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The doubts and defiance after an Indy 500 crash

IndyCar ace Sebastien Bourdais explains why it was important to put injury talk behind him as quickly as possible after his Indy 500 qualifying accident

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I have had some pretty sizeable shunts in my career, but none where I ended up in hospital with an inactivity period, so it was all very new to me.

There's always a scary period post-crash when everybody is assessing the damage and trying to work out how bad it is, but once I knew that nothing was really bad and couldn't be fixed within a reasonable amount of time, I wasn't too worried.

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