Champ Car Saint Petersburg Grand Prix race in March 2003
Patrick Carpentier qualifies a Forsythe Racing car in downtown Saint Petersburg, Florida
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Darren Manning gets up to speed in a Walker Racing machine
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Manning’s Walker Racing teammate Rodolfo Lavin
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Lavin ‘gloves up’ before qualifying in Saint Petersburg
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Lavin prepares to qualify a car that he has only tested in Sebring.
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Forsythe Racing team member shows lap time to Paul Tracy.
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Paul Tracy approaches Bayshore Drive.
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Roberto Gonzalez awaits his turn to qualify
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Dale Coyne Racing mechanics prepare car 11 for qualifying
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Adrián Fernández watches competitors qualifying on the front straight, an airport runway.
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After suiting-up, Fernández reviews others’ qualifying times.
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Fernández in his cockpit
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Bridgestone Potenza tire, O.Z. Racing wheel, & pneumatic wrench
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Sébastien Bourdais at the first Champ Car venue that he’s seen
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Craig Hampson advises Sébastien before he earns pole position in his first-ever Champ Car qualifying session.
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Team Forsythe
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Paul Tracy confers with Tony Cicale before qualifying.
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ever-jovial Roberto Moreno
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Moreno seems happy to begin another racing season.
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Moreno in pit lane
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Moreno on track
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Moreno’s teammate Mario Dominguez qualifies in car 55 in turn 5
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Rocketsports racer Alex Tagliani inserts earplugs.
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Tagliani in the turns 11-12 kink that slows racers before the hairpin turn
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Oriol Servia’s helmets are painted in motifs inspired by Salvador Dalí.
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- American Spirit Team Johansson racer Jimmy Vasser.
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- American Spirit Team Johansson practices pit stop
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- Jimmy Vasser launches from his pit to scrub-in the ‘rain’ tires
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- … then returns to the pit for adjustments to the car
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- … and removal of the wet-weather tires
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- Newman Haas Racing’s Bruno Junqueira with number 1, which was earned by Cristiano da Matta
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- Danica Patrick in flip-flops (inappropriate) on Rahal Letterman Racing’s pit wall
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- Joel Camathias from Lugano, Switzerland has landed in sunny Florida
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- Dale Coyne Racing team prepares a car for Joel Camathias
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- Camathias’s first laps on a Champ Car track
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- City of Lugano, Switzerland decals are on the car later, during televised qualifying
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- another Champ Car rookie racer, PK Racing’s Patrick Lemarié
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- Walker Racing’s Darren Manning is belted-in and ready to qualify
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- Walker Racing’s Darren Manning departs his pit
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- Darren Manning at speed on the ‘far side’ of the track
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- through turn 11.
- Rookie Mario Haberfeld suits-up
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- Mario Haberfeld and wife
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The photos above and below were made with two cameras, a Nikon F5 exposing film that was later scanned, and a Nikon D100.
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