CART Canadian sits on pole in Montreal race today

Montreal native Alex Tagliani beat favored Paul Tracy in qualifying.
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MONTREAL -- A Canadian will start from the pole in today's Montreal Molson Indy, but it won't be series points leader Paul Tracy.
Montreal native Alex Tagliani leaped from fifth in provisional qualifying to the top spot in Saturday's time trials on the 13-turn, 2.709-mile Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, while the favored Tracy was a disappointing eighth.
Turning his fast lap with just over 19 minutes left in the 40-minute session, Tagliani was clocked in 1 minute, 19.665 seconds, a speed of 122.418 mph.
Bruno Junqueira, trailing Tracy by 20 points in the CART Champ Car Series standings, barely missed winning the point that goes with the pole, posting a lap just .006 seconds and .010 mph slower than Tagliani.
Fifth career pole
It's the second pole of the season and fifth of his career for Tagliani, driving for Paul Gentilozzi's first-year Johnson Controls team.
"This is a very special pole for me," said Tagliani, who was given a standing ovation by the spectators as he was driven on a slow victory lap.
"I was glad Paul had confidence putting me in this car," added Tagliani, who lost his ride with the powerful Player's/Forsythe team to Tracy this season. "We're putting together a very good team and this is just another proof of that."
Tracy, who came up just short of the top qualifying position Friday, losing the provisional pole to Oriol Servia when Tracy had problems with traffic late in the session, tried a different strategy Saturday.
Tracy had early lead
Tracy went out on the track as soon as the green flag waved for the start of the final session and quickly jumped to first place. But Junqueira followed him onto the track and, moments later, went faster. Tracy never got back on top.
It was a combination of traffic and braking problems that cost Tracy at shot at the pole.
"I couldn't get the car stopped that well," said Tracy, who has won six of the 12 races this season, including events in his native Toronto and Vancouver. "I was doing everything I could, but I got caught by traffic again at the end."
Formula One
BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Renault's Fernando Alonso earned the pole position Saturday for today's Hungarian Grand Prix, while world champion Michael Schumacher was the eighth fastest qualifier.
It is the third consecutive race in which Schumacher, the series leader, won't line up among the top three. He hasn't won a Formula One race since the Canadian GP in June.