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SONS OF THE FATHER TAKE 12H VICTORY

Jack Lemmer went to work on the Tuesday in the week before last no doubt expecting a normal day. And a normal week.

Yet the 23-year-old team manager of Veloce’s esports team, who’d done occasional club racing in Mazda MX-5s and C1s, got a text from his dad Mark, the former touring car racer and now boss of GT powerhouse Barwell Motorsport. Longtime family friend and past Barwell racer James Kaye was entering a TCR Audi in that Saturday’s 24H Series Kuwait 12 Hours – via his family’s Simpson Motorsport outfit – and would Lemmer Jr be able to join the driver line up?

Lemmer Jr jumped at the chance. But faced a

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