When we last visited with Justin Wilson back in
the summer he had run well in a number of races and his stock was on the rise
source: champcarworldseries.com FIA F3000 Champion in 2001 and a Formula 1 driver for Minardi and then Jaguar in 2003, the tall, 26-year old Englishman quickly showed himself in his rookie Champ Car season to be a fast, smooth and aggressive driver. After a difficult Formula 1 experience last year Wilson signed with Eric Bachelart's Mi-Jack/Conquest team and finished an impressive sixth at Long Beach in his Champ Car debut. Wilson then qualified an excellent third in Monterrey, Mexico, and ran well in the race, holding off Paul Tracy for many laps before a mistake and a slow pitstop dropped him to sixth at the checkered flag. Wilson had a tough oval debut at Milwaukee, starting twelfth and finishing eleventh, six laps behind. Then came an excellemt race at Portland where he qualified fourth and finished fifth, beating A.J. Allmendinger across the line after a racelong duel. In Cleveland, Wilson qualified an impressive second only to crash out at the airport track's infamous first turn after rapid-fire collisions with Alex Tagliani and Paul Tracy. Through the middle of the season Wilson battled for rookie of the year honors with A.J. Allmendinger. But then Wilson suffered a dearth of result and Allmendinger surged ahead, wrapping up the 2004 rookie of the year title with another excellent drive to sixth place in Surfers Paradise last weekend. Meanwhile, Wilson has been able to string together a handful of sevenths and eighths and has fallen to twelfth in points behind Jimmy Vasser and Michel Jourdain. The complete article at champcarworldseries.com
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