The word in Denver

Saturday morning has dawned sunny and warm, though there is a risk of thunderstorms this afternoon…….Bobby Rahal and son Graham appear confident of a win this weekend, since Graham had a healthy 1/2 second advantage over the field in provisional Atlantic qualifying and Graham loves the Denver track, having run very well here in the past……Alex Tagliani was quite happy with his 3rd place provisional qualifying result for Walker Racing/Team Australia….. Paul Gentilozzi is looking forward to next year's new Champ Cars for his Rocketsports Team. "We locked everything down so teams cannot spend money redesigning things, which will level the playing field a lot," said Gentilozzi. He also told us he would enter two cars for him and Drissi in the two SCCA Trans-Am races in Topeka, KS later this year. He thinks 30 cars will show up. He also said that Trans-Am is trying to convince Chevy, Ford and Dodge to enter the series with their resurrected Pony Cars (Camaro, Challenger, Mustang and Jaguar), which would bring new life to the famous 40 year old series..