Sebastien Bourdais was awake and alert and never lost consciousness after recording one of the hardest crashes seen in quite some time at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Frenchman was on pace to set the fastest speed in the field by a considerable margin when his No. 18 Dale Coyne Racing Honda began to spin entering Turn 2. The four-time Champ Car champion attempted to catch the slide and had initial luck, but the worst case scenario happened when the car regained rear grip while pointing toward the Turn 2 exit wall. Frighteningly close to a head-on impact, Bourdais flattened the nose of the Dallara DW12 before the right side of the car followed into the wall, and next, a slow barrel with...
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