Motorsport News Magazine

TANDY WANTS HIS TROPHY BACK
Nick Tandy is going to the Le Mans 24 Hours this year to defend his 2015
crown. That’s the Briton’s take on his return to the French enduro in an LMP1 car as part of Porsche’s full-season FIA World Endurance Championship line-up. Last year, he says, didn’t count because he was back at the wheel of a factory GTE car competing for class honours, and class honours only. Boardroom decision making deprived Tandy of the chance to follow up on the 2015 Le Mans success with Nico Hulkenberg and Earl Bamber. The additional or third, car fielded by Porsche in the twenty four hours fell to the swingeing round of cuts that followed the diesel emissions row. And with it went Tandy and Bamber’s chance of making it two in a row.