Sébastien Bourdais

Sébastien Bourdais Bourdais during his ChampCar days Nationality French Born (1979-02-28) 28 February 1979 Le Mans, France Achievements 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Champ Car World Series Champion 2002 International Formula 3000 Champion 1999 French Formula Three Champion Awards 2003 CART FedEx Championship Series Rookie of the Year IndyCar Series career 37 race(s) run over 3 year(s) Team(s) No. 7 (Dragon Racing) Best finish 23rd – 2011 First race 2005 Indianapolis 500 (Indy) Last race 2012 Detroit Grand Prix (Belle Isle) Wins Podiums Poles 0 2 0 Champ Car career 73 race(s) run over 5 year(s) Years active 2003–2007 Team(s) Newman-Haas Racing Best finish 1st – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 First race 2003 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg (Streets of St. Petersburg) Last race 2007 Gran Premio de Mexico (Mexico City) First win 2003 London Champ Car Trophy (Brands Hatch) Last win 2007 Gran Premio de Mexico (Mexico City) Wins Podiums Poles 31 44 31 Statistics current as of June 11, 2012. Formula One World Championship career Active years 2008–2009 Teams Scuderia Toro Rosso Races 27 Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 6 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 2008 Australian Grand Prix Last race 2009 German Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1999–2002, 2004, 2007, 2009–2012 Teams Larbre Compétition, Pescarolo Sport, Peugeot Sport Best finish 2nd (2007, 2009, 2011) Class wins 0

Sébastien Olivier Bourdais^[1] (born February 28, 1979 in Le Mans) is a French race car 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.

He drove in Formula One for the Toro Rosso team during the 2008, and start of 2009 season, but was unable to translate his past successes to that competition. Bourdais currently drives for Dragon Racing in the IZOD IndyCar Series.^[2]

Early years

Karting

Born into a racing family (his father Patrick races in touring cars, hill climbs, and sports cars), Bourdais began his racing career at age 10 in karts. During the early 1990s, he competed in a variety of karting championships, winning the Maine Bretagne League in 1991 and the Cadet France championship in 1993. Bourdais was part of the winning Sologne Karting team which won the 1996 24 hour Le Mans kart race at the Circuit Alain Prost on a Merlin chassis with Atomic motors.

Junior formulae

Bourdais progressed to single-seater racing in 1995, finishing 9th in the Formula Campus Championship. He then spent two years in the French Formula Renault Championship, ultimately finishing second in points in 1997 after winning four races and five pole positions. In 1998, he won five races to become Rookie of the Year (6th overall) in French F3. He won the series outright in 1999, with eight wins and three poles.

Formula 3000

Following his success in the lower formulae, Bourdais joined the Prost Junior Team in the International F3000 Championship. He finished ninth in the series with one pole and a best finish of second. In 2001, Bourdais moved to the DAMS team in Formula 3000 and took his first win in the series at Silverstone. He changed teams again for 2002, taking his Super Nova Racing car to three victories and seven pole positions. He beat Giorgio Pantano to the championship by two points after Tomáš Enge, who had scored the most points, was penalised for failing a drug test.^[3]

Champ Car career

Following in the footsteps of recent F3000 graduates such as Juan Pablo Montoya and Bruno Junqueira, Bourdais moved to Champ Car racing in the United States and joined Newman-Haas Racing for the 2003 CART season. At St. Petersburg, Florida, Bourdais became the first rookie since Nigel Mansell to claim pole position for his very first race. However, he did not finish higher than 11th until his fourth race, when he led 95 laps en route to his first Champ Car victory at Brands Hatch.

He followed this up with another victory at Lausitzring. By the end of the season, he had earned five more podium finishes, including a win from pole at Cleveland. With a runner-up finish in Mexico City, he clinched the Rookie of the Year title and finished 4th in the overall standings.

Staying with Newman-Haas for 2004, Bourdais dominated the Champ Car series with seven wins and eight poles in his McDonald's-sponsored Lola, beating his team mate Junqueira by 28 points. His record also included podium finishes in 10 out of 14 events and qualifying results no lower than third all season.

Bourdais successfully defended his Champ Car title in 2005 with five wins in six races towards the end of the season, again with the Newman-Haas/Lanigan team. That May, he also finished 12th in his first Indianapolis 500.

Bourdais won a third consecutive Champ Car title in 2006. His season began with four consecutive victories at Long Beach, Houston, Monterrey, and Milwaukee, although his winning streak was ended by the emergence of A. J. Allmendinger, who won three races in a row through the middle of the season. Bourdais responded with a commanding victory from pole at San Jose, leaving him leading the Champ Car points standings.

