Doornbos claims maiden win

The Team Minardi USA driver took the lead on the wet and greasy track for the last time when Simon Pagenaud of Team Australia understeered wide on the at the final turn and dropped to third.

On the restart after a late race yellow, Pagenaud dropped to fourth behind his teammate Will Power, but considering both cars stalled on the grid at the start and had to charge from the back, a 3-4 result was a major reprieve.

Doornbos had a tight battle with Bourdais (Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing) and Neel Jani of PKV Racing in the wet conditions, and afterwards the reigning champion was upset at Doornbos's tactics, and was subsequently jeered by the crowds.

Alex Tagliani went off on the penultimate lap trying to wrest fifth from Jani, allowing his RSPORTS teammate Justin Wilson through to tackle the Swiss, which he did successfully on the final lap.

Graham Rahal took seventh for Newman/Haas/Lanigan, ahead of Tagliani.

A dejected Tristan Gommendy finished two laps down for PKV Racing. The pole-sitter had immediately gone two laps down when a scrambled engine-mapping meant he never got going on the warm-up lap.

Pos  Driver                Team                              Laps
 1.  Robert Doornbos       Minardi Team USA                   62
 2.  Sebastien Bourdais    Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing         62
 3.  Will Power            Team Australia                     62
 4.  Simon Pagenaud        Team Australia                     62
 5.  Justin Wilson         RSPORTS                            62
 6.  Neel Jani             PKV Racing                         62
 7.  Graham Rahal          Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing         62
 8.  Alex Tagliani         RSPORTS                            62
 9.  Oriol Servia          Forsythe Championship Racing       62
10.  Ryan Dalziel          Pacific Coast Motorsports          62
11.  Katherine Legge       Dale Coyne Racing                  62
12.  Tristan Gommendy      PKV Racing                         60
13.  Alex Figge            Pacific Coast Motorsports          56
14.  Dan Clarke            Minardi Team USA                   34
15.  Paul Tracy            Forsythe Championship Racing       28
16.  Jan Heylen            Conquest Racing                    24
17.  Bruno Junqueira       Dale Coyne Racing                   5