{"id":21225,"date":"2020-12-05T04:49:02","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T04:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/sebastien-bourdais\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T01:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T01:19:04","slug":"sebastien-bourdais","status":"publish","type":"driver","link":"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/drivers\/sebastien-bourdais\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastien Bourdais"},"content":{"rendered":"    \n<section class=\"hero hero--small-image\">\n    \n            \n<section class=\"c-site-breadcrumbs site-breadcrumbs proxima \">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <nav class=\"breadcrumbs\"><span><span><a href=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/\">Home<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/nav>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n    \n    <div class=\"hero__content\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"circular-image\">\n                                            <picture>\n            <source type=\"image\/jpeg\" srcset=\"\" >\n            <img decoding=\"async\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" alt=\"bourdais2\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/uat.motorsportmagazine.com\/database\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/bourdais2-200x200.jpg\" srcset=\"\"  loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\n        <\/picture>\n                                    <\/div>\n                        <h1 class=\"hero__title sanomat\"><\/h1>\n                                <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section class=\"anchor-menu container-no-breakpoints proxima\">\n    <ul>\n                    <li><a href=\"#biography\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Biography<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#championship-seasons\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Championship Seasons<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#non-championship-races\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Non-Championship Races<\/a><\/li>\n                    <li><a href=\"#teams\" data-behaviour=\"scroll-to\">Teams<\/a><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"biography\">\n            <div class=\"post__item\">\n                <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-data-box\" data-driver-id=\"21225\"><\/div>\n                <\/div>\n        <aside class=\"sidebar\" data-target=\"ad-container\">\n            <aside class=\"broadcast-space \">\n            <div class=\"broadcast-space__element\" id=\"div-gpt-ad-1563288058060-3\" data-behaviour=\"ad-target\"><\/div>\n    <\/aside>\n\n        <\/aside>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"container\" id=\"\">\n    \n        \n        <section class=\"c-expanding-content expanding-content user-content content-section toggle\">\n            <p>The son of Le Mans regular Patrick Bourdais dominated the Champ\u00a0Car World Series but was unable to repeat that success in Formula\u00a01. Bespectacled and softly spoken, he may not look like a racing driver but S\u00e9bastien Bourdais was successful from the start of his single-seater career.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Successful early racing career\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His La\u00a0Fili\u00e8re\u00a0Martini MK79-Opel won eight times to clinch the 1999 French Formula\u00a03 Championship in what was his second year in the category. He joined the Prost Junior Team for the following season\u2019s Formula\u00a03000 series \u2013 pole position and a second\u00a0place finish at\u00a0Magny-Cours\u00a0was his best weekend. Victory followed at Silverstone in 2001 with DAMS as Bourdais finished fourth in the championship.<\/p>\n<p>That was springboard to a title challenge with Super Nova in 2002. Six pole positions\u00a0and three race victories appeared not enough but\u00a0Tom\u00e1\u0161\u00a0Enge\u00a0was stripped of victory in Hungary after failing a drugs test and Bourdais was declared champion in his place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominant in Champ Cars\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With no route to F1, the Frenchman moved to Champ Cars and Newman-Haas Racing for the following season. Pole position for his first two races matched Nigel Mansell\u2019s arrival in the series. Bourdais scored successive victories at Brands Hatch and\u00a0Lausitzring\u00a0and won again at Cleveland as he claimed 2003 Rookie of the\u00a0Year\u00a0honours.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdais and his McDonald\u2019s Lola-Ford was the combination to beat for the next four years. He was on pole and won half the races to clinch the 2004 title as he set about a period of rare Champ Car domination.