However, an incident with his arch-rival Paul Tracy that knocked him out on the final lap of the following race in Denver, and a subsequent win by Allmendinger narrowed the gap between the two. Bourdais's win in Montreal and Allmendinger's DNF had widened his points lead to 62 points with three races left, and Bourdais clinched the championship at the next race in Surfers Paradise despite a weak performance in that race. Bourdais became the first Champ Car driver to win three consecutive titles since Ted Horn achieved the hat trick in 1948.

Bourdais won a fourth consecutive Champ Car title in 2007 with victory at Lexmark Indy 300 on October 21.

Formula One career

Pre-Champ Car

In 2002, Bourdais got his first F1 test with the Arrows team and was signed on to drive for the team^[4] but the team were on the verge of bankruptcy. In December he tested for Renault at Jerez but fellow Frenchman Franck Montagny secured the test drive instead of Bourdais.^[3]

Toro Rosso

Bourdais returned to F1 in 2007 after being given several tests with Scuderia Toro Rosso. On August 10, 2007 it was announced that Bourdais would race for Toro Rosso in 2008, replacing Vitantonio Liuzzi^[5] and partnering Sebastian Vettel. On March 16, 2008 Bourdais competed in his first Formula One Championship race, the 2008 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne. After qualifying in 17th position he took advantage of mistakes made by other drivers, in the first Formula One race since the 2001 San Marino Grand Prix without traction control, and worked his way up to fourth. However, with three laps remaining an engine problem forced Bourdais to retire, but he was still classified 8th having completed more than 90% of the race distance. He later inherited seventh place (and two Championship points) after the disqualification of Rubens Barrichello.

Bourdais qualified ninth for the Belgian Grand Prix. During the race he quickly gained places and held on to fifth place for much of the distance, and was on course for a podium position. As the rain fell harder on the last lap he was overtaken by several cars on wet tyres and finished 7th. After the race an emotional Bourdais was in tears following the result. This marked his best weekend of the season and his first World Championship points since Melbourne.

Bourdais qualified in fourth place for the 2008 Italian Grand Prix. However, his car would not select first gear on the grid and had to start from the pit lane, a lap down (as the race started behind the safety car, there was no warm-up lap). Although he eventually finished a lap behind the race winner, team-mate Vettel, he set the second fastest lap of the race; only Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen went faster. At the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix he was 6th on the road, but received a 25-second penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Felipe Massa dropping him to 10th. Few agreed with the decision – ITV's Martin Brundle had stated during live TV coverage of the race that he felt Massa might receive a penalty, whilst his colleague James Allen states that 99% of experts he spoke to felt that Bourdais did not deserve a penalty; the FIA were under such public scrutiny at the time following a string of controversial decisions that they made the unprecedented step of releasing publicly "stewards only" footage of the incident, to justify the decision.^[6]

Bourdais tested significantly for the Toro Rosso team during the winter, though he was uncertain of a drive heading into the new year. On 6 February 2009 however he was confirmed as a Toro Rosso driver for a second year, partnering Swiss rookie Sébastien Buemi.^[7] Despite two points finishes in the year at the Australian Grand Prix and in Monaco, Bourdais struggled to match his less experienced team-mate. In Spain Bourdais struck Buemi's car as the field attempted to avoid a spun Jarno Trulli on the first lap, ending the race for both drivers. At the British Grand Prix Bourdais collided with McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen, again ending the race for both. At the German Grand Prix he suffered a mechanical failure after qualifying last by over a second.

On 16 July 2009, Toro Rosso announced that Bourdais would no longer be driving for the team. Toro Rosso's Franz Tost said in a statement that the partnership had not met up to expectations and that Bourdais would be replaced as from the Hungarian Grand Prix.^[8] Bourdais was reportedly considering suing Toro Rosso, claiming that the team had breached its contractual duties towards him,^[9] and subsequently Toro Rosso paid a reported $2.1 million to Bourdais in order to avoid legal action.^[10]

24 Hours of Le Mans

Bourdais has frequently contested the famous 24 hour race of his home town, entering for the first time in 1999 (aged only 20) in a Porsche 911 GT2 run by Larbre Compétition. The car, which he shared with Pierre de Thoisy and Jean-Pierre Jarier, retired after 134 laps with engine failure.

