Patrick Dempsey got into racing in a big way. By 2015, he was essentially a full-time driver running the full World Endurance Championship in a Porsche 911 RSR, racking up a podium at Le Mans and a class win at Fuji that year. But, life, as it so often does, intervened. After that year, he walked away from both his career-defining role on Grey’s Anatomy and racing to focus on other projects and his young family.
This year, he jumped back into motorsports, running the new Porsche Endurance Challenge North America in a 718 Cayman GT4 RS with longtime teammate and friend Patrick Long. He also ran a couple Porsche Sprint Challenge races, notching up a win at Sonoma. Dempsey spoke with Motorsport.com and other outlets a few weeks ago before the season-finale six-hour race at Circuit of the Americas, where he, Long, and Tanner Foust placed 2nd.
