Second VLN race falls victim to weather chaos

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VLN Endurance Championship – Race Report Round 2

The second race of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring had to be interrupted after 15 minutes due to snowfall. A rising snow front forced the organizers to cancel the 44th DMV 4-hour race for good. Until then the event went very well for BLACK FALCON: Dominik Baumann (Austria), Adam Christodoulou (Great Britain) and Thomas Jäger positioned the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in ninth place in the strong overall classification. The IDENTICA Mercedes-AMG GT4 of Tobias Müller (Germany), Tim Scheerbarth (Germany) and Tristan Viidas (Estonia) started from pole position in the SP10 class after a good performance in qualifying. In the SP8T class Mustafa Mehmet Kaya (Turkey), Ace Robey (USA) and double starter Tristan Viidas also achieved the fastest practice time and started from pole. Directly behind them, Christoph Hoffmann (Germany), Mustafa Mehmet Kaya, who also did a double start, and Norbert Schneider (Germany) finished second in class in the KNUFFI-Mercedes-AMG GT4. In the SP7 class, Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands), Peter Ludwig (USA) and "Takis" (Switzerland) also placed the BLACK FALCON Team TEXTAR Porsche 911 GT3 Cup MR II in second place in its first race of the season. In the V6 class for production cars, Alexander Akimenkov (Russia), Ronny Lethmate (Germany) and Vasilii Selivanov (Russia) were on course for pole position for a long time, but shortly before the end of the session they were pushed into second place on the grid. Their teammates in the sister car, Martin Meenen (Germany), Carsten Palluth (Germany), Carlos Rivas (Luxembourg) and Tobias Wahl (Germany) set the fourth fastest time.

For BLACK FALCON the next race is already on the agenda tomorrow Sunday in the royal park of Monza in Italy: At the first race of the Endurance Cup of the Blancpain GT Series two Mercedes-AMG GT3 start.

The next race on the Nordschleife will take place in two weeks: At the third VLN race (27.04.2019) BLACK FALCON will most likely start with nine cars.

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