Welcome to the Marshall Pruitt podcast and your week in sports cars listener Q&A driven episode.

I am Marshall Pruitt. That is Graham Goodwin.

He is back and finally cooled down from a very to a

to a controversial end to at least in one class.

The FI World Endurance Championship season, we have Petit Lamont,

IMSA's season finale taking place as we record here Thursday morning,

my time in California, Thursday evening is in the UK.

Before we get into our usual categories, Graham of WEC, ACO, ELMS, Asian Lamaw series, and whatnot,

IMSA, other goodies.

What should we talk about here to open?

Should we broach the Corvette changes? Should we get into our man Pat Long? Where should we broach the corvette changes should we get into our man pat long where should we go

i mean all of the above i mean first things first pat long uh so we're recording this mp just

at what half an hour after um the official announcement that pat will be stepping down from a 20-year pro career with Porsche,

which has been just glittering, Le Mans class wins, class wins at Bathurst 12 hours,

IMSA titles, wins at Daytona, Sebring, GT World Challenge US titles.

And by the way, just what a top bloke is.

I mean, it's a lovely guy, always has been a lovely guy,

and we'll move on now as a brand ambassador for Porsche,

North America and a competition advisor for Porsche Motorsports in the US.

So happily, we'll keep that character and that talent

in the industry and in the sport.

But, you know, in the wake of,

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