Champ Car world series points leader Bourdais inches closer to his
first title with latest victory in Vegas
source:
champweb.net
There are but a few things in life that you can do in one-tenth of a second
as an eye blink, a nose twitch or a change of thought is usually about all one
can accomplish in that short amount of time.
But Saturday night under the lights of the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Bridgestone
Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford points leader Sebastien
Bourdais (#2 McDonald's Ford-Cosworth/Lola Bridgestone) showed a large Vegas
crowd that there is at least one other thing you can do in a tenth of a second -
win a Champ Car race.
Bourdais battled side-by-side with Newman/Haas Racing teammate Bruno Junqueira
(#6 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) for the last 15 trips around the
1.5-mile Las Vegas superspeedway oval before nipping him at the line by .066
seconds to score his sixth Champ Car victory of the year. The margin of victory
was the sixth-closest in Champ Car history, and is the shortest winning margin
since Juan Montoya beat Michael Andretti by 0.04 seconds at Michigan in 2000.
The Newman/Haas teammates were never separated by more than 0.135 seconds at any
time during the last 15 laps and the two swapped the lead four times in the last
seven laps before Bourdais took the point in leading the team's fourth 1-2 sweep
of the 2004 season. The victory is the ninth of Bourdais' career and gives him a
27-point lead in the championship with two races remaining.