2007 Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing // Team: Sebastien Bourdais: Year-by-Year Highlights

	2007	CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES The three-time series champion will again drive the No. 1 McDonalds entry in his fifth season of Champ Car competition and attempt to become the first driver to earn four titles in a row…Will drive a Cosworth/Panoz/Bridgestone race car. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Will compete in the event for the sixth time overall and first for a manufacturer (Peugeot)…Co-drivers will be Pedro Lamy and Stephane Sarrazin. FORMULA ONE Will possibly test for Scuderia Toro Rosso during the season.

	2006	BRIDGESTONE PRESENTS THE CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES POWERED BY FORD 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. Both Horn and Bourdais clinched their titles in the penultimate event but Horn was unable to attempt four after he died in a crash in the season finale…Bourdais earned seven wins, seven poles and finished on the podium 11 times in 14 races…Won first four races in Long Beach, Houston, Monterrey and Milwaukee but was unable to set a CCWS with five consecutive wins in Portland after a botched start dropped him back in the field and he couldn’t recover. After coming back to win from being a lap down, Milwaukee was his highlight of the season as well as the first pole for the team at their “home event” in 21 years (1985) and their first win there in 10 years…Cleveland provided the scariest moment of the season when he started third but was hit on Lap 1 when Paul Tracy tried to drive between Bourdais and Junqueira which caused Tracy to launch over Bourdais and roll over his helmet. He was admitted and subsequently released from a local hospital before the race ended…Third and second place finishes in Toronto and Edmonton preceded his next win in San Jose from pole…His narrow lead over second place Wilson in the championship took a minor blow in Denver when he passed the ailing car of Paul Tracy (fuel pickup problems) for second place on the final lap but Tracy slid into him in the final corner and neither finished the event…Nearly doubled his lead in Montreal after earning the maximum points while contenders Allmendinger (mechanical) nor Wilson (crash) finished…Outside chance at clinching the title in Road America was derailed despite having a dominant car all weekend. Strategy came into play while he led 28 laps and built two 12+ and 15+ second leads in the rain over second place and set the fastest lap of the race (repeatedly) but strategy limited him to a third place finish...Needed only to finish ninth or better in Australia to win title if Allmendinger won. Started second but locked up his tires trying to pass Power and received a penalty that dropped him back to 12th and finished eight to clinch his third title with an insurmountable advantage over A.J. (353-285; +68) who retired from the event after contact on Lap 20…Started second in Mexico City finale, took the lead from polesitter Wilson on Lap 6 but Wilson regained the spot while Bourdais struggled with his tires at the end of the stint. Took on rain tires in the second to last stop but only took on fuel on the final stop to track down Wilson. Reclaimed the lead and the win in Turn 6 of the final lap. Also set the fastest race lap…Season awards include being named an AARWBA first team All American for the third consecutive year; being one of six nominated for Speed TV Performer of the Year, earning the Second Quarter Driver of the Year; being one of 9 nominated for National Speed Sport News’s Economaki Champion of Champions Award; being named “Road Racer of the Year” by Racer Magazine; ranked No. 1 in SPEED Driver Rankings for the year (compiled by STATS, Inc.) after having reached the top spot five different times during the season. NASCAR champ Johnson was second…Was also honored by the City of St. Petersburg as a “Hometown Hero.” GRAND AM CUP, 24 HOURS OF DAYTONA & 12 HOURS OF SEBRING (Champion GT2) Competed with his father Patrick in the Grand American Cup at Daytona (1-27-06) as a gift from Ford Motor Company for his second title. Patrick qualified 25th, and while sharing driving duties, the duo moved up to a seventh place finish…Competed with Raul Boesel and B.J. Zacharias in a Doran Ford in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona (1-28-06). Qualified fourth despite only a few laps in the car but retired from the event after six hours due to electrical problems. Finished 56th overall…Won the GT2 class of the 12 Hours of Sebring (3-18-06), and finished ninth overall in a Multimatic Panoz with co-drivers David Brabham and Scott Maxwell after starting from the pole. American Le Mans Series – Petit Le Mans Competed for the Multimatic Panoz team with David Brabham and Scott Maxwell…The team started fourth and finished third. FORMULA ONE Tested for Scuderia Toro Rosso December 13-15. Was only 25-thousandths of a second behind regular driver Antonio Luizzi on Day 2 and on Day 3 was almost 3/10ths of a second quicker. RACE OF CHAMPIONS - Stade de France Invited to compete for France in the international Race of Champions (12-16-06) as well as Nations Cup against drivers such as fellow Frenchman Sebastien Loeb, David Coulthard, and Heikki Kovalainen among others…Progressed through the competition until the semifinals in both categories but was eliminated.

