Few could have expected Mercedes to end its first World Endurance Championship with a podium, but Maxime Martin, Lin Hodenius and Martin Berry’s second-place finish in the Bahrain finale was no fluke.
The venerable Mercedes-AMG GT3 was among the pacesetters in the field all weekend, both in race and qualifying trim, and the #61 Iron Lynx crew ultimately came short of victory by less than a second. It was a remarkable turnaround from just seven months earlier, when Mercedes’ first WEC campaign had begun in disastrous fashion in Qatar.
