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James Newbold

Friday favourite: The sticker book favourite that became a happy hunting ground

Richard Westbrook is no stranger to success at Watkins Glen. He won three IMSA SportsCar Championship races on the trot at the circuit between 2014 and 2016, including twice outright. But the Cadillac World Endurance Championship racer’s affiliation with the famed sportscar racing venue in upper New York state stretches back to a childhood sticker album.

“When I was a kid, I used to have this Panini magazine,” he tells Autosport in the Caddy hospitality at Spa. “They had a Formula 1 one, and like the football teams, you’d collect the drivers and stick them in. It had all the tracks, and one of them was Watkins Glen.”

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