ZANARDI: There are heroes. And then there's Alex.

TRACKS: From a tight, short road course to a wide open superspeedway. An interesting swing through the Old World.

RACES: Why is it that even with a bunch of talent siphoned off to the IRL, a slew of rookies, a wing package that produced flat out all the way around pack racing, that CART can put on an IRL-like race without it being a crashfest?

BOURDAIS: When things go right, Sebastien looks just as unbeatable as Paul Tracy did the first three races.

TRACY: How to make a huge lead disappear in two easy steps -- have your team go with the key setup at Brands Hatch, sacrificing Germany, then DNF Brands Hatch while completing Germany barely in the points.

JUNQUEIRA: Fast, but once again frustrated by his teammate. The good news is he is tied for first place in the point standings.

JOURDAIN: Now it's getting to the point where Michel outright deserves to win a race.

DOMINGUEZ: Well, well, well. Mario sure is looking good these days. And he is easily outpacing his teammate, Roberto Moreno.

SERVIA: Still running consistently well, but without that Oriol flair we've seen in the past.

MANNING: What's making Darren look real good is that he is able to get the most out of the Reynard.

CARPENTIER: Like Junqueira, Patrick is fast but always behind his teammate.

TAGLIANI: A breakthrough race is awaiting the Rocketsports Racing team.

HABERFELD: Excellent qualifying effort for Mario on the oval, but he disappeared in the race.

LEMARIE: Got a little bit quicker on his own continent.

FERNANDEZ: Adrian may have gotten engaged before crossing the Atlantic, but his luck on the track didn't get any better.

CAMATHIAS: Sigh...

LAVIN: Amazingly, Rodolfo didn't [completely] look like a fish out of water on the oval.

VASSER: Somehow, we think Jimmy is thinking of a certain "F" word, and it's not frustrated.

HUNTER-REAY: Third quickest lap in warmup and third quickest lap in the race didn't mean much at Brands Hatch.

MCGEE: Undefeated at Brands Hatch.

INFORMATION MINISTER AWARD: Easily goes to Neil Micklewright, who actually tried to convince us that Paul Tracy didn't have a problem: "We're pretty confident it's just an oil tank overflow that's blowing." Just as he finished the sentence, Tracy's gearbox blew in the most spectacular fashion.

OVER/UNDER: 2 -- number of drivers other than Tracy and Bourdais who will win races this year.

WORD OF THE WEEKENDS: Inspiring.

STAT OF THE WEEKENDS: Sebastien Bourdais becoming the only CART driver to win from the pole in his first oval race.

HISTORICAL STAT OF THE WEEKENDS: It's been so long, it practically is a historical fact -- Paul Tracy's last road racing pole was in the final race of 1994 at Laguna Seca which he won, ending his first employment stint with Penske.

QUOTE OF THE WEEKENDS: Alex Zanardi's philosophical outlook, "There are people in my shoes who would probably feel very unlucky for what they have lost. I feel very fortunate for what I have kept."

QUOTE OF THE WEEKENDS RUNNERUP: Patrick Carpentier talked about a possible solution to his slow setup at EuroSpeedway, "I wanted to drive through the pits to shorten the lap, but I don't think that would have looked good."

SCHEDULE: A bit of a rest followed by a night race at the Milwaukee Mile, celebrating the track's 100 years in operation.

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