Our streak of glee continues unabated. Last night, I sat down with René Villeneuve, our jacket designer Kim Johnson and Rene’s daughters and discussed the experience of putting this team together and our hopes for today. I said to Rene, “I just want you guys to finish tomorrow. Anything else is gravy.” Pass the mashed potatoes, please, because Villeneuve and Richard delivered a 12th-place finish in the GT class (and 24th overall) under trying conditions in their first time out. We’re incredibly proud of their performance today — even TRG honcho Kevin Buckler was pleased with our showing. And for Team Polizei to accomplish this at Laguna Seca, which is one of my personal favorite places in the world and René’s home track? Absolute elation. In fact, in some ways, this whole thing is almost more unbelievable than when Alex and Maher pulled across the finish line in Santa Monica 2 1/2 years ago. The car is real. It exists. It has finished its first race. Over the next few days, we’ll have plenty more coverage to come from our massive archive of material, so keep checking back.
Congrats to everyone involved ! It was great to see the #63 on Speed and the mentioning of Team Polizei 144 while the car got 30 secs face time was equally great.
Looking forward to the next few days.
Cheers,
Volker
Congratulations and thanks to everyone, it was a very exciting time watching you live online from 6000 miles away.
Nice work guys! We all wanted to see police light antics on the track, but kudos for driving your ’08 all out!
Congrats again to Alex and everyone else involved. Awesome, awesome effort.
So, what’ve you got planned for Watkins Glen? I’d love to make the trip over from Connecticut, all the more so if you have any pre-race events going on like you did at Laguna Seca.
Great job in true Team Polizei fashion
-Taylor
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