hearty congratulations
March 12, 2017
Congratulations go to Sébastien Bourdais and Dale Coyne Racing for winning the season-opening IndyCar Series race in Saint Petersburg after starting the race in last place. Bourdais didn’t even complete of qualifying and thus had been relegated to last place on the starting grid.
I was so glad to see engineer Craig Hampson reunited with Bourdais after they had had years of success in ChampCar. I had watched them earn pole position in Saint Petersburg in 2003 for Bourdais’ first IndyCar race. In 2013 I watched James Hinchcliffe take his first IndyCar win in Saint Petersburg under Hampson’s guidance.