A relentless late-race charge by Laurin Heinrich secured a dramatic third-place finish for Porsche Penske Motorsport (PPM) at the Battle on the Bricks, keeping his own and the team's slim IMSA GTP driver and manufacturer championship hopes alive heading into the season finale.
Drafted into the #6 Porsche 963 as part of the factory squad’s championship strategy - replacing Laurens Vanthoor - alongside Kevin Estre, Heinrich capitalized on a late-race restart on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course. After surviving a chaotic Turn 1, Lap 1 incident that sent the sister #7 entry to the garage for 22 laps, Estre and Heinrich kept the #6 machine inside the top five for the majority of the two-hour, 40-minute endurance test.
