Glock: Top rookie for the sixth time this season in Mexico City source : Rocketsports Racing Rocketsports Racing came very close to wrapping up the 2005 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford season on the podium with 2005 Rookie-of-the-Year Timo Glock as Michael McDowell successfully completed his second Champ Car event today in Mexico City's Gran Premio Telmex-Tecate Presented by Banamex. On Lap 46, Glock made his second and final pit stop of the day and came out running sixth thanks to a great effort by the #8 DHL Global Mail/Rocketsports crew. On Lap 51, the German passed Oriol Servia for the fifth spot and moved into fourth place when he passed Sebastien Bourdais who was in the pits. Glock began closing in on Mario Dominguez, who was running in the third spot, and made a move to obtain another position on Lap 58. When heading into the first turn, he ducked down to make the pass inside of Dominguez. Dominguez started to slide a bit then locked up his tires, which caused the two cars to make contact. Glock was able to continue with no major damage and claimed the third spot on the timing and scoring charts. A yellow flag would cost the German a podium finish because he had used up all of his Power-to-Pass. He lost two spots on the restart because of that, but did bring the #8 DHL Global Mail Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone car home in the top-five, finishing fifth overall after starting on the grid in the 12th spot. He was the best finishing rookie of the day, marking the sixth time Glock finished a race as the top rookie. Glock also moved up a spot in the championship standings this afternoon, earning a total of 202 points to finish the season in the top ten of the standings in the eighth spot. His teammate McDowell, who won the Grand Am Rolex Series event yesterday afternoon co-driving with Memo Gidley for Finlay Motorsports, proved once again that he has what it takes to run in the Champ Car World Series. McDowell drove a clean race and did his part of the job on the track, while his #31 Rocketsports crew gave him two quick pit stops and his engineers developed a race strategy that helped him run a good race. Starting from the 16th spot after matching his debut qualifying position, the American brought the #31 Rocketsports Racing Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone machine home in the 11th spot, just missing a top-ten finish in only his second event.
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