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After two years in IndyCar, the main series for single-seaters in the US, with Dragon Racing team, the French driver has decided to go with the KV Racing Technology team in 2014, where he will take over fromTony Kanaan. With this team, the Brazilian driver won the Indianapolis 500 on May 26 this year, setting a new race record average of 301 kph. As for Sébastien Bourdais, he finished twelfth in IndyCar in 2013, with three podiums.

The Le Mans born driver started to race again in endurance in the 2013 season, in the Grand-Am series in the main category of Daytona Prototypes. After a run in a Ford-Riley with Starworks Motorsports, he joined from the Indianapolis Grand Prix at the Brickyard, the eighth round in 2013, the 8Star Motorsports team, founded by Enzo Potolicchio, the LM P2 winner in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2012. Driving a Corvette DP, he recorded his best results with fifth place in the last two races of the year at Laguna Seca and Lime Rock.

On 14 and 15 June 2014, the IndyCar schedule will not clash with the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Will we see again Sébastien Bourdais in his homeland for his eleventh participation? Many French fans will hope that he is at the Sarthe ...

Jean-Philippe Doret / ACO - Translated by Tony Light/ACO

Photo: CIRCUIT OF THE 24 HOURS (Le Mans, Sarthe), 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, FREE PRACTICE AND QUALIFYING, June 13, 2012. The last time that Sebastien Bourdais took to the 24 hours he was driving a prototype Dome run by Henri Pescarolo.