Jordan Roddy is the proud owner of Sebastien Bourdais’ 2006 Aura Grand Prix of Long Beach race-winning Lola Indy car. Roddy, who hails from Australia, took some time before going on to win his second race of the weekend at Long Beach (in the historic open-wheel races) to tell us about it. In this interview, he gives us a bit of background on this car and why it’s significant. He also tells us how he acquired it along with some other cool cars he owns. For those that were at the races, they had a real treat to see (and hear) this car driven in anger again and made some folks nostalgic to bring back this kind of race car to Indy car racing. Enjoy!

By Larry Mason

Copyright © 2025 Larry Mason

Jordan Roddy is a friendly guy who just happens to race some of the coolest race cars in the world!

The proud owner of this historically significant Newman-Haas Lola Indy car. He drove it to Victory Lane twice at the 50^th Anniversary of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach historic races!

Leading a field of historic Indy, F1, and F5000 cars behind the special gold-liveried Acura Integra pace car, Roddy would go on to win his second race of the weekend.

Great to see and great to hear – the McDonald’s Newman-Haas Lola Indy car (that Sebastien Bourdais won with at Long Beach back in the day) was brought back to Victory Lane again by Jordan Roddy.

Interview and photos Copyright © by Larry Mason (unless otherwise noted)