PORSCHE’S ‘UNLUCKY CAR’ HAS A CHANGE OF FORTUNE
The last-ever fight for GTE Pro honours at Le Mans was a race that probably should have been won by Corvette but was finally taken by Porsche after a gruelling battle of attrition. Both of the factory Corvette C8.Rs and Porsche 911 RSRs had looked good for the win at various points of the race, but when the music stopped it was the #91 crew of Gianmaria Bruni, Richard Lietz and Frederic Makowiecki that came out on top.
Bizarrely, it was a first victory in the World Endurance Championship for Bruni and Lietz in almost three years, the pair having been overshadowed by their team-mates in the #92 Porsche for much of the time since claiming the RSR-19’s first win at Silverstone in September 2019.
But while the #92 Porsche crew of Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen and Laurens Vanthoor lost a clear shot at replicating their 2018 victory due to misfortune,
