Motorsports

Paul Tracy survived a spectacular crash near the end of qualifying for the Texaco-Havoline 200 at Elkhart Lake, Wis., and won his first Indy-car pole, edging Penske-Chevrolet teammate Emerson Fittipaldi by a thousandth of a mile per hour.

Tracy’s top speed on the four-mile road course at Road America was 133.074 m.p.h. to 133.073 for Fittipaldi.

With the half-hour qualifying run almost over, Tracy, 23, went off the course after hitting his left tire on a curb between turns 13 and 14. His car went airborne, clipped one guardrail, crashed through another and barely missed a camper containing spectators, who came scrambling out. Tracy was not injured.