Sebastien Bourdais was in Formula 1 in 2008 and 2009 at the controls of one of the cars of scuderia Toro rosso. During those two years he had no performances noteworthy if the career in which he debuted, with the exception of Australia. In his debut race he ranked seventeenth and, thanks in part to the errors of the other pilots would climb to fourth place. It is true that if you aren't there fails, but that Grand Prix was in particular a rather chaotic and the French managed to climb slowly up to fourth place which would know to challenging if not for the breakdown of the engine of his Toro Rosso.
Drop-outsthe 2009 season was an unbearable for Bourdais road, which saw race after race how him were ever closer to the dangerous part of the career of a pilot, that which are beginning to raise in the team if it isn't better to find another that will lead your cars. Fortunately for him, he had a second chance in 2009 thanks to a last part of the 2008 season in constant improvement of benefits. This improvement did not materialize in successful the following year: he could with his inexperienced partner Sebastian Buemi and Bourdais was definitely removed from the team to introduce the second seat at a very young Jaime Alguersuari, which debuted in the F1 in Hungary. Toro Rosso willingly paid compensation Bourdais by terminate his contract prematurely, and the French returned to look for life in other competitions.
If before entering Formula 1 Sebastien Bourdais was enshrined in United States to win the Champ Car four years in a row, breaking records, marking a more than 40% winning percentage and leading a third of the rounds during which competed in that period, his departure from formula one was a kind of step backwards. Not because its quality saw devalued (after leaving the F1 Bourdais won two of the last three races of the Superleague in the same year), but because it was not the same, not even this 2011 which has become Americans cars in the Indy Car.
Saving his performance in The 24 hours of Le Mans in 2009, where he was second teaming in Peugeot with Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin (and behind the trio of Brabham-Gene-Wurz, by the way), the rest of the Championships in which he has been registered have been francamente… no noteworthy comments. Le Mans 2010 was abandoned after 51 laps and having achieved the pole position, his adventure in the Le Mans Series took a victory at the 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps and the Superleague did not have much continuity.
Now, in 2011, Bourdais disputed the Indy Car Series on Board of a Dale Coyne Racing. Four runs later are 25 adding two retirements and a 11 th place. It does not run in all the tests by its commitments to the Le Mans Series, but it played all the races on circuits urban and permanent (not oval). I conclude by retaking the holder and throwing the question pool: formula one failed to take advantage of the talent of Sebastien Bourdais, or really Bourdais failed to take advantage of formula one?
