Today Mercedes announced its return to the World Endurance Championship for 2025 in the GT3 category after a 25-year-plus absence. To celebrate, today's Great Read sees Silver Arrows driver Kenny Acheson back behind the wheel of his Sauber Mercedes C9, the car which took the German brand back to the top step at Le Mans. Gary Watkins was there to see an unlikely reunion
The overalls still fit and so, by definition, does the cockpit. Thirty years on from the most successful season of his racing career, Kenny Acheson is easing back behind the wheel of a Sauber-Mercedes C9 in the same grey Nomex in which he won two rounds of the 1989 World Sports Car Championship and endured a heart-breaking near-miss at the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Acheson, now 62, feels immediately at home in the Silver Arrow that put Mercedes back on the international motor sport map in only year two of its official comeback. He's not driving the car on a circuit – he hasn't had a competition licence since he walked away from the sport nearly a quarter of a century ago – but on the Turweston aerodrome runway just down the road from Silverstone. But it's enough to rekindle some fond memories...
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