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[Alonso Mania]

De momento empieza bien,

Serviá ha obtenido el tercer mejor tiempo en la sesión calificatoria. De conseguir mantener el tercer puesto sería la mejor posición de Serviá desde que empezó a correr en la CART.

Además en los entrenamientos de invierno ha estado siempre entre los primeros por lo que parece que nos vamos a entretener en más de una carrera.

Un saludo.

P.D.: ¿Está confirmada la hora de retransmisión? Gracias.

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[magu]

¡¡Menudo alegrón!!

Ya es 7º del Campeonato

ERIC MAUK: Again the first podium again of the year for Patrick and his .704-second margin behind Jourdain marks the second consecutive race that the top-three finishers have finished within a second of each other. We're now joined by tonight's runner-up Oriol Servia, who earned a career-best finish of second place tonight, marking his third consecutive top-five finish. Congratulations, how does it feel?


ORIOL SERVIA: Obviously I am happy, since the beginning of the season we have been quick and every weekend something happens that didn't allow to us finish up there. It's good to at least just break through that and finish second. The European races, I think we lost a little bit of speed, but we were able to at least finish two solid races, 4th and 5th, and here, I think we put together the speed and a good finish which is good. Obviously Michel was very strong. I think I need to work on the restarts. (LAUGHTER). Tracy showed me that. But then I was able to give it back to him which is a nice feeling. Paul is not an easy man to pass so it was a good thing. As I said, I think the orange color became red at some point with that battle, but it was just good. The car ran very well the whole race on all tires, cold tires, a lot of fuel, no fuel, so it was nice.


ERIC MAUK: Tell us about that last restart, you seemed to have a shot at him at the end.


ORIOL SERVIA: He's not here to defend himself, but there is a restart cone in Turn 3 and he started the drive between 2 and 3, okay, and then the last two he was on power in Turn 2. I was like, hey, what is going to happen? But he was trying, you know, you always try to push the limit until the car tells you something, so he did what he had to do, and it is a good thing we had a pace car. He had a non-mistake race. He was strong all the time so I think obviously I was going to try to steal it from him, but I think -- I don't know what was his fastest lap times were, but pretty close to each other.


ERIC MAUK: A lot of people were talking about the cold tonight. Worried about how fast the tires would come up. How long did it take?





ORIOL SERVIA: We were all worried because -- actually Bridgestone was saying under 50 degrees, be careful, and it was 50 degrees before we started, so I was like, okay. But the truth is cold tires out of the pits, I would go out and Turn 3 and 4 which is the first turn you make, the tires were cold and just ooh -- but by the time you go to 1 and 2 it was already almost good and then in the next lap it was fine, so I don't think it was that big of a deal. The car was very consistent and even when the tires were getting very cold, at least my car, it was not the front or the rear -- they -- both ends were giving out the same so it was actually the tires, I think, honestly, they performed really well.


ERIC MAUK: We'll open it up for questions.


Q. You came out of the race smiling after battling with Paul Tracy. What did you learn from each other tonight?


ORIOL SERVIA: I need to see those restarts because it's true, I couldn't get that close to Michel and he was able to be that close to me. Maybe he had higher pressure; maybe that's why he was getting loose and I was able to pass him back. It's always a trade-off. Sometimes you are better on the restart and then you pay for that. I don't know. But I learned that -- what is nice, it was good racing as it should be. It was close. I tell you, Paul didn't give me one millimeter extra, any corner, we were side by side. And I think I did the same with him. We were fair to each other and it was -- it is nice to race like that

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