Phoenix Racing Press Release
Phoenix Racing will be
competing with three Audi R8 LMS ultra cars in the six-hour-race of the
Endurance Championship Nürburgring (VLN) on Saturday (24 August).
“Alongside the traditional 24-hour race this VLN race that lasts six hours is the second highlight of the season on the Nordschleife,” says Phoenix Team Director Ernst Moser. “We’ve already won two VLN rounds this year but winning this race over the extended distance would be something special. We’re looking forward to this special race very much.”
“Alongside the traditional 24-hour race this VLN race that lasts six hours is the second highlight of the season on the Nordschleife,” says Phoenix Team Director Ernst Moser. “We’ve already won two VLN rounds this year but winning this race over the extended distance would be something special. We’re looking forward to this special race very much.”
The driver trio with the ‘Ring’ specialists Frank
Stippler (D) and Marc Basseng (D) plus Roman Rusinov (RU), who impressively
showed his abilities on the difficult Nordschleife at the 24-hour race in May,
has firmly set its sights on the podium. They are driving the white-black #37
Audi R8 LMS ultra of G-Drive Racing by Phoenix. In a G-Drive Racing by Phoenix
R8 Frank Stippler and Marcel Fässler (CH) had won the 24-hour ‘dress rehearsal’
at the second VLN round at the end of April.
With the tailwind gained from the victory at the
fourth VLN round in June together with Frank Stippler, Ferdinand and Johannes
Stuck are contesting the entire VLN season in the white-blue #15 Audi of TÜV
Rheinland. The Stuck brothers are supported by Christopher Zoechling (A). The
25-year-old talent is driving for Phoenix for the first time. “Christopher
Zoechling convinced us in track tests and we also watched his performances in
the Porsche and in the Mercedes on the Nordschleife so that he deserves this
opportunity in the R8,” explains Ernst Moser. And Hans-Joachim Stuck (D), who
is driving the Phoenix R8 race taxi sporting Red Bull graphics as part of the
activities before the VLN race, is ready to actively support his two sons again
in the cockpit as a matter of exception.
Taking turns at the wheel of the #5 Audi featuring
the white-black Primland graphics will be Christopher Haase (D), Frank Stippler
and Harold Primat (CH). At the VLN round in June Haase/Primat, both of whom are
driving a Phoenix R8 in the Blancpain Endurance Series with Oliver Jarvis (GB),
had achieved a podium position. Ernst Moser: “Harold Primat would like to
contest the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring in 2014, so this and other VLN races
serve as the best possible preparation.”
At this race Phoenix Racing is continuing the
development work with the new suspension partner KW. Two R8 cars are equipped
with dampers from KW, the third one with the time-tested Bilstein suspension.
Over 210 Teams, including a large number of GT3
sports cars with plenty of horsepower, make for a gigantic field of entrants.
After tests on Friday afternoon and the 90-minute qualifying session on
Saturday morning, the 6-h race will be started at 12:00.
Photo credit: Phoenix Racing
Photo credit: Phoenix Racing
