Sebastien Bourdais rages about Jenson Button’s penalty in Bahrain: “I’m tired of it”
Cadillac driver Sebastien Bourdais has lashed out at the stewards’ decision to penalise his team-mate Jenson Button in the World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain. One-time Formula 1 world champion Button, competing in his final professional race, was slapped with a 30-second stop/go penalty for causing a collision with the #54 Ferrari 296 GT3 of […]
“We all knew it would be hard”
Sebastien Bourdais says Cadillac still needs to improve after its factory cars started the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours from first and second but dropped out of the podium positions. The #12 and #38 Jota entries lacked pace in the early stages of the contest, getting overtaken by the #5 Porsche in the very first […]
Cadillac has pole, but no chance to win Le Mans 24h – here’s why
Sebastien Bourdais says Cadillac can’t hope for much more than a top-five finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours, despite a 1-2 on the grid in qualifying. Cadillac Jota secured the first two spots on the grid for this weekend’s French classic, outperforming its competition in both Hyperpole sessions. Jack Aitken (in the Cadillac Whelen […]
Is Cadillac walking into a trap of its own making while chasing victory at Le Mans?
With four LMDh prototypes on the grid, Cadillac will be the most represented manufacturer in the Hypercar class at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans. Porsche also has four 963s entered, but one of them is fielded by the customer team Proton, while the American force is operating as a unified front at the […]
Bourdais returns to WEC in Bahrain finale with Cadillac
Sebastien Bourdais will join the factory Cadillac team for the final round of the 2024 World Endurance Championship in Bahrain early next month. Bourdais, the outright 2014 Daytona 24 Hours winner, will join Alex Lynn and Earl Bamber in the #2 Chip Ganassi-entered Cadillac V-Series.R for what would be his third appearance in WEC this […]
Bourdais denies celebrating Le Mans pole prematurely
Thursday’s decisive qualifying session, gathering the top eight cars from each category, was interrupted with just under eight minutes remaining on the clock, due to Dries Vanthoor crashing out at the wheel of the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 at Indianapolis corner. At that time, Sebastien Bourdais had provisionally set the fastest time with the […]
BMW beats Cadillac to quickest time in FP2
Eng, whose BMW is run by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, beat Sebastien Bourdais (Cadillac V-Series.R) and the second BMW of Connor De Phillippi in the 90-minute practice session. This weekend’s 2h40m event is being run for GTP and GTD machinery only. After the Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s of Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr swapped the […]
Repaved Laguna Seca “to be at least a couple of seconds faster”
Last year saw a full resurfacing of the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course for the first time since 2006, which also included a new pedestrian bridge on the front straight as part of a $14.9 million project. The project began shortly after last May’s IMSA event and was completed by July, with IndyCar the first major […]
No tires strategy “only way” to win Long Beach
After starting third, Bourdais spent most of the early portion of the IMSA’s 100-minute classic in the runner-up spot pursuing pole-sitter Pipo Derani in the Action Express Racing-prepped No. 31 Cadillac. The pivotal moment of the race came when Derani pitted on lap 26, handing off to co-driver Jack Aitken as the team put on […]