After
a good season spent in the FIA World Endurance Championship,
the actor Patrick Dempsey is stepping back from his driving
activities, although the name Dempsey-Proton will still be in
the competition in the LMGTE-Pro entry used by Porsche this
year.
According
to a statement released in his website, he confirmed his intentions
behind leaving the racetrack, although he defined his racing career
as a “rewarding one and allowed me to meet só many interesting
people.”
Dempsey
also thanked the teams, crews and even the fans that were along him
during his driving time, and he hopes to enjoy some of the FIA WEC
weekends as a team owner, then declaring: “At this point in my
life, after an amazing seasonthanks to my friends at Porsche
and TAG Heuer, I need to take a step back and focus on both my family
and my acting career.”
His
short FIA WEC spell had 2 podiums with a class win at the 2015 6
Hours of Fuji and a runner-up finish at Le Mans. His outings
at La Sarthe had generally good results, with a ninth place in the
LMGT2 class in 2009 and a 4th and a 5th place
finish in the LMGTE-Am class. He also had podiums in the LMP2
and GTC classes of the American Le Mans Series, in the GTD class of
the IMSA Sportscar Championship in his records.
His
team replaces the factory Porsche squad ran by Manthey Racing in the
2016 FIA WEC season, counting with a single 911 RSR machine for
Richard Lietz, Michael Christensen and Wolf Henzler.
PHOTO: FIA WEC
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