{"id":9128,"date":"2017-05-20T20:45:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=9128"},"modified":"2017-05-20T20:45:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:45:50","slug":"sebastien-bourdais-hospitalized-after-crash-at-indy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2017\/05\/20\/sebastien-bourdais-hospitalized-after-crash-at-indy\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastien Bourdais hospitalized after crash at Indy"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS – Verizon IndyCar Series<\/a> driver Sebastien Bourdais<\/strong> was diagnosed with multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip following an incident today while attempting to qualify for the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race.<\/p>\n

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Sebastien Bourdais looks down pit lane prior to his qualification attempt for the 101st Indianapolis 500 — Photo by: Joe Skibinski<\/p><\/div>\n

According to INDYCAR Medical Director Dr. Geoffrey Billows, Bourdais will undergo surgery on his pelvis this evening at IU Health Methodist Hospital. Bourdais was on the third lap of his qualification run at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when his Dale Coyne Racing No. 18 GEICO Honda made hard contact with the Turn 2 SAFER Barrier.<\/p>\n

Statement from team owner Dale Coyne: “Sebastien is in good hands here at IU Methodist Hospital with the staff and now we just wait for him to recover.”<\/p>\n

Additional updates on Bourdais’ condition will be released when available.<\/p>\n

Story and photo courtesy of the Verizon IndyCar Series<\/strong> <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS – Verizon IndyCar Series driver Sebastien Bourdais was diagnosed with multiple fractures to his pelvis and a fracture to his right hip following an incident today while attempting to qualify for the 101st Running of the Indianapolis 500 Mile Race. According to INDYCAR Medical Director Dr. Geoffrey Billows, Bourdais will undergo surgery on his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[421,125,22,391,83],"class_list":["post-9128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indycar","tag-indianapolis-motor-speedway","tag-indy-500","tag-indycar","tag-sebastien-bourdais","tag-verizon-indycar-series"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/JGS_8857-1.jpg?fit=5472%2C3648&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-2ne","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9131,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9128\/revisions\/9131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}