Rolex Friday: Atmosphere and interviews

Friday, unless a team is fixing a broken car or worrying about technical issues noted during qualifying, is a less exciting day in the garage area at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona.  Except that there are no less exciting days in endurance racing.  There is continued qualifying, testing, full engine changes, cleaning and the [...]

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Bourdais to finish season with Sevilla

Sebastien Bourdais is off to Superleague. You know that series that few have heard of and even fewer watch.
After being canned by STR, Bourdais will run the final three round of Superleague Formula for the Spanish club FC Sevilla. First race is ins Estoril this weekend.
Bourdais:

For a driver, Superleague is the best alternative [...]

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Bourdais vows 2010 return

Sebastien Bourdais is intent on returning to Formula 1 in 2010, and he believes the testing ban will work in his favor.
In other words: Never mind the Schumi, here’s Le Seb!
Bourdais spoke with French sports daily newspaper L’Équipe, according to crash.net:
“I aspire to find a place in F1. Since there is no [in-season] testing, [...]

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Threatened F1 lawsuit doesn’t feature Bernie, Max

Following up on today’s news that Sebastien Bourdais officially has been released by Toro Rosso, the French driver released a statement that he is sicking his lawyers on his now former team:
I am very disappointed and shocked by the decision taken by Scuderia Toro Rosso of not allowing me to drive for the Team until [...]

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Alguersuari gets nod for Hungary debut

I guess this means I have to officially learn how to pronounce his last name then. Scuderia Toro Rosso has officially replaced Sebastien Bourdais with 19 year old Jaime Alguersuari for the Hungarian Grand Prix.
STR has decided to give the kid a race seat as it is now the only way to get young [...]

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