Justin Wilson becomes newest driver to join list of Champ Car World Series race winners with victory in exciting Molson Indy Toronto
source: champcarworldseries.com Toronto was not featured in Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities, but the Canadian city did host a rousing production of A Tale of Two Races on Sunday as Justin Wilson (#9 CDW Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) powered through a rough-and-tumble late-race stretch to score the first victory of his Champ Car career. Wilson made a strong pass on the inside of Turn Three to get around Oriol Servia (#2 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) to wrest the lead from the Newman/Haas Racing driver, then snapped off the two fastest laps of the race to pull away. The tall Brit found the road to victory easier once he took the lead as a late-race crash involving teammate A.J. Allmendinger (#10 Western Union Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) and Mario Dominguez (#7 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) meant that the race would end under caution, leaving the RuSPORT team to celebrate its first Champ Car win as Wilson had to race only the pace car to the checkered flag. The beginning of the race belied the competitive nature that would bubble up later in the day as polesitter Sebastien Bourdais (#1 McDonald's Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) roared away from fellow front-row starter Paul Tracy (#3 Mountain Grand Lodge/Avalanche Bay Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) at the start and led the first 34 laps ahead of Tracy, Wilson, Servia and Alex Tagliani (#15 Aussie Vineyards Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone).
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