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Class podium for Black Falcon at VLN round 7
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The seventh round of the 2017 VLN championship resulted in yet another class podium for Team BLACK FALCON. Fidel Leib and Axel König brought home silverware after scoring P2 with the #420 Porsche Carrera. This result represents the team’s 14th podium finish so far this year, with V6 providing particularly rich pickings: this was the eighth podium result in that class this year. This was complemented by the positive of the team’s new Mercedes-AMG GT4 successfully completing the four-hour race, finishing in a creditable 35th overall and fifth in the development-based SPX class.
Difficult Carrera Cup weekend at home turf
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The fifth weekend of the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany was a true home run for the squad of Black Falcon. The two championship runs nine and ten at the Nurburgring were dominated by the typical Eifel weather and meant a lot of racing action on the wet track. Initially, the experienced Black Falcon drivers dealt well with the weather conditions and finished fourth (Christian Engelhart, #5) and 11th (Gabriele Piana, #4) in the overall ranking as well as fourth in the amateur ranking (Carlos Rivas, #6) after saturday's race. During the second race on Sunday afternoon however, the track had become completely dry. In a hectic race, Gabriele Pana (IT) achieved the best result for Black Falcon with a seventh place while Christian Engelhart (GER) was touched and turned and dropped from position four to ninth overall. Carlos Rivas (LU) also turned the car while leading the race and was forced to do an unplanned pit stop causing him to cross the finish line on position eight of the amateur ranking.
The sixth race of the 2017 VLN championship didn’t live up to the high expectations of Team BLACK FALCON, with a sixth place finish overall for their SP9 class Mercedes-AMG GT3 and a second place in the V6 class balanced by two retirements from the team’s four entries in the race. However, yet another V6 podium at least added to the team’s trophy cabinet.
At the 24h-race in Portimao (PT) the Mercedes-AMG Testteam BLACK FALCON competed with the new Mercedes-AMG GT4 in its second race. Saud Al Faisal (SA), Burkard Kaiser (DE), Fidel Leib (DE), Aurel Schoeller (DE) and Manuel Metzger (DE) finished the Mercedes-AMG GT4’s first ever 24h-race 17th overall and without major problems.
