Give it another Goh
Japan's Le Mans 24 Hours hero from 2004 is back, and talking to Gary Watkins
Team Goh is back at the Le Mans 24 Hours, five years on from its classic victory with Audi and Tom Kristensen. Not by design, you understand, but according to team boss Kazumichi Goh, "by accident".
Less than six months ago, the Japanese sportscar entrant had no plans to return to a race in which he'd been present on and off between 1997 and that nailbiting triumph with a factory-assisted Audi R8 driven by Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and Seiji Ara in 2004. Then came a phone call from his fixer in Europe, Torsten Robbens.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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