Ben Barker

The FIA WEC driver shares all about his world championship campaign

My first race in the 991 RSR Ben finally gets his hands on the latest version of Porsche’s mid-engined 911 RSR As regular followers of this column will know, Gulf Racing has had to wait a full competition year to be able to run the new car, which was only available to GT-Pro class entries in 2017. However, first impressions – from both pre-season testing and a one-off race in the European Le Mans Series – have been very positive. Although the ELMS runs on different tyres to the FIA World Endurance Championship, which will be our focus this year, the appearance in round one at Paul Ricard was essentially made to allow the Gulf team to capitalise on the preceding WEC Prologue at the same venue and give both…

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