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BOURDAIS WORKS THROUGH FIELD TO WIN
CHEVROLET DUAL IN DETROIT RACE 1
When asked how he won his second
consecutive race at the Raceway at
Belle Isle Park, Sebastien Bourdais
struggled to find a spot-on answer.
“I’m not sure I know the scenario
actually,” the four-time Indy car
champion said after taking the No.
11 Team Hydroxycut – KVSH Racing
Chevrolet to Victory Lane in Race 1
of the Chevrolet Dual in Detroit presented by Quicken Loans. “I think I
missed a couple of steps how we got
from 13th to 16th to 18th to last,
pretty much, 13th again, then jumping into the lead.”

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After starting 13th, Bourdais used
an alternate strategy to most of the
field to climb up the standings. He
was one of several drivers to pit in
the first few laps of the race, but
was one of just two to pit again on
Lap 13, during a caution caused
when Max Chilton’s No. 8 Gallagher
Chevrolet made contact with the
wall at Turn 7 on the 2.35-mile Belle
Isle temporary street course.
Bourdais was 19th following his second stop, but found himself fourth
on a Lap 46 restart after many of the
leaders pitted. But unlike last week’s

Indianapolis 500, which saw Alexander Rossi use fuel conservation to
win the 100th running of “The
Greatest Spectacle in Racing,” today’s race benefited those who ran
hard to the end.
Bourdais rotated to the lead on pit
cycles at Lap 55 and pitted on Lap
56, but had built enough of a gap to
Castroneves that he came out ahead
of the Brazilian and pedaled off to
his 35th career Indy car victory, tying him with Bobby Unser for sixth
on the all-time win list.