THE ROAD TO THE SEXTUPLE CROWN

2013 PETIT LE MANS

GT CLASS VICTORY

Nick Tandy’s programme in his maiden season with Porsche encompassed racing in the American Le Mans Series enduros at Sebring and Petit Le Mans with the Walker Racing-run Falken Tire squad. It yielded a win at Road Atlanta together with Wolf Henzler and Bryan Sellers in what was then known simply as the GT class.

“We were running an older chassis after the team had destroyed that year’s car at the Baltimore race, so no one had grand aspirations going into the race,” recalls Tandy. “But the old narrow-body 911 GT3-RSR proved to be quick on the straights compared with the wider new car the other Porsche teams were using.

“The Falken tyres worked pretty well at Atlanta and we were quick in the wet and