He returned in 2000, finishing fourth with Emmanuel Clerico and Olivier Grouillard for the Pescarolo team behind the three dominant Audis.^[3]

His next three appearances did not go so well. He shared a Courage C60 with Jean-Christophe Boullion and Laurent Redon in 2001 but it retired after 271 laps. He drove the same model the next year and finished ninth in the LMP900 class with Bouillon and Franck Lagorce. He missed the 2003 race and returned in 2004, only for the car he shared with Nicolas Minassian and Emmanuel Collard to retire after 282 laps.^[3]

Bourdais' next assault on Le Mans would come at the wheel of a factory-backed Peugeot 908 HDi FAP in 2007. The car he shared with Stéphane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy finished the race second behind the winning Audi R10 TDi, despite an embarrassing slide on the first lap in wet conditions that cost Bourdais a place to one of the Audis,^[3] and car problems forcing him to park the car for the last minutes of the race, waiting for the lead R10 to cross the line. In his second Le Mans as part of the Peugeot factory team, in 2009, he finished in second place, one lap behind the winning Peugeot. Bourdais was to drive the pole-winning #3 Peugeot in 2010, but a suspension failure halted co-driver Pedro Lamy before Bourdais could turn one lap in the race^[11]

Superleague Formula

After leaving Formula One, Bourdais signed up to drive the Sevilla FC car in the Superleague Formula series.^[12][13] He won on his debut weekend at the 2009 Estoril round in the Super Final.^[14][15] Bourdais won again at the next round, winning race 1 of the 2009 Monza round.^[16] He returned for the 2010 season racing for Olympique Lyonnais.^[17]

Sports and touring car racing career

While racing in the junior formulae and Champ Cars, Bourdais made several appearances in other championships. He won the Spa 24 Hours in 2002 with Christophe Bouchut, David Terrien and Vincent Vosse in a Larbre Compétition Chrysler Viper GTS-R. He also won his class at the 2006 12 Hours of Sebring in a Panoz Esperante.^[3] In 2005 he also competed in the International Race of Champions, winning his first stock car race at Texas Motor Speedway. In 2009, he set the official lap record at Sebring International Raceway, during the 12 Hours of Sebring. In 2010, Bourdais raced with Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchut, Emmanuel Collard and Sascha Maassen for Crown Royal in a Level 5 Motorsports prepared Daytona Prototype in the prestigious Rolex 24 at Daytona, held at Daytona International Speedway in Florida. Bourdais recorded incredibly fast laps before the car retired due to an engine failure with Collard at the wheel.

In October 2010, Bourdais drove with Jonathon Webb in the Mother Racing Ford Falcon V8 Supercar in the Gold Coast 600.

In October 2011, Bourdais drove with Jamie Whincup in the Team Vodafone Holden Commodore V8 Supercar in the Gold Coast 600. Victory in Saturday's opening race and a runner-up finish in the second race landed Bourdais the inaugural Dan Wheldon Memorial Trophy, awarded to the international driver who scored the most points over the Gold Coast weekend.^[18] Wheldon had been set to contest the event but lost his life in the 2011 IndyCar season finale just a week earlier. Winning the V8 Supercar race meant that he is the only driver to have won a race at the Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in both Champcar/Indycar, as well as V8 Supercar.

In July 2012, Bourdais won the inaugural Brickyard Grand Prix Rolex Sports Car Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, teaming with Alex Popow in the No. 2 Starworks Motorsport Riley-Ford Daytona Prototype. In October, Bourdais teamed up again with Jamie Whincup in the Team Vodafone Holden Commodore V8 Supercar for the Gold Coast 600, again taking the victory on Saturday and scoring enough points on Sunday to win the event. This also awarded him the Dan Wheldon Memorial Trophy for the second time.

He won the Rolex 24 at Daytona in 2014 in the Action Express Corvette DP with João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi.

IndyCar career

He made his IRL debut at the 2005 Indianapolis 500. He currently drives for Dragon Racing, partnering Sebastian Saavedra

