HOW A FALLEN RED BULL HOPE BECAME A PORSCHE GREAT
During a remarkable 2006 GP2 campaign, Lewis Hamilton marked himself out as a future Formula 1 star with a convincing title-winning charge that included clean sweeps of the Nurburgring and Silverstone. But while the now seven-time world champion had to wait until round three to get off the mark, another series rookie opened his account on the first weekend of the year, when he took the reversed-grid spoils at Valencia.
Like Hamilton, he’s currently sitting on a run of four consecutive titles, although you’d be forgiven after the quickfire 2020 campaign for missing former Red Bull junior Michael Ammermuller’s coronation in the ADAC GT Masters. Coming after a hat-trick of Porsche Supercup titles for Lechner Racing, the bespectacled German’s successful switch to Germany’s hotly contested national GT3 championship is all the more notable given that the Porsche he shared with former Supercup rival Christian Engelhart was being run by a team brand-new to motorsport. Just
