Good news for fans of motorsport action captured on film. The very clever chaps at Stereoscreen are making a feature-length film about this year’s Nürburgring 24 hour race. It will be titled 24hours. One team. One target. You may remember their short film from last year, 24 hours in 19500 frames. Great work indeed. Again, [...]
BMW Motorsport came to the 2011 Nürburgring 24 hour race as defending champions. Again they pinned their hopes on the M3 GT which has been impressive since its introduction. This year, though, it wasn’t to be and they had to make do with an honourable second place. Despite finishing within 4 minutes 23 seconds of [...]
Well the stunning Audi R8 LMS didn’t win the Nürburgring 24 hour race outright, but it did finish third and in doing so managed to win its class. The highest place #14 car was also involved in a terrific scrap with the #32 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in the closing stages, which made for great [...]
The interwebs brings word that the new F10 BMW M5 has set what is being claimed as a new lap record at the Nürburgring for a production model four-door sedan. The time has been set, apparently, by a BMW test driver. The time being bandied about is 7 minutes 55 seconds. That’s pretty quick, but [...]
Here is the official Porsche brag sheet from yesterday’s 24 hour race. It was a great win for Manthey Racing with the lead car heading the field for 208 laps and more than 16 and a half hours. In doing so the winning #18 car covered 156 laps in total covering 3,958.968km—a new distance record. [...]
Here’s a full onboard lap of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, filmed during N24 race conditions, from inside the second placed #1 BMW M3 GT. Turn your sound up to 11 and enjoy!
Manthey Racing will claim the headlines from the 2011 Nürburgring 24 hour race, but with over 200 starters there’s clearly going to be many worthy stories from all those who finished. Congratulations to all and especially those who made the long journey over from Australia and New Zealand. Special mention to car #248 the Team [...]
After qualifying below expectations and being considered by some to be too far behind the newer Audis, BMWs and Mercedes-Benz machines the #18 Manthey Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR has won the 2011 Nürburgring 24 hour race. The driving crew of Romain Dumas, Lucas Luhr, Marc Lieb and Timo Bernhard did it in style, too, [...]
There’s just two hours left to run now and the Manthey #18 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR has racked up 142 laps and continues to lead. The #1 BMW M3 GT remains in second. As this post goes to air there is a terrific scrap for third place between the #32 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and [...]
With four hours of racing to go competitors can almost see the end in sight. There’s been no change at the top and Manthey Racing are on the way to another N24 victory with their #18 911 GT3 RSR. After 125 laps completed they now have only the #1 BMW M3 GT on the same [...]
