Laurens Vanthoor fended off rivals on a late restart to give Porsche Penske Motorsport the victory in the Motul Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The Belgian, co-driving the #6 Porsche 963 with Kevin Estre and Matt Campbell, was forced to hold off BMW M Team WRT’s Sheldon van der Linde with a 10-minute sprint to the finish en route to the win by 1.205s on the 12-turn, 2.54-mile natural terrain road course. It marked the first time Porsche has taken a top-class victory at the Braselton, Georgia-based circuit (the 2015 victory was by a GT class machine).
