Champ Car season title up for grabs source: tsn.ca Bruno Junqueira won Sunday's Lexmark Indy 300 ahead of teammate Sebastien Bourdais, stalling Bourdais' run to the 2004 championship and forcing the Champ Car title to be decided in the final race of the season in Mexico City on Nov. 7. The race finished under caution in its scheduled 57 laps and just short of the one hour 45-minute time limit after Patrick Carpentier of Joliette, Que., was injured when his car crashed heavily into a tire barrier on the 53rd lap following a collision with the wall when his nose cone came off. Carpentier, who apparently had movement in his arms, was taken from the track by ambulance and his condition not immediately known. It was Junqueira's second win of the season and seventh of his career. He becomes the 14th different winner of the Australian race. Bourdais came into the race with a 28-point lead over Junqueira and needing only to pick up seven points more than his Newman/Haas teammate to clinch the title. But Junqueira picked up 31 points for winning and another for posting the fastest lap during the race. Bourdais picked up 27 for finishing second, giving the French driver a 23-point lead going into the final race in two weeks.Junqueira was 1.321 seconds ahead of Bourdais at the finish Sunday. Mario Dominguez, the 2002 winner, was third, and Toronto's Paul Tracy, the pole-sitter who led for most of the first half of the race, was fourth. Tracy, the 1995 winner here, lost the lead when his brakes locked on the 40th lap.
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