VLN Endurance Championship – Race Report Round 2

The second race of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring had to be interrupted after 15 minutes due to snowfall. A rising snow front forced the organizers to cancel the 44th DMV 4-hour race for good. Until then the event went very well for BLACK FALCON: Dominik Baumann (Austria), Adam Christodoulou (Great Britain) and Thomas Jäger positioned the Mercedes-AMG GT3 in ninth place in the strong overall classification. The IDENTICA Mercedes-AMG GT4 of Tobias Müller (Germany), Tim Scheerbarth (Germany) and Tristan Viidas (Estonia) started from pole position in the SP10 class after a good performance in qualifying. In the SP8T class Mustafa Mehmet Kaya (Turkey), Ace Robey (USA) and double starter Tristan Viidas also achieved the fastest practice time and started from pole. Directly behind them, Christoph Hoffmann (Germany), Mustafa Mehmet Kaya, who also did a double start, and Norbert Schneider (Germany) finished second in class in the KNUFFI-Mercedes-AMG GT4. In the SP7 class, Jeroen Bleekemolen (Netherlands), Peter Ludwig (USA) and "Takis" (Switzerland) also placed the BLACK FALCON Team TEXTAR Porsche 911 GT3 Cup MR II in second place in its first race of the season. In the V6 class for production cars, Alexander Akimenkov (Russia), Ronny Lethmate (Germany) and Vasilii Selivanov (Russia) were on course for pole position for a long time, but shortly before the end of the session they were pushed into second place on the grid. Their teammates in the sister car, Martin Meenen (Germany), Carsten Palluth (Germany), Carlos Rivas (Luxembourg) and Tobias Wahl (Germany) set the fourth fastest time.

VLN Endurance Championship - Preview Round 2

At the second round of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring BLACK FALCON races with seven cars. The team from Meuspath at the Nürburgring will be competing with one Mercedes-AMG GT3, three AMG GT4 and two Porsche 991 Carrera. Additionally, for the first time this season, the Porsche 991 GT3 Cup MRII will be racing.

Blancpain GT Series – Preview Round 1, Monza

BLACK FALCON is returning to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in 2019 as the defending champions. The new season kicks off on April 13th at the historic Monza circuit and once again the team will race Mercedes-AMG GT3 in both the top-level Pro class and the Silver Cup. The competition in both classes will be intense and the opposition is expected to be stronger than ever this year. They say never change a winning team, therefore five of the team’s six drivers who raced in the Endurance Cup with BLACK FALCON in 2018 join the team for the title fight in 2019.

VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring - Race Report

BLACK FALCON achieved one of the best results in the team' s history at the 2019 VLN season opener.  The team from Meuspath secured three class victories: The Mercedes-AMG GT4 #162 by Tobias Müller, Tim Scheerbarth and Tristan Viidas won in the SP10, while Mustafa Mehmet Kaya, Gabriele Piana and Ace Robey were successful in the SP8T with the Mercedes-AMG GT4 #155.  Alexander Akimenkov, Ronny Lethmate and Vasilii Selivanov in their Porsche 991 Carrera #395 not only clinched class victory in the V6, but also the group victory of the production cars.  Three more BLACK FALCON cars remained unlucky at the 65th edition of the ADAC Westfalenfahrt and all of them retired early through no fault of their own.