Sebastian Bourdais
| Formula One World Championship career | |
|---|---|
| Active years | 2008–2009 |
| Teams | Scuderia Toro Rosso |
| Entries | 27 |
| Championships | 0 |
| Wins | 0 |
| Podiums | 0 |
| Career points | 6 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| First entry | 2008 Australian Grand Prix |
| Last entry | 2009 German Grand Prix |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans career | |
|---|---|
| Participating years | 1999–2002, 2004, 2007, 2009–2012, 2016 |
| Teams | Larbre Compétition, Pescarolo Sport, Peugeot Sport, Ford Chip Ganassi Racing |
| Best finish | 2nd (2007, 2009, 2011) |
| Class wins | 1 |
Sébastien Olivier Bourdais (born 28 February 1979) is a French professional racing driver. He is one of the most successful drivers in the history of American Championship car racing, having won 36 races. He won four successive championships under Champ Car World Series sanction from 2004 to 2007. As of March 2017[update], he has won a total of 75 races in his career.
He drove in Formula One for the Toro Rosso team during 2008, and the start of the 2009 season, but was unable to translate his past successes to that competition. As of October 2016[update], Bourdais drives for Dale Coyne Racing in the Verizon IndyCar Series.
Born into a racing family in Le Mans (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.
Bourdais progressed to single-seater racing in 1995, finishing 9th in the Formula Campus by Renault and Elf 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.
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