2002 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach - Saturday

Cristiano is second quickest: "I have never started on pole so it was something I really wanted. I felt we could do it but we came up 3000ths of a second short. It was really close. I was one-tenths of a second quicker on the last lap I was running but Michael crashed and the red came out. I think I had more in the car but it Jimmy and Bruno probably felt the same so I will never know.".