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
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.
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.
backing point serious situation thoughts
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.
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.
beside
It's better than having P.T. (Tracy) beside me,
excited
I'm not too excited to try and do that again. It's just really nerve-wracking.
began dominant last poles stepped talk teams truth year
I think the talk began probably because we haven't scored as many poles as we did last year and we haven't been as dominant this year, but the truth is that the other teams have stepped it up,
dream good race
Before I say it is my dream to race in NASCAR, I need to see if I am good first,
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.
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.
bad perfect pit race stop until yellow
It was a perfect race until the yellow flag. That bad pit stop just killed us.
few front glad mistakes row saw second surprised year
When I saw PT in the wall, I was very surprised because PT makes very few mistakes and that's not the kind of mistake he makes when he's up front like that. I am just glad we did it. Second year in a row it was very important for us for Centrix and PacifiCare, for everybody.
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.