TORONTO — Cristiano da Matta led from start to finish Sunday in the Toronto Molson-Indy, matching the CART record of four consecutive victories and extending his series points lead.

        Da Matta started from the pole and led all 112 laps on the 1.755-mile, 11-turn temporary street course. He was virtually unchallenged, building leads of up to 12 seconds and driving his Toyota-powered Lola across the finish line 4.398-seconds — about half a straightaway — ahead of Kenny Brack.

        Brack, with his best showing of the season, finished just ahead of Christian Fittipaldi, da Matta's teammate on the team co-owned by actor-racer Paul Newman and Chicago businessman Carl Haas.

        The victory was da Matta's fifth of the season and seventh in the last 10 races. The four in a row match the CART record set in 1990 by Al Unser Jr. and equaled in 1998 by Alex Zanardi.

        IRL

        KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Airton Dare took advantage of a second-chance restart after Tomas Scheckter's late crash — the only wreck of the day — and passed Sam Hornish Jr. with less than three laps to go to win the Ameristar Casino 200 at Kansas Speedway.

        It was his first IRL victory and A.J. Foyt's first win as an owner in three years.

        Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves finished third, followed by Felipe Giaffone and Gil de Ferran. Castroneves leads de Ferran by eight points and Hornish, the defending IRL champion, by 19 atop the season's standings.

        Formula One

        SILVERSTONE, England — Michael Schumacher won the British Grand Prix for his seventh victory of the season and the 60th of his career.

        The victory moved Schumacher to the verge of his record-tying fifth season championship, with seven races remaining on the schedule.

        Starting from the No. 3 spot on the grid, Schumacher overtook pole sitter Juan Pablo Montoya on the 16th lap as a mist turned to showers.

        Schumacher's Ferrari teammate Rubens Barrichello, who was forced to start from last on the grid after stalling on the formation lap from the No. 2 spot, finished second, with Montoya third.

        Fourth was BAR Honda's Jacques Villeneuve followed by teammate Olivier Panis and Nick Heidfeld of Sauber.

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