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Tracy fastest amid carnage in practice
11 July 2009 / ResultsLocal man Paul Tracy set the fastest lap time in a session of almost total bedlam in Toronto on Saturday. With a huge storm having already delayed proceedings and leading to evacuation of the circuit's grandstands, the KV Racing car topped the timesheets with all drivers doing well just to stay on the track.
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With the worst of the storm gone but a slippery surface left in its wake, Tracy topped the final classification with a lap time of 1.15.534, over 15 seconds slower than Matos' P1 effort of Friday on what was now a soaking wet track. Danica Patrick was second for the Andretti Green team with Mario Moraes third to confirm two KV machines in the top three places.
With the previously halted session getting underway around one and a half hours later than it should have, Dario Franchitti entertained all with a complete 360 degree spin on his first lap at the final corner, coming off lightly in comparison to Tony Kanaan who completely lost control and headed backwards into the wall, causing heavy damage to his Andretti Green car in the process.
These two were just the first ingredients in a cocktail of incidents, however, as Kanaan's team-mate Marco Andretti soon repeated the accident with a lighter impact. Ryan Hunter-Reay's car stopped at Turn 8 before Ed Carpenter's Vision Racing followed Kanaan and Andretti into the barriers at the final corner.
Even fastest man Tracy was not out of harm's way, with a spin and subsequent stoppage at Turn 3 being preceded by another spin two corners later. Organisers elected to cut the one-hour session down to 35 minutes, as qualifying is still to follow later this afternoon on a day when anything could happen.
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