WANGANUI'S Earl Bamber and his Porsche teammates recovered from a series of incidents to finish sixth in an action-packed six-hour race in Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium at the weekend.
Bamber was one of two Kiwis in teams driving three Porsche 919 Hybrids in the endurance event.
The other Kiwi, Brendon Hartley, with Mark Webber (Australia) and Timo Bernhard (Germany) had started from pole position, but dropped back due to a penalty and a technical failure. They fought their way back to finish third.
The trio of Romain Dumas (France), Neel Jani (Switzerland) and Marc Lieb (Germany) came second at round two of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC).
This was a repeat of the season's opening race at Silverstone.