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The hairpin offers great
opportunities for multi-car shots. |
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Long Beach has a long pit road that
allows you to get some great shots. |
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Without the helmet, Alex Barron
looks like he should still be in high school. |
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Gil Deferran turns into the
hairpin. |
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Our race day seats were in
grandstand 19 at the end of Seaside Way at Turn 6. |
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Robby shows them how its done. |
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If Patrick Carpentier didn't have
bad luck, he would have no luck at all. |
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Daryl "chill" Miller,
forgot to turn the radio off on his Celica. |
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Al Unser Jr was mending his
Homestead injuries. This is his substitute Tarso Marques. |
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Wouldn't you know my best driver
portrait of the weekend is of the cool one. |
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Sunday morning warm-up on the
Seaside Way back straight. |
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Chiggers was second best this time. |
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While in Long Beach we shopped at
Richie Hearn's sponsor Ralph's Supermarket. |
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Greg Moore had a ho-hum weekend
and finished 8th. |
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These photo passes rule!
Here's J in the hairpin tower. |
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Rumor has it celebrity racer
Melissa Hart of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" has a big crush on PJ! |
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With a little trick photography,
you can even make "Shaggy" look fast! |
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The start of the Toyota Celebrity
race is usually interesting. |
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The toyota celebrity race doesn't
seem able to draw the marquee names it once did. |
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Juan Montoya made it 4 wins in a
row for Ganassi Racing at Long Beach. |
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"hurray for Hollywood"! |
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Alex Barron takes a tight line
through the hairpin. |
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Shigeaki
"Shaggy" Hattori lost it on cold tires during Sunday morning warm-up and smacked
the wall on Seaside Way. |
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Even this race's
still-life art shot came out super. |
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You can almost see Michael's
vandyke in this shot. |
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Patrick and his race
engineer look deep in conversation. |
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Mark Blundell started 12th and
finished 13th. |
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If you search long
enough, you can find some photo spots where there are no fences. |
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I love it when I can get on the
other side of the pit wall. |
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Richie's pretty
cool, but he needs to take a few lessons from Robby. |
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Gaulter Salles wouldn't get in the
car until he saw the entire episode of "I Love Lucy". |
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Which is longer, the
beach or pit road? |
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Finally after his TV fix, Gaulter
got in the car. |
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This weeks paint
scheme on the Player's cars looks a tad on the generic side. |
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Michael Andretti gets his souvenir
stand help from the same temp agency as Cathy Lee Gifford. |
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This weekend I just
couldn't take a bad shot of Michael Andretti. |
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A couple of years back Christian
tried to pick a fight with Moore after a wreck. |
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Bryan Herta's solid
weekend was rewarded with a trip to the podium. |
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Have you driven a Ford lately? |
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This is becoming the
cliche shot of the Gurney Eagle. |
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Vasser and Hearn accelerate out of
the hairpin, onto Shoreline Drive. |
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Special guest
crewman Chuck "The Rifleman" Conners. |
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By any chance is Michel Jourdain Jr
Mexican? |
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I wonder how the
"V Man" likes his new teammate? |
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Pole sitter Tony Kanaan showed
speed, but cracked under pressure. |
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Its hard to imagine
Paul Tracy having a worse season than he did in 1998. |
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