Mal Rose Racing Commodore at 2008 Nürburgring 24 hour
June 1st, 2008 Posted in Australia, GM, Motorsports
Congratulations to Mal Rose and his team for bringing their VY Commodore V8 Supercar home in the 2008 Nürburgring 24 hour race. The Mal Rose Racing Commodore finished 31st outright from the 230 entries and was the highest placed of the Australian entries. A few facts and figures from their race follow. The team’s best qualifying lap, completed over the 25.378km course, was 9 minutes 43 seconds. During the actual race they completed 131 laps (over 3300 kilometres). Top speed was 282km/h. Over the entire weekend, including qualifying, the V8 Supercar completed 3825 kilometres and consumed 2500 litres of fuel—at a price of AU$8750! Amazingly for such a big and relatively heavy car, they used only eight tyres (Toyo RS1 18″) and, even more amazing, used just a single set of brake pads. A great effort by Mal and his team, who have been Nürburgring trailblazers, providing a taste of this greulling race for numerous Australians. For 2009 Mal plans to upgrade his Supercar to a 6.0 litre V8, pumping out 655bhp. Nice!
See below for more pics, with thanks to Mal Rose and Nürburgring specialist photographer, Jochen from frozenspeed.
Left to right: Tony Alford, Peter Leemhuis and Mal Rose
2 Responses to “Mal Rose Racing Commodore at 2008 Nürburgring 24 hour”
By Flaps on Jun 2, 2008
Well done to Mal and the team! I was monitoring their progress and rooting for them to make the top 30 when they were 34th with about 2 hours or so to go.
I’m shocked that they only used 1 set of pads!!! What brakes were they running?
Top effort again!!!
By Mick on Jun 14, 2008
I notice that there are lights under the mirrors (for illumination of the car number).
How long until this is a commodore addition in the model range?