source:
crash.net
Newman Haas driver Bruno Junqueira topped the times at the Milwaukee Mile as
the latest Champ Car World Series test session drew to a close.
The full day of testing on Wednesday paid off in spades as most teams were able
to make major gains, with Junqueira stopping the clocks with a best lap of
20.890secs to top the times over the two days of testing. Junqueira, whose best
Milwaukee finish of fourth came in his rookie year of 2000, reported that his
team was happy with the progress made today.
"It was OK today," he said. "We did a lot of work and some very long runs so
that we could find things for our race setup. I think it went pretty well."
Mario Dominguez set the second-best time of the test during Wednesday morning's
session - the session that turned out to be the quickest of the week. Three of
the top four times posted over the two days were registered in the morning hours
on Wednesday, with defending race winner Ryan Hunter-Reay also slipping inside
of 21 seconds in the morning. His afternoon run ended early however after an
accident sent him to Froedtert Hospital for precautionary X-rays which proved to
be negative. Hunter-Reay was released from the hospital and was back at the
track before the end of the day.
The afternoon was tailor-made for long runs with Junqueira, Sebastien Bourdais
and Justin Wilson each turning in more than 150 laps. At the end of the day,
Wilson had turned the fastest time of the afternoon with Bourdais checking in
just one one-thousandth of a second behind.
"I'm really happy with whole team and the progress we made over the two days,"
the Brit said. "This is the most comfortable I've been on an oval. We made a
couple of pretty long runs and the car responded reasonably well. I was able to
run a lot in traffic. Up until today, the car was so loose I really couldn't get
within ten car lengths of anyone.