Category: VLN/N24

Glickenhaus snatched Pole Position ahead of all the big car manufacturers, when the Top 30 qualifying was run this evening for the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Glickenhaus SCG003C #704 with Jeff Westphal surprised all the works teams, among them, Audi. Land Motorsport #29 with Connor De Phillippi had Pole Position until the final seconds of the qualifying, when the German brand was beaten by the American Privateers in their special build SP-X car. Audi was going so hard for Pole Position, than the traditional Michelin team chose to dump the…

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There was plenty of drama at the finish of VLN2. The overall lead changed two times on the final lap. When the chequered flag fell after four hours, Manthey Porsche #911 took the second win of the year out of the two races so far. While the race was decided shortly before going onto the final lap at VLN1, the lead changed from the Manthey Porsche to Audi SPort Team Land #28 through the first few corners on the final lap. Through the four hours they had been battling hard…

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It was a French victory at the VLN1 race at Nürburgring today. The Porsche trio of Romain Dumas, Fred Makowiecki, and Patrick Pilet for Manthey Racing #911 took both Pole Position and the victory at the first 4-hour race of the year on the famous Nordschleife. However, it wasn’t a walk in the park for the trio. The had a big battle with the brand colleagues from Falken Motorsport #4 with Marting Ragginger, Jörg Bergmeister, and Laurens Vanthoor behind the wheel. They were in the lead until nine minutes before…

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There will be close to 200 cars starting the opening round of the VLN series at the Nürburgring Nordschleife tomorrow. The VLN series is a mixture of almost every possible car that can race. The fastest cars are GT3 cars, that can do a lap of the track in just below 8 minutes, whereas the slowest cars will be lapping almost 4 minutes slower. That is in dry conditions, which isn’t always the weather you’ll find in the Eifel mountains. It’s quite common that the time table on race day…

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There will be a lot of battles on the tarmac when the VLN series starts next weekend. 187 cars have entered the series, which will run at the legendary Nordschleife track around the Nürburg castle. There are numerous classes depending on what kind of car that you are driving, but BMW, Opel, Porsche and Toyota are running special Cups for their cars, and in these Cups there are 50 cars alone entered. 39 so-called road cars are entered, which means a car with very limited modification other than suspension and…

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The well-known radio station Radio Le Mans (RLM) expands to cover the full VLN series in 2017 Radio Show Limited, who is behind RLM, already covers a lot of racing all over the world. A lot of people know them as the English language commentary at the 24 Hours Of Le Mans, but that’s actually just a small part of their broadcast programme. RLM has covered the 24 Hours of Nürburgring since 2007, which has its background in the VLN series, without being a part of the actual championship, but…

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There will be four works supported Audi R8 LMS racers at at the starting grid for the 24 Hours of Nürburgring at the end of May. Audi Sport Team Land will be there with two cars, where last years ADAC GT Masters Championship Christopher Mies and Connor De Phillippi will be on double duty, since they will pilot both cars. The will have help by Christopher Haase and Pierre Kaffer in one car, while Kelvin van der Linde and Markus Winkelhock will help in the other. Audi Sport Team WRT…

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BMW Motorsport has announced their 21 drivers for the 24 hours of Nürburgring. All names on the list are well-known drivers in motorsport, but not all of them used to represent BMW colors. Five out of the six DTM drivers are on the entry list, where we’ll see 2016 DTM Champion Marco Wittmann, Bruno Spengler, Maxime Martin, Augusto Farfus, and Tom Blomqvist. Timo Glock won’t participate in this race. Wittmann, Martin, Blomqvist, and Farfus won the race for BMW in 2010. From the IMSA Championship we have Martin Tomczyk, John…

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The VLN 2017 season will consist of 9 races. That has been announced by the organizers. All races will as usual be held at the Nordschleife, and the season will start on March 25th and end on October 21st. The first two races of the season serves as qualifying for new drivers for the 24 hours race, that is held on May 27th-28th. However that races isn’t part of the VLN series, although the majority of the teams also participate in the legendary races as well. The complete calendar looks…

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The TCR cars spread themselves over the world like a bushfire. Other than the international series that started in 2015, there are plenty of regional series all over the world, and next year the Swedish STCC goes for that car model too. Now the popular car type get their own division at the VLN races at the Nordschleife. At the season finale we saw the first version of Audi Sport’s new TCR RS 3 LMS race car. We have seen a German version of the TCR series in the shape…

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This weekend we will see the highlight of the year at the Nürburgring – if not the biggest race of the year in Germany. The 24 hour race at the Nordschleife is the race that all manufacturers want to win. Historically Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche has been fighting for many of the victories, but during the most resent times, Nissan, Jaguar, Bentley and Aston Martin. The race was first run in 1970, but hasn’t been run each year since. That means that this years race will be the 44th…

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Audi Sport in the shape of Phoenix Racing won the opening round of VLN at the Nürburgring. Dane Anders Fjordbach and German Frank Stippler was the 2 drivers behind the wheel of the white and blue Audi R8 LMS GT3. This was the first general victory for Fjordbach while Stippler took his 12th. They won the race ahead of teammates Laurens Vanthoor and Christopher Haase while Black Falcon Mercedes AMG GT3 with Bernd Schneider, Adam Christodoulou, Maro Engel and Manuel Metzger finished 3rd. It was another Audi who started in…

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Audi not only have their wellknown Le Mans programme, but also a big GT programme. That programme is primarily run by costumer teams such as Audi Sport Team Phoenix and Audi Sport Team WRT. Audi won Nürburgring 24h in 2015 and had 2 cars on the podium at Spa 24h. The driver lineups will be slightly adjusted for 2016, but the goals are still the same. To win the races. For the race in The Green Hell on May 28th and 29th, 3 of the 2015 winners will team up…

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