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Oriol Servia, who has been more comfortable with his car, but struggling to break into the top 10, failed even to complete a lap in final qualifying. The Catalan's engine wouldn't fire the first five times they tried, and then it promptly expired at Turn 3.
Does Nunn want to walk into a team riven with engineering woes and despondency at a time in life when he can look back on his considerable Champ Car achievements and enjoy his hobby, golf?
"Hmm… Well, I can honestly say I haven't missed it. Golf is far more of a challenge than motor racing. And it's become more than a hobby. I've got into it on a technical level – I've got all this equipment to improve my game, including a machine with four high
"However, I was asked to come and have a look. Obviously it's very difficult to walk in and improve cars straight away on a race weekend. I need a couple of test days with them, and of course Champ Car has very strict rules on that. But right now, I'd say I'm at the stage that we used to be at the start of a season where we've just taken delivery of our cars from England and we're waiting for the first test. I don't know a lot about these cars yet."
Well, some might argue that there are such gaps in the Forsythe's team's knowledge of the DP01 that Mr Nunn can learn along with them. And maybe that final "yet" is a sign that the man who engineered Champ Car glory most recently for Juan Montoya and Alex Zanardi can bring his special magic to a team of very faded glory.
Get inside Champ Car racing each month in RACER. David Phillips reports on how the Panoz chassis is faring in its first season in our September issue, on sale now.
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