Frikadelli-Racing gets the 200. Porsche victory in the VLN

Great triumph for Frikadelli-Racing: Klaus Abbelen, Sabine Schmitz (both from Barweiler) and Patrick Huisman (Netherlands) secured a historic success in the third round of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring, the 200th Porsche victory in the history of the popular popular sport series since 1977. "This success means a lot to us," said Schmitz happily. "We absolutely wanted to win today and we managed to do that in a sovereign manner." The statistics anniversary was secured by two other Porsche teams on the podium of the 57th ADAC ACAS H&R Cup. 'Gerwin' and Manuel Metzger (Switzerland) finished second in the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup of the Black Falcon Team TDM Friction. The new driver pairing in the Cup 30 from raceunion Teichmann Racing, Marc Hennerici (Mayen) and Christian Menzel (Kelberg), took third place straight away on the podium and also secured victory in the Porsche Cup class. A 1-minute summary of the race will be shown on the Sport 27 channel on June 21th at 15:XNUMX pm.

In the first laps, a thrilling duel between the later winners and the Porsche of Georg Weiss (Monschau), Jochen Krumbach (Eschweiler) and Oliver Kainz (Kottenheim), who had taken the first and second place in qualifying. After a collision during the lap, however, the weekly mirror Team Manthey had to cancel out after only three laps. The disappointment was great, but the fact that Kainz had the fastest race lap in 8: 18,297 minutes did not provide adequate comfort. The way was free for Frikadelli Racing. The trio made a controlled race at the top, but then had to survive a moment of shock for 45 minutes before the end. At a scheduled pit stop, the tail of the GT3 car caught fire and had to be extinguished. "When refilling oil has ignited on the engine block," said Abbelen. "That was annoying, because in my final heat suffered the vehicle, probably due to the extinguishing powder, under a lack of engine power." The experienced Nordschleife veteran was not deterred by this and crossed the 27 laps with a lead of 46,473 seconds as the winner of the finish line. "If it turns out that the engine is over, that was an expensive win." However, his partner Schmitz promptly interjected: "Maybe Porsche will donate us for the 200. Victory yes, a new engine. "There was much praise from the drivers for the technicians of Frikadelli Racing, who had built the GT24 Porsche from scratch after the accident in the 3h race. "The car was just perfect - our boys are just fantastic," said Huisman.

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The second-placed Black Falcon duo delivered over the entire distance thrilling duels with the competitors in the VLN specials to 4.000 ccm displacement. "We knew it could go much further today," Metzger said. "But in our class it's always very close, the competition is big. So we had a very entertaining race and in the end a top result. "Lying in third place crossed Frank Kräling (Winterberg), Marc Gindorf (Monaco) and Christopher Brück (Cologne) in the second Frikadelli Porsche the finish line. After a speeding in the closing stages of the time training, however, still a time penalty was applied, which threw the trio back to fourth place. In the end, 21,026 seconds missed third place. The podium place inherited Hennerici and Menzel, who saw the victory in the Porsche Cup class in the foreground. "The power density in our class is extremely high," said Hennerici, who had completed the first meters in the 991 Series 4 in the third VLN race. "In my first race laps I had to settle in first, then Christian whipped me by radio - the perfect motivation." Behind the fifth placed Porsche of GetSpeed ​​Performance and the driver duo Adam Osieka (Meuspath) and Steve Jans (Luxembourg) piloted Anders Buchardt (Norway ), Matias Henkola (Finland) and David Schiwietz (Hückeswagen) sixth place in the BMW Z3 GTXNUMX from Walkenhorst Motorsport powered by Dunlop - the best-placed vehicle without Porsche logo on the hood.

Not only at the top, but also in the different vehicle classes, first-class motorsport was offered. The cup classes of BMW, Opel and TMG are a guarantee for exciting position battles. The victory in the BMW M235i Racing Cup Only decided in the last lap and went to Team Scheid - Honert Motorsport with the drivers Jörg Weidinger (Schaftlach), Michael Schrei (Wallenhorst) and Uwe Ebertz (Sinn-Fleisbach), who also took the championship lead in the VLN drivers' classification , The lead over second-placed Philipp Leisen (Irrel) and Thomas Jäger (Austria) - Jäger was in the lead lying in the last round - in the Cup racer of the team Securitas Sorg racing was just 11,820 seconds. Robert Schröder (Oberkraemer), Marcel Hartl (Fellbach) and Roger Vögeli (Switzerland) drove the fastest Opel Astra OPC Cup for Team Lubner Motorsport. And the victory in the TMG GT86 Cup went to Arne Hoffmeister (Niederdorfelden) and Fabian Wrabetz (Bad Soden) for the second time in a row. The duo starts for Team Dörr Motorsport.

The fourth round of the VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring, the 46. Adenauer ADAC Worldpeace Trophy, leads on 4. July over the usual distance of four hours on the 24,358 kilometers long combination of Nürburgring short connection and Nordschleife.

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