Bourdais plans to be back in car for season finale

Sebastien Bourdais

Sebastien Bourdais was in one of the best race cars he'd ever had, so fast that most of his competitors thought he would win the pole for the Indianapolis 500.

Instead, he crashed during qualifying at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last weekend, hitting the wall at 227 mph and with 118 Gs of force. He fractured his pelvis, a hip and two ribs when his car exploded into pieces and spun through Turn 2 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

On Saturday, Bourdais vowed to be back in a car this season.

"I will be back at Sonoma," he said of the Sept. 17 season finale, "because I want to."

"I am not showing up at the race track in a wheelchair," he said.

"I'll tell you, it makes you feel very small, your clothes cut off and lying naked on a board," Bourdais said. "But I can only blame myself. Those things happen."

"I've never had a car like that. I could do anything I wanted," he said. "I remember everything from the little wiggle in Turn 1, to the bigger wiggle in Turn 2, to the terminal wiggle, to hitting the wall with the pedal to the metal." See full AP article here