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Alex Tagliani
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Alex Tagliani (#8 Johnson Controls Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) is another driver that will have to improve his Laguna history if he is to continue his championship charge. The winner at Road America, Tagliani is tied with Carpentier for the fourth spot in the points and has collected seven consecutive top-10 finishes. However, he only has one top-10 finish in his four Champ Car starts on the Laguna circuit, although he did score a podium finish in one of his four Toyota Atlantic starts before ascending to the Champ Car ranks. Tagliani does lead the series in laps completed and is the only driver to have finished each of the 10 races this season.
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When the Champ Car World Series debuts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on September 25, Alex Tagliani will be looking for bragging rights. Tagliani, along with fellow Champ Car drivers Paul Tracy, Jimmy Vasser and Patrick Carpentier call Las Vegas home.
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TAGLIANI MATCHES CAREER HIGH WITH 2ND-PLACE FINISH – Player’s/Indeck driver Alex Tagliani finished 2nd in the Bridgestone Potenza 500 at Twin Ring Motegi, equaling his career-best finish established at Toronto last year. Tagliani, who started the race from 12th on the grid, has now scored four top-five finishes in his last five starts, including a pair of third place results at Australia and Fontana to close the 2001 season. Tagliani’s runner-up result is ... the best for the Player’s team since the late Greg Moore recorded back-to-back 4th-place finishes in 1998 and 1999. Polesitter Bruno Junquiera led 54 laps en route to capturing his second career victory [Road America – 2001], while Dario Franchitti finished 3rd. Tagliani’s teammate, Patrick Carpentier, turned in his best performance of the season with a 4th-place finish, while Team Rahal driver Michel Jourdain, Jr. recorded his third consecutive top five result by finishing 5th.
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A product of the Toyota Atlantic Championship Series – a feeder system for the Champ Car World Series – Alex Tagliani began his Champ Car career in 2000 with the Player’s/Forsythe Racing. In that first year, he became the first driver to score points in his first two races since 1988 after finishing ninth at Homestead and fourth at Long Beach. Unfortunately, inconsistency relegated him to 16th in the championship standings following just seven points paying finishes in 20 starts.
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C[A]nadian racecar driver Alex Tagliani has been accustomed to life in the fast lane ever since he was a child. In his first year in CART racing, he finished 16th in the driver's standings with 53 points and earned a pole position in Brazil by his third start. In 2002, he finished 8th in the overall standings.
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Alex Tagliani was sixth fastest for Rocketsports Racing, in what is likely to be his final race weekend with the team. That was enough to put him ahead of Graham Rahal (Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing).
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