Sebastien Bourdais
Sebastien Bourdais
Sébastien Olivier Bourdaisis a French professional racing driver. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of the Champ Car World Series, having won four successive championships from 2004 to 2007. As of December 2015, he has won a total of 70 races in his career...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth28 February 1979
CityLe Mans, France
time yellow
It was a little frustrating. Every time a yellow would come out, I'd say, 'Well, OK, do it again.
bad perfect pit race stop until yellow
It was a perfect race until the yellow flag. That bad pit stop just killed us.
anyone backing car dangerous difficult few inches less nerve nervous point quite serious situation thoughts
I don't know if I'd want to do it (race wheel-to-wheel) with just anyone, ... I think I'd be nervous to do it with anyone other than Bruno -- or Oriol now. It was really close, I was on the apron and Bruno was a few inches away from my wheel, sometimes even less so it's quite nerve racking. You know how difficult and dangerous it can get out there so you don't really want to be side-by-side for 20-something laps. It was tough; I had serious thoughts about backing off at some point especially with the championship situation but once you're in the car you just can't do that so you just have to keep going.
best blew blow fight happen last practice worst year
Anything can happen here. You can blow up an engine. Last year we blew two in practice and warmup. For me, that's the worst scenario. The best one was gone, and that's why we had to fight Bruno so hard.
mistake small
I made a small mistake so I think I can go faster.
door open pulled small
I made very, very small mistakes, but not enough to open the door for anybody. At the end, we pulled away. That was very nice.
again apparently bad beginning bit enjoying everybody guess happens happy help leaving living overcome people rita sure tough
I guess it's going to take a little bit of everybody to try and overcome all this bad weather, ... It's just apparently the beginning because I'm pretty sure it's going to be a tough again this Rita hurricane. I'm living by the water, enjoying it. If anything bad happens to me, I'd be pretty happy if people are not leaving us behind. It's just normal, I think, try and help a little.
excited
I'm not too excited to try and do that again. It's just really nerve-wracking.
chance closing door good maybe somebody stock test time
I'm not closing the door on it. I have a good time in the stock cars. Maybe somebody will give me a chance to test it and see if I'm good.
few grip kept looking push quickly tires tried
I really didn't have a whole lot of grip and the tires went away pretty quickly so I tried a few different things. I had a lot of push and couldn't get in the throttle as quickly as I wanted to, but we kept looking for a way to make up ground.
gave obviously plenty ran room
I gave him plenty of room at the hairpin...and he just ran into me. I don't know what happened, he was obviously very angry.
feeling front good last left picked row secure starting
We picked up on where we left it last year. It's a very good feeling to be able to secure a front row starting position.
best smooth
The best I can say is it's not been a smooth ride,
difficult knew lose needed ours tough weekend
It's always tough to say, but I think we probably would have been difficult to catch. I knew we had everything we needed to win. It was ours to lose this weekend and we didn't.