The 'ring 24hrs report (potentially with spoilers)

[Chassis 33]

Can anyone give me a quick summary of what happened in the race, I gather it poured down and there was a lengthy red flag period, other than that I know the top 3 finishers and that's it.

I've tried Google but can't find any more.

Regards
Iain

[bobthemonkey]

Full Results here:
http://adac.24h-rennen.de/live/ergebnisse/ergebnis...

[freedman]

I watched about 12 hors of the live streaming, with the Radio Le Mans commentary.

Great race with plenty of interest and incident, won by the fastest car deservedly

200 plus starters with cars from full race Astons and Porsches worth 100s of ks to cars probably worth less than a grand driven by pure amateurs.

Fantastic stuff

[d_drinks]

or here: http://www.dailysportscar.com/viewArticle.cfm?arti...

[GravelBen]

Looks like the Kiwi teams did fairly well-

12th overall, 6th in class SP 7 - Baird/Bell/Quinn/Quinn (Porsche 997 RSR)

60th overall, 1st group N - Rollinson/Owers/McKay/Eady (Civic type-R)

68th overall, 2nd group N - McGovern/McIntyre/Martin/Taylor (Civic type-R)

Not a bad effort out of 220ish cars and 157 finishers.

[Hansgerd]

Some impressions from the Nordschleife:

Manthey wins the 24 hours at the Ring...


Second placed Zakspeed Viper...


Close fight between third placed Land Motorsport and Manthey at Hohe Acht...


Whoaw at Pflanzgarten 1...


Whoaw at Pflanzgarten 2... driver got away shaken and stirred...


Jumping out of Eschbach...


Brünnchen 1...


Wippermann...


Brünnchen 2...

Edited by Hansgerd on Monday 11th June 08:38

Edited by Hansgerd on Monday 11th June 15:08

[jellison]

An RSR was always going to win round here.

What was that care that rolled?

[touching cloth]

Crikey what happened to the Astons? Highest one to finish was 62 (just behind a Fiesta )
Am guessing all 4(?) had a fair few reliability issues.

[Jules G]

Was a Suzuki Swift, watched it live on the ADAC streem with radio Lemans coverage, diver OK

[jellison]

touching cloth said:

Crikey what happened to the Astons? Highest one to finish was 62 (just behind a Fiesta )
Am guessing all 4(?) had a fair few reliability issues.

They are Trucks? Even it they had run fine they woul dnever have gotten near the RSR's.

[touching cloth]

jellison said:

touching cloth said:

Crikey what happened to the Astons? Highest one to finish was 62 (just behind a Fiesta )
Am guessing all 4(?) had a fair few reliability issues.

They are Trucks? Even it they had run fine they woul dnever have gotten near the RSR's.

Not necessarily expecting a win from them but thought at least on might have been in the top 10.

[jellison]

Must have been some fiesta!

[Ahonen]

jellison said:

touching cloth said:

Crikey what happened to the Astons? Highest one to finish was 62 (just behind a Fiesta )
Am guessing all 4(?) had a fair few reliability issues.

They are Trucks? Even it they had run fine they woul dnever have gotten near the RSR's.

The N24s are only very lightly modified road cars. Cages, sumps, springs, dampers and, er, that's it. Even the brakes are standard. Two of the three were in the top 30 before they hit problems - and each driver line-up had only one semi-pro in the car with three Aston employees (Bez etc).

The Phoenix DBRS9 was running right at the front before engine failure late on Sunday morning. That was a GT3+, with more aero, different dampers and, I suspect, a bit less weight.

An incredible race and great to have the RLM team providing English words to go with the live streaming (including Graham Goodwin, who frequents PH occasionally). It was like Test Match Special on Radio 4, but with less cake. Thanks Graham - top job!

[GarrettMacD]

Hansgerd said:

Whoaw at Pflanzgarten 1...

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that the Mercedes 500 SEC at the top of this picture??? The one that did the Britcar 24hr in 2005?

[Ahonen]

GarrettMacD said:

Do my eyes deceive me, or is that the Mercedes 500 SEC at the top of this picture??? The one that did the Britcar 24hr in 2005?

Yep, the very same. Gentlemanly racing at its finest.

[Hansgerd]

Yes, that's the very same Derichs 500 SEC. Only fuel and CDs during pit stop please.

I didn't know that Graham Goodwin was at the Ring, too.

Edited by Hansgerd on Monday 11th June 14:54

[Regional]

I got back from working there yesterday.
That is indeed Erwins Merc, bomproof that thing is and always gets a very respectable finish along with his Audi 200

Edited by Regional on Tuesday 12th June 10:31

[Joe911]

jellison said:

An RSR was always going to win round here.

That's really not the case, IMHO.

[jellison]

Joe911 said:

jellison said:

An RSR was always going to win round here.

That's really not the case, IMHO.

They are German - they will know there way round

[Joe911]

jellison said:

Joe911 said:

jellison said:

An RSR was always going to win round here.

That's really not the case, IMHO.

They are German - they will know there way round

Historically - BMW do pretty well - there were twice as many BMW entries than Porsche this year! Admittedly a BMW win this year was unlikely - Aston, to their credit, made a really strong showing - and the Vipers usually do well too.