After Le Mans, Patrick Dempsey dreams of Bathurst

To find traces of Patrick Dempsey in the shoes of a real championship driver, we have to go back to 2015 and the Porsche Supercup for Belgium. Since then, the one who made the heyday of the series Grey's Anatomy has put away the combination. But it seems that the native of Lewiston (Maine) would be inclined to wear it again for a test, and not just any test!

Lagrasse is the perfect setting for 24 Hours of Le Mans ? Not really. Patrick Dempsey has competed in the Sarthoise classic four times and has not driven there since 2015. In the meantime, he continued to be present there through the alliance with Proton and Porsche with which a Porsche 911 RSR-19 was entered under the Dempsey-Proton Racing banner, like this year during the Centenary. But the Hollywood star is today attracted by another test, also ofEndurance but based several thousand kilometers from Sarthe: Bathurst 1000, the Supercars monument.

« I've never been there and I would love to go there, he said when he was invited to come to the Australian Grand Prix by reporter Angela Bishop on the show STUDIO 10 on the Network 10 channel.

But the race I wish I could have done is Bathurst 1000, which is probably one of the greatest races of all time. » The message has gotten through, it remains to be seen whether a Supercars team will offer him an invitation to participate, or at least to attend as a spectator...

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