The entry, ready by Chip Ganassi Racing, was a pressure in IMSA’s once-around-the-clock endurance traditional with Bourdais, Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon on the wheel.
Victory seemed to be inside attain throughout the closing 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, earlier than guiding the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 to the win.
Throughout the post-race press convention, Bourdais admitted the staff, which earned its third podium at Sebring in six years, confronted some electrical points throughout the contest.
“Yeah, I believe the entire Cadillac and Ganassi staff did a terrific job,” Bourdais mentioned.
“It was perhaps not as easy as we’d have favored. We had some electronics sooner or later. You noticed the automobile slowing down. I used to be actually frightened this was going to occur once more and perhaps that is it.
“It was a little bit extra easy than that. Everyone did a extremely good job. I believe the second the place the #40 seemingly misplaced the race, due to the soiled wind stream behind the #10, they needed to pit early and out of sync. They proved to be too robust for us. Hats off to these guys.
“It was day, good factors day, however it’s at all times disappointing to lose the race like that within the closing laps.”
#01 Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R: Renger van der Zande, Sebastien Bourdais, Scott Dixon
Picture by: Jake Galstad / Motorsport Pictures
When making an attempt to pinpoint at what level of the race the issues occurred, Bourdais then additional defined a number of the particulars the staff have been enduring and compelled to beat.
“We type of had an EBS [electronic braking system] failure time and time once more,” Bourdais mentioned. “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 received going once more. We by no means heard of it anymore. That was type of bizarre. I truthfully do not actually keep in mind when it was. It was my second time within the automobile throughout my second stint. The rear brakes began to catch on hearth, the rear tire pressures took off. It did not look fairly for a minute.
“However the guys did a terrific job. They debugged the issue and located an answer; we received going and are there in the long run. That is all you possibly can ask for.”
