CART Bruno Junqueira will be on front row for the Gold Coast Indy

SURFERS PARADISE, Australia (AP) -- Bruno Junqueira of Brazil will be on the front row today for the Gold Coast Indy as he chases Paul Tracy for the CART drivers' championship.
Joining Junqueira on the front row will be Newman/Haas teammate Sebastien Bourdais of France.
Bourdais, who has clinched rookie of the year honors, had a time of 1 minute, 31.718 seconds on Saturday, the fastest of the weekend. Junqueira was second in 1:31.994. He won Friday's provisional pole and was guaranteed a spot in the first row under CART qualifying rules.
Tracy, who won in 1995, will try to become the first repeat winner in the 13-year history of the race. Today's 65-lap race will be held on the 21/2-mile temporary street course.
Has point lead
Tracy has a 28-point lead over Junqueira with two races left and will start in the second row after qualifying third in 1:32.000. Fellow Canadian Alex Tagliani is fourth.
Tracy was the first and last car on the track in the session, but his final lap after the checkered flag went out pulled him only within one-third of a second of Bourdais.
Jimmy Vasser managed only two laps before he had to leave the track after reporting smoke in the cockpit of his American Spirit Ford/Cosworth.
"We lost the electronics, it dusted all the wiring in the car," Vasser said. "I was on my second timed lap and it was looking really good until then."
Breaking it down
Here's something that could work against Tracy in the Gold Coast Indy: He won the CART race in 1995.
Why is that?
Well, since CART first came to Surfers Paradise in 1991, no one has finished first in the event more than once.
"Surfers is a tricky track," Tracy said. "When it's 12 years that you've never had a repeat winner, it shows you how demanding it can be."
A lot is at stake for Tracy heading into today's race on the course that includes a straight-away parallel to the Pacific Ocean.
He can tie the record for most victories in a CART season, eight, shared by Michael Andretti and Al Unser Jr.
And, more importantly, by finishing first or second, he would clinch the Champ Car championship with a race to spare.
Won in Mexico
Tracy took the checkered flag for the seventh time this year in Mexico 10 days ago to extend his lead over Junqueira.
"My focus is to keep my intensity up," Tracy said. "I hope that the team intensity stays up for the next two events, and that's what we need to try to do."
Tracy has finished third in the championship three times -- 1993, 1994 and 1999.