	2005	Champion - BRIDGESTONE PRESENTS THE CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES POWERED BY FORD Earned his second consecutive title and the first back-to-back for the team as well as capped their second 1-2 finish in team history…Led series with six wins, five poles and seven podium finishes in 13 events, set the fastest race lap seven times and clinched the title in Australia with one race to go despite parity in the series…Took the points lead with victory in season-opener in Long Beach and held it after all but two events -- once to teammate Junqueira before his season-ending injury and once to Paul Tracy…Started from pole in Monterrey, Mexico, and led the first 17 laps but contact with Paul Tracy caused an extra pit stop to replace his flat tire and ultimately limited his finish to fifth…Started sixth on the Milwaukee oval and was in podium contention when he was penalized for exceeding the speed limit (55 in a 50) on his last stop and dropped to a sixth place finish but regained points lead...Started fifth in Portland after losing his fastest laps in Fri. & Sat.’s qualifying sessions. Led seven laps and finished second…Started third and finished fifth in Cleveland and lost the points lead to Tracy who won from pole...Regained pts. lead after finishing fifth in Toronto and held it until the end of the season. Started from pole and led the first 34 laps before contact with Tracy, while the two were racing out of the pits, limited his result…A crash in final qualifying in Edmonton limited him to a 10th place start but he charged through the field and capitalized on others mistakes to lead 11 laps and win the race…Drove to victory from pole in San Jose and set the fastest race lap…Started second in Denver and took over the lead when Tracy crashed to win by a 15-second margin over second to build his point lead to 53 over the Canadian...Started from pole in Montreal and led the first 59/79 laps but failed to match a series record fourth consecutive victory due to a problem on his final pit stop and finished fourth…Started from pole in Las Vegas and led 53 of 166 laps en route to his third consecutive Superspeedway win. Came into contact with Tracy in Turn 3 on Lap 123 after Tracy failed to put his two inside wheels under the yellow line on the back straight to indicate he would be pitting and when he abruptly braked to take the pit entrance Bourdais, who had been drafting him while trying to pass, touched his right rear tire and Tracy made contact with the wall…Started second in Australia but took over the lead when he ran one lap longer than Tracy before a pit stop, set the fastest lap and clinched his second consecutive title in style with a victory…Started third in Mexico City but problems with his ECU and a bad pit stop dropped him to the back of the pack. After working his way back up he made contact with the spinning car of Cristiano da Matta and finished 17th…Completed all but 10 of the 1,310 laps during the season…He earned 348 points to second place Servia’s 288…He won the Bridgestone Passion For Excellence Award for the third consecutive season. The award honors the driver that has the lowest aggregate time of his fastest race laps over the season…Also nominated for SPEED TV’s Driver of the Year” for three of the four quarters and the overall award. He was not eligible during the first quarter as there was only one CCWS event. He earned First Team honors from the AARWBA for the second consecutive year and third to be recognized by the prestigious group. He was invited to run in the International Race of Champions (IROC) again for 2006 but a schedule conflict prevented his participation. CROWN ROYAL INTERNATIONAL RACE OF CHAMPIONS (IROC) Started from pole in Daytona (blind draw) and was running eighth when he was hit by Scott Pruett and both were collected in a five-car accident and he finished 12th…Won Round 2 in Texas after holding off IROC living legend Mark Martin and became the first Champ Car driver in eight years (Al Unser Jr., 1997) to win…Started 10th in Richmond and ran as high as fourth but was eliminated after the second contact with Martin Truex Jr. in the closing laps and finished 10th which dropped his rank from second to sixth…Finished sixth in Atlanta to tie for fourth place with Buddy Rice in the season-ending standings…Entry marked the first time since 1997 (Vasser) that the defending CCWS series champion competed in the invitational series. INDY RACING LEAGUE Competed in the Indianapolis 500 for the first time…Despite no testing and limited track time he qualified his Team Centrix car 15th and was in fifth place in the finals laps of the race when he sustained a cut tire from Buddy Lazier’s wing and crashed with 1.5 laps to go in the 500-mile event…Finished 12th. 24 HOURS OF DAYTONA & 12 HOURS OF SEBRING Competed with team co-owner Paul Newman, former team driver Cristiano da Matta and Michael Brockman in the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona (2-5-05) for Newman Racing. Started 13th but finished 51st in the event after struggling due to mechanical problems and off-track excursions…He competed in a Ferrari for the CARE Larbre team in the GT category of the 12 Hours of Sebring (3-19-05). Started eighth but did not finish due to gearbox failure. SCORE TECATE BAJA 1000 Competed in his second event for Team Centrix in the Baja Challenge class of the Baja 1000 (11-18-05) with his then-girlfriend Claire Ragot as his navigator/co-pilot where he and co-drivers Wally Fisk and Glen Plake finished fourth despite brake problems...The usually grueling event was even more so as only 163 of the 342 starters finished. RACE OF CHAMPIONS - Stade du France Invited to compete for the Playstation France team in the international Race of Champions (12-3-05) against drivers such as Jeff Gordon, Sebastien Loeb, David Coulthard, Dan Wheldon and Tony Kanaan among others…Finished second overall in the Nation’s Cup and was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the individual competition.

