Another superb chassis

Will Power created Champ Car history today by becoming the first Australian to win pole position for the Gold Coast Indy 300. It was a brilliant effort in front of a huge and vocal Aussie crowd. We all wish him luck in the race tomorrow and I'm sure the partying will carry on for days more if he wins.

You see some very funny things at events like this but one of the most amusing was during rally star Marcus Gronholm's visit to the Newman Haas team pit today. Sebastian Bourdais is not a short man but Marcus would be at least 6ft 6in and watching him getting into Sebastians car even without a seat was hilarious.


The V8 Supercars finally hit the track in anger with the first of three scheduled races. Todd Kelly in his Holden Commodore VZ lead from start to finsh and with the deteriorating weather conditions did a great job. It really is quite something when the field of V8's comes roaring past only inches away from you.

Next year Champ Car are ending their association with Lola and all the teams will be running a new chassis built by Panoz that looks absolutely superb. Here's a picture of the new car and another superb chassis Miss Indy 2006.