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St. Pete - Sunday 9:00am Story posted - Apr 06 2008 9:03 AM 
Kanaan & Castroneves wrestle Rahal for the top podium
| Good morning from St. Petersburg, Florida. TrackSide Online is again live from the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg. The weather is again very nice this morning, but we don't expect it to stay that way - or at least the weatherman doesn't expect it to stay dry. Currently the temp is 69 with the high expected to be 79.
We had rain overnight all around the area, including at the hotel in Largo, Florida. For those unfamiliar with the area, Largo is about a 30 minute drive to the race course, and is about 8 miles from the St. Petersburg/Clearwater International Airport, though most people (me included) fly in to Tampa International across the bay.
One of the questions the mayor asked TSO yesterday was were we were staying. Mr. Baker was very happy to hear it was Largo, because that means all of his hotels in St. Pete were full, as are most of them in Clearwater, and nearly every person we saw at breakfast in the hotel this morning was wearing racing apparel indicating that they were here for the race. Certainly the local area economy does benefit from this event.
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And that is probably a major contributor to this morning's 10:30am press conference featuring
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