Tracy still bitter over outcome of '02 race

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A year has gone by, but Paul Tracy's version of events has not changed. He still believes he won the Indianapolis 500 on the track and lost it in a boardroom.
Last year's disputed runner-up insists it doesn't bother him.
"What can I do about it, other than move on?" he said.
Yet there is a distinct sense that, for Tracy, this chapter will never quite be closed.
Tracy considers himself, not Helio Castroneves, the 2002 champion, even though "I don't have the trophy or the money to prove it."
He no longer drives for owner Barry Green, who spent thousands of dollars in a five-week appeal that brought nothing for him and Tracy.
While Castroneves is going for his third straight victory Sunday, Tracy will be on an airplane, somewhere between his home in Las Vegas and Toronto. He won't watch the race.
With a little more than a lap left last year, the yellow flag came out when Laurent Redon and Buddy Lazier crashed.
Indy Racing League rules state that the leader is the car in front at the moment the caution is waved.
Tracy insists he was the leader, and he should have been able to coast through the final lap in front under the yellow flag, and be declared the winner.
But because the intricate system of lights on the track, lights in the racers' cars and the good old-fashioned yellow flag didn't all signal caution at exactly the same split second, it's hard to determine exactly when the yellow "officially" came out, and who was leading at that point.
The IRL said it was Castroneves. Tracy and Green protested the decision and then appealed it. The process took five weeks and, after each step, IRL vice president of operations Brian Barnhart and, finally, IRL president Tony George came to the same conclusion: Castroneves was ahead when the yellow came out, and therefore, his victory should stand.