Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe - Preview Round 4, Nürburgring

This weekend BLACK FALCON enters the final third of the Blancpain GT Series season with a Mercedes-AMG GT3 at the eighth race weekend of the year.  The event at the Nürburgring is the fourth and penultimate race weekend of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe. As usual, Maro Engel (DE) and Luca Stolz (DE) will be racing the Mercedes-AMG GT3 with number 4 at the BLACK FALCON home race. The two GT pros will compete on the 5.137 km long version of the Nürburgring featuring the Grand Prix circuit with motorcycle chicane in a field of 28 GT3 vehicles with a high number and quality of entrants. Together with BLACK FALCON, they are currently leading the championship tables in the driver and team classification of the Sprint classification, as well as the driver classification of the overall championship including the Sprint and Endurance Cup. With two good results, the team could also take the lead in the team classification of the overall championship.

Porsche Carrera Cup Germany - Race Report Round 5 & 6

BLACK FALCON has completed no less than four races within two weekends of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. At the consecutive events in Zandvoort (NL, 9-11.08.) and at the Nürburgring (DE, 16-18.08.) BLACK FALCON achieved a victory in the amateur classification (Carlos Rivas, race 1 Zandvoort) as well as several top 10 results.

VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring - Race Report Round 5

BLACK FALCON has won the six-hour race of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring. Patrick Assenheimer (DE) and Maro Engel (DE) secured the second VLN overall victory in a row for the BLACK FALCON Team AutoArena Motorsport. The duo already beat their rivals in the qualifying session, which was marked by heavy rain showers, and started the race from pole position. After a perfect performance final driver Engel crossed the finish line with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#6) after 40 laps as overall winner of the fifth round. The sister car, the AM Solutions AMG GT3 (#16) of Adam Christodoulou (GB), Hubert Haupt (DE) and Luca Stolz (DE), finished the race in second place after hours of fighting for victory and thus ensured the first VLN double victory in BLACK FALCON team history. The excellent result was rounded off by a class win in the SP8T and further podium finishes in the SP8T, SP7 and V6 classes.

VLN Endurance Championship - Preview Round 5

BLACK FALCON takes part in the VLN 6-hour race this coming Saturday (03.08.) with seven cars. Last year the team from Meuspath took the overall victory at the annual season highlight of the endurance championship at the Nürburgring. This season BLACK FALCON will compete with five Mercedes-AMG cars and two cars from Porsche. The two entered AMG GT3' in the top class SP9 will be shared by Patrick Assenheimer (DE) and Maro Engel (DE) (#6, BLACK FALCON Team AutoArena Motorsport) and Adam Christodoulou (GB), Hubert Haupt (DE) and Luca Stolz (DE) (#16, Mercedes-AMG Team BLACK FALCON). In the SP10 class Yannick Mettler (CH), Tobias Müller (DE), Tim Scheerbarth (DE) and Tristan Viidas (EE) compete with the Mercedes-AMG GT4 #162 (BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA). Two more AMG GT4 start in the SP8T class: Ace Robey (US) and Tobias Wahl (DE) are piloting number 152 (BLACK FALCON Team KNUFFI), while number 155 (BLACK FALCON) is driven by Mustafa Mehmet Kaya (TR), Gabriele Piana (IT), Reinhold Renger (DE) and Stephan Rösler (DE). For the Porsche cars of the BLACK FALCON Team TEXTAR, the team relies on a mixture of purebred race cars and production cars. In the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup MR II (#57) Peter Ludwig (US), Carlos Rivas (LU), Maik Rosenberg (DE) and "Takis" (CH) take turns. Alexander Akimenkov (RU), Ronny Lethmate (DE) and Vasilii Selivanov (RU) will compete in the production-based Porsche 991 Carrera (#395).