Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup - Race Report 24H Spa

BLACK FALCON has finished third overall and third in the Silver Cup class after a strong team performance at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#4) featuring the reigning Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup Champions Yelmer Buurman (NL), Maro Engel (DE) and Luca Stolz (DE) finished the world's most important GT3 race after 363 laps on the 7.004 kilometre "Ardennes roller coaster" in third place overall. In the Silver Cup class Abdulaziz Al Faisal (SA), Patrick Assenheimer (DE), Hubert Haupt (DE) and Gabriele Piana (IT) finished third with their AMG GT3 #6. The AMG GT3 #00 of Adam Christodoulou (GB), Tatsuya Kataoka (JP) and Nobuteru Taniguchi (JP), which was entered as part of a joint venture with Goodsmile Racing, retired prematurely after an accident during the night.

Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup – Preview Spa 24H

Big events throw their shadows ahead: On the last weekend in July (27./28.07.) BLACK FALCON competes with two Mercedes-AMG GT3s at the annual season highlight of the GT3 world, the 24h race of Spa-Francorchamps at the infamous and almost 7 km long "Ardennes roller coaster". With more than 70 vehicles, the high-performance and fully packed event counts as the fourth round of the Endurance Cup of the Blancpain GT Series, in which championship points are awarded after 12, 18 and 24 hours. For BLACK FALCON, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 with the starting numbers 4 (Pro Class) and 6 (Silver Cup Class), entered during the whole season, will participate as usual. At the season's highlight, BLACK FALCON will be working for the first time with the Japanese Goodsmile Racing Team as part of a joint venture, the latter of which will be fielding another Mercedes-AMG GT3 (starting number 00). The teams share a garage and several crew members. In addition, all three vehicles will compete in unique special designs under the motto "Team Black Falcon Art Car design by Good Smile".

VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring - Race Report Round 4

BLACK FALCON has won the fourth round of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring. Patrick Assenheimer (GER) and Manuel Metzger (GER) in the #6 Mercedes-AMG GT3 triumphed in an action-packed race. In addition, BLACK FALCON won three classes: Tobias Müller (GER), Tim Scheerbarth (GER) and Tristan Viidas (EST) secured their third consecutive victory in class SP10 with their #162 Mercedes-AMG GT4 in a head-to-head race. In the SP8T class Carlos Rivas (LUX), Ace Robey (USA) and Tobias Wahl (GER) were successful with the #155 AMG GT4. Alexander Akimenkov (RU), Ronny Lethmate (GER) and Vasilii Selivanov (RU) clinched their second VLN season's victory with the #395 Porsche 991 Carrera in the production-based V6 class. In addition Peter Ludwig (USA), "Takis" (CH) and double starter Manuel Metzger contributed another podium place to the almost perfect team result with a second place in the SP7 class in the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup MR II.

Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe – Race Report Round 3, Zandvoort

BLACK FALCON has defended the lead in the driver and team classification at the third race weekend of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe at Zandvoort. Despite a strong performance by the team and the driver duo Maro Engel (DE) and Luca Stolz (DE), the team from Meuspath was denied a place on the podium. With the track drying out and the resulting extremely difficult conditions, Stolz and Engel qualified for grid positions four (Saturday) and three (Sunday). On the narrow Zandvoort circuit the drivers were unable to pass their rivals in either race, although they showed a great pace. Thus the BLACK FALCON Mercedes-AMG GT3 #4 finished both races in 4th position.