RuSPORT-Rocketsports alliance bearing fruit

It appears to be that the engineering alliance between the RuSPORT and Rocketsports team will bear much fruit this year. Rather than having no teammates, Justin Wilson (RuSPORT – pictured right)) and Alex Tagliani (Rocketsports) and their respective engineers will collaborate on car setup as if they were teammates. Both cars ran well in testing at Laguna Seca and the fact that both drivers ran almost identical times tells us that the two drivers may enjoy similar setups.

Rocketsports, which ran in the back half of the field in recent years would end up 10th on Saturday at 1m06.760s for Tagliani to Wilson's 1m06.755s – both under the old Champ Car record from 2000.

"I am very pleased with our results over the past two-days," said Justin Wilson. "We were only a few tenths away from the top of the field in the #9 CDW car, so we are quite pleased about that."

He added, "I think that working with Rocketsports was a great opportunity and we all worked very well together. It was definitely an advantage to have a team-mate, especially an experienced one like Alex (Tagliani). I feel that we were both able to benefit from working together and it showed. Overall it was a very positive experience as we prepare for our first race in April."

“It has been a great two days for us," an excited Alex Tagliani proclaimed. “We have been so fast, and due to a combination of two things: my new engineer Chris Lerch, (pictured right) and our joined-efforts with RuSPORT. I am just so excited to be working with Chris, we really have a good connection. Also, I have a good relationship with Justin (Wilson) off-track, and to work with him in a more professional matter in a team setting, as been a great opportunity. He is a world-class driver and it is an honor to have this chance to work with him as a teammate. So those two efforts really benefited me as a driver, and Rocketsports as a team."