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How Porsche and the WEC restored the best of sportscar racing

In the final feature in our series looking back at the recently concluded 2010s, Gary Watkins discusses the return of the World Endurance Championship and Porsche's ultra-successful exploits in LMP1

Gary Watkins Jan 6, 2020, 2:25 PM

Typical. The two things I and every other self-respecting fan of endurance racing had been waiting for came along almost at once in the decade just past, just like long-anticipated buses.

The return of a proper world championship and Porsche back at the pinnacle of the discipline made the 2010s historically significant for this branch of the sport. They were two buses that I thought would never come.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.