Friday post qualifying

So this morning during practise there were all these cameras around Team Australia and then, wouldn't you know it the team delivers in Qualifying. I was speaking with their lovely PR rep Elizabeth and was joking about how busy it gets when you reach the top. She joked with me, but I think the team is a little overwhelmed with the attention, not that anybody is complaining. In fact, she had a good response for me after I was being a smartass. she said "at least they are both fast, so they both have to go to the press conference with me"
ah the life of a racecar driver PR.

My favorite moment of post qualifying today was as the team was taking the car back, Pagenaud made sure to go shake every one of his teammates hands and thank them. I'm by no means surprised he did this, it was just nice to see. He's a great kid, no doubt and fast.
I was as surprised as anybody when Will took the fast lap, as I was certain that Bourdais had it. He was almost half a second faster in practise on Friday and for the most part, about half a second faster in qual before Pagenaud made it closer. I actually watched the end of the qualifying from the Bourdais pit and some of them were handing out high fives until Mr. Power got the lap. I didn't see Bourdais after (as I ran towards Team Australia) and he's in the press conference right now so I don't know how he feels about the day.
For the second weekend in a row, differential problems cost Tracy track time, but he was quick, he knows it and his 5th place finish certainly wasn't indicative of his car. His teammates' 6th place was impressive too, although he wasn't the happiest, given that he was quite quick in the morning.
I have to tell you, maybe I haven't noticed in the past, maybe I was too busy in my announcing tent and didn't get to roam around a lot, but the crowd was incredible today. I may be par for the course, but I really noticed it today and it literally gave me shivers. Saturday should be even better.
(I didn't get a chance to check the spelling of this blog, i'm writing it right on the site. I appologize for any grammatical errors.)
:)