Sebastien Bourdais Quotations

I'm not too excited to try and do that again. It's just really nerve-wracking.

He just dragged me all the way up there in traffic, nearly stuffed me in the wall coming off Turn Two,

I don't know if I'd want to do it (race wheel-to-wheel) with just anyone, ... I think I'd be nervous to do it with anyone other than Bruno -- or Oriol now. It was really close, I was on the apron and Bruno was a few inches away from my wheel, sometimes even less so it's quite nerve racking. You know how difficult and dangerous it can get out there so you don't really want to be side-by-side for 20-something laps. It was tough; I had serious thoughts about backing off at some point especially with the championship situation but once you're in the car you just can't do that so you just have to keep going.

I was a little disappointed that they nailed me during the winter.

The pressure is off. We know it's going to come sooner or later whatever I do. I just have to concentrate, do the best job I can, and enjoy the race.

We are completely focused on getting the best results for the McDonald's and PacifiCare teams at the last four races,

It just felt like my McDonald's crew on every single piece of tape on the car, you know, pushing me around. It's pretty much a good summary to what happened today. I think it's all to their credit what kind of performance we get in this qualifying. Kind of taking myself out of the picture really because in qualifying, just really put the foot down and it's all about the team effort. Obviously they proved to be extremely good at that. So during the race it's a bit different story, and you have to have a good ending in traffic. Hopefully we'll be able to achieve that again as well as we did last year. It should be a good race. It was really spectacular last year.

It was tough; I had serious thoughts about backing off at some point -- especially with the championship situation -- but once you're in the car, you just can't do that so you just have to keep going.

We picked up on where we left it last year. It's a very good feeling to be able to secure a front row starting position.

It's a very good feeling to secure a front-row spot - that's obviously very important from now on,