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2010 24 Hours of Nürburgring

Endurance motor race in Germany

Nürburgring 24h track (Nordschleife+GP Circuit without Mercedes-Arena)

A Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 10 at the 2010 Nürburgring 24 Hours

The 2010 24 Hours of Nürburgring was an endurance sports car race held at the Nürburgring Nordschleife race track in Germany on May 13–16.

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The event saw the return of most prominent entries, except the Ford GT, as team Raeder had discontinued this project. To give teams time to rest or for repairs before the race, the night practice was scheduled on Thursday evening. In cold and wet conditions, the Farnbacher-entered Ferrari F430 GTC set the best lap time before the session was red-flagged due to fog. In Friday afternoon qualifying, held in fair weather, it crashed out and was barely repaired in time for the race. Four of the five factory-backed Audi R8 LMS (officially entered by "customers", which happened to be the Audi-DTM-teams Phoenix Racing and Abt Sportsline) occupied the first four places on the grid, with Marco Werner setting pole at 8:24.753 with a new record average speed of 181 km/h. With lap times around 8:29, three of Porsche's new SP9/GT3-class cars occupied places 5 to 7, two of them entered by four-time winner Team Manthey, which had chosen to let the #1 car do only a single lap. BMW had entered two of their ALMS BMW M3 GT2, run by Schnitzer Motorsport. Due to the modifications that include a transaxle gear box, they do not comply with the standard rules set of SP classes and their "Balance of Performance". Along with a factory-entered Porsche GT3 Hybrid, the GT2-BMWs have thus been grouped into the E1-XP class for experimental factory entries. The better BMW and the Hybrid posted times of 8:32 and 8:34 in qualifying. Save for the 16th placed GT3-class Dodge Viper, only several other Porsche, Audi R8 and V8-powered BMW Z4 GT3 have qualified in the top 20, with times up to 8:47, which earns them a blue flashlight that is supposed to facilitate passing of the approx. 180 slower cars.

Porsche test driver Walter Röhrl had intended to enter on a standard road legal Porsche 911 GT3 RS, but had to withdraw for health reasons from the team that comprises racers Roland Asch and Patrick Simon, plus journalists Horst von Saurma and Chris Harris. The car, entered in cooperation with sport auto (Germany), is registered as S-GO 2400, and was driven from Weissach to Nürburg. It has qualified with 9:15, 42nd overall, and 9th among the 17 SP7 class entrants, only beaten by its race-prepped Porsche 997 siblings.

The race was started on Saturday 3 p.m. in sunny but cold weather. Already on the Grand Prix track, the #1 Manthey Porsche driven by five-time winner Marcel Tiemann passed all Audis, taking the lead and pulling away about 100 m before catching up in lap 2 with the slowest cars of the third group, which were still in their first lap. After lap 3, three Porsche lead ahead of three Audi, a BMW M3 and the Hybrid-Porsche, which due to its larger range could take the lead after the others pitted. The #1 Manthey Porsche led by a couple of minutes until it got involved in a collision after seven hours. At halftime, the race is on pace to another distance record, with the Audi #99 leading by a small margin ahead of the Hybrid Porsche, the only remaining representative of his brand in the top 8, which used to be dominated by Porsche in recent years. Places three to eight were occupied by three Audi R8, two BMW, and, rather surprisingly, on p 5 the Ferrari which had started in row 21. The Porsches that occupy most places up to 15th were followed by the CNG-powered Volkswagen Scirocco GT24, the road-legal Porsche GT3 RS and a Nissan Z33. On Sunday morning, the #99 Audi needed a rear axle change, and with less than 5 hours to go, also the second place #2 Audi failed. This left the Hybrid Porsche in a one lap lead ahead of the #25 BMW GT2 with gearbox woes and the Ferrari, until also the Porsche stopped with less than two hours to go. The BMW made it to the finish, giving Pedro Lamy a record-tying fifth win ahead of Ferrari and Audi. The best Porsche, entered by Alzen, finished only sixth, six laps ahead of the Falken Nissan and the road legal GT3.

The SP4 class was won by 4 Argentinian drivers in the BMW 325i E92 Coupe of Motorsport Team Sorg Rennsport. This was the first victory for an Argentinian team at the 24 hours Nürburgring race and the first Argentinian team to compete in the Nürburgring since Juan Manuel Fangio.

Race Results

Class winners in bold.

