20 years ago, the introduction of the Daytona Prototype class was humbled by Porsche's GT squad at the Daytona 24 Hours ⏱️ Turn the clock back to 2003, when the 911 won out ⬇️
Kevin Buckler’s The Racers Group outfit had won the GT class at Daytona in 2002, aided by two young Porsche factory drivers: Timo Bernhard and Jorg Bergmeister.
“I’d stepped out of the car just before midnight and it was one of the rare times that I ran into Jorg during a race,” recalls two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Bernhard. “We were sat in the truck, and we said, ‘You know what, we can do this, we can win this overall.’ I really believed we could do it.”
“We had quite some luck along the way, but we had by far the quickest GT car. It was in the good old days when there was no BoP. The pace was really good, no mistakes with the car, the team did a good job, there were no dramas.Bergmeister The highlight of the race for Buckler was a “magic morning stint” when he was battling with the remaining prototype at the sharp end: “I could see the Multimatic car [the Ford-powered MDP1 that was dubbed a Focus] in front of me. I just thought ‘I want that son of a bitch so bad’.“I qualified at a 1m54.9s, and I cranked off ten 1m53s in a row, it was like my magic stint! Michael finished off the race and, oh my God, it changed history for us. As a company, it put us on a great trajectory.
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