Wilson beats Bourdais at Edmonton

The RuSPORT driver ran third for the first stint of the race behind Bourdais (Newman/Haas Racing) and Forsythe Championship Racing's Paul Tracy, but his crew jumped him ahead of Tracy in the pit stops, and in the second stint, on the harder compound black tyres, he hunted down Bourdais and cleanly passed him on lap 54 to take the lead.

Tracy gifted Forsythe team-mate Allmendinger third place when he spun out of the final turn mid-race, and Oriol Servia of PKV Racing grabbed fourth too.

After contact between Bourdais and the lapped Alex Tagliani put the Team Australia car into the tyres and caused a full course yellow, Tracy blasted past Servia to regain fourth.

But that restart lap saw Nelson Philippe lose his CTE Racing-HVM car and sixth place by also running into tyres, so the yellows flew again. At the next restart, Servia retook Tracy and that's the way the positions ran to the flag.

Will Power held on for a great sixth place to finish top rookie for Team Australia, while Andrew Ranger and Mario Dominguez chased him home for Conquest Racing and Dale Coyne Racing respectively.

Katherine Legge was on the back foot pretty much from the word go when she had to spin her PKV Racing entry to avoid running into Nicky Pastorelli's spun Rocketsports car. That cost her her rear wing, and she was to lose it again on lap 36. She finished 12 laps down, albeit with 10th fastest race lap.

British compatriot Dan Clarke of CTE-HVM Racing screwed up a pass on Jan Heylen, sending the Belgian into the tyre wall, and had to serve a pitlane penalty. However, when he rejoined he was impressively quick,setting seventh fastest race lap on his way to ninth, and second of the rookies.

Results

Pos  Driver              Team                 Time
 1.  Justin Wilson       RuSPORT           85 laps
 2.  Sebastien Bourdais  Newman/Haas       + 5.319
 3.  AJ Allmendinger     Forsythe          + 9.945
 4.  Oriol Servia        PKV              + 12.650
 5.  Paul Tracy          Forsythe         + 16.608
 6.  Will Power          Team Australia   + 27.802
 7.  Andrew Ranger       Conquest          + 1 lap
 8.  Mario Dominguez     Dale Coyne        + 1 lap
 9.  Dan Clarke          CTE-HVM           + 1 lap
10.  Charles Zwolsman    Conquest         + 3 laps
11.  Tonis Kasemets      Rocketsports     + 3 laps
12.  Alex Tagliani       Team Australia   + 7 laps
13.  Katherine Legge     PKV             + 12 laps
14.  Nelson Philippe     CTE-HVM         + 16 laps
15.  Bruno Junqueira     Newman/Haas     + 31 laps
16.  Jan Heylen          Dale Coyne      + 75 laps
17.  Nicky Pastorelli    Rocketsports    + 81 laps
18.  Cristiano da Matta  RuSPORT         + 85 laps