With victory at inaugural Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose
source: Champ Car World Series - by Eric Mauk It was a mid-race victory streak that propelled Sebastien Bourdais (#1 McDonald's Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) to the 2004 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford title as the Flying Frenchman rolled off four wins in six races during the summer to pull away from his rivals. The reigning champ appears to be following the same path this year, as the Newman/Haas Racing driver scored his second consecutive win to end the month of July, taking a victory in Sunday's Taylor Woodrow Grand Prix of San Jose as a sellout crowd of 62,371 cheered him to the win. Bourdais rolled from the pole and ran away from the field at the drop of the flag, pacing 63 of the day's 93 laps on his way to the 13th victory of his Champ Car career. Bourdais controlled most of the action on a sunny Sunday, relinquishing the lead only when other teams experimented with alternate pit strategies. He was able to outlast his combatants on the alternate strategies and roll to the victory by 3.724 seconds over Paul Tracy (#3 Indeck Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone), widening his series points lead to 28 points over the Canadian. Tracy scored his sixth podium of the season in finishing second, marking the 68th time that North America's leading active open-wheel driver has sprayed champagne at the end of a Champ Car race. He broke up a possible sweep by Newman/Haas by finishing second, leaving Oriol Servia (#2 PacifiCare Ford-Cosworth/Lola/Bridgestone) to place third. The Spaniard scored his fourth consecutive podium finish with the third-place result, building the longest such streak of his six-year Champ Car career.
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