Sebastien Bourdais recorded his first DNF of 2005 on Sunday at Mexico City and that goes a long way towards explaining why he ruled the Champ Car World Series for the second straight season source: champcarworldseries.com - Robin Miller The Newman/Haas bullies showed their superiority again this year as Bourdais, Oriol Servia and Bruno Junqueira gave the oldest and deepest team in Champ Car another 1-2 sweep of the point standings. Good drivers, excellent engineering, precise pit stops, great reliability and very few errors is the formula to the front and it's no surprise Paul Newman's pride and joy won 8 of 13 races on its way to a sixth championship. And, since nothing is going to change internally for 2006 and it will be the swan song for the Lola, there's a damn good shot Bourdais could be the first to ever three-peat in Champ Car. But it's not a stretch to say that Carl Russo's squad might be ready to seriously challenge Carl Haas & Company. The RuSPORT team was a nice little story in 2004 with rookie A.J. Allmendinger showing his skills and these new kids from Atlantics making a few runs with the big boys. But they weren't really a threat to Newman/Haas. That all changed in 2005. Mr. Miller complete article at champcarworldseries.com
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