Dominguez overcame a brief mistake of his own to score the second spot, earning his first podium finish of the 2005 season. The Mexican driver fought past the tenacious Glock and then outraced Allmendinger in Turn Nine on the race's penultimate lap to snare the runner-up position. Allmendinger held on for third place, taking his third podium finish of the season and the fifth of his young career. The start of the race saw a brief bit of fireworks as Cristiano da Matta came up the inside of the first turn and triggered a melee that left his PKV Racing car sitting nearly on top of the RuSPORT machine of Justin Wilson. Jimmy Vasser and Alex Tagliani were also gathered up in the maelstrom, sending them to the pits for repairs and dooming them to finish deep in the pack. Allmendinger made up two spots in the first-lap incident but Bourdais and Dominguez chased him down and took over the second and third spots respectively on Lap 18. The order would stay the same with Bjorn Wirdheim holding down the fifth spot as the field approached their first set of pit stops. Tracy pitted first, while Bourdais stayed on track to lead two laps before heading down Pit Lane. Bourdais and his Newman/Haas Racing team suffered an anxious moment of their own when the right-rear wheel nut escaped the airgun, but the Frenchman was able to return to action in second place. Allmendinger rejoined in third, then was promoted to second with the aforementioned Tracy accident. Allmendinger led third-place Glock with 15 laps to go as the German rookie chased his first series podium. The Roshfrans Rookie-of-the-Year points leader suffered his first official Champ Car heartbreak when his transmission let go with nine laps to go, leaving him to finish 13th. His mechanical trouble boosted Dominguez to third, and allowed him to get in position to catch Allmendinger, which he would with one lap to go to earn his best finish since he won in Miami in 2003. Allmendinger rounded out the podium while Oriol Servia scored the fourth spot. Servia's finish moved him into the third spot in the championship standings after nine races, marking the highest points position of the Spaniard's six-year career.
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