IGTC - Round 5 Kyalami, South Africa
BLACK FALCON enters the last race of the season just one week after the overall victory in the 24-hour race at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin (USA) on the other side of the world. In the final round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at the South African Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit the Meuspath team will compete in the Silver Cup class with a Mercedes-AMG GT3. Sergei Afanasiev (RU), Patrick Assenheimer (DE) and Hubert Haupt (DE) share the cockpit of the AMG GT3 with start number 6. The participation in the 9h race of Kyalami will be the first race in the BLACK FALCON team history on the African continent.
24h Series - Race Report 24H CoTA/USA
BLACK FALCON repeats last year's success in the 24-hour race at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin/Texas (USA) and thus secures its second overall victory in the third edition of the race. Jeroen Bleekemolen (NL), Ben Keating (US), Felipe Fraga (BR) and Cooper MacNeil (US) dominated the race weekend from the start with the Mercedes-AMG GT3 #4 and secured pole position and an important lead at the end of the first leg on their way to overall victory. Furthermore, the team from Meuspath finished second in the SPX class with the Mercedes-AMG GT4 #464 of Axel König, Norbert Schneider, Axel Sartingen, Daniel Schwerfeld and Alexander Böhm (all DE), which was combined with an excellent eighth place in the overall classification after a flawless performance of the entire team.
24h Series - Preview 24H CoTA/USA
BLACK FALCON will compete in the third edition of the 24-hour race at the Circuit of The Americas in Austin (USA) with two Mercedes-AMG cars. In the final race of the 24H Series season, the Meuspath team will be racing an AMG GT3 (#4) in the strongest class A6-Pro and an AMG GT4 (#464) in the class SPX. After last year's overall victory, the team wants to be on the podium again - this time in the overall classification and in the SPX class.
BLACK FALCON celebrates overall victory and multiple championship titles at the VLN season finale
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VLN Endurance Championship - Race Report Round 9
The European motorsport season ended for BLACK FALCON on Saturday with a highlight. The team from Meuspath won its fourth overall victory of the year at the season finale of the VLN Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring. Patrick Assenheimer (DE) and Maro Engel (DE) took first place with the BLACK FALCON Team AutoArena Mercedes-AMG GT3 #6, by catching the four way battle for second on the penultimate lap, and went into the final lap chasing the #911. Under pressure the 911 had a crash and Engel took the flag as the winner, thus securing the team the VLN Speed Trophy as well as the SP9 Pro Championship title for Assenheimer. The sister car, the AM Solutions Mercedes-AMG GT3 #16 of Adam Christodoulou (GB), Hubert Haupt (DE) and Dirk Müller (DE), finished fifth overall. In the SP10 class Tobias Müller (DE), Tim Scheerbarth (DE) and Tristan Viidas (EE) won with the Mercedes-AMG GT4 #162 for the fourth time this season after an intensive four-fight for the day's victory. Thanks to this success, they and the BLACK FALCON Team IDENTICA secured the championship title in the GT4 class. In the SP8T class Nico Bastian (DE), Mustafa Mehmet Kaya (TR) and Mike Stursberg (DE) won the class with the BLACK FALCON Team Knuffi AMG GT4 #152. Their teammates Marek Böckmann (DE), Axel König (DE) and Tobias Wahl (DE) finished fourth in their class with the Knuffi-AMG GT4 #155. Also, in the strongest production car category there was reason to be happy: Alexander Akimenkov (RU), Ronny Lethmate (DE) and Vasilii Selivanov (RU) came in second in the V6 with the BLACK FALCON Team TEXTAR Porsche 991 Carrera #395. Their teammates Uwe Lebens (DE) and Michael Lindmayer (DE) finished seventh in the 911 with the #394.
VLN Endurance Championship - Race Report Round 8
BLACK FALCON experienced a race day full of highs and lows at the penultimate race of the endurance championship at the Nürburgring on Saturday with perfect weather conditions. Despite some setbacks during the four-hour race distance, the team from Meuspath was able to celebrate an overall podium, two class victories, several podium places and two championship titles.