Phoenix and Audi triumph at the N24 - Manthey fail
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- Parent Category: Nurburgring
- Category: Racing at the Ring
- Created on Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:57
- Last Updated on Monday, 21 May 2012 04:19
- Published on Sunday, 20 May 2012 19:57
- Written by Dale
While the Sekt, Champers and Bier will be flowing like water over at Phoenix Racing's Nürburgring HQ, I can only imagine it will be tears of frustration over at Manthey. Their #11 Porsche fought hard to keep the legend alive, but the local favourites were pushed into a podium by the dominant Audis of Phoenix and Mamerow.
Unfortunately they fell off this podium step in the last few seconds of the 24-hour race. I'm not making it up. Check out the full picture series at Sport Auto. While the Porsche slow-coached to the end of the lap to avoid a last-lap running out of gas moment, the Clio pilot was a little too obsessed either on the clock or the pitwall. Either way, both cars were too close to the line anyway. There was still 10 seconds to go and they would have had to cross the line and gamble on making the final lap without running out of gas. The RoadRunner Clio was actually leading the class too, so the fact that neither could cross it under their own power after the collision above eliminated both from the running. Gutting.
P.S. A special shout-out to Michael Pflüger (BTG member, see a lap in his R35 here), one of four pilots who brought the class V6 (production >3.0ltr) Black Falcon BMW M3 home in 36th position overall. Not only a class victory, but the first production-class car over the line too, finishing well ahead of dozens of SP cars. Well done to them, and everybody else who finished or even competed at the 2012 Nürburgring 24hr!
For the full results check out the list here.
