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I hope his seat wasn't resting on his performance this weekend because qualifying couldn't have gone any worse for him.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point. 
Another embarrassing display yet again. Bourdais is on borrowed time.
Loeb interested in Bourdais' seat
By Jonathan Noble Saturday, July 11th 2009, 09:25 GMT
Sebastien LoebSebastien Loeb, the five-time world rally champion, has told Scuderia Toro Rosso that he is interested in making the switch to Formula 1 as a replacement for Sebastien Bourdais.
With Bourdais poised to be dropped by Toro Rosso following this weekend's German Grand Prix, speculation has been rife that youngster Jaime Alguersuari will be given a chance to step up to F1.
However, Loeb has suggested that he too is a contender for the drive at some point this season - even if a debut at the Hungarian GP is highly unlikely.
"Who knows, as long as the Formula 1 and rallying calendars don't overlap anything is possible," Loeb told French newspaper L'Equipe. "If there is a place at Toro Rosso I am available.
"Although I must say a grand prix is not the same as a rally. It is 70 laps and physically I'm not ready. In rallying you do not have the same conditions as an F1 driver."
L'Equipe suggested that Loeb had recently spent some time at the simulator of Toro Rosso's sister team Red Bull Racing. He impressed in a test with Red Bull last winter.
However, with Loeb locked in a tight fight for this year's rally title, an imminent move to F1 is unlikely – although it could still happen once his WRC commitments with Citroen have ended.
Olivier Quesnel, the head of Citroen Sport, moved to play down talk that Loeb would become a full-time replacement for Bourdais.
"Let me be clear, Sebastien Loeb will not replace Sebastien Bourdais at Toro Rosso, if he is transferred," he said. "Sebastien has expressed a desire to be in F1, and it does not surprise me as it is a dream come true for him. However, we must not dream."
This is a bit silly really. For all Bourdais is getting trashed, the fact is, he's driving a car which is about 3 races behind every other car on the grid. Perhaps Toro Rosso would be wise to note their own deficiencies in advance of replacing Bourdais with and an unproven rookie - especially in this, the reliability era.
As stated, STR should be trying to figure out why their car sucks not their drivers.
This is a bit silly really. For all Bourdais is getting trashed, the fact is, he's driving a car which is about 3 races behind every other car on the grid. Perhaps Toro Rosso would be wise to note their own deficiencies in advance of replacing Bourdais with and an unproven rookie - especially in this, the reliability era.
Well said. Truth is Buemi is only marginally better than Bourdais just as a 15th place is insignificantly better than say 16th or 17th. In reality they're both equally bad. This reminds me of when it was Speed and Liuzzi. They both sucked in that car, who sucked more was wholly irrelevant as is the same thing today with Bourdais and Buemi. As stated, STR should be trying to figure out why their car sucks not their drivers.
I hope his seat wasn't resting on his performance this weekend because qualifying couldn't have gone any worse for him.
He could have crashed into HK again and taken himself and HK out
This is a bit silly really. For all Bourdais is getting trashed, the fact is, he's driving a car which is about 3 races behind every other car on the grid. Perhaps Toro Rosso would be wise to note their own deficiencies in advance of replacing Bourdais with and an unproven rookie - especially in this, the reliability era.
Well said. Truth is Buemi is only marginally better than Bourdais just as a 15th place is insignificantly better than say 16th or 17th. In reality they're both equally bad. This reminds me of when it was Speed and Liuzzi. They both sucked in that car, who sucked more was wholly irrelevant as is the same thing today with Bourdais and Buemi. As stated, STR should be trying to figure out why their car sucks not their drivers.
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