The two Porsche 963 fielded by the Porsche Penske Motorsport factory team are holding their ground among the frontrunners in the early stages of the 24 Hours of Daytona. In the first four hours of the endurance classic in Florida, Brazilian Felipe Nasr advanced to second place at the start in the #7 car and defended his position over many laps. In the first hours, his British brand colleague Nick Tandy worked his way up the order to fourth place in the #6 sister car. The Porsche 963 customer teams were also looking strong as the sun set. The partner teams in the two GT classes brought their Porsche 911 GT3 Rs through the first four hours of the race unscathed.
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00:00 Well, the RS Spider, you know, was a very light car with a strong engine, incredible
00:07 chassis, a lot of fun to drive, very agile.
00:14 The 919, I think, was a car for engineer and driver, you know.
00:20 You really need to work with your engineer and you really need to have the right one,
00:24 the right setting to perform.
00:25 First of all, you know, it was just my first lap and I can find out already that 963 is
00:34 really a baby of the 919.
00:36 A lot of points are quite similar, you know, with the regeneration on braking, the brake
00:41 power rise and so on.
00:43 963, for sure, here in Daytona with this big banking and so on, you are reaching a lot
00:47 of top speed.
00:48 It's fast in terms of engine and so on, straight away.
00:51 On top of that, when you are coming from Dakar, you know, in the middle of the sand, you are
00:55 going on power, you feel that you have a lot of power.
00:57 If you are pushing, quicker you will go.
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