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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.
The sixth race of the 2017 VLN championship didn’t live up to the high expectations of Team BLACK FALCON, with a sixth place finish overall for their SP9 class Mercedes-AMG GT3 and a second place in the V6 class balanced by two retirements from the team’s four entries in the race. However, yet another V6 podium at least added to the team’s trophy cabinet.
At the 24h-race in Portimao (PT) the Mercedes-AMG Testteam BLACK FALCON competed with the new Mercedes-AMG GT4 in its second race. Saud Al Faisal (SA), Burkard Kaiser (DE), Fidel Leib (DE), Aurel Schoeller (DE) and Manuel Metzger (DE) finished the Mercedes-AMG GT4’s first ever 24h-race 17th overall and without major problems.
The Porsche Carrera Cup Germany’s season highlight at the Norisring saw Black Falcon take two podium positions. In the race on Saturday, Christian Engelhart claimed the third position overall. Gabriele Piana finished fifth bringing home his best result yet. Carlos Rivas claimed the second position in the amateur cup. Sunday’s race marked the beginning of the second half of the season. Again, Engelhart was the highest ranked Black Falcon driver, finishing fourth in front of 125,000 spectators. Gabriele Piana crossed the chequered flag in eighth position while Carlos Rivas crossed as fifth of the amateur cup.
