Mexico City, Mexico (My Sportsbook) - Series champion Sebastien Bourdais won Sunday's Gran Premio Telmex Champ Car race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City, Mexico. The No.1 Newman/Haas driver crossed the finish line 3.527 ahead of Justin Wilson.

The win was Bourdais' seventh of the season and 23rd of his Champ Car career.

Pole winner Justin Wilson brought the field to the start of the final event of the 2006 season. The race stayed under green for only about 100 yards before Katherine Legge and Mario Dominguez made contact.

When they restarted, Bourdais went right to the lead using his "push-to-pass" button. He continued to expand his margin to 1.492 after 10 laps. The Frenchman and Wilson maintained the top-two positions through the start of the first round of pit stops.

But rain began to fall and it forced teams to decide when to go to wet tires. Bourdais was one of the last to make the change and he fell to third place behind Wilson and Junqueira.

Bourdais got around Junqueira, but was having a problem gaining on Wilson. With 40 of 66 laps completed, the three-time series champion was more than six seconds behind Wilson. It was still a five-second lead with 20 laps to go.

Wilson maintained the gap between himself and Bourdais as the laps dwindled to just a few. Wilson pitted first, then Bourdais, but they stayed in position.

But Bourdais closed the gap by taking fuel only, no tires, while Wilson had taken all new rubber. The Frenchman could see Wilson in front of him, but with older tires, couldn't closed the gap.

Bourdais was a little over two seconds back with seven laps to go. Both drivers struggled to get around a backmarker, but Bourdais was quicker in making the pass and with four laps to go the gap was one second. Bourdais got up even with Wilson, but the former F1 driver fought him off.

With two laps to go, Wilson used his remaining "push-to-pass" power and built a solid lead on Bourdais and that should have been the race. But Bourdais somehow caught him on the final lap, they touched, and Bourdais got underneath Wilson with half a lap to go. Bourdais took the checkered flag and the win.

Will Power, Junqueira and Alex Tagliani completed the top-five.