	2004	Champion - BRIDGESTONE PRESENTS THE CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES POWERED BY FORD Drove the No. 2 McDonald’s race car to seven wins, eight poles and 10 podium finishes in 14 races as well as set the fastest race lap six times en route to his first series championship in only his second season…Earned a total of 369 points over second place finisher and teammate Bruno Junqueira’s 341…Became the first since former NHLR driver da Matta (2002 – 19 total races) to earn seven poles in one season before breaking that record with eighth in season-finale and became the first driver since 1991 (Michael Andretti/NHLR) to earn eight…Is the first driver to have started every race during the season in the top-three (14 consecutive) as well as the first driver to have started in the top-three 15 consecutive times, dating back to the 2003 season-finale in Mexico City…Won poles in Monterrey, Portland, Toronto, Elkhart Lake, Denver, Montreal, Laguna Seca, Mexico City and races in Monterrey, Portland, Cleveland, Toronto, Denver, Las Vegas, Mexico City, five of which were wins from pole…Held a top-four rank in the championship for the first five races before taking over the lead after Round 6 and held it until the end although the title hunt went down to the final lap of the final race in Mexico City…Refers to the Denver race as the best of his career. Started from pole but contact with teammate Junqueira on the opening lap dropped him to 15th place. He charged back to second near the end of the event, pulled off a brilliant pass of Paul Tracy and built a seven-second lead during the final 11 laps to win…Scored the sixth closest victory in series history, beating Junqueira by 0.066-seconds on the Superspeedway in Las Vegas…Title was decided at the season-finale in Mexico City where he started on pole, set the fastest race lap and led all 63 laps to win the race and championship but not before a late race scare where he overcame a Lap 41/63 mistake which caused him to spin after having built a 17-second lead…By season’s end he had earned a 31 percent win average and a 41 percent average of starting on pole in his 32 career events to date…He won the Bridgestone Grip on the Season Award for the second consecutive season. Bridgestone adds every driver’s fastest laps from every race together, with the award going to the driver that has the lowest aggregate time over the season…Other accolades included winning the fan vote for SPEED TV’s Driver of the Year” for the third quarter as well as overall final vote while the media vote earned him a second place rank in the third and fourth quarters. He was selected as TSN Magazine’s “Champion of Champions,” over Formula 1’s Schumacher as well as champions from World Rally, NASCAR, IRL, World of Outlaws and NHLRA, Was voted Racer Magazine’s “Road Racer of the Year,” ESPN.com’s “North American Open-Wheel Driver of the Year,” earned First Team honors from the AARWBA and was invited to run in IROC…His bonus for winning the title, event prize money, another $100,000 award for winning the Corona Cup and $20,000 from Robert Bosch Corporation brought his season total to $1,693,500 and he also received a new Ford Mustang from Ford Motor Company. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Competed in the event for the fifth time overall and fourth with Team Pescarolo in a Judd-powered car (6-12-04)…Started and ran as high as fifth but had a variety of problems before engine failure ended his race at noon…Teammates were Collard and Minassian. SCORE TECATE BAJA 1000 Competed for Team Centrix in the Baja Challenge class of the SCORE Tecate Baja 1000 (11-18-04) where he and co-driver Rhys Millen finished third despite being unable to race for more than two hours due to vehicle damage from grueling event. RACE OF CHAMPIONS - Stade du France Invited to compete for the Playstation France team in the international Race of Champions (12-4-04) against drivers such as Michael Schumacher, Sebastien Loeb, Jimmy Johnson and Tony Kanaan among others.

