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West Allis Paul Tracy used to be one of those fearless, young gunslingers willing to stuff a race car into a tiny hole and hope for the best.
He's 36 now, with 12-plus seasons of Champ Car racing and a title to his credit, so Tracy can no longer consider himself young.
But while his hair may have left him, his nerve certainly hasn't.
Twice in the first 18 laps Saturday, Tracy boldly ventured to the outside line in the Milwaukee Mile's wide turns. The first time he took second place and the next time he grabbed the lead in the Time Warner Cable Roadrunner 225, a race he would dominate to score his fourth victory at the track.
"I made the same kind of move I did today, getting around the outside, and I was in the wall last year," Tracy said with a grin.
"It's definitely a lot of fun, something you enjoy when you make a big, outside move. The track was clean and ready to go, so I knew I could run it in there hard on the outside and have it stick."
Tracy's Indeck Forsythe Ford-Lola stuck at the front all afternoon. He led 192 of 221 laps, yielding only during pit stops after claiming the top spot on Lap 18.
Series sophomore A.J. Allmendinger finished second, a personal best, despite suffering the effects of overnight illness. Oriol Servia, filling in for injured Bruno Junqueira, finished third.
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