The entry, prepared by Chip Ganassi Racingwas a force in IMSA’s once-around-the-clock endurance traditional with Bourdais, Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon at the wheel.
Success seemed within reach throughout the last stint as Bourdais became the frontrunner for most of the last hour. The Frenchman was captured and passed by Louis Deletraz with less than 6 minutes to go, before assisting the No. 40 Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 to the win.
Throughout the post-race interview, Bourdais confessed the group, which made its 3rd podium at Sebring in 6 years, dealt with some electrical concerns throughout the contest.
“Yeah, I believe the entire Cadillac and Ganassi group did a fantastic task,” Bourdais stated.
“It was perhaps not as simple as we would have liked. We had some electronic devices eventually. You saw the cars and truck decreasing. I was truly stressed this was going to take place once again and possibly that’s it.
“It was a little bit more uncomplicated than that. Everyone did an actually great task. I believe the minute where the # 40 apparently lost the race, since of the unclean wind stream behind the # 10, they needed to pit early and out of sync. They showed to be too strong for us. Hats off to those guys.
“It was a great day, assets day, however it’s constantly frustrating to lose the race like that in the closing laps.”
# 01 Cadillac Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series. R: Renger van der Zande, Sebastien Bourdais, Scott Dixon
Picture by: Jake Galstad/ Motorsport Images
When attempting to determine at what point of the race the issues took place, Bourdais then even more described a few of the information the group were sustaining and required to get rid of.
“We sort of