Bourdais' Seat in Danger

[dr-baker]

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/77098

Alguersuari plans to continue in F Renault 3.5 alongside F1. The only other recent F1 driver I know of to have competed in another series during an active F1 season was... Bourdais!As soon as Vettel got an F1 seat, he ditched his FRenault seat even though he was dominating the season at the time and still finished 4th overall. And Alguersuari got a 3rd and 4th place at Le Mans last time out... Feeling insecure perhaps?

[Salamander]

Perhaps he is doing something similar to what the NASCAR Cup drivers did in the Busch/Nationwide series - Driving in a lower series on the same track in order to get more experience and setup ideas. Then again, I don't think Formula Renault goes on the same tracks as F1, so perhaps he's just trying to get more experience in a similar car.

[dr-baker]

Perhaps he is doing something similar to what the NASCAR Cup drivers did in the Busch/Nationwide series - Driving in a lower series on the same track in order to get more experience and setup ideas. Then again, I don't think Formula Renault goes on the same tracks as F1, so perhaps he's just trying to get more experience in a similar car.

As I said, Alguersuari scored at Le Mans last weekend - not a grand prix track... But the majority of the 10 meetings are at GP tracks, just in a different order to F1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_World ... ult_season
Best result: 1x 3rd
Championship position: 8th

[Pedro_Diniz]

Now, does anyone have a phonetic pronunciation of Jaime Alguersuari's name?

[shinji]

http://www.forvo.com/word/jaume_alguersuari/

Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that.

Edit: Something I bunged together in less than 5 minutes - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wymhqT-CqXA&feature=channel_page

[Captain Hammer]

Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that.

I'm more concerned about Legard. he's likely to say "JAY-mee Al-gay-SAW-rus".

[Salamander]

Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that.

I'm more concerned about Legard. he's likely to say "JAY-mee Al-gay-SAW-rus".

At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave up completely and just called him Sebastian.

[Fitch]

Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that.

I'm more concerned about Legard. he's likely to say "JAY-mee Al-gay-SAW-rus".

At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave up completely and just called him Sebastian.

You mean we're not gonna call him Sebastian anyway??


As far as Bourdais this seems to be STR's Modis Operundai, ditch the B driver after the Nurburgring and right before a Significant Performance enhancement comes online. Because it does 2 things, #1 it makes the new guy AND the other guy faster and look better, thus #2 it destroys the former B drivers reputation with other teams...........

When SB first started in Cham Car, he was fine, but when he started winning he became a Bitchy Frenchmen, and it got worse after his 3rd year, which was his 2nd Championship...After that, for some reason he got it into his head that everyone was supposed to pull over and let him by them without a fight..and if he didn't win and someone passed him he Whined endlessly......his most Famous was at Mont Tremblant after Robert Doornbos beat him.....

As for where he goes next, Robin Miller said it best, IndyCar has Marco Andretti so we've got more then enough Whiners over here.......

[dr-baker]

Honestly, I'm worried for the poor BBC team. EJ will not be able to say that.

I'm more concerned about Legard. he's likely to say "JAY-mee Al-gay-SAW-rus".

At that point, I wouldn't be surprised if he gave up completely and just called him Sebastian.

Still not heard any references to Sebastien Webber on the podcast yet... Give it time.