Yahoo Autos ‘The Rengernator came out and did it again’ – Bourdais at Laguna
It’s been a tough couple of races for the Chip Ganassi squad. Even as Cadillac Racing celebrated success at Sebring for the Action Express team, the CGR guys were ruing an early retirement. Then Sebastien Bourdais crashed at the start of Long Beach… But Sunday the team came back from tough positions – twice — to win the Motul Course de Monterey in the No. 01 Cadillac V-Series.R, and Bourdais puts a lot of the credit for that on teammate Renger van der Zande.
“The guys did a really good call and strategy and cycled us to third, and things were starting to look up at that point,” Bourdais said of his opening stint. “The car was starting to come alive, track gripped up, it felt good and I started to push and I was running the two leaders down. Then the yellow came out. It put us all the way back to seventh.
“Then the ‘Rengernator’ came out and did it again. I couldn’t ask for a better teammate. When he’s put in those positions, I don’t think there’s anybody better than him. He made some really critical passes and then goes to the top and then managed from there. So really super happy for Cadillac and to see the emotions run pretty high for the boys.”
