First qual:

Pos Driver Team Time
1. Sebastien Bourdais Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:42.385
2. Will Power Team Australia 1:43.116 +0.731
3. Neel Jani PKV Racing 1:43.417 +1.032
4. Dan Clarke Minardi Team USA 1:43.439 +1.054
5. Justin Wilson RSPORTS 1:43.525 +1.140
6. Ryan Dalziel Pacific Coast 1:43.611 +1.226
7. Robert Doornbos Minardi Team USA 1:43.619 +1.234
8. Simon Pagenaud Team Australia 1:43.637 +1.252
9. Alex Tagliani RSPORTS 1:43.689 +1.304
10. Oriol Servia Forsythe Championship 1:43.710 +1.325
11. Graham Rahal Newman/Haas/Lanigan 1:43.732 +1.347
12. Tristan Gommendy PKV Racing 1:44.032 +1.647
13. Jan Heylen Conquest Racing 1:44.295 +1.910
14. Bruno Junqueira Dale Coyne Racing 1:44.326 +1.941
15. Paul Tracy Forsythe Championship 1:44.716 +2.331
16. Alex Figge Pacific Coast 1:45.432 +3.047
17. Katherine Legge Dale Coyne Racing 1:46.901 +4.516

Why is Legge still around?

She sucks so badly.

Well that was interesting. Only half a lap done and we have a full course yellow.

Most drivers are now pitting to change from the red wall tyres to black walls.

And it's now back to green flag racing!

Top three:

Bourdais
Doornbos
Junqueira (who has a penalty pending for a jump start)

Junqueira in the pits for his jump start penalty.

After 8 laps the top three are:

Bourdais
Doornbos
Rahal

Wilson is currently in 11th struggling on the red wall tyres

Wilson pits - change of tyres to black walls.

Hopefully he will now be on a charge <thumbsup>

Doornbos starting to put the pressure on Bourdais now. Everyone else is second!

Legge has now pitted from 13th place

Top three pit together!

Good God. Dan Clarke is leading! <yikes>

Clarke pits and comes out ahead of Doornbos

Positions after 19 laps:

Bourdais
Doornbos
Rahal

An interesting battle going on for 5th, 6th and 7th between

Servia
Tagliani
Power

Wilson, for some reason, is now down in 14th. :(

Clarke strikes again. <grrr>

This time he takes his own team mate out.

Doornbos pits for a new nose cone.

Problems for Will Power

<doh>

Well done, Dan.

<wave>

Hello Andy!

Actually looking at the replay of that incident, I'm not sure whether we can blame Dan.

Hmmm.... could be a case of six of one, half a dozen of the other, I suppose.

Unfortunately I'm now having to switch off the TV, but will be following the rest of the race on Live Timing!

And Clarke is in the lead again!

Poor old Doornbos is now down in 13th

Bah. Advert break :(

Order on lap 30 with 39 minutes remaining is Bourdais, Rahal, Clarke, Servia, Tagliani, Wilson, Jani, Gommendy.

Shame you had to turn your telly off - you missed an incredible overtaking maneouvre by Rahal on Clarke.

Rahal passed him like he was stationary! <roflmao>

Is Power's problem terminal, or will he be back out? The Live Timing is listing him as "in pit" but about six laps down.

They are still working on the car

Fair enough.

Wilson has dropped back to ninth for some reason.

Wilson has just had a pit stop during our commercial break - he's currently in 10th, running very close to Figge.

And nearly a second a lap faster!

After 35 laps with 32 minutes remaining:

Bourdais
Rahal
Clarke

But Servia is closing in on Clarke - currently about 6-7 car lengths behind.

Wilson is really closing up on Figge! <thumbsup>

And Wilson takes Figge and starts pulling away <yahoo>

Power is out of the car and retired.

Junqeira has also passed Figge

Poor old Doornbos isn't having the same sort of race as he had last time out. He's over a minute off the lead in 13th, and not significantly faster than Tracy who is immediately ahead of him.

It seems that Power's car was jammed in 4th gear :(

And as I speak, Doornbos gets ahead of Tracy!

It may well be that after the coming together with Clarke that something has been damaged. If that is the case then the car will have all the aerodynamic properties of your average house brick.

Seems plausible.

Apparently Doornbos needs to pit again, as well, so things are going to get worse for him before they begin to get worse still.