Sebastien Bourdais
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Has to get into Formula One..Very soon.
Anyone see him in Denver last night. Absolutely sensational.
On pole, spins avoiding his team mate on the first corner, and ends up 13th. Then climbs the field by overtakin on green flag laps on a "difficult to pass" circuit and wins from Paul Tracy.
That was a race that reminded me why I love the sport so much. Real derring-do and heroics. Fantastic.
Anyone see him in Denver last night. Absolutely sensational.
On pole, spins avoiding his team mate on the first corner, and ends up 13th. Then climbs the field by overtakin on green flag laps on a "difficult to pass" circuit and wins from Paul Tracy.
That was a race that reminded me why I love the sport so much. Real derring-do and heroics. Fantastic.
Phatgixer wasn´t that just the best thing you have seen in years?
Hope they repeat it so I can appreciate
the skill of Bourdais again.
Noticed you read my thread on the same subject, great minds and all that eh
May as well post my thoughts here now
Don´t get excited I´m not talking about F1.
Saw a great race on Motors TV last night.
Champ cars from Denver.
Young French driver Sebastian Bourdais started on pole got punted off the track on the first bend by his team mate Junquera.
Having dropped almost to the back of the field he went on a mission the likes of which F1 has not seen in years. No pitstop tactics (they all have to pit at certain intervals) or anything like that just a desire to win and no fear of actually doing the unheard of in F1 ,overtaking!!!
One overtaking move after another until 8 laps from the end he got past Paul Tracy and took the win.
Absolutely brilliant stuff.
I hope you were watching Bernie because that is what F1 was like in the past.
Maybe we will see this kid in F1 someday
>> Edited by pauly on Monday 16th August 18:49
>> Edited by pauly on Monday 16th August 18:50
Hope they repeat it so I can appreciate
the skill of Bourdais again.
Noticed you read my thread on the same subject, great minds and all that eh
May as well post my thoughts here now
Don´t get excited I´m not talking about F1.
Saw a great race on Motors TV last night.
Champ cars from Denver.
Young French driver Sebastian Bourdais started on pole got punted off the track on the first bend by his team mate Junquera.
Having dropped almost to the back of the field he went on a mission the likes of which F1 has not seen in years. No pitstop tactics (they all have to pit at certain intervals) or anything like that just a desire to win and no fear of actually doing the unheard of in F1 ,overtaking!!!
One overtaking move after another until 8 laps from the end he got past Paul Tracy and took the win.
Absolutely brilliant stuff.
I hope you were watching Bernie because that is what F1 was like in the past.
Maybe we will see this kid in F1 someday
>> Edited by pauly on Monday 16th August 18:49
>> Edited by pauly on Monday 16th August 18:50
He certainly should not go to F1, he should stay where he is and help make Champ Cars the great force they once were.
F1 is absolutely crap. He'd be bored senseless and wouldn't be able to pass like that in F1.
Did anyone else hear the post race commentary after the Hungarian GP? Apparantly some of the teams had calculated that the crs wouldn't be able to get within 11 car lengths because of the high downforce set-ups. How the hell are cars meant to overtake when they're up against that?
Stay where you are Sebastian and keep driving a real racing car. One with gears, no traction control and slick tyres!!!
>> Edited by Racefan_uk on Tuesday 17th August 10:11
F1 is absolutely crap. He'd be bored senseless and wouldn't be able to pass like that in F1.
Did anyone else hear the post race commentary after the Hungarian GP? Apparantly some of the teams had calculated that the crs wouldn't be able to get within 11 car lengths because of the high downforce set-ups. How the hell are cars meant to overtake when they're up against that?
Stay where you are Sebastian and keep driving a real racing car. One with gears, no traction control and slick tyres!!!
>> Edited by Racefan_uk on Tuesday 17th August 10:11
Pistonfest said:
Shame he didn't show the same levels of skill at Le Mans......remember the Belmondo & Rollcentre "incidents" ?
A good performance though this weekend, I must say.....let's hope he keeps it up.
He was driving an LM2 car and dicing with the LM1 boys.. The class of the field in LM2. I thought it was JCB or soheil Ayari that tangled with Martin Short?
ettore said:
No - he was driving an LMP1 car - and rather too aggressively for an enduranece race.
I stand corrected. He was sharing with two other amazing French drivers - Helary and Ayari? It was a long time ago now and I might have had a G&T (or two).
What was the the stunning all french piloted LMP2 car that was miles in the lead before it broke (I think Jean-Mark Gounon may have been one of the drivers)?
ettore said:
That was the courage LMP2!. Very rapid bit of kit that won at Silverstone last weekend - I think it did have J-M Gounon (and Sam Hancock) in it.
Is Sam Hancock good? I was approached at Silverstone by one of his team about sponsorship (not that I have any money left after giving it all to John George and Phil Bennett
)Yep, saw him race at Monza to clinch the F3000 title a couple of years back, was very impressive after a poor start battling his way through the pack.
And now... has won Champ Car title:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/3991167.stm
I hear Williams are looking for another driver... sadly, they got burnt with Zanardi so are unlikely to repeat that decision.
And now... has won Champ Car title:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/motorsport/3991167.stm
I hear Williams are looking for another driver... sadly, they got burnt with Zanardi so are unlikely to repeat that decision.
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