thepatricklong
Patrick Long
thepatricklong

I think one of the parallels in motorsports is efficiency and I think there's always a quest to perform, but doing that in endurance racing efficiently makes a huge difference because there are so many. We had the first hybrid GT car and you can see the road car going that way, and we're collecting a lot of data.

We run pretty similar in our setups, the cars are happy in a window that we usually come to in different order but by the end of the weekend it's similar. The 'Ginger Ninja' is only real in the eyes of few. If you get in the way of my pit guys on the pit lane...

I have not, hoping yes, but GT is the full focus. The way that our racing programs are setup they're pretty separate in operations, drivers, et cetera.

Before I ever received a company car from my employer, I never owned a car newer than '86 and the '86 was a V6 Ford Ranger and then when I lived in the UK I had an '86 Celica GT that was perfect until I had it for 12 mos and I didn't even pick it up after it got towed.

Probably a 935 because it's just a beast of boost and power that you're basically taming and just trying to get the car straight so you can get it to open up.

Blondes, I'm married to one.

Yes and I've followed pikes peak since I was a kid, I think my attention was drawn closer to it after Jeff Zwart ran a cup car up the mountain so I started pulling on coattails and then I saw a special he did with a chopper view and saw how far down and thought you'd need the proper amount of training and a lot of