After a significant reshuffling of its driver lineup for 2025, Porsche Penske Motorsport has reunited a bromance in its #6 IMSA WeatherTech Championship 963 car with Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet. A title-winning pair at that.
With Nick Tandy moving over to the #7 car for 2025, Jaminet needed a new teammate. Campbell is his partner in crime - can we call them CamJam? - he described the pair as a “couple”, and they’re certainly ready to use that to their advantage this season.
“Another year stuck with this guy!” laughs Campbell. “I feel like we have grown up together,” Jaminet adds. “Since 2020 we never really separated anymore. The couple is going well!”
Having first met around 2017 when they were Porsche junior drivers, the pair first started working together more regularly in 2020, and in 2022, they overcame a run of many second-place finishes by winning the IMSA GTD Pro championship title.
Between them that year, they finished every race in the top five and won five events including the 24 Hours of Daytona in the Porsche 911 GT3 R.
We asked the pair if they had any stories that jumped out at them about 2022.
“Stories from on track or off track at the bar, because I've got stories for both options,” jokes Jaminet.
“The night before the race in Virginia, where we won the next day, we had a really cool night with the team, axe throwing and having a proper good event.
“Moments like this, you enjoy sometimes even more than wins, creating friendships. So that was one of the highlights, on top of all the wins we had and the good moments on track.”
It’s hard to offer an alternate opinion given the nature of their win, a whopping 220 points clear of the opposition.
Now they are back together for a full championship for the first time since that 2022 season, and have started with a third and a second at Daytona and Sebring respectively to run second in the championship behind the sister #7 car, 91 points off the leader and 82 points clear of third place.
It’s clear that, while teammates don’t have to be the best of friends to be effective, Campbell and Jaminet can use their relationship to benefit them.
“One of the things that we have between us is not having an ego,” says Campbell.
“In racing, it's very easy to have ego, but certainly when it comes to decision making and our on track success from the past years, we've never really had this and never cared too much about who does different parts of the race or so forth.”
Jaminet agrees, adding: “It's so competitive to get to this point, to become professional with a manufacturer as big as Porsche, and now to programs like PPM, it's not easy to still be friends with people or be honest and an open book when it comes to performance and stuff like this. But what makes our strength in the past was actually also to help each other.
“It doesn't mean you cannot win with people you don't like to work with and be with. But for sure, like in every team sport, if you're able to put your ego on the side and really work as a team and as one, I really believe it makes you stronger.”
When they’re not at the track, the pair are usually either skiing or go karting, or if they’re at their respective homes, playing Call of Duty, and always stay in touch. The next trip is for Campbell to visit Jaminet’s new home in Andorra, where they can also get some water sports in before the next race.
However, not everything is absolutely perfect in this relationship, as there is one event CamJam will have to divorce for: they aren’t in the same lineup for the biggest race of the year at Le Mans.
“There will be only one Le Mans winner out of us, and I know it's me, so I'm gonna be sad for him that we cannot win it this year together,” says Jaminet, who is with Julien Andlauer and Michael Christensen in the #5, while Campbell joins Kévin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor in #6.
“…But if I don't win it, I really hope he wins it, that would be a cool story. Unfortunately, we cannot share it there.”
But that still leaves plenty to focus on in IMSA, where Jaminet and Tandy finished second last year to the #7 of Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr.
The next race is at Long Beach where Jaminet was clipped into a spin last year while fighting for victory and having been the highest qualifying Porsche for that race.
It’s the first sprint race of the season, just 100 minutes compared with 24 hours at Daytona and 12 at Sebring. That offers different challenges and a higher intensity.
But Campbell and Jaminet are ready.
Long Beach is the next race for Porsche Penske Motorsport, on April 12th.
