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Wilson grabs first Champ win

TORONTO - Justin Wilson briefly admired the trophy he earned for his first Champ Car victory, then quickly dedicated his win to fellow Britons reeling from last week's bomb attacks in London.

"I'd like to say about the bombing, everyone is thinking about the people back home," Wilson said Sunday after winning the Toronto Molson Indy. "It's great to get this and dedicate it to that."

Wilson passed Oriol Servia with 11 laps to go and held on as the race ended under caution. Defending series champion and Tampa resident Sebastien Bourdais finished fifth and took the points lead.

A.J. Allmendinger, Wilson's teammate for the RuSport team, crashed out of third place with seven laps to go, then Mario Dominguez slammed into Allmendinger's stopped car. The race ended under caution when officials were unable to get the track cleared of debris during the allotted time left.

Alex Tagliani finished third, followed by Jimmy Vasser.

Bourdais came in trailing Tracy by one point for the series lead. Both started on the front row but hit each other in a drag race off pit road after the first round of stops. Bourdais cut his tire when he sliced across the top of Tracy's car and had to make a second stop. Tracy continued without his left front wing and led until his car ran out of gas and he dropped out.

Bourdais leads by 15 points over Tracy, who finished 16th. Wilson moved into third in points, 22 behind Bourdais.

FORMULA ONE: Juan Pablo Montoya took a risk to win the British Grand Prix in Silverstone, England, and the move worked out better than anything else has this season for the former Indy 500 champion.

He beat Fernando Alonso, who finished second to extend his points lead. It was Montoya's first victory of the season and first with McLaren-Mercedes.

Montoya started third behind pole-sitter Alonso. Montoya nearly brushed Alonso going through Turn 1 and at the next corner, he swept by as the Spaniard slowed to avoid a crash. "One of us was going to back off, or we were going to go off," Montoya said after his fifth F1 victory. "And the chances are he was going to back off before me. He has got a fight for the championship, and I just wanted to win the race."

Montoya never trailed and won by 2.7 seconds. Alonso has 77 points; Montoya's teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who finished third, stayed second with 51.

MOTORCYCLES: Nicky Hayden became the first U.S. rider to win a world MotoGP race in five years, leading from start to finish to beat fellow American Colin Edwards in the U.S. Grand Prix in Monterey, Calif.

"This feels so good," Hayden said. "I got a good start, I kept my head down and never let up."

Hayden won for the first time in 38 series starts. Italian Valentino Rossi finished third, snapping his five-race winning streak.

[Last modified July 11, 2005, 01:01:12]