Bourdais crashes heavily in warm-up

Sebastien Bourdais faces a race against time to make the start of his first race back in the IndyCar Series after crashing heavily in the morning warm-up in St Petersburg. Although the Frenchman was unhurt, his Dale Coyne Racing Dallara-Honda sustained heavy damage in the accident at the track's fast chicane, which ended with the car on fire. "I just nipped the wall on the inside of the fast chicane's right-hander and it broke the right-front suspension straight away and from there I was just a passenger," Bourdais told IMS Radio .

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