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Dinner with Racers

Ep.244 – Sebastien Bourdais, Pt.2

Dinner with Racers

Dinner with Racers

Automotive, Sports, History, Leisure

5896 Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Sebastien Bourdais is probably best known as the king of IndyCar (formerly ChampCar) racing throughout the mid-2000’s. Winning four-consecutive titles, the Frenchman was as dominant as you could get in that era, before heading off to careers in Formula One, returning to IndyCar, and now in the GTP ranks of IMSA. Fiercely analytical and incredibly […]

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0:00.0

And now Sebastian Bordeaux part two.

0:03.0

That's dew, right?

0:05.0

What?

0:06.0

Meo.

0:08.0

All right, we're gonna start in five, four, three, two.

0:16.3

Contracts aside, when was the deal effectively done

0:19.0

going into that 07 season?

0:20.6

Because the conversation started in 06,

0:22.1

and I remember half of that

0:23.4

champion people were talking about how you were already gone. No no it wasn't done but

0:27.4

it looked good and then they signed the contract I think they announced it right after because they announced it at

0:35.8

Road America and I think it was maybe was signed like a couple weeks or later or

0:40.3

something like that so second half of the year for sure. Yeah, yeah.

0:43.4

Yeah, Bernie made me choke on that one for sure. What do you mean? Because basically I told you

0:49.6

that I had forgotten to kind of give up on F1.

0:54.2

Yeah, for sure.

0:55.2

And so basically when I renegotiated, I kind of, and in the end David really

0:59.3

wasn't involved in the jam car stuff anymore.

1:01.8

Like he made the first one happen and then the second contract.

1:05.1

It was like, you know, it was 0.3 or 4 or 5 and then it was 6, 7, 8.

1:10.6

And so for 6, 7, 8, for 2006, I was like, you know, let's put a clause in the contract, you know, that if

1:17.4

F1 comes out, you know. Oh, so that didn't exist prior. Yeah, let's let's make sure that

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