AMSTERDAM - Robert Doornbos heeft voor het eerst in zijn carrière een Champ Car-race op zijn naam geschreven. In het Canadese Mont-Tremblant werd de 25-jarige Nederlander op het podium vergezeld door Sebastien Bourdais en Will Power.

Doornbos gaat na zijn overwinning samen met de Fransman Sebastian Bourdais aan de leiding in het algemeen klassement. Will Power staat op de derde plek. De Champ Car World Series is de Amerikaanse tegenhanger van de Formule 1.

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MONT-TREMBLANT, Quebec (AP) -- Rookie Robert Doornbos drove to his first career win at the inaugural Champ Car Mont-Tremblant on Sunday, giving him four top-three finishes in six races.

Sebastien Bourdais, Champ Car's three-time defending champion, finished second and wasn't happy about it, saying that Doornbos blocked him during the race. Bourdais refused to shake Doornbos' hand on the podium.

``Robert knows exactly what he did,'' Bourdais said. ``We're not supposed to do that in Champ Car. He changed lanes three times when I was trying to pick a line.''

Doornbos took advantage of numerous mistakes and misfortunes that befell the rest of the pack on the 2.65-mile road course to give Minardi Team USA its first series win.

Doornbos and Bourdais are tied atop the standings with 145 points.

Doornbos, a 25-year-old native of Holland, gained the lead for good on the 52nd lap when leader Simon Pagenaud went off the track, which alternated between dry and wet throughout the race as a result of scattered showers on the mountainside circuit.

It was the fifth lead change overall after Doornbos led from the 28th lap to the 37th, when Bourdais went off the course under a yellow flag just before the entrance to the pits, the same spot that cost Pagenaud his lead.

Will Power, one of three drivers who stalled on the standing start along with Team Australia teammate Pagenaud, recovered to finish third.

Pagenaud, a 23-year-old French rookie, finished fourth.

Fresh from his first win in two years in Cleveland a week earlier, Paul Tracy's day started badly and got worse.

He had had to switch to his backup car after he had steering problems and crashed in the morning practice session. Dropped to the back of the starting grid, from 11th to 17th, he managed to move up to 10th place before dropping back to 14th after he was nudged and spun around by Power on the 14th lap.

``We tried alternating our strategy to get out of sequence from everybody else and then the engine let go,'' Tracy said.