FAST FACTS MOLSON INDY TORONTO
source: champcarworldseries.com WHAT: Molson Indy Toronto WHERE: Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario, Canada WHEN: Friday - Sunday, July 8-10 SUPPORT EVENTS: Toyota Atlantic Championship, Trans-Am, Honda/Michelin Challenge Series, CASCAR, Formula Drift CHAMP CAR SCHEDULE (All times local): FRIDAY, JULY 8 - Trans-Am practice, 8:00 - 8:30 a.m.; Champ Car practice, 10:15 - 11:30 a.m.; Atlantic practice, 11:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.; Trans-Am practice, 12:30 - 1:00 p.m.; Champ Car qualifying, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.; Atlantic qualifying, 3:15 - 3:45 p.m.; Trans-Am qualifying, 4:00 - 4:30 p.m. SATURDAY, JULY 9 - Trans-Am practice, 8:00 - 8:15 a.m.; Atlantic practice, 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.; Champ Car practice, 10:30 - 11:30 a.m.; Atlantic qualifying, 12:30 - 1:00 p.m.; Champ Car qualifying, 1:45 - 2:45 p.m.; Trans-Am race, 3:00 - 4:15 p.m. SUNDAY, JULY 10 - Atlantic warmup, 8:00 - 8:15 a.m.; Champ Car warmup, 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.; Atlantic race, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.; MOLSON INDY TORONTO, 1:00 p.m. U.S. TELEVISION SCHEDULE: SUNDAY, JULY 10 - CBS Sports, Molson Indy Toronto, 1 p.m. Eastern Time (LIVE) 2004 CHAMPION: Sebastien Bourdais 2004 POLESITTER: Sebastien Bourdais TRACK LAYOUT: 1.755-mile street course RACE LENGTH: 88 laps, 154.440 miles TRACK RECORDS: Qualifying (one lap) - 1999, Gil de Ferran, 110.565 mph (57.143 seconds). Race - 2000, Michael Andretti, 98.248 mph (2:00:02.313), based on 112 laps (196.560 miles). RACE ROUND: 6 of 14 in the 2005 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford. CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES POINTS LEADERS: 1, Paul Tracy, Forsythe Championship Racing, 128; 2, Sebastien Bourdais, Newman/Haas Racing, 127; 3, A.J. Allmendinger, RuSPORT, 102; 4, Justin Wilson, RuSPORT, 95; 5, Jimmy Vasser, PKV Racing, 82. NEXT EVENT: July 17, West Edmonton Mall Champ Car Grand Prix of Edmonton, Finning International Speedway, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada INSTANT REPLAY: Dodging the day-long swirl of carnage that brought out seven caution flags, Sebastien Bourdais scored his third consecutive victory of the 2004 season with a win from pole in Toronto. A crowd of 72,561 saw Bourdais lead 75 of the 84 laps and outlast veteran Jimmy Vasser to score the victory. Defending race winner Paul Tracy chased Bourdais for what was a relatively clean first half of the race, but things got out of hand at the halfway point when incidents and accidents brought out three yellow flags in an 11-lap span. Those incidents resulted in penalties for a number of drivers, including Tracy, allowing Bourdais to pull away to a comfortable margin. Two late-race cautions bunched the field back up behind Bourdais, but he was equal to the task and eased away to the win. Vasser and Patrick Carpentier rounded out the podium ahead of Mario Haberfeld's career-best finish. Tracy filled the top five ahead of a career-best sixth-place run by former Formula 1 racer Gaston Mazzacane.
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