In the Toyota Atlantic Championship
source: champcarworldseries.com The 23-year-old rookie driver in the Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama prefers to just focus on his driving and trying to improve his skills in the #3 Unik Auto Design car. But with a pair of second-place finishes and a string of top-five results in the first half of the 2005 Atlantic season, Bessette is going to be hard-pressed to avoid the spotlight for the rest of the year. He currently sits third in the series standings after six rounds of 12 in the books. He has, at times, looked like he could certainly emerge as the top driver among a new breed of Atlantic road racing stars this season. He has also had a few incidents where he's looked like a rookie driver in North America's top open-wheel development series - because, of course, he is. "I think we're still in good shape for winning the championship," Bessette said recently after completing back-to-back doubleheader weekends at Portland and Cleveland that left him trailing only series leader Charles Zwolsman and second-place driver Tonis Kasemets in the title chase. "With a little luck and getting the car a bit quicker and no stupid mistakes, I think we can do it." Bessette came out of the gates quickly in his first race for Polestar Racing Group. He led both rounds of qualifying at the season-opening race at Long Beach and paced the first 26 laps of the race before finishing a close second to teammate Katherine Legge. He returned to the podium this past weekend, finishing second behind Zwolsman in the second of two races at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport.
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