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Katherine Legge slowly directed its Champ Car de Dale Coyne Racing Cosworth/Panoz/Bridgestone towards a high total in the main straight line when rainy and faded Monday became gloomy this, whereas the novice Graham Rahal complied to his side and he was stopped.
Both pilots determined the glance to the bank of lights hung on the track, increasing more and more the power of their Cosworth XFE of 750 horsepowers when each one of the red lights were ignited. The red lights went out and both Champ Cars left sudden flights their places to test first side to side of the new procedure of exit with the stopped cars of the Champ Car.
The Champ Car will use for the first time the procedure of the exit without movement in Fertile valleys, marking the first time that the exit method will be used in the modern era of competitions of the Champ Car World Series. Today, the pilots had his first opportunity to practice side to side the exit with the stopped cars, in a session wet in the circuit of the MSR Houston where rains cut the session of 60 to 30 minutes.
“The exits without movement are going to bring much emotion to the Champ Car and definitively it adds a totally new element to him to the race”, said Legge. “Obvious you do not want that your car becomes paralyzed in the exit. You need to avoid I spin a top and to increase the speeds as fast as you can. That is the form to have a good exit”.
One soaked tomorrow gave capacity him to very intense rains, which maintained to the Champ Cars in the parking the majority of afternoon of Monday. Nobody gave nor a return until the pilots of Newman/Haas Racing Sebastien Bourdais and Graham Rahal went to the track to the 3:30, leading the way of a delayed session of one hour of action beginning with 30 minutes of practice of the stopped exit.
Half of the pilots almost took the opportunity while some equipment retired then to their parking, changing the opportunity to work in their cars to run in rain. Rahal was one of the few pilots with fresh experience in the stopped exit, to the salary gained five races from a high total in the Champ Car Atlantic Championship of the year last, and passed the majority of the session working in its exits.
“It is much more difficult to sally in a Champ Car because there is much more power”, Rahal said. “It is difficult to lower the power in these cars as well as they are. In third speed when leaving a curve it can be difficult to do it from a high total, especially when it is dunked”.
The pilots and the equipment of the Champ Car World Series will have another hour to improve their abilities in high total, tomorrow at the end of the session of the last day of tests in the MSR Houston. Later the series will be prepared for the tests Spring Training (or “Training of Spring”), that will carry out in the Mazda Raceway of Dry Lagoon 9 and 10 of March.
Source: http://www.champcarworldseries.com/
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