Bourdais, second and defeated

Sébastien Bourdais is, in Sarthe, at home. Le Mans, it?s his race. From the moment he comes to take part in this legendary event, in the best car on the field, Bourdais has only one desire: to win. But, a good player, he congratulates the victory of crew no. 9: “ I am very happy for Peugeot Sport. It's a fabulous double. If we had not made this stupid mistake (collision 908 n°7 with 908 n016 from Pescarolo), we could even have made a hat-trick. » Already, regrets are beginning to appear in the words of the pilot of Formula 1.

And finally, it appears that he doesn?t talk much about the victory and lets the emotion invade him. “ Personally, it?s difficult? We had everything to win: we were on pole, we had the crew, we had the car. » But as Le Manceau reminded us at the start of the week, “the 24 Hours is a race that chooses its winner”. And the race chose: the Peugeot n°8, in the lead on Saturday evening, had to return to the pits for several minutes to repair its left rear half. “ It costs us the victory. This mechanical problem cost us the five minutes we were missing at the end. I took the car to attack. Unfortunately, it fell on me when I had to bring it back to repair it. Maybe I pushed her too much? » Sébastien Bourdais is waiting for this victory at Le Mans so much that a second place is not enough for him. Eternally dissatisfied, the Frenchman will not want to let go of Le Mans until he has put his name on the list of winners.