
When Porsche became a giant-killer
In the first of a new series celebrating underdog achievements from the annals of motorsport history, we revisit the 2015 Petit Le Mans - where a tyre advantage in appallingly wet conditions helped the GT cars overcome the prototypes
It's not often that victory by a factory Porsche team can be considered a giant-killing performance, but the German marque's success in the 2015 Petit Le Mans is an exception.
Its 911 RSR not only won the hard-fought GTLM class, it beat all the Daytona Prototype machines to take the overall win. And it did it on raw pace.
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