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The Porsche improvement driver who received Daytona in a Corvette
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The Porsche improvement driver who received Daytona in a Corvette

By Miles Cooper January 28, 2025
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In Porsche circles, Lars Kern is one thing of a legend. The German is a improvement driver for the corporate, and is greatest identified for setting lots of Porsche’s road-car Nürburgring lap instances. He additionally moonlights in sports activities automobiles, and on Sunday, he received his largest race but, the Rolex 24 at Daytona. In a Corvette.

Since final 12 months, Kern has raced with the Canada-based AWA Racing in its GTD #13 Corvette Z06 GT3.R. His teammates for the race embrace countryman Marvin Kirchhöfer, Orey Fidani, and Matthew Bell, who took the checkered.

“I had a sense, proper from once we began on the Roar [Before the 24 test] we felt like ‘Okay, there’s tempo within the automobile, the drivability is nice, every part it felt it might fall our method,” Kern, beaming, tells Motorsport.com. “However within the evenings, we had been at all times sitting in our residence pondering ‘When does this finish?’” Fortunately for AWA, it didn’t. 

A couple of years in the past, Kern had a shot at profitable the Nürburgring 24 that slipped away. So, the gravity of the second will not be misplaced on him. 

“I used to be crying as a result of that is one thing I at all times dreamed of and thought was by no means going to occur,” he says. “I had a win on the Nürburgring 24 in my palms as soon as a few years in the past, which didn’t occur, so I assumed ‘Possibly I’m simply the unfortunate man, I’m driving round in circles and nothing falls my method.’ I type of accepted it. In the present day, every part fell our method. We had plenty of hiccups and gremlins, however we executed nicely, ticked the packing containers, and on the finish the automobile had the velocity, and Matt was doing an incredible job.”

The Porsche improvement driver who received Daytona in a Corvette

#13 AWA Corvette Z06 GT3.R: Orey Fidani, Matthew Bell, Lars Kern, Marvin Kirchhöfer

Photograph by: James Gilbert – Motorsport Photographs

Whereas the #13 Corvette was typically out entrance from the 14th hour onward, Bell needed to combat off a powerful assault from the #27 Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin within the final hour. (The Aston ended up ceding 2nd to the #120 Wright Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.) Kern credit IMSA for its profitable new implementation of torque sensors on GT automobiles for the shut battling between totally different producers. However that didn’t make watching the ultimate hour simple. 

“I used to be simply within the pit field, sitting within the nook, on a chair, my jacket over my head simply ready for the noise of everybody cheering as a result of I couldn’t have a look at it,” Kern says. “I heard the noise, everyone cheering, and I assumed ‘Yeah, I believe we made it.’”

Kern tells Motorsport.com it’s additional particular to win with this group, who’ve all grown shut collectively since their begin collectively. He’ll be part of them at the remainder of the endurance rounds of the IMSA WeatherTech collection — the Sebring 12 Hours, Watkins Glen Six Hours, and Petit Le Mans at Street Atlanta — and this 12 months’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Even contemporary off an enormous victory, Kern is refreshingly trustworthy concerning the self doubt he typically feels regardless of his expertise.  “I’m at all times questioning myself, day by day, day in time out. Each time I’m going to the race observe I believe ‘What the f*** am I doing right here?’ And I’ve to show myself, and I believe I did on this race.”

He doesn’t suppose this win will change that. The self-doubt begins once more tomorrow, he says, possibly solely half jokingly. 

“It’s the identical with document laps on the Nürburgring, I at all times have a nasty sleep the evening earlier than,” Kern says. “I at all times suppose, ‘Why would I be the one who can try this?’ I’m not asking myself that query the opposite method round.”

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