Motorsports career results

Career summary

Season	Series	Team Name	Races	Poles	Wins	Points	Final Placing
1995	French Formula Renault Campus	?	?	0	0	?	9th
1996	French Formula Renault	?	?	0	0	?	7th
1997	French Formula Renault	La Filière	18	5	4	172	2nd
1998	French Formula Three	La Filière	22	0	0	98	6th
	British Formula Three	La Filière	1	0	0	0	NC
	Macau Grand Prix	Equipe de France	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Masters of Formula Three	?	1	0	0	N/A	20th
1999	French Formula Three	La Filière	20	3	8	229	1st
	Le Mans 24 Hours GTS class	Larbre Compétition	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Macau Grand Prix	Equipe de France	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Masters of Formula Three	?	1	0	0	N/A	10th
2000	International Formula 3000	Gauloises Formula	10	1	0	9	9th
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP 900 class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	N/A	4th
	American Le Mans Series season LMP class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	13	53rd
2001	International Formula 3000	DAMS	12	1	1	26	4th
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP 900 class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	N/A	4th
	American Le Mans Series season LMP 900 class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	18	31st
	FIA Sportscar Championship SR1 class	Pescarolo Sport	2	0	0	0	NC
2002	International Formula 3000	Super Nova Racing	12	6	3	56	1st
	24 Hours of Le Mans LMP 900 class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	N/A	10th
	FIA Sportscar Championship SR1 class	Pescarolo Sport	3	1	2	55	4th
2003	CART Champ Car World Series	Newman/Haas Racing	18	5	3	159	4th
2004	Champ Car World Series	Newman/Haas Racing	14	8	7	369	1st
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP 1 class	Pescarolo Sport	1	0	0	N/A	NC
2005	Champ Car World Series	Newman/Haas Racing	13	6	6	348	1st
	International Race of Champions	N/A	4	2	1	46	5th
	IndyCar Series	Newman/Haas Racing	1	0	0	18	28th
	American Le Mans Series GT1 class	Larbre Compétition	1	0	0	0	NC
	Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series (24 Hours of Daytona) DP class	Newman Racing/Silverstone Racing	1	0	0	6	89th
2006	Champ Car World Series	Newman/Haas Racing	14	6	7	387	1st
	American Le Mans Series GT2 class	Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz	2	0	1	45	18th
	Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series (24 Hours of Daytona) DP class	Doran Racing	1	0	0	3	108th
2007	Champ Car World Series	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	14	6	8	364	1st
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	1	0	N/A	2nd
2008	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	18	0	0	4	17th
2009	Formula One	Scuderia Toro Rosso	9	0	0	2	19th
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	N/A	2nd
	American Le Mans Series LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	26	23rd
	Superleague Formula	Sevilla FC	8	1	2	2531	9th1
2010	Superleague Formula	Olympique Lyonnais	10	0	1	2352	18th2
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	1	0	N/A	NC
	Le Mans Series LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	1	1	18	21st
	American Le Mans Series LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	0	NC
	Intercontinental Le Mans Cup LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	N/A	N/A
	24 Hours of Daytona DP class	Crown Royal/NPN Racing	1	0	0	N/A	9th
	V8 Supercar Championship Series	Tekno Autosports	2	0	0	N/A	NC
2011	IndyCar Series	Dale Coyne Racing	9	0	0	188	23rd
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 class	Team Peugeot Total	1	0	0	N/A	2nd
	Le Mans Series LMP1 class	Peugeot Sport Total	3	0	2	0	NC
	American Le Mans Series LMP1 class	Peugeot Sport Total	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	Intercontinental Le Mans Cup LMP1 class	Peugeot Sport Total	4	0	3	N/A	N/A
	International V8 Supercar Championship	Vodafone 888 Racing	2	0	1	288	39th
2012	IndyCar Series	Dragon Racing	10	0	0	173	25th
	Le Mans 24 Hours LMP1 class	Pescarolo Team	1	0	0	N/A	NC
	FIA World Endurance Championship LMP1 class	Pescarolo Team	2	0	0	0.5	86th
	Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series DP class	Starworks Motorsport	3	0	1	97	17th
	International V8 Supercar Championship	Vodafone 888 Racing	2	0	1	0	NC
2013	IndyCar Series	Dragon Racing	19	0	0	370	12th
	Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series DP class	Starworks Motorsport	7	0	0	160	18th

* Season in progress

• ¹ Includes points scored by other Sevilla FC drivers.
• ² Includes points scored by other Olympique Lyonnais drivers.

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	DC	Points
2000	Gauloises Formula	IMO Ret	SIL 10	CAT 8	NÜR 4	MON Ret	MAG 2	A1R 9	HOC DNS	HUN 14	SPA Ret			9th	9
2001	DAMS	INT 3	IMO Ret	CAT 11	A1R Ret	MON 4	NÜR 8	MAG 6	SIL 1	HOC 4	HUN 3	SPA 6	MNZ 9	4th	26
2002	Super Nova Racing	INT 14	IMO 1	CAT 3	A1R Ret	MON 1	NÜR 1	SIL 2	MAG 2	HOC Ret	HUN 3	SPA 2	MNZ Ret	1st	56

American open–wheel racing results

(key)

