Doornbos drove to his first career win at the inaugural Champ Car Mont-Tremblant today, giving him four top-three finishes in six races.

The 25-year-old Dutch rookie took advantage of numerous mistakes and misfortunes that befell the rest of the pack on the 2.65-mile road course to give Minardi Team USA its first series win.

"Obviously the weather conditions were very tricky, so when it starts to rain on some parts of the track with slick tires it becomes a bit special, " Doornbos said. "You have to stay very focused and concentration is easily lost and a mistake is easily made."

He is tied atop the standings with 145 points, the same total as Bourdais, who has three wins.

Bourdais, Champ Car's three-time defending champion, finished second and wasn't happy about it, saying that Doornbos blocked him during the race.

"Robert knows exactly what he did," Bourdais said in an interview heard by the estimated crowd of 25,000. "We're not supposed to do that in Champ Car. He changed lanes three times when I was trying to pick a line."

Bourdais, who earned a bonus point for posting the fastest lap in the race, was booed by some in the crowd when his finishing position was announced following the race and he refused to shake Doornbos' hand on the podium.

"The guy's laughing at you because he knows exactly what happened and he's just kind of teasing you," Bourdais said. "He knows exactly what he did, I know exactly what he did, and it doesn't comply with the rules. Race control decided to say nothing, maybe they didn't see anything, which is fine, it happens, but I still have the right to say what I think and the way I feel. And if it doesn't please everybody, well so be it.

"I'm a race car driver. If I get run in the grass at (160 mph), I think I've got the right to complain a little bit about it."

The two drivers talked briefly as they sat side by side waiting for the ensuing press conference to begin. Bourdais said that after the race Doornbos told him, "wait to see what's going to happen to you in Formula One."

"This is the point, we are not in Formula One," Bourdais said. "We don't play the same rules. We are not supposed to move — period. I picked one side and he tapped on me twice and once in the pit. That's enough for me. If it's not enough for race control, that's another problem, but I've still got a right to say it."

"It's a bit of a shame," Bourdais said. "The McDonald's car was really, really good under dry conditions and if it had stayed that way I think it would have been a very good day for us."

Doornbos gained the lead for good on the 52nd lap when leader Simon Pagenaud went off the track, which alternated between dry and wet throughout the race as a result of scattered showers on the mountainside circuit.

It was the fifth lead change overall after Doornbos led from the 28th lap to the 37th, when Bourdais went off the course under a yellow flag just before the entrance to the pits, the same spot that cost Pagenaud his lead.

Will Power, one of three drivers who stalled on the standing start along with Team Australia teammate Pagenaud, recovered to finish third.

"It was just a wild race, a lot of fun, great for the fans, and I'm happy we didn't lose too many points," Power said. "We've had a couple of bad races so we really need to win another race."

Pagenaud, a 23-year-old French rookie, finished fourth. He also had a problem with Doornbos, though his stall off the start was just misfortune and not something Pagenaud could hold against the Dutch driver.

"I got a little bit stressed because I couldn't see the (starting) lights because of Doornbos' camera, which was exactly at the height of the lights," Pagenaud said. "I couldn't see the lights and when I finally did, three were on and I don't know what happened, the engine just died."

Fresh from his first win in two years in Cleveland a week earlier, Paul Tracy's day started badly and got worse.

He had had to switch to his backup car after he had steering problems and crashed in the morning practice session. Dropped to the back of the grid, from 11th to 17th, he managed to move up to 10th place before dropping back to 14th after he was nudged and spun around by Power on the 14th lap.

"We tried alternating our strategy to get out of sequence from everybody else and then the engine let go," Tracy said.