Paul Tracy
Paul Tracy
Paul Tracyis a Canadian former professional racing driver who competed in CART, the Champ Car World Series and the IndyCar Series. He is known by the nickname "the thrill from West Hill"...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth17 December 1968
hit
Now I have been hit by every Andretti but Marco.
feet gearing initial wet
I've been gearing up for this. The initial thing is getting your feet wet to see how you like it.
hard push
I'm an old guy. I have to push hard to keep up with these young guys.
beat car decided fresh great knew lap morning needed ready saw step time
It wasn't really our plan. Obviously, I was in the car ready to go and when we saw Sebastien went, we just decided let's go out and go head-to-head, you know one-to-one, see if we can beat him. Sebastien did a great lap this morning on fresh tires, so we knew that we needed to step it up and the time to do it was while he was on the track.
absolutely add appealing canada canadian crown event jewels love racing sponsor team win
Absolutely it had a lot to do with my decision. I am Canadian and I love racing in Canada and racing in the 24 for a team with a Canadian sponsor was really appealing to me. This event is one of the crown jewels of racing, and I really want to add a win here it to my resume.
definitely four start taken three
It's definitely not the way to start the season, with three or four championship contenders taken out in the first turn.
definitely four start taking tough
That's definitely not the way to start a season. Taking out four contenders is a tough way to start a season.
bad eighth hope looking
Eighth isn't what we were looking for today, but at least Sebastien had some bad luck, too, so there's still hope for the championship,
interested obviously race test track
I've got to get out on the track and test and race and see how it all goes. Obviously it's something I'm interested in, but we'll just see how it goes, see how things progress.
beaten came coming knew pit wall
They knew we were coming in the pits. It wasn't like I came from the wall down into the pit lane. There was no way they would have beaten us tonight. We had a better car.
atlanta both drive either engine hope hoping later planning race richard suit test tracks year
Richard is planning to do a 500-mile engine reliability test and I'd hope to do that for him. Then, we're hoping I can drive a race later this year at either Atlanta or Homestead, which are both tracks that should suit me pretty well.
chart move record shooting tie time
I would really like to tie Little Al, that is something I am shooting for, ... Plus, any time I can move up the chart for another record is neat.
cup maybe race races run
Hopefully, I can run 10 to 11 races in Busch and maybe a (Nextel Cup Series) race or two.
canada car champ happy love race road three totally
I am totally happy being in the Champ Car World Series, ... I get to race in Canada three times a year, which is very important to me and I just love to road race.