The defending champion of the Champ Car, Sebastien Bourdais, yesterday obtained in his second triumph of the season when prevailing in the Great Prize of Edmonton.The previous victory of the French was in the month of April, in the Great Prize of Long Beach, the first competition of the year.The French was able to strain itself enters the heavy traffic of the quick and winding circuit of 14 curves to be in a suitable position. But they were the pilot errors of RuSPORT, A.J. Allmendinger and Justin Wilson, who they had left in the first row, those that gave to Bourdais the opportunity him to arrive at the triumph number 12 of their race. “It was Really an unexpected victory. It would have been in agreement finishing between the five first”, said Bourdais, that celebrated before about 80 thousand fans, the majority of them supporting his staunch rival, Canadian Paul Tracy, who completed podio with his third site. “It was only trying not to commit errors”, added the Gaul. “There were faster pilots in the track, but all committed errors. I do not know, all were very tired, because this is a track very, very difficult.”American A.J. Allmendinger led practically all the test, after releasing in pole, but the rupture of the suspension by a contact on to the end left it out of action and then Bourdais arose to take his second victory of the campaign.The companion of Bourdais in Newman/Haas Racing, Serbian the Oriol Spanish, fulfilled another outstanding work like substitute of Brazilian the Dark brown Junqueira, when being located in second, while Canadian Paul Tracy, of Forsythe Championship Racing, paid with podio of third site the support of his liking. “Without a doubt, this has been the most difficult race, as much physical as psychologically, that I have disputed in my life because this circuit, where we had never run, he is very fast and it has demanded a maximum concentration”, assured the Serbian Spanish. “Without the lost time behind Philippe I do not know that it would have happened at the end of race; I believe that this one has been the key of the result”, lamented Serbia.The English Justin Wilson, who in Portland underwent a calamity similar to the one of his Allmendinger companion, saved afternoon in Edmonton when being located in quarter, Mario Domínguez was fifth and the Danish Ronnie Bremer, now in Dale Coyne Racing, finalized in an outstanding sixth position.The average of Bourdais was of 169,4 kilometers per hour and it prevailed by 0,596 seconds.Tracy, that was to 21 points of Bourdais in the championship of pilots, seemed to have one of the strongest cars at the outset. When beginning the race moved to Wilson of the second place and Allmendinger of the end in return 19.But the champion of series 2003 had problems with his front brakes after his first exit to boxes, and Wilson and passed it to Allmendinger.Bourdais heads the championship of pilots with 182 points, followed by Tracy (161), Wilson (152), Serbia (135), Allmendinger (122), Jimmy Vasser (115), Alex Tagliani (111), Domínguez (104), Thymus Glock (90), and the Brazilian Christian gives Matta (88).The next round of the category, eighth of the calendar, will be in another soothes that it makes his debut, street circuit of the Californian city of San jOse, the 31 of incoming July.
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The return of the champion
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Paul Tracy arrived third party
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Deception of Allmendinger
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