With impressive victories in four of the last five races and a champion's steady hand at the wheel, Jon Fogarty looks to be riding high as he arrives in Vancouver for this weekend's round of the Toyota Atlantic Championship Presented by Yokohama.

After holding off Canadian rising star Andrew Ranger for a thrilling, down-to-the-wire victory on the streets of Toronto two weeks ago, Fogarty has to feel good about sitting in the Toyota Atlantic championship driver's seat. The American racer has already doubled his win total and equalled his number of pole positions from his series championship-winning year of 2002. He has found terrific chemistry on his Pacific Coast Motorsports team, although he insists the second-year squad is still learning and improving each race weekend.

Yet, as Fogarty readies himself for this weekend's 38-lap Atlantic race around Vancouver's Concord Pacific Place at the Molson Indy Vancouver, it should be noted that despite his recent successes, the former series champ has plenty of work left to be done.

With a 184-point total in the championship chase, Fogarty only leads his closest pursuer, Ryan Dalziel by 19 points with five races remaining. Sitting third in the title chase is Danica Patrick, who is only 22 points behind Fogarty while the top seven positions in the series championship are only separated by 50 points.

Under the new series scoring system adopted this season, up to 35 points are available for a driver on a given weekend. With five rounds and plenty of points remaining in the championship, there's ample opportunity for any number of drivers to wrestle the reigns of the title race away from Fogarty.

The chasers, however, can't afford to have many more weekends like the one in Toronto, where Fogarty seized every point available to him.

The Atlantic series returns to the 1.781-mile temporary street circuit in Vancouver for the first time in three years this weekend. Fogarty, who owns four wins and four poles in 2004, will look to become the first series driver to win in both Toronto and Vancouver in the same season since Memo Gidley did the double play in 1997.

One of the drivers who hopes to prevent that feat is Dalziel. After a convincing flag-to-flag win in Round 6 at Cleveland that saw him draw to within three points of Fogarty, the speedy Scot slipped a bit in Toronto with a sixth-place effort. He needs to get back on track this weekend with his Sierra Sierra Enterprises squad to prevent any further separation in the championship.

With three podium finishes this year, Patrick continues to lie in wait in the title chase. After leading the series with six top-five results through seven rounds, she's proven to be a consistent front runner who could easily rise to the top of the standings if she gets hot over the last five races.