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, [...]
Stuart Greaves, the filmmaker behind the Mal’s Big Green Hell doco, is on the way to making another film based on the 2010 Nürburgring 24 hour race. Thanks to regular AUSringers reader Obi for sending in this clip, in which he also features. This footage is filmed mainly at Obi’s regular vantage point, just before [...]
Among the disaster stories currently emanating from the Nürburgring we recently received a little gold nugget from Western Australia. It’s a great tale, posted to our Your Story section, from Joel Newman and introduces us to him and his Toyota Hilux which travelled from Fremantle to London. Along the way, as you can imagine, Joel [...]
It’s pretty fair to say that you cannot compare any racetrack with the famed Nürburgring Nordschleife. But here in Australia, Mount Panorama in Bathurst is the closest we have to anything like the Ring. The Bathurst circuit is only 6.2km long and a fair portion of the track consists of undulating straights. However, the climb [...]
The team that brought us Mal’s big green hell was back at the Nürburgring 24 hour race this year and after the jump you can watch a teaser of what we can expect from their next doco. As you would expect the film will feature most of the Aussies who took part in the 2010 [...]
Another Nürburgring 24 hour race has been run and won. To see how the Aussies and Kiwis at the race finished up just check the list below. Congratulations to the Honda Civics from New Zealand who ran a strong race to take out first and second in the N2 class. There was an Aussie in [...]
Drama at the head of the race with the #9 Porsche GT3 R Hybrid retiring with what is believed to be a transmission fault. The #25 BMW M3 GT2 inherited the lead and is currently over 8 minutes in front of the #43 Ferrari F430 GTC. Reports suggest the BMW is having transmission problems of [...]
A few moments ahead of hour 21 this is where the Australians and New Zealanders sit. The first six cars in the list have been circulating with good consistency. Special mention to the two Honda Civics (cars #243 and #244) that have been lapping pretty much in unison since last night. They are leading their [...]
Latest updated placings for Aussies and neighbouring Kiwis can be found below. I’ve got my hands on the most recent entry list (120kb PDF) thanks to Radio Le Mans, so there’s a couple of changes to the entries below. This update was compiled a few minutes prior to hour 18 ticking over, due to time [...]
The sun has now risen at the Nürburgring 24 hour race and there are developments at the head of the field. The #9 Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid now holds the lead over the #2 and #99 Audi R8 LMS cars. That’s a very impressive result for the Hybrid which is making its N24 debut [...]
