Porsche’s inaugural campaign with its 963 in the IMSA SportsCar Championship last year took a while to get into its stride, so the Penske-run operation made a big call to retrieve Dane Cameron from its World Endurance Championship line-up to bolster its American efforts.
The softly spoken 35-year-old Californian, a former rising star in open-wheel racing, has become renowned as one of the world’s finest sportscar racers. After falling from the ladder to IndyCar, despite winning the Star Mazda crown in 2007, he became something of a sportscar racing nomad. It was an IMSA GTD class championship in 2014, driving a Turner Motorsport BMW Z4, that propelled him to a seat with Action Express Racing in its top-class Corvette Daytona Prototype for 2015, and he took the overall title at the second attempt with team-mate Eric Curran.
Cameron then moved to Penske’s factory Acura programme in 2018 and claimed his second DPi title alongside Juan Pablo
