The latest stop on the
endurance racing calendar for the Ferrari marque was
last weekend's famous Nürburgring 24 Hour with the
Hankook Farnbacher team entering a 458 Italia GT2 car in
the "Green Hell" alongside around 200 other cars on the
long configuration of the German track, which includes
the current F1 circuit and the old north ring.
One lap of the track is 25.359 km long and no less than
700 drivers tackled the task. Best time in last
Thursday’s qualifying sessions went to the crew of
Dominik Farnbacher, Allan Simonsen, Marco Seefried and
Jaime Melo, who lapped in 8.23.764, and that was good
enough for the Ferrari as rain wiped out any chance of
doing better on Friday.
The twenty four hour race got underway at 16.00 on
Saturday and the Farnbacher Ferrari led from the start
right up to the fifth hour when a technical problem saw
the car spiral down the order; but but by the end of the
24 hours they were back to eighth, a very significant
result for the only Maranello car entered in the massive
field.
Winners of the Nürburgring 24 Hour this year were Marc
Lieb, Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Lucas Luhr in
their Manthey Racing Porsche. It crossed the line ahead
of the BMW of Jorg Muller, Augusto Farfus, Uwe Alzen and
Pedro Lamy, with third place going to the Audi driven by
Marc Basseng, Frank Stippler, Marcel Fassler and Andrea
Piccini.
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