Christian wants a 'civilised' end to CART career.

Christian Fittipaldi qualified second at Mexico for his final CART race in a session in which the red flag was thrown on no less than four occasions.

Nevertheless, Fittipaldi matched his best qualifying effort of the season in his last single seater outing - and hopes for a civilised end to his CART career when the green flags are waved later today.

"I'm pretty happy to be starting in the front row but unfortunately things didn't go as planned and I didn't get to go for pole position," began the Brazilian. "Things happened in the session that I didn't understand which added to the frustration - like when the green flags came out after the red flags. No one was able to get into a rhythm and put any laps together.

"I will drive my very best to finish as good as possible tomorrow since I'm not going to be in CART next year," he added. "I hope everyone can be civilized going into the first turn. There are a lot of guys that are going to be pushing as hard as they can because it's the last race. I'm sure it's going to be a fun race to drive and to watch."