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Porsche: Thriller at Silverstone (2016)

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Phillippa Gillett

1 Views • Apr 28, 2016

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Watch the video news of a thrilling six hour race in Silverstone. Neel Jani (CH) finished second in the Porsche 919 Hybrid he shares with Romain Dumas (FR) and Marc Lieb (DE). Porsche suffered when the number 1 car of reigning World Champions Timo Bernhard (DE), Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AU) crashed after around two hours.

After Silverstone saw rain and snow on the previous days, on Sunday the race start was in bright sunshine with the two 919 Hybrids of title defender Porsche lining up third and fourth on the grid for the first of nine World Championship rounds.

In GTE Pro, the number 77 Porsche 911 RSR of Richard Lietz and Michael Christensen finished 6th.