Multiple Champ Car champion and Formula 1 reject Sebastien Bourdais is going to occupy himself with a bit of Superleague Formula from this weekend, racing for FC Sevilla. He’s obviously convinced by the series:

“For a driver, Superleague is the best alternative to F1. Today, it’s the only other championship in Europe to offer a driver the possibility of racing single seaters at a high, professional level.”

I think A1GP would have something to say about that. And GP2 for that matter, though to be fair that really is just a Formula 1 feeder series, and not a long term career option.

That seems to be how Giorgio Pantano saw it, anyway. Having taken the GP2 title on his fourth attempt last year, and with no way back into Formula 1 – where he raced for Jordan in 2004 – Pantano is currently representing A.C. Milan, and 4th in the standings.

Sebastian Bourdais has a lot of work to do, with Sevilla FC sitting 19th in the championship. It’s not obvious how he will do: he’s not an especially adaptable driver, but is very good when the car is as he wants it.

It’s intriguing looking at the Superleague Formula standings. There are quite a few reasonably well known drivers there, and indeed it’s Adrian Valles – who gets about a bit – in the table topping Liverpool FC car. But behind the wheel of the second place FC Basel car is the pretty anonymous Max Wissel. There are former GP2 drivers all the way down the standings, so previous form is no guarantee of success.

Whatever happens, Bourdais couldn’t resist a bit of a dig at his old team:

“I also want to have fun, which hasn’t often been the case for me during this last year.”

Well, maybe if you’d been better, you’d have had more fun.