After escaping injury from a scary crash that saw Paul Tracy roll over his head and end his race on Lap 1 in the previous event in Cleveland, McDonald's® driver Sebastien Bourdais lost only four points of ground over second place Justin Wilson (166-140) in the title battle of the Bridgestone Presents the Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford championship. source: champcarworldseries.com He knows a strong finish in this weekend's 86-lap Molson Grand Prix of Toronto could help him keep the wolves at bay with RuSPORT's Wilson only 26 points behind and A.J. Allmendinger who won the past two events since switching to Forsythe Championship Racing, only 31 back. "At the beginning of the season we were afraid that RuSPORT would be tough and were also concerned with PT (Paul Tracy) because you can never count him out," said Bourdais who has four wins, one third and an 18th place finish due to contact with Tracy in Cleveland so far this season. "Now there is not one guy at Forsythe to beat, but two. Basically we now have to add another driver to the mix. A.J. is carrying the momentum from a couple of good races. He's been in the car at the right time too. Forsythe had a good test at Portland and at Cleveland they've had the best car the last two years. We'll see what happens in Toronto but PT won there in 2003 and was running with us in 2004 and 2005 so we know they have a good setup there so we will have to raise our game. It just makes it nicer if you can win." In just three starts on the streets of Toronto Bourdais has earned two pole positions and one victory (2004) on the course, and has finished in the top-five in each of his three starts. He started from pole the past two years but was unable to earn back-to-back wins here after he led the first 34 laps before contact with Tracy while the two were racing out of the pits limited his result to fifth place. He is optimistic the team can continue to improve on their racing package after competitive runs on the streets of Toronto.
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