Overheard in Las Vegas – 4

Downtown Las Vegas was packed with people last night. Over 50,000 showed up for the Champ Car concert where Bon Jovi showed up unannounced. It was wall-to-wall people and locals told us there were more people here than we get even for New Year's eve. So needless to say this race is already accomplishing what it set out to do – to help revitalize the downtown area of Las Vegas much like the Long Beach race did for that town over 30 years ago. As one wag said, "Downtown was Rock'n last night."

As cars were flying through the air over the chicane bump yesterday, the engines would hit the rev-limiter while in the air and go pop-pop-pop until the driver lifted off the throttle. Not Paul Tracy, you could hear his car go pop-pop-pop all the way until landed. In other words Tracy stayed full throttle the entire time. It must have worked as he took the provisional pole position. Mark C.