Welcome once again to the weekend sports cars, part of the Marshall Pruitt podcast.

And as always with thanks first and foremost to the wonderful people at Cooper Tires, to the Justice Brothers and to Toronto Motorsports.

Once again, as we said last week, MP is having a bit of a short sabbatical from Erch from Twist with

lots going on in his private life in the background.

Needs a bit of downside and quite rightly should get some.

I'm delighted to say we've got another special guest presenter this week.

And it's, well, I think the more attractive of the Frankitti brothers, actually, which we'll get into a little bit later.

Marino Frankitti, Siebering 12-hour winner, LeMont Racer, British GT champion, loads more besides, and we'll get into that one in just a moment at two, Marino.

Delighted you could join us, and you are very welcome to Twisk.

Thanks for having me, yeah, a hard act of all after having Guy last week, but delighted to be here.

Well, he was the batshit crazy one. We're going to come up with a different moniker for your good self.

We're going to get straight in, by the way, and for a little bit of context about the generations involved here,

Marino, you were the champion in the first full championship I covered as a professional

journalist back in, was it 2001? It was, 20 years ago, and that was my first professional

gig too.

Wow.

I mean, my kind of favourite story from that year was, I believe, a very rainy Snetterton where you won the race and I was concentrating so hard in not missing anything and I missed an awful lot

that failed to realize that in the

tipping rain there I'd shared the entire race sheltering under a Pratt perch on the on the

pit wall at Stetterton with none other than your even then particularly famous brother

I actually realized he was sitting next to him,

he'd been there for an hour, completely ridiculous.

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