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Bourdais: Staying out "not the right thing to do"
Sebastien Bourdais says that staying out on slick tyres in the increasingly wet IndyCar race at Barber in an attempt to defeat Josef Newgarden wasn’t “the right thing to do”. Bourdais and Dale Coyne Racing had opted to go for an unconventional one-stop strategy that required fuel saving in the first stint, meaning Newgarden was able to pull a margin of over 25 seconds before his first stop. Newgarden would eventually cycle back into the lead after Bourdais stopped, but the arrival of persistent rain offered DCR a greater chance to win when Newgarden pitted for wet tyres. Bourdais and his chief engineer Craig Hampson debated how long he could last on slicks to remain ahead of...
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