CART/Champ Car

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	Rank	Points
2003	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	STP 11	MTY 17	LBH 16	BRH 1	LAU 1	MIL 9	LAG 17	POR 14	CLE 1	TOR 4	VAN 3	ROA 2	MDO 5	MTL 19	DEN 2	MIA 17	MXC 2	SRF 17	4th	159
2004	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	LBH 3	MTY 1	MIL 18	POR 1	CLE 1	TOR 1	VAN 5	ROA 3	DEN 1	MTL 15	LAG 8	LVS 1	SRF 2	MXC 1					1st	369^
2005	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	LBH 1	MTY 5	MIL 6	POR 2	CLE 5	TOR 5	EDM 1	SJO 1	DEN 1	MTL 4	LVS 1	SRF 1	MXC 17						1st	348
2006	Newman/Haas Racing	Lola B02/00	Ford XFE	LBH 1	HOU 1	MTY 1	MIL 1	POR 3	CLE 18	TOR 3	EDM 2	SJO 1	DEN 7	MTL 1	ROA 3	SRF 8	MXC 1					1st	387
2007	Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing	Panoz DP01	Cosworth XFE	LVS 13	LBH 1	HOU 1	POR 1	CLE 12	MTT 2	TOR 9	EDM 1	SJO 5	ROA 1	ZOL 1	ASN 7	SRF 1	MXC 1					1st	364

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)**	Top 10s (Non-podium)***	Championships
5	1	73	31	31	13	15	4

** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes.

*** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.

^{^} New points system introduced in 2004

IndyCar Series

Year	Team	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	Rank	Points
2005	Newman/Haas Racing	Panoz	Honda	HMS	PHX	STP	MOT	INDY 12	TXS	RIR	KAN	NSH	MIL	MIS	KTY	PPIR	SNM	CHI	WGL	FON			28th	18
2011	Dale Coyne Racing	Dallara	Honda	STP DNS	ALA 11	LBH 27	SAO 26	INDY	TXS1	TXS2	MIL	IOW	TOR 6	EDM 6	MDO 9	NHM	SNM 6	BAL 28	MOT 6	KTY	LVS		23rd	188
2012	Lotus-Dragon Racing	Dallara DW12	Lotus	STP 21	ALA 9	LBH 17	SAO 18																25th	173
	Dragon Racing		Chevrolet					INDY 20	DET 24	TXS	MIL	IOW	TOR 14	EDM 15	MDO 4	SNM 22	BAL 23	FON
2013	Dragon Racing	Dallara DW12	Chevrolet	STP 11	ALA 16	LBH 15	SAO 14	INDY 29	DET1 24	DET2 11	TXS 20	MIL 22	IOW 14	POC 16	TOR1 2	TOR2 3	MDO 12	SNM 10	BAL 3	HOU1 8	HOU2 5	FON 12	12th	370

* Season still in progress

Years	Teams	Races	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)**	Top 10s (Non-podium)***	Championships
3	3	37	0	0	3	8	0

** Podium (Non-win) indicates 2nd or 3rd place finishes.

*** Top 10s (Non-podium) indicates 4th through 10th place finishes.

Indianapolis 500

Year	Chassis	Engine	Start	Finish	Team
2005	Panoz	Honda	15	12	Newman/Haas
2012	Dallara	Chevrolet	25	20	Dragon Racing
2013	Dallara	Chevrolet	15	29	Dragon Racing

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	WDC	Points
2008	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR2B	Ferrari 056 2.4 V8	AUS 7†	MAL Ret	BHR 15	ESP Ret	TUR Ret														17th	4
		Toro Rosso STR3							MON Ret	CAN 13	FRA 17	GBR 11	GER 12	HUN 18	EUR 10	BEL 7	ITA 18	SIN 12	JPN 10	CHN 13	BRA 14
2009	Scuderia Toro Rosso	Toro Rosso STR4	Ferrari 056 2.4 V8	AUS 8	MAL 10	CHN 11	BHR 13	ESP Ret	MON 8	TUR 18	GBR Ret	GER Ret	HUN	EUR	BEL	ITA	SIN	JPN	BRA	ABU		19th	2

^†Did not finish the race but was classified as he completed more than 90% of the race

Superleague Formula results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Operator	1			2			3			4			5			6			7			8			9			10			11			12			Pos.	Points
2009	Sevilla FC	Reid Motorsport	MAG			ZOL			DON			EST			MOZ			JAR																					9th	253
								N/A				11	2	1	1	3	N/A	2	6	2
2010	Olympique Lyonnais	LRS Formula	SIL			ASS			MAG			JAR			NÜR			ZOL			BRH			ADR			POR			ORD			BEI			NAV			18th	235
			15	1	4	17	DN	X	9	15	X	7	18	X	14	17	X

