Eurosport - Thu, 16 Jul 21:17:00 2009
Spanish teenager Jaime Alguersuari is set to become Formula One's youngest driver after Toro Rosso ran out of patience with France's Sebastien Bourdais.
The Ferrari-powered team, winners of their home Italian Grand Prix last year with Germany's Sebastian Vettel, said four-times Champ Car champion Bourdais (pictured) had made his last appearance for them.
His replacement will be announced shortly before next week's Hungarian Grand Prix.
"In Sebastien's second year with us, the partnership has not met our expectations," added team boss Franz Tost.
"Therefore we have decided to replace him as from the next round of the World Championship."
The statement did not say who would get the drive but 19-year-old Alguersuari, the team's newly-appointed reserve driver, has been widely tipped to start in Budapest.
The Spaniard, the British Formula Three champion, is competing for his Carlin team in a World Series by Renault race at Le Mans - Bourdais's home town - this weekend.
If confirmed for Hungary, he will make his debut aged 19 years and 125 days. The previous youngest was New Zealand's Mike Thackwell, who entered the 1980 Canadian Grand Prix with Tyrrell aged 19 and 183 days.
Bourdais was in his second season at Toro Rosso but was the first driver to retire from Sunday's German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring and has been regularly out-qualified by Swiss rookie team-mate Sebastien Buemi.
The Frenchman has scored just two points from nine races while Buemi has three.
His future had been in doubt already last year, when he ended with four points to Vettel's 35, but Toro Rosso eventually decided in February to stick with him after testing Japan's Takuma Sato.
Comment 51 - 70 of 70
Sebastien, you lost the coin flip. It could have been you, it could have been Buemi. You going to court to see if you can get a "best of three flips" ruling?
LET'S FACE IT F1 IS OUT OF BOURDAIS LEAGUE.THESE NOT MUCH YOU CAN SAY ABOUT HIM A PART FROM HE WAS @#$%.
the bloke is as much pants as hamster.
The boy looks gay,I wouldn't let him drive my car! Michael C.
chumpcar does not need another loser, they seem to have alot already, check out milka duno sometime
then there are all of the F1 rejects bottling up the field, doorknobs and other w@@kers
ok darling, we all apologise and promise to work around the house this weekend if you let me go out tonight
FRancis dear chap I did write a reply and it does not seem to have appeared. Some little gremlin I suppose.
I don't have lots of 'niks'. I always have a different id/name for each on line activity for example IM or one of the yahoo groups I belong to, but I stick to the same name for that group.
On this occassion when updating my profile, ( which is connexions only) I hit some buitton or other, and now the name showing is from my profile, see simples.
Given that one of those nasty chaps said I was under stewards investigation to see if I was MGA I thought it timely to remind people as I did immediately that I was really your HELEN.
So you know the answer when you have different girls or other? call them darling, works all the time
Unfortunately La Belle Helen I think Mark the Muppet is busy defending other honours tonight. Of course since the braying mule has no concept of honour you can't expect him to defend you.
Unfortunately La Belle Helen I think Mark the Muppet is busy defending other honours tonight. Of course since the braying mule has no concept of honour you can't expect him to defend you.
Actually if you look at the IndyCar schedule now, it's half ovals and half road/street courses. And Rob, the last IndyCar race there were 5 "Yanks" on the grid.
sorry about my ignorance regarding the champ car series..
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wheeennnnnn the moon meets yer eye
lika big pizza pie
thats amorea
when yer watching the telly
with yer best girl named ellie
thats amorea
well hay there ellie or helen . whatever yer calling yerself today. its hard to stay in love with the women that has 4 nicks . dont ya no that men get in trouble when there laying in tha bed with there woman an hollering another lassies name. an fer that matter ya might even be cross dressing as mga or adrian. just trying to imagine mga in fishnets or adrian with one of them cross yer heart bras.
Champ Car WAS primarily street courses. INDY CAR is mostly ovals. Champ Car is defunct with a few teams rolling into the Indy Racing League.
Champ Car champions don't seem to cut it in F1, must be all those ovals...
Probably a joint decision by driver, team and management to get out while the going's good, Seb will prove himself once again in a better situation for him. Alguersuari's in the hot seat now, let's hope he has the stature to hold his own.
If he was on 35 million a year like Kimi, I could inderstand.
What's Lewis and the other big boys done?
I think It's a shame, he's a good driver and needs a better car.
Maybe with Ruby crying, it would be a good idea to sit him in a car next to the BUTTON!!!!!!!!!!
Dodger why so sensitive? People get the axe everyday even more talented ones than him. The fact of the matter is he isn't that good, he beat up on some scrubs in the former chump car world series never really facing the best indy drivers who were in the IRL. Let him come back to the states and have his head handed to him again because thats whats going to happen
no Adrian I have not, I recently posted to say I had such a tough day at work leg slapping was just not doing, and not a peep, I would have thought that going beyond leg slapping would have brought him out from under the sofa. In fact my whole week has been tougher than tough. Not withstanding (which I cannot do) i find out on Monday whether I have to endure another minor op.
I was also hoping he would duff up those nasty Scottish chaps that were unpleasent to me, and thought he would rush like a Knight in shining Armour, but he has been conspicious by his absense. I also thought Francis S or Mark the Muppet would be there to defend my honour but sadly all their tales of love and admiration are clearly worthless dust.
I shall retire to my boudoi thingie to reflect on the fickleness of men
if formula 1 dose not want hem, always america has their doors open in IRL, a good driver should get a better chance.
im sorry but nakajima and piquet are doing worse than he is. i dont like seeing drivers get fired but he needs a half decent car, Buemi isnt doin that much better (i think...)
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