Tandy excited for home race in first full WEC season

24 Hours of Le Mans winner, Nick Tandy, is a man impatient to get started as a regular member of Porsche LMP Team’s efforts to score a hat-trick of FIA World Endurance Championship titles.

The British ace astounded seasoned sportscar observers with his early morning heroics at Le Mans in 2015. His quadruple stint contributed greatly to Porsche’s first overall win at La Sarthe since 1998, and has become something of a modern classic.

With just a month until the first round of the 2017 WEC season, Tandy is excited to be on the eve of his first full WEC campaign and did not hold back on his aspirations and objectives for the year ahead.

“It’s a World Championship and, along with the biggest race in the world, Le Mans, it is the pinnacle of sportscar and endurance racing. The natural aim in anyone’s career is to win the events and the championship at the very highest level. Those two in our area of the sport are the WEC and the Le Mans 24 Hours. These reasons are simply why I want to be with Porsche in this class – LMP1.

“I want to be World Champion in sportscar racing and I want to be a multiple winner at Le Mans,” continued the 32-year old. “It’s a huge deal to race in the WEC. To be able to say you are at the top and have a chance of attaining the success at this level is why we become racing drivers at a very young age.”

Tandy has a long history of racing at Silverstone and, having grown up just down the road in Bedford, it is truly a home event and one at which many of his friends and family will be in attendance.

“I can’t wait for Silverstone,” he says. “I love the track, I love the fact the event is just 30 minutes from my home. But, you know, I haven’t raced in the UK at all since the WEC round at Silverstone in April 2015. Last year was the first year ever in my career that I didn’t race at home at all.”

Sam Smith

A longer version of this article first appeared in Motor Sport Magazine