2003 German 500
Race details | |
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Race 5 of 18 in the 2003 CART season | |
Date | May 11, 2003 |
Official name | German 500 |
Location | EuroSpeedway Lausitz Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany |
Course | 2 Mile Banked Oval 2.023 mi / 3.256 km |
Distance | 154 laps 311.542 mi / 501.424 km |
Weather | Mostly Cloudy |
Pole position | |
Driver | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
Time | 37.000 |
Fastest lap | |
Driver | Michel Jourdain, Jr. (Team Rahal) |
Time | 36.721 (on lap 133 of 154) |
Podium | |
First | Sébastien Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) |
Second | Mario Domínguez (Herdez Competition) |
Third | Michel Jourdain, Jr. (Team Rahal) |
The 2003 German 500 was the fifth round of the 2003 CART World Series season, held on May 11, 2003 on the oval track at EuroSpeedway Lausitz in Klettwitz, Brandenburg, Germany. The race also featured the return of Alex Zanardi to a Champ Car racing cockpit, about a year and a half after he lost both his legs in a nearly fatal crash at the 2001 CART race at the track.
Contents
Qualifying results
Pos | Nat | Name | Team | Time |
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1 | ![]() |
Sébastien Bourdais | Newman/Haas Racing | 37.000 |
2 | ![]() |
Bruno Junqueira | Newman/Haas Racing | 37.211 |
3 | ![]() |
Michel Jourdain, Jr. | Team Rahal | 37.274 |
4 | ![]() |
Mario Haberfeld | Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 37.392 |
5 | ![]() |
Darren Manning | Walker Racing | 37.532 |
6 | ![]() |
Mario Domínguez | Herdez Competition | 37.690 |
7 | ![]() |
Oriol Servià | Patrick Racing | 37.702 |
8 | ![]() |
Rodolfo Lavín | Walker Racing | 37.717 |
9 | ![]() |
Alex Tagliani | Rocketsports Racing | 37.732 |
10 | ![]() |
Patrick Lemarié | PK Racing | 37.806 |
11 | ![]() |
Jimmy Vasser | American Spirit Team Johansson | 37.911 |
12 | ![]() |
Roberto Moreno | Herdez Competition | 38.057 |
13 | ![]() |
Alex Yoong | Dale Coyne Racing | 38.152 |
14 | ![]() |
Tiago Monteiro | Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing | 38.196 |
15 | ![]() |
Ryan Hunter-Reay | American Spirit Team Johansson | 38.220 |
16 | ![]() |
Paul Tracy | Team Player's | 38.244 |
17 | ![]() |
Patrick Carpentier | Team Player's | 38.286 |
18 | ![]() |
Joël Camathias | Dale Coyne Racing | 38.558 |
19 | ![]() |
Adrian Fernández | Fernández Racing | 38.666 |
Alex Zanardi's 13 Laps
With 13 laps remaining in the 2001 American Memorial CART race at EuroSpeedway Lausitz, Alex Zanardi spun on the warm up lane after a pit stop. His car spun directly into the path of the car driven by Alex Tagliani. The t-bone accident immediately amputated Zanardi's legs above his knees. Quick work by the medical team saved his life and by 2002 he was walking on artificial legs of his own design.
For this event a 2002 Reynard Champ Car was modified to include hand controls by Mi-Jack Conquest Racing with assistance from Walker Racing, painted in the same color scheme as the car Zanardi drove in the 2001 season. Prior to the start of the race, Zanardi took to the track and completed the 13 laps to symbolically finish the 2001 race. His fastest lap was clocked at 37.487 seconds which would have put him 5th on the grid for the 2003 race.
Zanardi would go on to return to competitive auto racing in 2004, driving a BMW in the European Touring Car Championship (which would be redubbed the World Touring Car Championship in 2005). On August 28, 2005 he won his first race since the accident at the Oschersleben circuit in Germany.
Race
Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
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1 | 2 | ![]() |
Newman/Haas Racing | 154 | 1:49:22.498 | 1 | 22 |
2 | 55 | ![]() |
Herdez Competition | 154 | +0.084 secs | 6 | 16 |
3 | 9 | ![]() |
Team Rahal | 154 | +0.245 secs | 3 | 14 |
4 | 1 | ![]() |
Newman/Haas Racing | 154 | +12.042 secs | 2 | 12 |
5 | 20 | ![]() |
Patrick Racing | 154 | +12.055 secs | 7 | 10 |
6 | 15 | ![]() |
Walker Racing | 154 | +24.602 secs | 5 | 8 |
7 | 32 | ![]() |
Team Player's | 153 | + 1 Lap | 17 | 6 |
8 | 12 | ![]() |
American Spirit Team Johansson | 153 | + 1 Lap | 11 | 5 |
9 | 5 | ![]() |
Walker Racing | 153 | + 1 Lap | 8 | 4 |
10 | 4 | ![]() |
Herdez Competition | 153 | + 1 Lap | 12 | 3 |
11 | 31 | ![]() |
American Spirit Team Johansson | 152 | + 2 Laps | 15 | 2 |
12 | 3 | ![]() |
Team Player's | 152 | + 2 Laps | 16 | 1 |
13 | 7 | ![]() |
Fittipaldi-Dingman Racing | 152 | + 2 Laps | 14 | 0 |
14 | 34 | ![]() |
Mi-Jack Conquest Racing | 152 | + 2 Laps | 4 | 0 |
15 | 51 | ![]() |
Fernández Racing | 152 | + 2 Laps | 19 | 0 |
16 | 19 | ![]() |
Dale Coyne Racing | 152 | + 2 Laps | 18 | 0 |
17 | 11 | ![]() |
Dale Coyne Racing | 81 | Mechanical | 13 | 0 |
18 | 33 | ![]() |
Rocketsports Racing | 28 | Mechanical | 9 | 0 |
19 | 27 | ![]() |
PK Racing | 25 | Contact | 10 | 0 |
Caution flags
Laps | Cause |
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23-27 | Debris |
83-88 | Debris |
Notes
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- New Track Record Sébastien Bourdais 37.000 (Qualifying)
- New Race Record Sébastien Bourdais 1:49:22.498
- Average Speed 170.903 mph
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