Japan's Le Mans 24 Hours hero from 2004 is back, and talking to Gary Watkins

Team Goh is back at the Le Mans 24 Hours, five years on from its classic victory with Audi and Tom Kristensen. Not by design, you understand, but according to team boss Kazumichi Goh, "by accident".

Less than six months ago, the Japanese sportscar entrant had no plans to return to a race in which he'd been present on and off between 1997 and that nailbiting triumph with a factory-assisted Audi R8 driven by Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and Seiji Ara in 2004. Then came a phone call from his fixer in Europe, Torsten Robbens.

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