Other notables include: #333 Raeder Automotive Audi A3 – 29th overall, 1st in SP3T, #37 Team DMV e.V. VW Golf III – 1st in H1 and a beautiful #377 VW Scirocco MSC Ruhr Blitz e.V. im ADAC 5th in SP3T. There was also a solo effort in a Porsche 968 CS by Francois Rivière.
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Christian Mamerow (Castrop-Rauxel) and Dirk Werner (Kissenbrück) celebrated at the 41st ADAC Barbarossapreis the second win of the season for Mamerow racing. The duo went into the eighth marked by tension over the BFGoodrich Endurance Championship a lead of 55.585 seconds to Marcel Tiemann (Monaco), Romain Dumas (Switzerland) and Arno Klasen (Karlshausen) in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR by Manthey Racing. Hans-Joachim Stuck (Austria), Frank Biela (Monaco) and Marc Basseng (Leutenbach) rounded out the Audi R8 LMS Phoenix-Racing the podium. Jorg Muller and Augusto Farfus (both Monaco) completed the European premiere of the BMW M3 GT2 at number four, and celebrated while the first tour miles in densely occupied starting field of sport’s most popular series in Europe.
“We are pleased with the debut of our new car on the Nordschleife satisfied,” says Friedhelm Nohl, director of sports and touring car technology at BMW. “We have our development program as planned, can uncoil. One of the most important points was the factor of stability, and as we have shown that we are easily over the distance. It might work even in two weeks with a podium finish. “In a direct comparison of the fastest lap times in the race, the BMW M3 GT2 immediately in the top group was present. Müller Farfus ranked with 8:19,882 minutes on a par with the Audi R8 LMS.
In qualifying and the race of the Porsche 911 GT3 of weekly surprise Manthey. The trio George Weiss (Monschau), Michael Jacobs (Roettgen) and Marcel Tiemann secured with a lap time of 8:13,486 minutes, the pole position. Even the fastest lap (8:17,781 minutes) went to the account of the second Manthey Porsche. In the race, the Porsche retired prematurely after twelve rounds.
After the phase of the first pit stops of Mamerow Porsche took over the lead on lap 14, and built it from successively. “A beautiful victory,” enthused Mamerow. “According to second place in the last race, the team has now been rewarded with victory of the season number two. We have used our opportunities and were perfectly constant, fast. Although the lead at the end of sovereignty seems we have to have to fight pretty hard. ”
Only in the final meters of the race the decision was made in the fight for second place. Basseng closed on the Döttinger height on ahead of him Tiemann. In the zoo, there was then a touch of the vehicles. Tiemann kept the happier end for himself and saved second place finish. “I got to 275 km / h suddenly a stroke and had left behind their hands full to keep the Porsche on the track,” said Tiemann. Basseng describes his vision: “I tried at the zoo with excess speed, overtake the Manthey Porsche, when he suddenly changed his line.” A heated discussion after the race ended with a decision of the panel: Both drivers were verbally warned and stand for the next race under observation.
Dennis Rostek (Porta-Westfalica), René Rast (Stolzenau) and Nicki Thiim (Rinteln) piloted the second set of Phoenix Audi R8 LMS in fifth place, before Uwe Alzen (Betzdorf) and Lance David Arnold (Germany), the fastest in Cup-Porsche was sixth. The top 10 was completed by Norbert Fischer (Cologne), Marco Seefried (Nuremberg) and Nick de Bruijn (Netherlands) in a Porsche 911 GT3, Volker Strycek (Dehrn) and Ralf Andreas noise (both Dornstadt) in the Opel Astra V8 Coupe, Rodney Forbes ( Australia) and David Horn (Steinbach) in the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup and Rudy Adams (Ahütte), Stefan Aust (Münster) and Wolf Silvester (Nuremberg) in the BMW Z4 Coupé Dörr Motorsport.
First class win of 2009 for the VLN Honda Junior Team
Dennis and Kristian Nägele (Lauterstein and Donzdorf) and Tim Scheerbarth (Dormagen) celebrated during the eighth round of the year the first class victory of the VLN Honda Junior Team in the Honda Civic Cup class. The trio sat down with a lead of 20.274 seconds against Frank by Totz (Brakel) and Peter Kreuer (Cologne). “All good things are three” was the motto of the Renault Clio driver Karl Brinker (Herne), who rejoiced in his third class win in the SP3. With this, his 50-year-old back to the championship lead in the New Renault Clio Cup.
Change at top of the table: Black Falcon takes the lead
Alexander Böhm (Kelberg), Christer Jöns (Ingelheim) and Sean Paul Breslin (UK) have taken over with its seventh class victory, and considering the first of two string results that lead in the overall standings of the BFGoodrich Endurance Championship. While the so far leading Rolf Derscheid (Much) and Michael Flehmer (Overath) could enter another victory for the VLN Series cars up to 1,800 cc, with an average of more opponents gathered in the class, the Black Falcon Trio, however, about the The season so far more points.
Reuter with the first use of the ten OPC Race Camp finalists satisfied
Four out of five teams of the OPC Race Camp looked at the 41st ADAC Barbarossapreis after the 4-hour distance from the checkered flag. Only Charlotte Wilking (Waltrop) and Thierry Kilchenmann (mirror) parted prematurely after a collision. “All have shown in their Rennpremiere a good performance and challenging experience,” said Manuel Reuter, founder and team leader, Team OPC Race Camp. “What a pity that Charlotte was innocently involved in the third round in a collision, but this can now happen again. Overall I am satisfied with the performance. ”
Award Ceremony in, Eifel barn ‘a success
For the first time was at the 41st ADAC Barbarossapreis the official ceremony in the nightclub experience, Eifel barn ‘of the Eifel village green hell “instead. The VLN and the pilot project in which all fans of the BFGoodrich Endurance Championship were invited, was a resounding success. “Simply great that the fans can participate in the ceremony,” enthused Hans-Joachim Stuck. “I hope that we can celebrate our successes more frequently in future.”
- VLN (Google translated)
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