Patrick Long

Yes.

Uh, and then they also, um, allow us access to, like, uh, mentors, um, like Richard Westbrook and Pat Long, um, who are obviously incredible, like super successful in the automotive motorsport space.

So, getting them, um, and their, their insights on things, as well as, um, having access to development camps that we usually do every year at Penske down in Charlotte.

Uh, and then we also get access to, um, just different media and promotion of ourselves and the program, um, and just support r- all the way around, um, from Porsche Motorsports as well as Mobile1 on pretty much anything.

And in that 356 you, you really feel that.

And all those older cars, Patrick Long once told me, he says, "You know, the most fun happens when the steering wheel is really big."

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Think about that for a minute.

It really is this unique kind of community within a larger community.

I want to ask too, you've really become inundated in this whole world and Patrick Long and Jeff Swart are really big names that are associated with this organization.

And you mentioned just a second ago, you know, kind of crossing paths with Patrick a while ago, but how did you actually come into that orbit? And really, what did your role look the same when you started with them to what it is now?

Well, so I met Patrick in 2001 in England.

1-2 for Penske Porsche team.

Winning combo was Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhardt ahead of Sacha Masson and Patrick Long.

Acura driven by Simon Pagano and Gilles Deferrand was third.

And this was Gilles Deferrand's return to racing.

Right.

Patrick Long.

Patrick Long.

Jim Farley, CEO

of Ford.

We'll get the official, uh, scorer's ruling on it for you.

And Patrick Long has given the hug.

Whether it'll be, uh, charged as a fastball on Walker or whether it was figured the pitch was pretty low and, uh, maybe charged as a wild pitch against Podres.

But Robinson is on to third now.

And then later, it'll be like, you know, the big, fast, like all the Porsche 935s, the De Kaan Monza.

By the way, Patrick Long, the Porsche racer we talked about, he runs the 935 out there, and he just smoked everybody yesterday.

But listen, everybody's fast in that group, and he's still just, you just can't touch him.

Yeah, but he's a professional who works Porsche as well.