The innovative Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid won the fourth round of the VLN championship at the Ring on the weekend. In doing so it becomes the first hybrid powered vehicle to claim victory on the Nordschleife. The slender winning margin of just over seven seconds can be put down to the GT3 R Hybrid’s [...]

Unfortunately the trip to Germany for Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff to race in a VLN endurance round at the Nürburgring turned out to be little more than a tourist visit to the Audi factory in Neckarsulm. According to a short paragraph in the latest Audi Motorsport newsletter Lowndes binned his R8 LMS in practice. [...]

Word on the street, via Bridge to Gantry, says the McLaren MP4-12C had a bit of an off at the end of an industry pool testing day last week. Apparently the 12C went out at the end of the session, with the track to itself and a TV crew in chopper chasing overhead, indicating a [...]

Today we bring you a rather depressing video which highlights how quickly unexpected dangers can present themselves on the Ring. Here, an otherwise competent driver is tracking his Lotus Exige. He does the right thing by moving aside to allow quicker cars go past. Then, on the descent to Adenau bridge, the driver comes across [...]

There was a six-hour VLN race at the Ring over the weekend, eventually won by the Farnbacher Ferrari. Here’s some footage showing the exit to Pflantzgarten I. All looks good, the lead cars are carrying some great speed through the turn. Off-camera a Porsche and Renault collide and we see the aftermath, luckily avoided by [...]

James Glickenhaus, wealthy American businessman, is not content with his own custom built Ferrari creation, the P4/5 by Pininfarina, so he’s making a racing version. Not just that, his new privately funded creation is designed to tackle the Nürburgring 24 hour race in June. The P4/5 Competizione, based on a Ferrari F430 Scuderia, has been [...]

This crazy looking electric powered Peugeot EX1, complete with 250kW, has set a new lap record on the Nürburgring Nordschleife for an electric powered car. It didn’t hang about, either, posting time of 9:01.338—oh so close to breaking the 9 minute barrier. Stéphane Caillet, from Peugeot’s Research & Development Centre, was the man behind the [...]

Last weekend the Volkswagen Golf24 took part in a VLN round to continue its development ahead of this year’s Nürburgring 24 hour race. Here’s some video of the car in action where the driver takes the high-line around the Karussell. That in itself is not so amazing, that the driver was doing so to overtake [...]

British drivers Johnny Herbert and Mark Blundell will draw on their Formula One and Le Mans winning experience to lead the Golf24 charge for Volkswagen Motorsport at the Nürburgring 24 hour race this year. With 440hp and all-wheel drive at their command the British duo should be capable of a top 10 finish. They will [...]

The Nürburgring 24 hour race is one of motorsport’s toughest challenges. Earlier this year V8 Supercar drivers Craig Lowndes and Warren Luff got a small taste of what it might be like by driving a factory-backed Audi R8 LMS in the Bathurst 12 hour. Many Australians have competed at the Nürburgring 24 hour race. Indeed, [...]