French driver Sebastien Bourdais captured his second Champ Car victory of the year Sunday in the inaugural Grand Prix of Edmonton
source: autonet Bourdais, who started 10th, was aided by crucial late-race mistakes by RuSport drivers A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson. Allmendinger spun out into the wall with nine laps left and moments before that, Wilson took himself out of contention when he spun out while the open-wheel cars were on a yellow caution flag. Bourdais edged Newman/Haas teammate Oriol Servia by almost six-tenths of a second at the 1.96-mile airport-road track at City Centre Airport. Although Bourdais started in the fifth row, he moved up into the top five in the first 10 laps and then hung around long enough as those in front of him fell by the wayside. "It was a pretty unknown (race) course for us but we pulled it off," said Bourdais. Servia finished second and Paul Tracy of Toronto was third. Tracy started in third spot and took the lead from Allmendinger on the 19th lap, but locked up his tires on a couple of turns and couldn't hold the lead. "I don't know what happened," said Tracy. "I just started having locking problems."
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