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
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.
best enjoy job later pressure sooner whatever
The pressure is off. We know it's going to come sooner or later whatever I do. I just have to concentrate, do the best job I can, and enjoy the race.
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.
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.
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.
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.
best smooth
The best I can say is it's not been a smooth ride,
exciting perfect race smooth stop thinking weekend
It wasn't the most exciting race ever. It was a perfect weekend, no drama. I couldn't stop myself from thinking 'What's going to go wrong?' It's been a smooth weekend all the way through.
harder obviously races win won year
It's obviously a lot harder this year to win and actually I haven't won the races I should have and I've won some that I shouldn't have.
achieve again bit credit crew ending extremely felt foot good happened hopefully last obviously performance picture piece proved pushing race single taking tape team
It just felt like my McDonald's crew on every single piece of tape on the car, you know, pushing me around. It's pretty much a good summary to what happened today. I think it's all to their credit what kind of performance we get in this qualifying. Kind of taking myself out of the picture really because in qualifying, just really put the foot down and it's all about the team effort. Obviously they proved to be extremely good at that. So during the race it's a bit different story, and you have to have a good ending in traffic. Hopefully we'll be able to achieve that again as well as we did last year. It should be a good race. It was really spectacular last year.
car curb eager fast lap mistake pushed single touched wall
It was not perfect. I made a mistake on every single lap and I brushed the wall on the first (fast) lap. I was probably a little too eager to go fast too early. I touched the curb in the chicane and that pushed the car wide. That was too close.