“I think it's good,” he underlined. “Obviously it all kind of came together at the last minute and has left a lot of casualties – a lot of drivers without rides and teams without an opportunity to go racing – but I think in the long term the series being back together is the way it should be.”
In the meantime, though, Tracy was happy to amuse himself at Goodwood, where he found himself reunited with an old friend – his Penske Racing PC26-97 from eleven years back, a car with which he triumphed on three consecutive occasions early on in the campaign.
“It's been great!” he enthused of his Goodwood appearance. “I'm having a good time; I'm driving one of the cars I had a lot of success with in 1997, so it's very exciting.
“You forget how much turbo lag the cars had back in those days compared with how well they operate currently, so it's a lot different now but it's fun getting in the car. It's not really set up for going up the hill, though – it's got speedway wings and speedway gears!
“The hill is very narrow and I only got up it once on Friday, but again we don't have road course wings on it like some of the
Formula 1 cars here do. It's really just for demonstration.”
by Russell Atkins
