21 Facts About Claude Bourbonnais

Claude Bourbonnais raced in the 1994 CART series with 5 starts.

Claude Bourbonnais raced in the 1997 Indianapolis 500, which by then had become part of the Indy Racing League, completing 9 laps and finishing in 30th position.

Claude Bourbonnais was the Toyota Atlantic teammate of fellow French-Canadian and future Formula One world champion Jacques Villeneuve in 1993 and in fact finished ahead of Villeneuve in series points.

Claude Bourbonnais has been working for major car manufacturer in USA doing demonstration drives and was a driver coach in the American Ferrari Challenge.

In 1986 Claude Bourbonnais improved one championship position after exchanging his Reynard 83SF for a more recent Swift DB3.

Claude Bourbonnais's best result was a sixth place at Circuit Mont-Tremblant.

Claude Bourbonnais was the first to do so in a Formula Ford 2000 chassis, as previous editions of the Formula Continental race were won by Formula Super Vee chassis.

Claude Bourbonnais won the race from pole position, setting the fastest race lap.

Claude Bourbonnais was the fastest driver at Heartland Park Topeka and again at Lime Rock Park.

Claude Bourbonnais set the 29th fastest time, therefore he did not qualify for the race.

For 1991 Claude Bourbonnais signed with Courage Competition to race in the 1991 World Sportscar Championship.

In 1992 Claude Bourbonnais had his racing season split between the US and Great Britain.

Claude Bourbonnais ran a partial season in Indy Lights with Forsythe Racing in 1995.

The second half of the 1996 Indy Lights season Claude Bourbonnais was very strong.

Claude Bourbonnais even won the Indy Lights race at Vancouver.

Claude Bourbonnais ran a partial season in 1997 with Eclipse Racing not scoring notable results.

In 1998 Claude Bourbonnais made a second attempt at the Indy 500 with BLueprint Racing.

Claude Bourbonnais failed to beat Johnny Unser's time to make the race.

For 2000 Claude Bourbonnais joined Philip Creighton Motorsports at the Grand-Am race at Trois-Rivieres.

In 2003 Claude Bourbonnais returned for a one-off in the Trans-Am Series.

Claude Bourbonnais replaced Paul Gentilozzi at Rocketsports Racing for the race at Trois-Rivieres.