ASSEN, Netherlands -- Justin Wilson won the Champ Car's Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday, holding off Jan Heylen of Belgium to clinch his first race of the season.
AP Photo/Ermindo Armino
By the first turn of the race, Justin Wilson overtook polesitter and Champ Car series leader Sebastien Bourdais.
Bruno Junqueira was third.
"We just did what we had to do," Wilson said. "With the car working well, it was exciting to be out there."
Sebastien Bourdais' hopes of clinching a fourth straight title were hampered after a poor start forced him to drop from pole position.
Bourdais, who had won in his three previous Champ Car starts in Europe, finished seventh. He has a 58-point lead over Wilson heading into the next race on Oct. 21 in Surfers Paradise, Australia.
Wilson overtook Bourdais on the first turn and kept his lead through the first round of pit stops.
After the first pit, Junqueira took the lead with Bourdais dropping to seventh before recovering to fifth. Tristan Gommendy and Neel Jani also had quick pit stops to briefly stay in the top five.
Heylen moved up to second after the third pit, behind Wilson, who had opened up a six-second lead and was never caught.
Heylen put the frustrations of finishing 13th at his home Belgian Grand Prix behind to come in second.
The Formula One-bound Bourdais had won at Long Beach, Houston, Portland, Edmonton and Elkhart Lake and Zolder this season.
Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press
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