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Why a Le Mans winner is heading into the “unknown world” of NASCAR

Comparing Porsche's 919 HYBRID LMP1 to NASCAR is motorsport's equivalent of apples and oranges, but this weekend one of Weissach's top works aces will pit his skills against the regulars and revive the tradition of the 'road-course ringer'

It's not often that a wide-eyed rookie starting 30th in a second-tier NASCAR Xfinity race will draw so much as a passing comment beyond hardened followers of the series looking to uncover future Cup Series stars. It's certainly uncommon for such a description to fit a Porsche factory driver and two-time Le Mans 24 Hour winner.

But on the Daytona road course this Saturday, 2017 World Endurance Champion Earl Bamber will trade the 911 RSR he normally races in the IMSA Sportscar Championship's GTLM class for the #21 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet Camaro and become the latest in a long line of drivers to be assigned the label of a NASCAR 'road-course ringer'.

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