Mexico City, Mexico (My Sportsbook) - Sebastien Bourdais captured the pole for Sunday's Champ Car finale - the Gran Premio Telmex-Tecate in record time. The No.2 Newman/Haas driver circled the 2.786-miles course in one minute, 25.919 seconds to break Bruno Junqueira's mark of 1:25.941 set in November 2002.

The victory earned Bourdais one championship point as well as the pole position.

Bourdais leads the championship by 22 points over his Newman/Haas teammate Junqueira. He has had a dominant year, winning eight poles and six races.

A seventh win in 2004 would tie Bourdais with Alex Zanardi (1998), Juan Montoya (1999) Cristiano da Matta (2002) and Tracy (2003) for second most in a single season.

Starting on the front row with Bourdais will be Junqueira, who won Friday's qualifying session.

"I'm going to work very hard in Mexico City to try to fight for the championship," said Junqueira. "I know it won't come down to my race alone; Sebastien has to have a problem, but if he does I want to be right there so I can fight for it."

Justin Wilson (1:27.016) and Jimmy Vasser (1:27.038) will start in the second row.

Paul Tracy won the pole last year with a time of 1:28.842.

The race is scheduled to begin on Sunday at 4 p.m. (et).