 Pollock Gives CART Ride to Lemarie Thursday January 30th, 2003
The 34-year-old Frenchman comes to the turbo-charged Champ Car series after four years of testing Formula One cars for BAR. "I worked pretty hard at BAR for four years and, of course, I miss racing a lot", said Lemarie, who before his stint as Jacques Villeneuve's set-up man spent time in the F3000 series and CART Toyota Atlantic Championship. The CART season gets underway on February 23 on a temporary road circuit at the Grand Prix of St Petersburg, Florida. "Patrick has always impressed me tremendously with his set-up working at BAR. He never went off the track, never demolished any cars, and a lot of young kids, when they sit in a Formula One car as test drivers, their only job is to impress. "Patrick was told to do just solid set-up work for four years, and he hung in there," said Pollock. "I've seen Patrick racing against Jacques Villeneuve in the past, right back to the Atlantic days, where Jacques and Patrick were actually fighting very hard and finishing first and second in races." Pollock, Villeneuve's agent and friend who led BAR from their inception in 1997 to his departure in 2001, joined U.S. businessman Kevin Kalkhoven to set up the PK Racing team. The team will only run one driver this year.
Published at 09:34:47 GMT
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Former British American Racing test driver Patrick Lemarie will run PK Racing's only car in the open-wheeled CART series this year, team co-owner Craig Pollock said on Wednesday.
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