Lexington, Aug 11: Canadian Paul Tracy won the Mid-Ohio Grand Prix to retake the CART series points lead from Bruno Junqueira Sunday.

Canadian Paul Tracy won the Mid-Ohio Grand Prix to retake the CART series points lead from Bruno Junqueira Sunday. Tracy, driving a Lola Ford, held off his countryman and Player's/Forsythe team mate Patrick Carpentier by 0.6 seconds. It was the team's first one-two finish. American rookie Ryan Hunter-Reay, had his best result of the season, finishing third in a Reynard Ford. Tracy scored the maximum points by winning provisional pole, pole, and leading for the most laps -- 65 of the 92-lap race. Tracy has a 20-point advantage over last week's winner Junqueira, whose title bid took a turn for the worse on lap 13 when Spain's Oriol Servia tried, unsuccessfully, to overtake him with both cars ending in the gravel trap.


The Brazilian was able to restart but finished 13th two laps down. During the first stint before mandatory pit stops Tracy opened up a 4.8 seconds lead over Hunter-Reay but relinquished the lead to Portugal's Tiago Monteiro for his second pit stop.


The Canadian regained the lead on lap 59 but could not pull away from Carpentier, who won from the pole here last year.


On Lap 66, Tracy's lead was down to 0.87 seconds but Carpentier never made a real challenge to his team mate and Tracy took his sixth win of the year and 25th of his career. Mexico's Michel Jourdain, who finished fourth, is third overall, 47 points behind Tracy.


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