It’s Friday afternoon of the 12 Hours of Sebring race weekend and Nico Mueller had at this point put 30 laps on the Porsche 963 of JDC Miller Motorsports. Those would be the only laps he’d put on that car before race day as the team prioritized setup for Gianmaria Bruni’s qualifying laps just a couple hours before (9th on the grid for Saturday’s race). The difference was that Mueller was joining Brunia and Tijmen van der Helm as a third for the race, running the 963 for his very first time.
He’s not unprepared for it. No, he read the 67-page manual on how to operate the car’s complex steering wheel, at least a couple of times. He’s also not unfamiliar with Sebring, necessarily, or driving a GTP car. But the combination of a complex track and a learning a different, incredibly complex machine and system, presents its own challenge.
