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"  Sebastien Bourdais wrapped-up his second consecutive Champ Car title for Newman/Haas Racing by scoring his sixth win of the year in the streets of Surfers Paradise, Australia. After a first turn incident mixed-up the field, Bourdais was forced to play second fiddle to archrival Paul Tracy, leader for the opening nineteen laps. The Canadian pitted for fuel one lap earlier than the chasing Bourdais, who came out of the pits ahead of Tracy. A few laps later, Tracy pulled off with a broken gearbox and Bourdais was left to fend off a final challenge from A.J. Allmendinger.   But there was no stopping Bourdais, who easily beat Allmendinger to the checker, winning by nine seconds. Teammate Oriol Servia qualified on the front row beside polesitter Bourdais, but fell to the back of the field after a first lap, first turn shove from Cristiano da Matta. Servia resumed without damage and came through the field to finish 5th. This was not enough to challenge for the championship, but it guarantees him second in points and also completed the second successive championship sweep for Newman/Haas. Last year, the team finished one-two with Bourdais and Bruno Junqueira.   &amp;quot;This is a great reward for this team that works so hard,&amp;quot; Bourdais remarked. &amp;quot;Without this organization around me, I would be nothing. I can&amp;#039;t be grateful enough for all their hard work. It&amp;#039;s just unbelievable. One and two for the second time in a row in the championship. I guess Newman/Haas Racing is going to have a tough time to top that again next year.&amp;quot;   Veteran Jimmy Vasser enjoyed one of his best races of the year, finishing 3rd, half a minute behind Bourdais. Alex Tagliani took 4th ahead of Servia, while German Timo Glock took Champ Car&amp;#039;s Roshfrans Rookie of The Year award by finishing 6th in one of Paul Gentilozzi&amp;#039;s Rocketsports Lolas. The 24-year old Glock has proven himself the fastest and most competitive rookie this year and showed that form again in Australia. After a variety of travails, Justin Wilson came home 7th and nosed ahead of Tracy into third in the points with one race to go in Mexico City two weeks away.   Surfers Paradise was also another record-breaking street race for Champ Car with 105,297 paying spectators on race day and more than 316,000 for the four-day weekend.      FP     SP     #     Driver     LC     Lag     Status       1     5     1     S. Bourdais     57       Active       2     6     10     A. Allmendinger     57     9.129     Active       3     8     12     J. Vasser     57     31.851     Active       4     9     15     A. Tagliani     57     36.419     Active       5     1     2     O. Servia     57     43.967     Active       6     10     8     T. Glock     57     45.615     Active       7     7     9     J. Wilson     57     59.629     Active       8     15     19     R. Bremer     57     1:05.851     Active       9     18     11     R. Sperafico     57     1:16.291     Active       10     17     27     A. Ranger     57     1:33.488     Active       11     13     5     M. Marshall     56     1 Lap     Active       12     16     31     M. McDowell     56     1 Lap     Active       13     12     55     R. Lavin     53     4 Laps     Active       14     14     34     N. Philippe     47     59.797     Off Course       15     11     25     W. Power     29     2 Laps     Contact       16     0     4     F. Del Monte     28     1 Lap     Contact       17     4     3     P. Tracy     24     9.813     Mechanical       18     2     7     M. Dominguez     1     1 Lap     Contact       19     3     21     C. da Matta     0     0.147     Contact     "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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