LAHLOUH: Sonoma Debrief: Why I’m Hooked on GT3

Porsche Mobil 1 Female Driver Program member Therese Lahlouh files her first Sportscar365 column…

I made my GT3 debut at Sonoma last month and I’ve discovered something about myself.

Give me a new car, a stacked grid, and expectations higher than Willie Nelson, and I don’t panic. I immediately begin a detailed internal engineering meeting with myself that nobody asked for.

Thirty-seven mental tabs open. All of them playing audio. My fellow over-thinkers – sound familiar?

So naturally, my debut in GT World Challenge America powered by AWS went very smoothly, very logically, and absolutely according to plan.

Yah, right!

What actually happened is what always happens: I arrive, feel optimistic, immediately begin overanalyzing everything, briefly find flow, question reality, go faster, forget why it worked, panic a little, repeat.

Sonoma just ran that entire loop at 150 mph in front of thousands of fans.


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