FIRST, AT LAST; A late-race move puts Oriol Servia on top at Montreal.(Motorsports)

Byline: BILL McGUIRE In his first 95 starts over six hard-luck seasons driving in the CART and Champ Car series, Oriol Servia never won a race. Until this week he had not won a race of any kind since 1997. Servia fixed that in Montreal, where he passed rookie Timo Glock not once but twice, only to have Glock short-cut the chicane leading to the finish line both times.

Finally race marshals installed Servia at the head of the class with less than a lap to go. If only the rest of his racing career had been as easy. Servia first broke into CART in 2000 after winning the 1999 Indy ...

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