Nearly a quarter-million people bought this ground-breaking book when it was published in Fall 1998. Now, the book that celebrated that bold declaration is back in this special 10th anniversary edition featuring a new introduction and 16 additional pages that explore three new homes. “We were the odd couple,” says Long, 41.Ten years ago, Sarah Susanka started a revolution in home design with a deceptively simple message: quality should always come before quantity.

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His buddy Long is also a two-time Le Mans GT class winner, and a three-time American Le Mans Series GT conqueror. “I was beaten up, but we won Le Mans, and I was lucky that the Porsche doctor also looked after racing cyclists, so he knew road rash very well.”

Long and Bergmeister combined across eight seasons driving for Porsche A car took me out, and I slid over concrete for quite some metres, so I had big patches of my arm and leg missing and it was not the most comfortable drive! A week before the race, I had a bike crash. “Winning Le Mans in 2004 together with White Lightning was perhaps the most painful victory I ever had. “We’re still friends, and to have that kind of relationship – with the person you need to be quicker than! – was always a lot of fun.

“You want someone quick, who pushes you, but you want someone who gets along with you – therefore I have to say Patrick,” says Bergmeister.

By contrast, “on a good day” Long quips, the Californian was 5’9”. He was also one of the tallest drivers in the sportscar paddock at 6’4”. That included a stint in Daytona Prototypes with Alex Job Racing, but they are more famously associated with racing GTs for Petersen/White Lightning and shared the 2004 Le Mans 24 Hours class victory with Sascha Maassen.īergmeister, 47, is also an overall Daytona 24 Hours winner as well as a two-time Le Mans 24 Hours GT class victor – his most recent in the World Endurance Championship's GTE Am division came as recently as 2019, when he also won the WEC title. They drove Porsches together, primarily in America, for eight seasons out of 10 between 20.

Creating the not so big house