Bourdais Wins Houston With Tracy On His Tail
Written by Josh Katinger · May 13, 2006
Sebastien won the second race of the 2006 CCWS season, following up his runaway victory in Long Beach. Houston was a bit more dramatic with a late race yellow bunching Paul Tracy right up behind Seabass for the final green flag lap
TSN.ca: Bourdais edges Tracy in Houston
ChampCarWorldSeries.com: Race Results
BBC.co.uk: Bourdais extends Champ Car streak
Motorsport.com: Bourdais wins under the full moon in Houston
Seabass of held off Tracy handily to take the 1.238 second win, but not without controversy and harsh words from Tracy after the race. Tracy was hot over some blocking for which Bourdais was being “watched” but no penalty was given.
“That’s definitely a penalty and you’re not suppose to get away with blocking”. Tracy said in the post race interview. “But, I guess when you are Sebastien Bourdais you can get away with it.”
Pole sitter Mario Dominquez was dejected after throwing away his chanced at victory when he locked up his brakes and went into the run off area dropping him from the lead to third, where he ultimatley finished behind his teammate Tracy.
Race Results
Pos Car Driver Nat Team Laps Lag Status
1. 1 Sebastien Bourdais F Newman/Haas Racing 96 81.154 130.604
2. 3 Paul Tracy CDN Forsythe Racing 96 81.140 130.582
3. 7 Mario Dominguez MEX Forsythe Racing 96 81.128 130.563
4. 4 Nelson Philippe F CTE Racing-HVM 96 81.112 130.538
5. 9 Justin Wilson GB RuSPORT 96 81.108 130.531
6. 27 Andrew Ranger CDN Conquest Racing 96 81.093 130.507
7. 5 Will Power* AUS Team Australia 96 81.086 130.495
8. 10 A.J. Allmendinger USA RuSPORT 96 81.067 130.465
9. 19 Cristiano da Matta BR Dale Coyne Racing 95 80.160 129.005
10. 2 Bruno Junqueira BR Newman/Haas Racing 93 78.462 126.272
11. 15 Alex Tagliani CDN Team Australia Racing 90 83.385 134.195
12. 6 Oriol Servia E PKV Racing 87 84.411 135.846
13. 11 Jan Heylen* BEL Dale Coyne Racing 82 69.170 111.318
14. 20 Katherine Legge* GB PKV Racing 81 68.385 110.055
15. 34 Charles Zwolsman* NL Conquest Racing 69 85.671 137.875
16. 14 Dan Clarke* GB CTE Racing-HVM 33 53.955 86.833
17. 8 Nicky Pastorelli* NL Rocketsports Racing 29 62.115 99.964
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Anyone agree with Paul’s analysis that that you get to block if you’re Bourdais?
Congrats to Sebastian and his new wife!
And I don’t know if anyone else picked this up (I haven’t checked out the news postings like I should) but the coverage in Houston indicated that Paul had signed a 5 year deal with Forsythe.