VLN round 3: Preview

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BLACK FALCON brings a great line up to the third round of the VLN long distance championship at the Nürburgring this Saturday: A total of five cars from Mercedes-AMG and Porsche are going to tackle the first Nordschleife race for the team from Meuspath after the 24h race back in May. As known from the first two rounds of VLN two BLACK FALCON cars will be equipped with onboard cameras and broadcast live from the cockpit on Youtube and the official VLN live stream.

Four out of five cars are racing under the banner of BLACK FALCON Team TMD Friction. The fastest entered car, the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup MR II number 57, is going to start in class SP7. Jürgen Bleul, Manuel Metzger and “Takis” take turns at the steeringwheel of the widebody Porsche while taking the spectators around the Nordschleife via live stream. In class SP10 that features GT4-spec cars BLACK FALCON enters two Mercedes-AMG GT4. The anthracite car number 162 is shared by Alexander Kolb, Axel König and Norbert Schneider. For the 24h class winners (class V6) König and Schneider it’s the first race in an AMG GT4 on the Nordschleife. Another AMG GT4 is entered under the banner of BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA. The SP10 winning car of the 24h race will be driven by Stefan Karg and Fidel Leib who have been part of the winning crew five weeks ago. Moritz Oberheim completes the three driver line-up of number 163, that will feature the second Onboard camera.

In the production class category BLACK FALCON Team TMD Friction enters two Porsche in class V6. Thomas Bolz, Christoph Hoffmann and Uwe Lebens share the Porsche 991 Carrera number 395. No 396 Porsche Cayman S will be driven by Alexander Akimenkov and Vasilii Selivanov.

The third round of the VLN long distance championship takes place at the Nürburgring on Saturday (23.06.) over the classic VLN distance of four hours. The race is going to be broadcasted live on the official website. Live information about BLACK FALCON’s cars can be obtained on the BLACK FALCON social media channels as usual.

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