Dennis Olsen doesn't have factory status at Porsche but his race-winning performance in the 2022 DTM season showed he deserves a promotion within the German marque's stable. Feature:
It was the kind of press conference question that often results in disinterested, throwaway response from Formula 1 drivers keen to get media duties over with. Who were the drivers you raced coming through the ranks in karting that didn’t make it to grand prix racing, but should have done?
Of that trio, Barnicoat and Nielsen have factory deals with their respective brands in the IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship and the FIA World Endurance Championship, with the Dane likely to be part of Ferrari’s Hypercar lineup in some capacity after claiming last year’s LMP2 Pro/Am crown. “For sure I would like to have the status as a factory driver because especially now it seems like the guys who are driving the LMDh factory cars, it’s only factory drivers that has been placed in those,” says the 2014 Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup runner-up , who left single-seaters behind in 2015 and has specialised in Porsches ever since. Until 2020, the 2017 German Carrera Cup champion held the status of Porsche young professional after previously being a Porsche junior.
“I asked for a bit of a feedback what is needed to take the next step and we are communicating about it, so I’m aware,” he says. “Definitely I think the main thing will be just to keep on proving that it’s a position that I will deserve at one point.” With points a long shot “in the beginning of the season when we were not competitive at all”, his main barometer early on was Vanthoor, the best established of Porsche’s three drivers in the DTM. But it was Olsen who four times in the first six races prior to the Norisring was the quickest of the Weissach contingent in qualifying.
SSR was one of many teams impacted by the shortfall in Michelin tyre stocks and its only in-season tests, after four days across Paul Ricard and Lausitzring ahead of the official Portimao test, were two hours of running split between the two drivers at Imola and a one-day group test at the Nurburgring.
At the Norisring, “where we all kind of looked much stronger immediately, we saw quite clearly once the Porsche was within range we could fight”, he took his first podium by finishing second to factory driver Thomas Preining’s Team Bernhard machine. A second podium for Olsen came with an assertive drive to second at the Nurburgring.
“Throughout the last years when you’re teaming up with guys, it proves that the whole crew has done a good job, and the whole team and whole package [when success comes],” he says. “Whereas DTM it’s kind of only all up to you and your team and the crew around you. Olsen is in good company within Porsche’s pool of contracted drivers this year who all share the aspiration of factory status.
In that clear declaration of intent he sounds similar to Ferrari F1 talisman Leclerc, with whom he “had a lot of nice and hard fights at the karting track and in single-seaters”.
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