The entry, ready by Chip Ganassi Racing, was a pressure in IMSA’s once-around-the-clock endurance basic with Bourdais, Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon on the wheel.
Victory gave the impression to be inside attain throughout the ultimate stint as Bourdais emerged because the frontrunner for almost all of the ultimate hour. Nevertheless, the Frenchman was caught and handed by Louis Deletraz with lower than six minutes to go, before guiding the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 to the win.
Through the post-race press convention, Bourdais admitted the workforce, which earned its third podium at Sebring in six years, confronted some electrical points throughout the contest.
“Yeah, I feel the entire Cadillac and Ganassi workforce did an amazing job,” Bourdais stated.
“It was possibly not as simple as we might have preferred. We had some electronics sooner or later. You noticed the automotive slowing down. I used to be actually fearful this was going to occur once more and possibly that is it.
“It was just a little extra simple than that. All people did a very good job. I feel the second the place the No. 40 seemingly misplaced the race, due to the soiled wind stream behind the No. 10, they needed to pit early and out of sync. They proved to be too sturdy for us. Hats off to these guys.
“It was an excellent day, good factors day, however it’s all the time disappointing to lose the race like that within the closing laps.”
#01 Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Sequence.R: Renger van der Zande, Sebastien Bourdais, Scott Dixon
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When attempting to pinpoint at what level of the race the issues occurred, Bourdais then additional defined among the particulars the workforce have been enduring and compelled to beat.
“We form of had an EBS [electronic braking system] failure time and time once more,” Bourdais stated. “We tried to do some defaults and each time it got here again. We cleared it, then the motor stopped popping out of (Flip) 7. That is the place we misplaced the three spots to the 2 Acuras and the BMW.
“We acquired going once more. We by no means heard of it anymore. That was form of bizarre. I truthfully do not actually bear in mind when it was. It was my second time within the automotive throughout my second stint. The rear brakes began to catch on fireplace, the rear tire pressures took off. It did not look fairly for a minute.
“However the guys did an amazing job. They debugged the issue and located an answer; we acquired going and are there in the long run. That is all you may ask for.”
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