Ep.263 – Mike Rockenfeller, Pt.2

Dinner with Racers

Automotive, Sports, History, Leisure

5 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Mike Rockenfeller has quietly risen to become one of the most celebrated racers in all of sportscar. Growing up in rural Germany with limited means, Mike was the quintessential successful junior racer with limited means, eventually finding his way onto the Porsche factory driver roster, then Audi, and now Ford. Mike has literally won everything […]

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0:00.0	Mike Rockenfeller, part two.
0:03.0	Meow.
0:05.2	All right, we're going to start in five, four, three, two.
0:12.7	You talked about the year before you were at the Porsche fitness camp.
0:16.8	We know the Germans love their camps.
0:19.0	Audi, so Audi has their camp that you go to the first year.
0:23.6	Yes.
0:24.6	Now we know this, there's a tradition as we've learned from other drivers.
0:26.6	You go up to the mountain, you have to run around, you get drunk, but you have a song that you make everybody sing to.
0:32.6	Well, it's not a specific song.
0:34.6	Oh, I thought you had to choose.
0:36.6	No, yeah, you choose. Yeah, I think you choose.
0:39.3	I mean, I don't remember.
0:41.3	Honestly, I don't.
0:42.3	Probably I was too drunk.
0:44.3	At the Audi camp.
0:46.3	No, I think actually the drinking part was usually, well, it's always the last night. Yeah, yeah. You run up that hill, race up, and the tradition is like, and again, Audi was also a very
0:57.0	cool, like, you know, good, good driver.
0:59.0	Well, Dr. Urick, he knew how to do a team building at him, right?
1:04.0	Like, and that was part of it, like the last night, having a good time, you know, just us
1:10.0	in a little hot in the snow.
1:11.6	Usually the years after I didn't drink because then I drove home that night.
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