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).

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.