	2003	Rookie of the Year - CART BRIDGESTONE PRESENTS THE CHAMP CAR WORLD SERIES POWERED BY FORD Drove the No. 2 Lilly/McDonald’s race car to three victories (England, Germany, Cleveland), five poles (St. Petersburg, Monterey, Germany, Cleveland, Australia) and seven podium finishes en route to a fourth place finish in the year-end standings…Ranked second overall in number of races and poles won and third in most laps led…Ran in the top-five in all 18 events…Possible top-three finish in the season-ending standings was hindered by contact or mechanical problems in 9 of 18 events where he had been running in the top-five but finished much lower…Set the fastest race lap four times (St. Petersburg, Cleveland, Vancouver and Elkhart Lake)…Despite only being behind the wheel of a Champ Car for seven days before the season-opener in St. Petersburg, he claimed the pole in his debut and became the first rookie in series history to lead the first lap of his first Champ Car start before contact ended his race after he led a total of 30…Won the pole in the following event in Monterrey, Mexico and became the first rookie since Nigel Mansell in 1993 to win the pole for each of his first two series starts. A radio problem led to a missed stop and he again failed to finish after he led a total of 16 laps before contact ended his race…The first time he finished a Champ Car race also was the first time he drove to victory after he paced 95 laps at Brands Hatch, including the final 33…Became the first driver in series history to win from pole in his oval racing debut after he led 74 laps and earned back-to-back victories in the series with a thrilling win in Germany over Mario Dominguez by 0.084 seconds…Won from pole in Champ Car’s first night race in Cleveland and went on to set a rookie-record five consecutive top-five finishes…Posted the best qualifying average (3.67) of any driver in the series and also won the Bridgestone Grip on the Season title which was awarded to the driver who, on the whole, posted the fastest race lap average of all 18 races of the year…Won the Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year award and became the first rookie to win the Greg Moore Legacy Award…Earned a position in the balloting for Auto Racing Writers and Broadcasters Association’s (AARWBA) All-American Team as well as Honorable Mention in the final tally. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS – PRE QUALIFYING EVENT Teamed with Sarrazin and Lagorce in a Courage-Peugeot for Pescarolo Sport in November in the 1000 km pre-qualifying race for the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans on the Bugatti track and drove to a second place finished from a fifth place start thus helping to earn his former team a spot in the annual event in June 2004.

