Sebastien Bourdais picked up his first win of the 2016 IndyCar Series season on Saturday after perfecting his strategy and fending off a late charge from Conor Daly in the opening race of the Detroit double-header. Bourdais started the race from 13th on the grid, but an off-sequence strategy call - the seeds of which were sown as early as lap three when he switched from alternate to primary tyres - put him into the lead of the race with a healthy buffer to the chasing pack ahead of his final stop. The Frenchman came in with 13 laps to go, emerging just ahead of the Penske trio of Helio Castroneves, Simon Pagenaud and Juan Pablo Montoya that had shared the lead for the...
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