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Formula 1 with Scuderia Toro Rosso\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While fame and some fortune was ensured in America, Bourdais still hankered after F1. He joined Scuderia Toro Rosso in 2008 and benefited from the team\u2019s improving fortunes to lead the Japanese Grand\u00a0Prix. He finished the race in sixth position only to be harshly\u00a0penalised\u00a0for a coming together with Felipe Massa\u2019s Ferrari. He scored a couple of eighth\u00a0place finishes at the start of 2009 but was dropped mid-season in\u00a0favour\u00a0of Jaime\u00a0Alguersuari.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports car success and\u00a0Indycar\u00a0return\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A winner in\u00a0Superleague\u00a0Formula and a member of Peugeot\u2019s sports\u00a0car team, Bourdais finished second in the Le Mans 24 Hours of 2007, 2009 and 2011. That latter year also included sports\u00a0car wins for Peugeot and a return to\u00a0Indycars\u00a0for nine races with Dale Coyne Racing \u2013 finishing sixth on four occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Another partial campaign, now with Dragon Racing, in 2012 was initially hampered by\u00a0uncompetitive Lotus engines but he finished fourth at Mid-Ohio having switched to Chevrolet power. Alongside his continuing\u00a0Indycar\u00a0career and occasional sports\u00a0car outings, Bourdais travelled to Surfers Paradise to win V8 Supercar races in 2011 and 2012, sharing a Holden Commodore with Jamie Whincup on both occasions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Race winning\u00a0switch to KV Racing Technology\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Having finished 12th overall in the 2013\u00a0Indycar\u00a0standings, Bourdais switched from Dragon to KV Racing Technology for the following season. Initially mired in the midfield\u00a0during 2014, he qualified on pole position for Toronto&#8217;s first race and led to his first open wheel victory since 2007. A second season with KV included further\u00a0winning\u00a0Belle Isle&#8217;s wet second race\u00a0and\u00a0at\u00a0Milwaukee as he finished 10th in the championship for a successive season.\u00a0He also enjoyed sports car success at the time for Action Express Racing\u00a0\u2013\u00a0winning the Daytona 24 Hours in 2014 and at Sebring a year later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Return to Dale Coyne Racing\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He repeated that Detroit\u00a0Indycar\u00a0victory in 2016 but that was the highlight of a disappointing campaign with Kevin\u00a0Kalkhoven\u00a0and Jimmy\u00a0Vasser&#8217;s\u00a0team.\u00a0Bourdais returned to Dale Coyne Racing in 2017 and came from 21st on the grid to win the opening race on the streets of St Petersburg. Second next time out in Long Beach maintained his early championship\u00a0advantage\u00a0but he broke his pelvis and right hip when he crashed during qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. He was fit enough to return for the last three races of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdais was on hand to win\u00a0the St Petersburg Grand Prix for a second\u00a0straight\u00a0year\u00a0in 2018 when\u00a0Alexander Rossi crashed into Robert\u00a0Wickens\u00a0at the final restart. The Frenchman\u00a0qualified on pole next time out at Phoenix and finished third\u00a0on the championship&#8217;s return to Portland during a consistent campaign for Dale Coyne.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of Bourdais&#8217; third season with Coyne came at\u00a0Barber Motorsports Park in the spring,\u00a0where he employed a two-stop strategy to finish third. That was the best of nine top ten finishes\u00a0and the Frenchman claimed 11th in the final standings. However, a proposed sponsorship deal for 2020 fell through and Bourdais was released at the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>In sports cars, Bourdais finished the 2020 WeatherTech Sports Car Championship in fifth place for JDC Mustang-Sampling Racing.<\/p>\n\n                    <\/section>\n\n                                \n   <\/div>\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding-bottom database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"championship-seasons\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        <div class=\"js-react\" data-behaviour=\"driver-seasons-table\" data-driver-id=\"\"><\/div>            <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"content-section content-section--no-padding database-table-collapsible toggle open\" id=\"non-championship-races\">\n    <div class=\"container\">\n        \n<header class=\"content-header content-header--alt\">\n\n    <h2 class=\"content-header__small-title sanomat u-bold \">\n                Non Championship Races\n    <\/h2>\n\n    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