	2002	Champion – FIA INTERNATIONAL FORMULA 3000 Won three races (Imola, Italy; Monaco; Nurburgring, Germany) six pole positions (Interlagos, Brazil; Imola, Italy; Barcelona, Spain; Monaco; Nurburgring, Germany; Spa, Belgium) and finished on the podium a total of eight times in 12 events en route to the Championship while driving for Super Nova Racing…Also set the fastest race lap three times (Interlagos, Spain, Belgium)…Competed against drivers such as Enge, Pantano and Pizzonia. FIA SPORT CHAMPIONSHIP Won two races and one pole position for Team Pescarolo Sport…Finished second in the Championship. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Started 19th and finished 10th despite trouble with the floor of the car beginning in the fifth hour and lack of power steering in the tenth...Teamed with Boullion and Lagorce at Pescarolo Sport for his fourth appearance in the event. Winner - 24 HOURS OF SPA Won the endurance event while driving for Team Labre Competition with Bouchut, Vosse and Terrien as co-drivers. RACE OF CHAMPIONS – Canary Islands Invited to compete for the French team in the international Race of Champions in the winter against drivers such as Cristiano da Matta, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson and others.

	2001	FIA INTERNATIONAL FORMULA 3000 Won one race (Silverstone, England), one pole (Austria) and finished on the podium two times (Hungary; Hockenheim, Germany) en route to a fourth place finish in the Championship while driving for Team DAMS…Set the fastest race lap in England…Competed against drivers such as Wilson and Webber. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS & 12 HOURS OF SEBRING Finished 13th in the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race while driving for Team Pescarolo Sport with Boullion and Redon as co-drivers…Engine failure while in third place ended their race with two hours to go in the event. Finished 13th in the 12 Hours of Sebring (Fla.) with Team Pescarolo Sport due to an engine failure at the midway point in the event…Co-drivers were again Bouillion and Redon. 2000 FIA INTERNATIONAL FORMULA 3000 Season highlight was winning the pole and earning a second place finish in Magny-Cours, France en route to a ninth place standing in the Championship while driving for the Prost Junior Team…Other competitors included current teammate Junqueira and Minassian…Also earned a front row start of second place in his first race in Monte Carlo. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Finished fourth while driving for Team Pescarolo Sport…Co-drivers were Clerico and Grouillard.

	1999	Champion - FRENCH FORMULA THREE CHAMPIONSHIP Won eight races, three poles and set the fastest race lap four times in 17 races while driving for Team La Filiere en route to the Championship. 24 HOURS OF LE MANS Competed in the event for Team Larbre…Engine failure led to poor finish…Co-drivers were Jarier and De Thoisy.

	1998	FRENCH FORMULA THREE CHAMPIONSHIP Was the top finishing rookie with a sixth place rank in the standings in a year-old car…Highest start was second place and highest finish was third place in a total of 18 events while driving for Team La Filiere.

	1997	FRENCH FORMULA RENAULT CHAMPIONSHIP Won four races, five pole positions and finished on the podium 11 times in 16 races with team La Filiere en route to second place in the standings…Ran the fastest race lap of the race seven times.

	1996	FRENCH FORMULA RENAULT CHAMPIONSHIP Earned one podium finish of third place en route to a seventh place in the standings with Team La Filiera…Other competitors included Enjolras and Montagny. Champion - 24 HOURS OF LE MANS – KART EVENT Drove to victory from the pole position with teammates Besnault, Burriault and Le Ficheant.

	1995	FRENCH FORMULA CAMPUS CHAMPIONSHIP Earned three podium finishes, highest of which was second place…Finished the season standings in ninth place with Team La Filiera.

	1994-1991	KARTING Won the Maine Bretagne League championship…Finished fourth in the French Championship and seventh in the French Minimes championship.

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