A story of bouncing back. 🥈🏎️

Team pose after finishing P2 on a 3 hour endurance race of AAP

Endurance racing rarely goes exactly to plan, and our 3 hours at Silverstone was a masterclass in why you never stop fighting until the checkered flag.

We qualified P4, but right out of the gate on Lap 1, Johann Villena took a hit from another car and dropped down to P7. Instead of panicking, he put his head down, dialed in a fierce pace, and put on a clinic, climbing all the way back to P2 and building a massive gap before his stint was done.

The pit crew nailed the mid-race team challenge in under 2 minutes, handing the wheel to Alenie. As the grid normalized, she drove a rock-solid, consistent stint, maintaining our P2 spot and holding that crucial lead over P3.

Another smooth, on-budget team challenge swap put Yoram in the seat. Lightning struck twice, and early in his stint, he was hit again, tumbling all the way back to P7. True to the team spirit, he didn't back down, slicing his way back through the field to bring us back into podium contention at P3 with a comfortable gap.

Our final driver, Gerald, took over for the closing stint and simply soldiered on. Throwing down blazing lap times, he not only hunted down the P2 car—which had managed to put a full lap on us during the chaos—but passed them and closed the gap to the leader to under 60 seconds by the finish line.

It wasn't a perfect, mistake-free race. We got knocked down twice, but what got us this P2 trophy was a total team effort. We had the outright speed to hunt people down, but the real key was staying consistent, adapting on the fly, and bouncing back together every single time things went sideways.

Huge respect to everyone on the grid for a grueling, hard-fought race.

See you at the next round! 🤝

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