In the lead up to next month’s 24 hour race the Manthey Racing team is well on track to defending its 24 hour title by claiming victory during a VLN race yesterday. It was the second win of the season for the team’s 911 GT3 R. Manthey Racing is also managing the racing debut of […]
Official confirmation of Walter Röhrl’s teammates for his drive in this year’s 24 hour race has finally come through. As expected Röhrl will be joined by Evo scribe Chris Harris (35), Sport Auto stalwart Horst von Saurma (55) and also former German Touring Car ace Roland Asch (59). They will form a very capable team […]
Sabine Schmitz is well known for her appearances on Top Gear. She’s also well known for her gig as a driver of the BMW Ring Taxi. She’s even been interviewed by AUSringers. But, ultimately, she’s a racer, so what better way to kick off 2010 than with some video footage of Sabine at the wheel […]
…not at the Nürburgring. Details of the the new 997.5 Porsche 911 GT3 were released the other day (see AUSmotive for more), and now a promotional video of the car in action has surfaced. As with other similar videos Porsche’s most famous test driver Walter Röhrl is at the wheel. However, perhaps crucially, the footage […]
Nürburgring and Porsche go together hand in hand. Do some laps of the Nordschleife on a Toursitenfahrten day and the most common car seen is likely to be the iconic 911 range. From 1970s classic, to modern day models. Safe to say, then, that most fans of the Ring are fans of Porsche, which brings […]
A few days ago a Porsche official made the extraordinary public claim that Nissan cheated when setting the GT-R’s amazing lap of 7 minute 29 seconds around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. And now Nissan is fighting back defending its honour. At a recent preview of the 911 Cabrio August Achleitner, the 911 product chief for Porsche, […]
An average lap speed over 200km/h—that summit has only been conquered once at the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The man? Stefan Bellof—behind the wheel of a Porsche 956 during qualifying for the 1983 1000km race. While Bellof’s pole winning time of 6:11.13 is regarded as only an unofficial record, his fastest lap recorded during the race of […]