Sports car racing

Le Mans 24 Hours results

Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1999	Larbre Compétition	Jean-Pierre Jarier Pierre de Thoisy	Porsche 911 GT2	GTS	134	DNF	DNF
2000	Pescarolo Sport	Olivier Grouillard Emmanuel Clérico	Courage C52-Peugeot	LMP900	344	4th	4th
2001	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Laurent Rédon	Courage C60-Peugeot	LMP900	271	13th	4th
2002	Pescarolo Sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Franck Lagorce	Courage C60-Peugeot	LMP900	343	10th	9th
2004	Pescarolo Sport	Emmanuel Collard Nicolas Minassian	Courage C60-Judd	LMP1	282	DNF	DNF
2007	Team Peugeot Total	Stéphane Sarrazin Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	359	2nd	2nd
2009	Team Peugeot Total	Stéphane Sarrazin Franck Montagny	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	381	2nd	2nd
2010	Team Peugeot Total	Simon Pagenaud Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	LMP1	38	DNF	DNF
2011	Team Peugeot Total	Simon Pagenaud Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908	LMP1	355	2nd	2nd
2012	Pescarolo Team	Nicolas Minassian Seiji Ara	Dome S102.5-Judd	LMP1	203	NC	NC

American Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Rank	Points
2000	Pescarolo Sport	LMP	Courage C52	Peugeot A32 3.2L Turbo V6	M	SEB	CHA	SIL ovr:7 cls:7	NÜR	SON	MOS	TEX	ROS	PET	MON	LSV	ADE	53rd	13
2001	Pescarolo Sport	LMP900	Courage C60	Peugeot A32 3.2L Turbo V6	M	TEX	SEB ovr:25 cls:7	DON	JAR	SON	POR	MOS	MID	MON	PET			31st	18
2005	Larbre Compétition	GT1	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello	Ferrari 5.9L V12	M	SEB ovr:27 cls:10	ATL	MID	LIM	SON	POR	AME	MOS	PET	MON			NC	0
2006	Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz	GT2	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Ford (Élan) 5.0L V8	P	SEB ovr:9 cls:1	TEX	MID	LIM	UTA	POR	AME	MOS	PET ovr:16 cls:3	MON			18th	45
2009	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	SEB ovr:2 cls:2	STP	LNB	UTA	LIM	MID	AME	MOS	PET	MON			23rd	26
2010	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	SEB ovr:2 cls:2	LNB	MON	UTA	LIM	MID	AME	MOS	PET				NC	0
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)	M	SEB	LNB	LIM	MOS	MID	AME	BAL	MON	PET1 ovr:48 cls:11				NC	N/A

¹ Driver run for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, no points awarded for the American Le Mans Series.

Le Mans Series results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	Rank	Points
2010	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	CAS	SPA ovr:1 cls:1	ALG	HUN	SIL	21st	18
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)	M	CAS	SPA ovr:8 cls:8	IMO1 ovr:1 cls:1	SIL1 ovr:1 cls:1	EST	NC	0

¹ Driver run for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, no points awarded for the Le Mans Series.

Intercontinental Le Mans Cup results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
2010	Team Peugeot Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Peugeot HDI 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)	M	SIL	PET	ZHU ovr:4 cls:4
2011	Peugeot Sport Total	LMP1	Peugeot 908	Peugeot HDI 3.7 L Turbo V8 (Diesel)	M	SEB	SPA1 ovr:8 cls:8	LEM1 ovr:2 cls:2	IMO ovr:1 cls:1	SIL ovr:1 cls:1	PET ovr:48 cls:11	ZHU ovr:1 cls:1

¹ Driver did not run for the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year	Entrant	Class	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Rank	Points
2012	Pescarolo Team	LMP1	Dome S102.5	Dome S102.5	M	SEB	SPA 15	LMN NC	SIL	SAO	BHR	FUJ	SHA	86th	0.5

24 Hours of Daytona results

Year	Class	No	Team	Car	Engine	Co-drivers	Laps	Position	Class Pos.
2005	DP	79	Newman Racing/Silverstone Racing	Crawford DP03	Ford	Paul Newman Michael Brockman Cristiano da Matta	290	51 DNF	25 DNF
2006	DP	78	Doran Racing	Doran JE4	Ford	B.J. Zacharias Raul Boesel	156	56 DNF	28 DNF
2010	DP	55	Crown Royal/NPN Racing	Riley Mk. XI	BMW 5.0L V8	Christophe Bouchut Emmanuel Collard Sascha Maassen Scott Tucker	619	23 DNF	9 DNF
2013	DP	2	Starworks Motorsport	Riley Mk. XXVI	Ford 5.0L V8	Ryan Dalziel Allan McNish Alex Popow	696	6	6
2014	P	5	Action Express Racing	Coyote Corvette Daytona Prototype	Chevrolet 5.0L V8	Christian Fittipaldi João Barbosa	695	1	1

Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class)

Year	Team	Make	Engine	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	Rank	Points
2005	Newman Racing/Silverstone Racing	Crawford DP03	Ford	DP	DAY 25	HOM	CAL	LAG	CMT	WAT1	BAR	WAT2	DAY2	MDO	PHX	WAT3	VIR	MEX	89th	6
2006	Doran Racing	Doran JE4	Ford	DP	DAY 28	MEX	HOM	LBH	VIR	LAG	PHX	LRP	WAT1	DAY2	BAR	WAT2	INF	MIL	108th	3
2010	Crown Royal/NPN Racing	Riley Mk. XI	BMW 5.0L V8	DP	DAY 9†	HOM	BAR	VIR	LRP	LAG	WAT1	MDO	DAY2	NJ	WAT2	CGV	MIL		NC	0
2012	Starworks Motorsport	Riley Mk. XXVI	Ford	DP	DAY	BAR	HOM	NJ	BIP	MDO	RA	WAT1 3	IMS 1	WAT2 2	CGV	LAG	LRP		17th	97
2013	Starworks Motorsport	Riley Mk XXVI	Ford	DP	DAY 6	TXS	BAR	ATL	BEL	LEX	S6H 8	IMS 11	ELK 9	KAN 13	LGA 5	LRP 5			18th	160

• † Bourdais did not complete sufficient laps in order to score points.

* Season in progress

Series Summary

Years	Teams	Starts	Poles	Wins	Podiums (Non-win)	Top 10s (Non-podium)	Championships
5	4	7	0	1	2	1	0

Touring car racing

V8 Supercar results

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	Final Pos	Points
2010	Tekno Autosports	Ford FG Falcon	YMC R1	YMC R2	BHR R3	BHR R4	ADE R5	ADE R6	HAM R7	HAM R8	QLD R9	QLD R10	WIN R11	WIN R12	HDV R13	HDV R14	TOW R15	TOW R16	PHI Q	PHI R17	BAT R18	SUR R19 8	SUR R20 16	SYM R21	SYM R22	SAN R23	SAN R24	SYD R25	SYD R26					NC	0 †
2011	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore VE	YMC R1	YMC R2	ADE R3	ADE R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	WIN R10	WIN R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	QLD R18	PHI Q	PHI R19	BAT R20	SUR R21 1	SUR R22 2	SYM R23	SYM R24	SAN R25	SAN R26	SYD R27	SYD R28			39th	288
2012	Triple Eight Race Engineering	Holden Commodore VE	ADE R1	ADE R2	SYM R3	SYM R4	HAM R5	HAM R6	PER R7	PER R8	PER R9	PHI R10	PHI R11	HDV R12	HDV R13	TOW R14	TOW R15	QLD R16	QLD R17	SMP R18	SMP R19	SAN Q	SAN R20	BAT R21	SUR R22 1	SUR R23 2	YMC R24	YMC R25	YMC R26	WIN R27	WIN R28	SYD R29	SYD R30	NC	0 †

† Not Eligible for points

Notes

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sébastien Bourdais.

• Official website
• Sébastien Bourdais driver statistics at Racing Reference
• Sébastien Bourdais at Driver Database
• Sébastien Bourdais at IndyCar.com
• Le Site des Fans de Sébastien Bourdais

Sporting positions
Preceded by David Saelens	French Formula Three Champion 1999	Succeeded by Jonathan Cochet
Preceded by Justin Wilson	International Formula 3000 Champion 2002	Succeeded by Björn Wirdheim
Preceded by Mario Domínguez	CART Rookie of the Year 2003	Succeeded by A. J. Allmendinger (Champ Car Rookie of the Year)
Preceded by Paul Tracy	Champ Car World Series Champion 2004–2005–2006–2007	Succeeded by Champ Car folded into the IndyCar Series.

