Sebastien Bourdais, No. 1 McDonald’s Cosworth/DP01/Bridgestone: “We had a decent lead on the first stint and when the yellow came out it bunched everyone up and we were a victim of our results in Toronto and had a bad pit box here. We overcame that and it was an awesome job from everybody from the McDonald’s team. We stuck together and said ‘Its not over.’ We kept plugging away and it worked out and I couldn’t be any happier. It is pretty spectacular to get the lead we have leaving here. We’ll take it.”
· FAST FACTS: Was his third race here. He won one race and finished second in the other and started from pole once…In 2006 he led 55 laps from pole but struggled with the handling of his race car during the second stint on regular Bridgestone tires and finished second to Wilson to maintain his pre-race 23-point lead over second place. In 2005 he extended his points lead from 15 to 21 over second place after his win from a 10th place start here. He crashed in Friday’s provisional qualifying and rain on Saturday prevented improvement. …Became the first open wheel driver to win three consecutive championships since Ted Horn accomplished the feat from 1946-1948 and only the second in the 98 year history of the sport…He has the rare opportunity to win four consecutive championships this year if he can again capture the Vanderbilt Cup, which would extend his run that began in 2004. Bourdais would be making history as no Champ Car driver has ever won four straight championships. Four in a row is very rare in professional sports in fact it has never been done in either NASCAR or NFL and it hasn’t been accomplished in the last twenty years in the NBA, NHL or MLB.
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