Robert Doornbos won his first career Champ Car race, with Sébastien Bourdais and Will Power rounding out the podium.

Wet conditions on Saturday secured the first career Champ Car pole position for Tristan Gommendy, who pipped his countryman Sébastien Bourdais by .007 second on Friday.

The race got off to a ragged start as polesitter Tristan Gommendy's car failed to fire for the formation lap.

Team Australia teammates Will Power and Simon Pagenaud and Jan Heylen were left stranded on the grid.

Shortly after the field finished the first round of pit stops staying on slick tires, light rain began to fall.

Bourdais made an uncharacteristic mistake by sliding off the track on a slippery corner under yellow, dropping him from the lead back to 11th place.

Doornbos claimed innocence, explaining that in the wet everyone was taking odd lines looking for traction, and that he also learned his lesson about blocking from the penalty he received in the previous race at Cleveland, which likely cost him a victory.