Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland round 9 & 10: race report Zandvoort

BLACK FALCON has won the amateur classification of the ninth and tenth races of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland at Zandvoort. After a great race to catch up, the team was also able to celebrate third place in the rookie classification on Sunday, which also meant eighth overall. Saturday's race had to be ended prematurely following a mass accident after a safety car phase. Since less than 50 percent of the race distance had been completed by that time, drivers and teams received no points for the ninth championship run.

After a summer of success in GT3 races around Europe in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, BLACK FALCON return to the premier SP9 class of the VLN championship this coming weekend, to take part in the longest race of the season: the annual six-hour marathon held at the Nürburgring. A solo Mercedes-AMG GT3 has been entered in this most challenging of national series, and BLACK FALCON’s AMG will be one of 15 top-line GT3s in a huge field of 173 entrants in VLN 5 spread across 27 classes of massively varying machinery. The team’s fleet of regular VLN entries is larger than ever for the season's highlight, comprising a trio of Mercedes-AMG GT4s and a quartet of Porsche, meaning the Black Falcon garages will be even more busy than normal.

At the fourth championship weekend of the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland as part of the AvD Oldtimer Grand Prix, BLACK FALCON won the Sunday race in the amateur classification in front of an impressive spectators' crowd. Carlos Rivas started from pole position and secured a never-endangered start-finish victory after finishing third in Saturday's race. Rookie driver Tim Zimmermann finished tenth overall on Saturday after a strong race to catch up, on Sunday he finished twelfth. For Sören Spreng, the second round at the Nürburgring within a week did not go as hoped. He had to finish both races prematurely in the pit lane.

Carlos Rivas won both races in the amateur classification at the third Porsche Carrera Cup race weekend at the Nürburgring. After the first "Big Points" of the season, the Luxembourgian is now fourth in the amateur ranking. Tim Zimmermann showed a great race to catch up in Saturday's race and finished eleventh overall and second in the rookie classification after starting from position 19. Sören Spreng finished fourth in the amateur classification after a flawless Saturday race. On Sunday Spreng and Zimmerman didn't finish.