiie curb cut the oil lines.

"The normal thing is for the car bring passed to leave some space. But Mario either wasn't aware that I was there or didn't care." LauiiM Jkg a jkA AMmIkMmV AMjI A MC8U80 Of US UC6 ftfflVU UQ UuS entry of Walker Racing to field it were testing in races and we learned a great deal about tiie car in 95 Goodyear said. I fell back on the start but when we adjusted the wing on the first pit stop, tiie handling improved and I was going very well Rahal, co-owner of the team now, figured a heavy test schedule on an established car, a Lola 92Chev V8A, would be an early edge for perhaps the most consistent driver in the series on the assorted new carenglne combinations. He was third In the opening race in Australia. PHOENIX The carefully conceived plan by the Penake Racing team to groom Paul Tracy aa a front-line IndyCar driver ahead of schedule.

The 23-year-old from West Hill finished fourth in the Valvoline 200 at the Phoenix International Raceway yesterday. Tracy's splendid drive illustrated the abundant natural talent that has earned him a heavy test schedule on the Penske can for top drivers Rick Mears and Emerson Fittipal- What makes Tracy's performance even better in the Mobil 1 Lola 91 Chev V8A engine not the new V8B Chev power die other Penske drivers use was his losing two laps to the leaders through what best can be de- scribed as "racing drcumstane-stop snafu under a yel- es." A pit stop i low flag cost Tracy, John and Mario Andretti each a lap and Tracy lost another lap on a stop- under violation than a blatant attempt to gain illegally. Remove those two incidents and Tracy would have been third, ahead or Fittipaldi, and perhaps second, in front of Eddie Cheever second, in front of Eddie i in the PPG IndyCar World Series event No one was going to catch race winner Bobby Rahal who led wire to wire "in his Miller Lo- isever-an i before 55,000 fans. Attendance was reduced by a flooded road that cut access to the track to one street Scott Goodyear of Willowdale, who was gaining ground rapidly after a handling problem inhfi Mackenzie LolaChev V8A was corrected on a pit stop, went out of the race when running ninth on lap 95. He was cut off by Mai io Andretti when trying to pass on a corner and a bounce over the curb cut the engines oil lines.

After a rapid climb as a teenager through Canadian racing, Tracy won the Firestone Indy Lights title in 1990, a supporttraining supporttr program for the IndyCar series! In May, 91, Tracy signed with TTacy signed Penske as a test driver plus a limited racing schedule. In hisaebut in the Michigan .500, Tracy crashed on the fourth lap and suffered a broken leg. He returned to race late in the season, gaining a No. 7 finish on the mile oval Nazareth, Pa. In the off-season.

Tracy has piled up close to 3,000 test miles. almost all of it on ovals, driving sis and the new Penske 92 chassis the new Chev engine. With that test experience behind him, including much time in the car he drove here, Tracy qualified No. 5 on Friday and started I GAS FURNACE AKING THE FLAG: Britains Jag on his victory lap after Nigel Mansell waves the Union Jack and the Brazilian. winning the; Brazilian GP at Sao Paulo yesterday.

in a row time world champion Ayrton Senna of Brazil said. "I almost didn't see them alter the second lap." The race did not go well for Sennas McLaren-Honda team, debuting its MP4-7 model with a semiautomatic transmission and an electronic throttle. $AO PAULO, Brazil (AP) Nigel ManseU of. won the Brazilian Grand Prix yesterday nia third Formula One victory in three races this ear. Riccardo Patrese, Mansells teammate, finished second, riving the williams-Renault team its third one-two finish.

Mansell won the opening races in1 South Africa and Mexico. The McLaren-Honda driven by Gerhard Berger td the Austrian driver hiM on the warmup lap, and i had to start in last place. After four laps, he dropped out with an overheated engine. Sennas motor failed on the 17th lap ai -The British driver covered 71 laps around the mile course in one hour, 36 minutes and 51 and he was USA out of the race. more To compete, reliability were going to have to get a lot and speed," said Senna.

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seconds. His only challenge came from Patrese, 'who led for 31 laps and set a track record, but lost tiie lead and the race on a slow tire change. had a bad start so I was waiting for Patrese to malm hia pit stop to pull ahead," Mansell said. Michael Schumacher of Germany finished third in a Benetton-Ford, followed by the Ferraris of Frances Jean Alesi and Italys Ivan CaprilL Italian Michele Alboreto was sixth for the young Footwork-Mugen team. Only 10 of the starting 26 cars were on the trade Mansell, starting from the pole, was slow off the Unh and Patrese jumped 1 from second to first Man- at the' end, but the superiority of the Williams-Re-so apparent that the only question was nauhs Patrese on the 31st lap when the change tires.

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