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
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.
car chase confident consistent good lap point starting
We didn't really chase lap times but the car was consistent and I'm very confident that we will have a good starting point when we come back in June. We got a lot done and I think we accomplished most of what we wanted to do.
dream good race
Before I say it is my dream to race in NASCAR, I need to see if I am good first,
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.
feeling good obviously secure spot
It's a very good feeling to secure a front-row spot - that's obviously very important from now on,
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.
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,
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.
breathe points weekend
If we come out of this weekend with the same kind of points lead, I think we will be able to breathe a little easier,
team
But nothing happened. The team told me, 'Don't worry,' so I didn't.
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.
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.
ours package weekend
The whole package this weekend was great. It was ours to lose.