Sebastien Bourdais will again sub for the ill but recovering Joey Hand in this weekend\u2019s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Mid-Ohio, driving the Chip Ganassi Racing-run #66 Ford GT.<\/p>\n
Hand was forced to miss the previous race at Long Beach after contracting a virus, which gave IndyCar ace and regular Ford enduro driver Bourdais the opportunity to pull double duty on the street course.<\/p>\n
However, on medical advice Hand has also relinquished his ride alongside Dirk Muller this weekend, as he aims to be back to full fitness for the Le Mans 24 Hours next month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really been a rough few weeks dealing with this very strong virus,\u201d said Hand. \u201cUnder doctors\u2019 orders, I\u2019ve had to rest with no physical activity whatsoever. Only this week have I felt well enough and been given the okay to do light training and resume preparation for driving again.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving missed my home race at Long Beach and now effectively out of the drivers\u2019 championship points chase, my main priority and focus is to be 100 percent for Le Mans.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so tough to miss another race,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut with the unknown of how I would feel getting back into the racecar later this week for Mid-Ohio, I certainly did not want to jeopardize and compromise Dirk\u2019s and the team\u2019s chances of success.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we\u2019ve made the collective decision to wait one more event before I get back behind the wheel. Fortunately having Seb available again means the team still has a great shot at the win! I\u2019ll be cheering the boys on.\u201d<\/p>\n
This weekend marks the fourth anniversary of their teammates Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook scoring the Ford GT\u2019s first win, at Laguna Seca, the start of three consecutive wins for the pairing.<\/p>\n
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Article by:<\/strong> David Malsher, Motorsport.com Sebastien Bourdais will again sub for the ill but recovering Joey Hand in this weekend\u2019s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at Mid-Ohio, driving the Chip Ganassi Racing-run #66 Ford GT. Hand was forced to miss the previous race at Long Beach after contracting a virus, which gave IndyCar ace and regular Ford enduro driver Bourdais…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualites","category-bulletins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4944,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4943\/revisions\/4944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbourdais.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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