IndyCar: Will Sebastien Bourdais win a race in 2019?

With at least one victory in five consecutive IndyCar seasons, Sebastien Bourdais is still winless in 2019. Will he win a race this year?

With five of the 17 races on the 2019 IndyCar schedule having not yet been contested, there has been a lot of talk of the win drought of Team Penske’s Will Power, who hasn’t won a race since he won the race at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway last August.

Power entered the 2019 season having won at least one race in each of 11 seasons of IndyCar competition going back to the 2008 season, and with two victories in the 2007 Champ Car season, he effectively entered the 2019 season on a 12-year win streak.

Only Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon entered the season on a longer win streak having won at least one race in each of the last 14 seasons going back to 2005. He extended that win streak to 15 years by winning the second race at the Raceway on Belle Isle in early June.

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Aside of Power and Dixon, the driver who entered the season on the longest streak was Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais. While not nearly as flashy as Power and Dixon with only a top finish of seventh place in the championship standings to show for it, Bourdais entered the season having won at least one race in each of the last five seasons.

With 12 of the season’s 17 scheduled races in the books, the 40-year-old Frenchman is still seeking his first trip to victory lane since he won the 2018 season opener on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida as a result of the dramatic ending to that race. His five-year win streak is the longest win streak currently at risk of ending when the 2019 season ends.

He is currently on a 28-race win drought, which is the longest win drought since before he earned his first victory in an IndyCar-sanctioned race on the streets of Toronto in the 2014 season. He competed in 52 IndyCar races before winning that race.

Will he win a race before the 2019 season ends?

Bourdais currently sits in 11th place in the championship standings with two top five finishes and six top 10 finishes, including a season-high third place finish in the race at Barber Motorsports Park back in early April.

But while four of his six top 10 finishes have come in the last five races, he has not finished in the top seven since he finished in third in that race at Barber Motorsports Park, which was just the third race of the season.

However, three of the five tracks remaining on this year’s schedule are tracks at which he has previously had success. Last season at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, he started in 24th (last) place, and despite the fact that the race did not feature any caution flag periods, he had one of the best drivers of his career en route to a sixth place finish. His best finish at the track is his second place finish back in the 2014 season. He is set to start today’s Honda Indy 200 at the track in fifth.

In his last two starts at Pocono Raceway, he has not finished outside of the top five, and he finished in third in last year’s race at Portland International Raceway, the first IndyCar-sanctioned race at the track. He won twice at the track in Champ Car.

While it is hard to see Bourdais being considered one of the outright favorites to win any of the five races that remain on this year’s schedule, he should be a serious contender in several of them.

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Will Sebastien Bourdais find victory lane before the 2019 IndyCar season wraps up in September at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca? It would be unwise to count him out, but he hasn’t shown race-winning speed in quite some time, so it will take some improving by him and Dale Coyne Racing as whole.