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Turbulent VLN season finale for BLACK FALCON
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The finale of the 2017 VLN championship saw Team BLACK FALCON involved in a breath-taking battle for the lead over the majority of the four-hour race, which ended with the team’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 taking an excellent class win in SP9 and second place overall from 145 starters. This repeated the team’s result in the previous, penultimate round, and brought the team’s tally of class podium finishes during the 2017 season to an impressive 18 trophies. Team BLACK FALCON continued their long-standing partnership with AMG during 2017, proudly representing the brand in VLN and bringing home two of AMG’s best results with second overall at VLN 8 and 9, to reinforce Haribo Racing’s second place at VLN 2, as well as finishing as the best Mercedes-AMG at the Nürburgring 24 Hours.
At the season finale of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany, Black Falcon scored a victory and another podium in each driver category. Overall winner of the 13th race of the season on Saturday was Christian Engelhart (DE), while Carlos Rivas (LU) scored a phenomenal second place in the amateur cup. On Sunday morning Black Falcon achieved another victory in the last race of the season: Rivas was victorious in the amateur cup with an impressive gap to the second placed car of 10 seconds. Engelhart secured himself another podium finishing third overall. Gabriele Piana (IT) fought back after a tough qualifying session and gained several positions in both races finishing eighth (Saturday) and eleventh (Sunday).
The penultimate round of the 2017 VLN championship has resulted in a fine second-place finish overall for Team BLACK FALCON, which along with another pair of class podiums from their Porsches has brought the team’s tally to 17 podium finishes during the season so far. The four-hour race around the Nürburgring Nordschleife comprised 164 entries, and treacherous conditions caused heavy attrition early in the race, but all four Team BLACK FALCONcrews put in impressive performances, braving the elements and avoiding all the incidents to score their excellent finishing positions. The team’s development Mercedes-AMG GT4 took a different path over the weekend: after competing in two rounds of the VLN, Team BLACK FALCON took the car across the border to the famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium for a 12-hour endurance race, where it finished second in class and brought home yet another trophy for the team.
Class podium for Black Falcon at VLN round 7
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The seventh round of the 2017 VLN championship resulted in yet another class podium for Team BLACK FALCON. Fidel Leib and Axel König brought home silverware after scoring P2 with the #420 Porsche Carrera. This result represents the team’s 14th podium finish so far this year, with V6 providing particularly rich pickings: this was the eighth podium result in that class this year. This was complemented by the positive of the team’s new Mercedes-AMG GT4 successfully completing the four-hour race, finishing in a creditable 35th overall and fifth in the development-based SPX class.
Difficult Carrera Cup weekend at home turf
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The fifth weekend of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany was a true home run for the squad of Black Falcon. The two championship runs nine and ten at the Nurburgring were dominated by the typical Eifel weather and meant a lot of racing action on the wet track. Initially, the experienced Black Falcon drivers dealt well with the weather conditions and finished fourth (Christian Engelhart, #5) and 11th (Gabriele Piana, #4) in the overall ranking as well as fourth in the amateur ranking (Carlos Rivas, #6) after saturday's race. During the second race on Sunday afternoon however, the track had become completely dry. In a hectic race, Gabriele Pana (IT) achieved the best result for Black Falcon with a seventh place while Christian Engelhart (GER) was touched and turned and dropped from position four to ninth overall. Carlos Rivas (LU) also turned the car while leading the race and was forced to do an unplanned pit stop causing him to cross the finish line on position eight of the amateur ranking.
