Imprecionante alineacion 24 Horas de Nurburgring 2009

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Las 24 horas de Nürburgring volverán a contar con una impresionante parrilla en su edición de 2009. A pesar de la crisis apenas no se ha notado reducción significativa en la parrilla si nos atenemos a los casi 200 vehículos inscritos.

Por ahora, el único piloto español que será de la partida es el madrileño Carlos Sainz, del que ya hemos hablado anteriormente en SportMotores.es, que pilotará uno de los tres Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 de Volkswagen Motorsport y que compartirá con Dieter Depping y Giniel de Villiers para intentar alcanzar la victoria en su categoría, la SP3T.

A nivel general en la lista de inscritos resalta sobre todo el Porsche 911 GT3 RSR de Manthey Racing, ganadores en las tres últimas ediciones y con este coche en 2007 y 2008. Hasta el pasado año, los SP7 fueron los principales favoritos a la victoria, no sólo el coche de Manthey, sino también los Porsche de Frikadelli Racing Team, Alzen Motorsport o Land Motorsport, más otros vehículos interesantes como los BMW Z4M Coupe de SP6 inscritos por Motorsport Arena Oschersleben y Dörr Motorsport, el Chevrolet Corvette de Kissling Motorsport o también los Nissan 370Z y Z33 de RJN Motorsport y Falken Motorsport respectivamente.

Sin embargo el reglamento ha permitido la entrada, masiva, de los GT3 encuadrados en la categoría SP9. Éstos, favorecidos por el reglamento, tendrán en los Audi R8 LMS, con cuatro unidades de Phoenix Racing y Abt Sportsline, y los Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S, de diferentes equipos como Manthey, Mamerow Racing y Horn Motorsport, a sus principales representantes aunque sin despreciar a los Dodge Viper – Vulkan Racing- o BMW Alpina B6 GT3 – Alpina-. Entre los GT4 también habrá una nota de colorido con tres Aston Martin Vantage N24, un BMW M3 GT4 y un Nissan 350Z.

La carrera tendrá su inicio el día 23 de Mayo a las 16,00 horas.

Dicha lista se puede consultar con más detalle en el siguiente enlace:
http://adac.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media ... 4_2009.pdf

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Contando los días..!!

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Para el 2010, hay varios Centroamericanos con un pie casi adentro.....

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No solo impresionante JK si no De Lujo, íncreible y despierta una gran envidia de mi parte para los que estarán allá...

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No solo impresionante JK si no De Lujo, íncreible y despierta una gran envidia de mi parte para los que estarán allá...

Si amigo es de lujo, una parrilla de 200 autos, en el mundo, SOLO NURBURGRING-NORDSCHLEIFE...

[Danenbs]

No solo impresionante JK si no De Lujo, íncreible y despierta una gran envidia de mi parte para los que estarán allá...

+1000

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NURBURGRING 24 HOUR RACE

This is simply the biggest race in the world. The track is a combination of the Nurburgring GP circuit and the old Nordschleife circuit and is 15 miles long! Add 210 cars, 150000+ spectators run for 24 hours! Race information and results are available at www.24hr-rennen.de and further information on www.nurburgring.de .

Nurburgring 24 Hour Race May 29 - June 1 2003

Well this race was both unlucky and lucky for me. I was driving for the Saarle Go Kart Team in a BMW E36 Coupe with Knut Leube and Arnd Meier. The unlucky part was having the scariest accident I have ever had, the lucky part was finishing the race in 94th place despite loosing over an hour in the pits. On reflection I think I got off lightly and have to accept that this sort of thing happens from time to time. The last time I crashed a car was in 1996 at Spa Francorchamps.

Qualifying

The most important thing at the Nurburgring is to make sure that all of the drivers complete enough laps to qualify. Each driver has to do two flying laps to qualify, this doesn't sound like a lot but with the length of the lap it actually takes 2 hours to qualify all the drivers provided that there are no problems. The first session is a 2 hour session and the second session id a 4 hour session finishing at 11.00 PM. I was nominated to go out first which is not the best time to go out, with 230 cars going out to qualify at once the traffic is terrible at the beginning of the session so I did my first laps in the thick of the traffic. The teams second car had an engine failure in the second session so the team decided not to do much running in the second session so that the mechanics could concentrate on changing the engine in the other car. I did one more lap in the second session but I would have liked to have done a bit more running just to settle in to the car a bit more.

Race

The Race got under way at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The build up to this race is incredible, to see 210 cars assembled on the grid is a spectacular sight and with 180000 spectators around the circuit the atmosphere is fantastic.

During the first few hours of the race we picked up a few places and the car was circulating well, we were lying 7th in class for some time which we were happy with at such an early stage in the race as this was a very competitive class. I got into the car about 4 hours into the race and the car felt good except for the brakes. The front discs had had it and there was a lot of vibration through the steering when braking and the pedal travel was a bit longer than it should be.

I had settled in to the car well when disaster struck on the fastest part of the track. An Audi TT DTM car and a Porsche were coming up behind me at over 300 KPH . The approach to Schweedencroitz corner is a series of down hills so the cars appear over the crest quite suddenly, I would normally keep to the left at this corner and let the faster cars find the way through on the right. Unfortunately I was on the right and didn’t want to cross their paths where the speed differential is so great so I stayed right. This put me on to the dirty part of the track and suddenly the back of the car stepped out , as I tried to correct the slide the car went on to the grass. Before I knew it I was travelling backwards, hit the crash barrier backwards, bounced off spun around and then hit it again front on. When the car came to rest I was pleased that it was the right way up and that the car still had four wheels on it so I selected first gear and carried on . The seat had broken away from the floor but the car otherwise felt ok so I went back to the pits as quickly as I could. The team checked the car over, repaired the floor and seat mounting, replaced the exhaust system fitted new brakes and taped up the bodywork before sending the car out again. We lost over an hour in the pits but it was lucky that there was no suspension or structural damage.

The car ran well for the remainder of the race and we ended up finishing 7th in class and 94th overall out of 210 starters.

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Aston Martin will return to the starting grid of Germany’s Nordschleife for its fourth consecutive year of the Nurburgring 24-hour endurance challenge, which kicks off on May 23rd. The carmaker will be using its latest super-sports car, the all-new V12 Vantage coupe, which will be kept in near-standard specification for the event.

Behind the wheel will once again be Aston Martin CEO Dr. Ulrich Bez and representatives from the carmaker’s engineering team. Bez, who will be driving in his fourth consecutive 24-hour race, said: “This is the final engineering durability test for the V12 Vantage program. We will be subjecting the car to the toughest assessment yet under public scrutiny as we successfully did with the Vantage N24 program.

Unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show last month, the V12 Vantage runs Aston Martin’s familiar 6.0L V12 engine producing 510hp (380kW) and 420lb-ft (570Nm) of torque. The only differences between the production model and the new race car are essential safety modifications, reduced weight and re-tuned suspension with no additional aerodynamic enhancements. The race car has also been fitted with Pirelli P Zero Circuit Racing slick tires to enhance performance.

Alongside the V12 Vantage will be the original yellow V8 Vantage that ran in 2006 and inspired the design direction for the Vantage N24 model and GT4 race car. This particular car has clocked up four 24-hour race finishes and more than 20,000 endurance miles.