After winning the F3000 title in 2002, Sebastien Bourdais moved to the US and racked up four Champ Car titles 🇺🇸 But that move nearly didn't happen, as Bourdais toyed with a DTM switch. 📝 james_newbold explains:
Sebastien Bourdais and Newman-Haas Racing were an unstoppable force in Indycar racing prior to the Frenchman taking up a long-awaited Formula 1 opportunity with Toro Rosso for 2008. After impressing in his 2003 Champ Car rookie season, taking pole on his debut and winning three times, he romped to four consecutive titles between 2004 and 2007, amassing a further 28 victories on the way.
Bourdais had claimed the 2002 Formula 3000 championship for the Super Nova team owned by his manager, David Sears – albeit after Arden rival Tomas Enge was docked the 10 points he’d earned for victory at the Hungaroring when he failed a random drugs test. But he had known for several months that his prospects of graduating to F1 for 2003 were slim, irrespective of the outcome.
“I knew I wasn’t going to have an opportunity at Renault, so when Arrows fell through, we didn’t have any other options,” he says. “So I had to go with Volker Strycek in the Opel DTM programme. I had a test there, they really liked me and they signed me.”
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