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.

Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup – Preview Spa 24H

Big events throw their shadows ahead: On the last weekend in July (27./28.07.) BLACK FALCON competes with two Mercedes-AMG GT3s at the annual season highlight of the GT3 world, the 24h race of Spa-Francorchamps at the infamous and almost 7 km long "Ardennes roller coaster". With more than 70 vehicles, the high-performance and fully packed event counts as the fourth round of the Endurance Cup of the Blancpain GT Series, in which championship points are awarded after 12, 18 and 24 hours. For BLACK FALCON, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 with the starting numbers 4 (Pro Class) and 6 (Silver Cup Class), entered during the whole season, will participate as usual. At the season's highlight, BLACK FALCON will be working for the first time with the Japanese Goodsmile Racing Team as part of a joint venture, the latter of which will be fielding another Mercedes-AMG GT3 (starting number 00). The teams share a garage and several crew members. In addition, all three vehicles will compete in unique special designs under the motto "Team Black Falcon Art Car design by Good Smile".

VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring - Race Report Round 4

BLACK FALCON has won the fourth round of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring. Patrick Assenheimer (GER) and Manuel Metzger (GER) in the #6 Mercedes-AMG GT3 triumphed in an action-packed race. In addition, BLACK FALCON won three classes: Tobias Müller (GER), Tim Scheerbarth (GER) and Tristan Viidas (EST) secured their third consecutive victory in class SP10 with their #162 Mercedes-AMG GT4 in a head-to-head race. In the SP8T class Carlos Rivas (LUX), Ace Robey (USA) and Tobias Wahl (GER) were successful with the #155 AMG GT4. Alexander Akimenkov (RU), Ronny Lethmate (GER) and Vasilii Selivanov (RU) clinched their second VLN season's victory with the #395 Porsche 991 Carrera in the production-based V6 class. In addition Peter Ludwig (USA), "Takis" (CH) and double starter Manuel Metzger contributed another podium place to the almost perfect team result with a second place in the SP7 class in the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup MR II.