v t e Sevilla FC in Superleague Formula Seasons competed 2008 2009 2010 Drivers Borja García (2008) Esteban Guerrieri (2009) Sébastien Bourdais (2009) Marcos Martínez (2010) Operating teams GTA Motor Competición (2008) Ultimate Motorsport (2009) Reid Motorsport (2009) DeVillota.com Motorsport (2010)

v t e Olympique Lyonnais in Superleague Formula Seasons competed 2009 2010 Drivers Nelson Panciatici (2009) Sébastien Bourdais (2010) Operating teams Barazi-Epsilon (2009) LRS Formula (2010)

v t e IndyCar / CART / Champ Car Drivers' Champions (1979) Rick Mears (1980) Johnny Rutherford (1981–82) Rick Mears (1983) Al Unser (1984) Mario Andretti (1985) Al Unser (1986–87) Bobby Rahal (1988) Danny Sullivan (1989) Emerson Fittipaldi (1990) Al Unser, Jr. (1991) Michael Andretti (1992) Bobby Rahal (1993) Nigel Mansell (1994) Al Unser, Jr. (1995) Jacques Villeneuve (1996) Jimmy Vasser (1997–98) Alex Zanardi (1999) Juan Pablo Montoya (2000–01) Gil de Ferran (2002) Cristiano da Matta (2003) Paul Tracy (2004–07) Sébastien Bourdais

v t e 2014 IndyCar Series season Teams Andretti Autosport Ganassi Penske Coyne KV 25 Andretti 27 Hinchcliffe 28 Hunter-Reay 34 Muñoz TBA Dixon 8 Briscoe 10 Kanaan 83 Kimball 2 Montoya 3 Castroneves 12 Power 18 TBA 19 J. Wilson 11 Bourdais TBA TBA RLL Schmidt Peterson Carpenter Fisher Hartman Foyt Herta Panther 15 Rahal 16 TBA 7 Aleshin 77 Pagenaud 20 Conway / Carpenter 67 Newgarden 14 Sato 98 TBA 4 TBA Other Drivers TBA Races St. Pete Long Beach Barber GP Indianapolis Indy 500 Detroit Texas Houston Pocono Iowa Toronto Mid-Ohio Milwaukee Sonoma Fontana Road to Indy Indy Lights Pro Mazda U.S. F2000

v t e Scuderia Toro Rosso Team Principal Franz Tost Personnel Alex Hitzinger James Key Steve Nielsen Former personnel Giorgio Ascanelli Gerhard Berger 2014 Race drivers 25. Jean-Éric Vergne 26. Daniil Kvyat 2014 Test drivers TBA Former drivers Scott Speed Sebastian Vettel Vitantonio Liuzzi Sébastien Bourdais Jaime Alguersuari Sébastien Buemi Daniel Ricciardo Related team Infiniti Red Bull Racing Formula One cars STR1 STR2/STR2B STR3 STR4 STR5 STR6 STR7 STR8 STR9

v t e Winners of the Daytona Sports Car Classic1 Five-time Hurley Haywood Scott Pruett Four-time Peter Gregg Pedro Rodríguez Rolf Stommelen Bob Wollek Three-time Derek Bell Butch Leitzinger Juan Pablo Montoya Brian Redman Memo Rojas Andy Wallace Two-time Mauro Baldi João Barbosa Terry Borcheller Christian Fittipaldi Elliott Forbes-Robinson A. J. Foyt Al Holbert Jan Lammers Ken Miles John Paul, Jr. Lloyd Ruby Wayne Taylor Didier Theys Al Unser, Jr. One-time Allmendinger Amon J. Andretti Ma. Andretti Angelelli Ballot-Léna Bandini Barber Beretta Bergmeister Bernhard Boesel Bouchut Bourdais Boutsen Brundle Buckler Collard Dalziel Dismore Dixon D. Donohue M. Donohue Dupuy Durán Duxbury Dyson Elford Fellows Field Fitzpatrick Franchitti Fréon García Garretson Gentilozzi Graves Gurney Hand Hasemi Helmick Henn Herrmann Hezemans Hill Hoshino Ickx Jelinski Joest D. Jones P. J. Jones Kimball Kinnunen Kneifel Krages Lässig Lavaggi Law Lienhard Luyendyk Martin Mears Merl Millen Moran Moretti Neerpasch Negri Nielsen O'Connell Oliver Ongais Pace Papis C. Parsons Paul, Sr. Pescarolo Pew Pilgrim B. Rahal G. Rahal Rice Robinson Rockenfeller Schneider Schrom Sharp Siffert Suzuki Unser, Sr. van der Merwe Weaver Wendlinger Werner Wheldon Wilson 1 Daytona 3 Hour Continental (1962–1963) Daytona 2000 (1964–1965) 24 Hours of Daytona (1966–1971, 1973, 1975–) 6 Hours of Daytona (1972)

Persondata
Name	Bourdais, Sebastien
Alternative names
Short description	French auto racing driver
Date of birth	28 February 1979
Place of birth	Le Mans, France
Date of death
Place of death