VLN and Nurburgring 24 hours

[airbusA346]

Looks like it's going to be a close finish.

[J Jay]

Looks like the pressure got to the #4 ... although that Bimmer did itself no favours sticking to the middle of the track.

Race over, congrats to to the #911 crew.

[airbusA346]

Well it's not a close finish then after the Falken Porsche had an incident.

Edit: Looks like #4 is a retirement.

[Akrapovic]

Dramatic finish.

I don't think the BMW did anything wrong. That's the racing line an the Am driver is going to be concentrating and committed at that point.

Mercedes are all bunched up fighting each other. That's quite amusing.

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by Akrapovic

Dramatic finish.

I don't think the BMW did anything wrong. That's the racing line an the Am driver is going to be concentrating and committed at that point.

Mercedes are all bunched up fighting each other. That's quite amusing.

If you run to a delta, you might just as well have some fun doing it.

[Akrapovic]

Funny that the cars that are at the back of the GT3 packs are running together. BMW and Mercedes in fighting. The other cars have all spread out a bit.

[J Jay]

#50 WRT muscles past #28 Land Motorsport for 3rd.

Edit - the #28 got back past somewhere...

[AkioAsakura95]

For VLN 1 race does all GT3 car in this race is apply B.O.P ??

[Speed-King]

There is BoP but it's N'ring specific and there are also some slightly different aero regs...

[Bcarr6]

Is the race going to be available on demand with the RLM comms does anyone know? Watched the first 30 mins and then had to go out!

[Victor_RO]

Video replay - don't think so, commentary feed - will be available in the RLM podcast archive as usual.

EDIT: Got ahead of myself. Stream replay is HERE: https://livestream.com/accounts/1866...deos/152586910

[Bcarr6]

Originally Posted by Victor_RO

Video replay - don't think so, commentary feed - will be available in the RLM podcast archive as usual.

EDIT: Got ahead of myself. Stream replay is HERE: https://livestream.com/accounts/1866...deos/152586910

Thanks, I only saw the German language version on demand must have missed the RLM one

Thanks again!

[rich07]

Crying shame what happened to Falken Porsche in the last ten minutes to keep their record of not winning a VLN race intact. Congrats to Manthey, German team , German car, three French drivers! Close finish to for the Cup5 class which was quite exciting.

Many thanks to the Radiolemans guys for their English commentary, I didn't know that some GT3 teams moved the position of the rear wings. Interesting.

[pafe]

Originally Posted by rich07

Many thanks to the Radiolemans guys for their English commentary, I didn't know that some GT3 teams moved the position of the rear wings. Interesting.

Its part of the 2017 VLN Regulations. From what I understood rear wing has either 10cm less width or placement to the front as a new rule. Also minimum height was increased to 70mm.

[nasdriv87]

Originally Posted by Bcarr6

Is the race going to be available on demand with the RLM comms does anyone know? Watched the first 30 mins and then had to go out!

Full replay with RLM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU9iCWudmCk

it was on youtube too, on saturday time race was around 4.000 ppl watching it only in this video...

[Miguel]

Originally Posted by pafe

Its part of the 2017 VLN Regulations. From what I understood rear wing has either 10cm less width or placement to the front as a new rule.

Also allowed to combine those numbers: 5mm to the front, 5mm smaller wing.

AMG was definitely sandbagging. Porsche definitely were not. Bentley smelling blood so why not just go for a first-ever Nürburgring podium. Audi, not sure if they were sandbagging. I suspect they were. BMW not giving a **** and just testing set-ups and tyres and what not.

[Truckosaurus]

Originally Posted by nasdriv87

Full replay with RLM...

I noticed there was a small 'misunderstanding' on the Twitter yesterday after DriveTribe were accused of stealing RLM's content until the VLN people confirmed they did indeed have the rights to stream and post the content to YouTube (with the RLM crew seemingly unaware of the fact).

[Miguel]

VLN1 report: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/29/rites-of-spring/

[Miguel]

Also some words from Laurens Vanthoor about the reason for his crash and some other stuff including what makes the Nordschleife so exciting: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/30/...n-by-the-ring/

[Miguel]

And some photos for those who enjoy looking at such things: http://www.gt-report.com/2017/03/30/...-spring-pt-ii/

We actually did too many awesome photos, so tomorrow we'll have a second gallery with again that many photos and they're no outtakes, but a split gallery



Interesting to note: VLN has banned confidential tyres but one driver told me he was testing tyres and didn't know if he was racing the selected tyre or a confidential tyre. And now VLN has yet to confirm the SP9/GT3 results because they're checking the tyres. Will be interesting to see if that brand was indeed not giving a **** about being taken out of the results if it meant they could test their tyres.

[nasdriv87]

Does someone could confirm how many Audi R8 LMS on SP9 class was running on black colors???

#49
#50
#29

and ???

thxs in advance!!!

[WolfsburgRS]

The #28 Land Audi was also in black.

What is the reason for this? I noticed a few of the BMWs were also running all black cars, but none of the Porsches seemed to be doing the same.

[Speed-King]

Originally Posted by WolfsburgRS

The #28 Land Audi was also in black.

What is the reason for this? I noticed a few of the BMWs were also running all black cars, but none of the Porsches seemed to be doing the same.

IIRC the factory blessed teams race the big enduros not with the cars they bought, but with bespoke enduro cars on loan from the factory. Might just be that Audi was a tad late delivering those cars to the teams and there was no time to wrap them up. Or maybe a big livery reveal is part of their PR strategy and they want to wait with that until the run-up to the big race, when they get more attention.

[WolfsburgRS]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

IIRC the factory blessed teams race the big enduros not with the cars they bought, but with bespoke enduro cars on loan from the factory. Might just be that Audi was a tad late delivering those cars to the teams and there was no time to wrap them up. Or maybe a big livery reveal is part of their PR strategy and they want to wait with that until the run-up to the big race, when they get more attention.

Thanks! So in all likelihood they were using the first race as a shake down for the cars they'll be using in the 24, or just are waiting for a better moment to garner more press. Interesting strategy. I will say the sight of the 3 all-black Audis running nose to tail in the first part of the race was pretty cool. Very aggressive.

[Miguel]

Originally Posted by Speed-King

IIRC the factory blessed teams race the big enduros not with the cars they bought, but with bespoke enduro cars on loan from the factory.

That's right. Land has all of their European cars in Niederdreisbach and had one, I think it was Linda Lou, with them at the test. What they raced last week were cars from Audi.

Might just be that Audi was a tad late delivering those cars to the teams and there was no time to wrap them up. Or maybe a big livery reveal is part of their PR strategy and they want to wait with that until the run-up to the big race, when they get more attention.

In case of one of the carbon teams it was just a matter of not having had the time yet to paint the car