trackjunky

I must have missed this one.

http://www.grand-am.com/News/Article.asp?ID=9321

Veloce Raptor

WTF happened to Patrick Long????

02fly

This is great news Joey and Bill are going to be great in this car.

smlporsche

Last I heard he'll be driving one of the Spyders (may be a client team)

Don't worry he's too good to be cut loose!

trackjunky

No ****! That was my same reaction. Then I remember reading in Pano or something that Porsche wanted PL in the Spyder. We'll see. That guy is an extreme talent and great for Porsche PR.

RedlineMan

Ha!

Good for Auberlin. He deserves a good ride! I hope they kick butt. I hope the rules allow them to have a chance at success.

Spyderidol

It's highly likely that Long will take Ryan Briscoe's place in the Penske RS Spyder

skl

I'm surprised he's driving a Porsche- I always thought he was a real BMW guy... I like him and am sure he'll do well, just surprised... I suppose if Pobst can drive a front driver Mazda one minute and a GT3 RS the next and do them both well, Bill will do fine.

chris walrod

I know Joey well from his Atlantic days, in fact, just saw him yesterday at the go kart race at the PRI show. Good for him!

Now if Joey Hand and Alex Joeb would start a race team together, what would you call it?

trackjunky

DrJupeman

Patrick running a Spyder is what I want to see. An American racing the best Porsche in the AMERICAN Le Mans Series. Great stuff. Good publicity. Too bad Porsche will be getting their asses kicked in GT2. Maybe they can make the street GT2 into a GT1 car...

Plavan

Yep- Long will be in a RS Spyder. About time. Hopefully, he will still want to race my car in April....with a bigger fuel cell this time

MarkPcar

I wonder what this says about the AJR - Porsche relationship? When Porsche pulls factory supported drivers off of a privateer team it probably means they weren't to happy with last year.

michel944

Wreck Me Otter

And if they'd ever run a car in the MX-5 Cup series with their new title sponsor it'd be REALLY interesting....

Playboy Signs On for MX-5 Cup