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Vehicle	Laps
1	E1-XP2	25	GER BMW Motorsport	GER Jörg Müller	BMW M3 GT2	154
2	SP7	2	GER Hankook Team Farnbacher	GER Dominik Farnbacher	Ferrari F430 GTC	154
3	SP9 GT3	97	GER Phoenix Racing GmbH	GER Dennis Rostek	Audi R8 LMS	153
4	SP9 GT3	76	GER Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport	GER Marco Hartung	BMW Z4 GT3	152
5	SP9 GT3	102	GER Black Falcon	GER Christer Jöns	Audi R8 LMS	152
6	SP9 GT3	20	GER H & R Spezialfedern	GER Jürgen Alzen	Porsche GT3 Cup S	151
7	E1-XP2	26	GER BMW Motorsport	GER Dirk Werner	BMW M3 GT2	150
8	SP9 GT3	18	GER Team Rowe Motorsport	GER Michael Zehe	Porsche GT3 Cup S	150
9	SP9 GT3	66	GER Dörr Motorsport GmbH	GER Stefan Aust	BMW Z4 GT3	149
10	SP7	35	GER Scuderia Offenbach	GER Matthias Weiland	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	148
11	SP9 GT3	14	Ukraine Tsunami RT	Ukraine Alexandr Gayday	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	147
12	SP7	44	JPN Falken Motorsports	GBR Peter Dumbreck	Nissan 370 Z	145
13	SP7	11	GER Porsche AG	GER Patrick Simon	Porsche 997.2 GT3 RS	145
14	SP9 GT3	33	GER RDM-Cargraphic-Logwin-Racing	GER Peter König	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	145
15	SP3T	133		GER Elmar Deegener	Audi TT S	144
16	AT	117	GER Volkswagen Motorsport	Qatar Nasser Al-Attiyah	Volkswagen Scirocco GT24-CNG	143
17	SP9 GT3	28	GER Scuderia Offenbach e.V.	GER Michael Klein	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	142
18	SP8	50	JPN Gazoo Racing	JPN Takayuki Kinoshita	Lexus LF-A	142
19	SP3T	142	GER Opel OPC Race Camp	GER Hendrik Scharf	Opel Astra OPC	141
20	SP9 GT3	88	GER Haribo Team Manthey	GER Hans Guido Riegel	Porsche GT3 Cup S	141
21	SP6	169	GER Dörr Motorsport GmbH	GER Stefan Aust	BMW Z4 M Coupe	141
22	SP3T	141	GER Opel OPC Race Camp	GER Sebastian Amossé	Opel Astra OPC	140
23	SP8T	70	GER Team Götz Motorsport	USA Vic Rice	Audi RS 4	140
24	SP3T	137	JPN Subaru Tecnica International	JPN Kazuo Shimizu	Subaru Impreza WRX	139
25	SP7	96	GER Dörr Motorsport	GER Rolf Scheibner	BMW M3 GT4	139
26	SP5	106		GER Michael Tischner	BMW M3 GTR E46	137
27	SP10 GT4	61	GER Mathol Racing	GER Wolfgang Weber	Aston Martin Vantage N24	137
28	SP7	48	BEL Level Racing sprl	ITA Bruno Barbaro	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	137
29	SP7	42		GER Michael Illbruck	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	137
30	SP3	158		SWI Ralf Schmid	Honda S 2000	136
31	SP3T	146	GER Scuderia Colonia e.V. i. ADAC	GER Matthias Wasel	Volkswagen Golf	136
32	SP10 GT4	120	GER Black Falcon	UKR Andrii Lebed	BMW M3 GT4	134
33	SP7	37	Sweden Porsche Center Boras	SWE Christer Pernvall	Porsche 996 GT3 Cup	134
34	SP8	7		GER Dr. Ulrich Bez	Aston Martin Rapide	134
35	SP3T	184		GER Mike Jäger	Audi A3	133
36	SP3T	139	GER RWS Motorsport	GER Stefan Wieninger	Seat Leon Supercopa	132
37	V5	219		GER Stefan Widensohler	BMW M3 E36	132
38	SP3T	148		GBR Peter Venn	Subaru Impreza	132
39	SP8	6		GBR Chris Porritt	Aston Martin V12 Vantage	132
40	V5	226		GER Werner Gusenbauer	BMW M3	131
41	SP10 GT4	63		GER Tobias Guttroff	Chevrolet Corvette C6 GT4	131
42	SP8T	82	GER Dörr Motorsport GmbH	GER Tom Moran	BMW 135i	131
43	V6	232		GER Sven Rau	BMW M3 E46	131
44	SP3	162	GER Kissling Motorsport	GER Heinz-Otto Fritzsche	Opel Astra GTC	131
45	V5	180	GER Black Falcon	RUS Oleg Volin	BMW Z4 3.0 Si	131
46	SP10 GT4	59	Switzerland Gentle Swiss Racing	LUX Joe Schmitz	Aston Martin Vantage N24	130
47	SP6	90	GER MSC Rhön e.V. i. AvD	FRA Pierre de Thoisy	BMW M3 E46	130
48	V5	223	GER Scuderia Augustusburg Brühl e.V. i. ADAC	GER Dieter Weidenbrück	BMW Z4 E85	130
49	SP3	183		GER Janik Olivo	Renault Clio III Cup	128
50	D1T	201	FRA Peugeot Deutschland	GER Jürgen Nett	Peugeot RCZ	128
51	AT	118	GER Volkswagen Motorsport	SWE Jimmy Johansson	Volkswagen Scirocco GT24-CNG	128
52	V4	213	GER MSC Ruhr Blitz Bochum e.V.	GER Roland Botor	BMW 325i	128
53	SP4T	122		GER Patrick Brenndörfer	Volvo C30 T5	128
54	SP3	151	GER MSC Adenau e.V.	GER Karl-Heinz Teichmann	Renault Clio Cup	128
55	SP9 GT3	23		GER Stefan Kohlstrung	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	127
56	SP6	86
57	SP6	87
58	V5	224	GER ADAC Ostwestfalen-Lippe e.V.

References

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