BLACK FALCON with three podiums at VLN 3

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Nurburgring/Meuspath. At the third round of VLN long distance championship BLACK FALCON scored three podium positions. In class SP7 Alexander Toril and Tim Scheerbarth unfortunately missed the victory only because of a puncture. Class V6 entered Porsche 911 Carrera driven by Aurel Schoeller and Christian Schmitz also missed the class victory just by a couple of seconds. In the end all six BLACK FALCON cars finished the race without major damage.

Team BLACK FALCON entered the race with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 driven by Abdulaziz Al Faisal, ‚Gerwin’ and Dirk Müller. The trio qualified in twelfth position overall being the fastest Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the session. During the race the car was in the range of top-10 all the time and eventually finished in twelfth position overall.

Also a total of five Porsche started under the banner of BLACK FALCON Team TMD Friction at the 58. ADAC ACAS H&R-Cup. Coming from overall 20th position - Pole-Position in class SP7 - Toril/Scheerbarth driving number 56 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup "BF" quickly pulled away from their opponents at the beginning of the race. Unfortunately the car suffered a puncture just before the first pitstop in ninth lap leading to a massive time loss of more than four minutes. After a great race to catch up the Geutebrück-Porsche finished the race just 20 seconds behind the leading car in second position of class SP7. In the highly competitive class V6 Schmitz/Schoeller qualified their Porsche 911 Carrera (#394) in third position for the 4hours distance race. After great fights for positions they finished in second position securing BLACK FALCON Team TMD Friction´s second podium of the day

The Porsche 997 GT3 CUP of Jürgen Bleul, Carsten Knechtges and 'Takis' was entered in class H4 once again. As seen at VLN´s second round the trio finished on a great second rank in class. The Nordschleife-debut of Saud Al Faisal in highly competitive class V5 ended in a solid eight position. The Saudi Arabian shared a Porsche Cayman with Stefan Karg and Carsten Palluth. In the class of Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport cars Christian Bjørn-Hansen, Runar Vatne and ‚Sugar Mountain‘ showed a great performance and finished fifth .

‚Although we did not score a victory today we´re quite happy with the results. Especially with foresight to the 24h-race in one and a half week all our drivers made a good job without risking any damage to the cars', team principal Alexander Böhm said after the race.'Nevertheless we scored three podiums and would have won class SP7 for the third time in a row without the puncture.'

The next Nordschleife race will be the legendary ADAC ZURICH 24h-Race. In just one and a half weeks time the event kicks off (26.-29.05) and will be broadcasted 24h live on german television (RTL NITRO).

Photos by: Akl Yazbeck / Sportscode Images