LONDON, July 11 - Triple ChampCar champion Sebastien Bourdais returned to the
Formula One cockpit with Toro Rosso on Wednesday for a third test that could
lead to a race seat next season.
The Frenchman, who last tested in May for the team co-owned by Red Bull and
Austrian Gerhard Berger, completed 53 laps of the wet Spa circuit in Belgium and
set the eighth fastest time of 11 drivers on track.
He lost an hour's running at the end of the day when the Ferrari-powered car
stopped on the track with a mechanical problem.
The 28-year-old said in May that the Spa test would be the final evaluation
by the team, whose drivers are Italian Vitantonio Liuzzi and American Scott
Speed.
Managed by Nicolas Todt, son of Ferrari team boss Jean, Bourdais has made no
secret of his desire to switch to Formula One from the U.S. series.
Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa was fastest on Wednesday, ahead of McLaren's
double world champion Fernando Alonso.
