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Team Australia take out awards at Champ Car banquet |
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Monday, 19 November 2007 |
Team Australia drivers Will Power and Simon Pagenaud have both taken
out significant awards at the annual Champ Car End of Season Banquet in
Indianapolis.
Power received the Performance Friction Pass of the Year Award. The
Australian driver’s winning pass was on his own Team Australia
team-mate Simon Pagenaud and came during the race in Mont-Tremblant in
Canada.
Power won two races in Las Vegas and Toronto and five pole positions
this season on his way to fourth in this year’s Champ Car World Series
points standings.
Pagenaud received the prestigious Bosch Most Improved Driver Award,
an especially significant honour as the Frenchman was chosen by his
peers as the recipient. Pagenaud, who was last year’s Atlantic
champion, finished eighth in the final point standings with sixth top
five finishes along the way.
Sebastien Bourdais received his fourth-consecutive Vanderbilt Cup
for winning this year’s title, along with the Hole in the Wall Camps
Lap Leader Award and the Bridgestone Passion for Excellence Award.
Robert Doornbos won both the BBS Hard Charger and Roshfrans Rookie
of the Year Awards. Justin Wilson received his second-straight Greg
Moore Legacy Award and PKV Racing was recognised as the the overall
winner of the Sherwin Williams “It’s All in the Finish” Award, a crown
Team Australia won last season.
2007 Champ Car World Series Points Standings
Final Standings After 14 Rounds
1. #1 Sebastien Bourdais 363
2. #9 Justin Wilson 281
3. #14 Robert Doornbos 268
4. #5 Will Power 261
5. #2 Graham Rahal 243
6. #3 Oriol Servia 237
7. #19 Bruno Junqueira 233
8. #15 Simon Pagenaud 232
9. #21 Neel Jani 231
10. #8 Alex Tagliani 205
2007 Roshfrans Champ Car Rookie of the Year
Final Standings After 14 Rounds
1. #14 Robert Doornbos 268
2. #2 Graham Rahal 243
3. #15 Simon Pagenaud 232
4. #21 Neel Jani 231
5. #22 Tristan Gommendy 140
6. #28 Ryan Dalziel 116
7. #29 Alex Figge 95
8. #7 David Martinez 18
9. #42 Matt Halliday 18
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