By Tarek Ramchani
Round 3 of the VLN Endurance Series today at the Nurbrugring Nordschleife. The Audi R8 LMS scored its best result of the season so far with Audi Sport Team Phoenix.
A nice second place finish for Phoenix Racing and their #5 Audi R8 LMS ultra. The car shared by Christopher Mies and Markus Winkelhohck was right behind the winning Porsche GT3 R. The sister #15 car of the team finished in a good fourth place outright with drivers Marc Basseng, Christopher Haase and Frank Stippler. The Audi race experience with the #11 car landed in fifteenth place, while the other car from the team #22 R8 LMS finished in twentieth. The Belgian WRT team finished in nineteenth. Bad luck hit the #44 Raeder Motorsport and the #14 Mamerow Racing cars, both retired.
The SP4T class was an all Audi TT RS affair. The #272 from Raeder Motorsport won the class and did achieved amazing thirteenth overall. The #282 car of FH Koln Motorsport was in second and the #269 machine from Raeder Motorsport was in third.
Full race results
Today's race is the final one before the big 24 Hours of the Nurburgring next month.
A nice second place finish for Phoenix Racing and their #5 Audi R8 LMS ultra. The car shared by Christopher Mies and Markus Winkelhohck was right behind the winning Porsche GT3 R. The sister #15 car of the team finished in a good fourth place outright with drivers Marc Basseng, Christopher Haase and Frank Stippler. The Audi race experience with the #11 car landed in fifteenth place, while the other car from the team #22 R8 LMS finished in twentieth. The Belgian WRT team finished in nineteenth. Bad luck hit the #44 Raeder Motorsport and the #14 Mamerow Racing cars, both retired.
The SP4T class was an all Audi TT RS affair. The #272 from Raeder Motorsport won the class and did achieved amazing thirteenth overall. The #282 car of FH Koln Motorsport was in second and the #269 machine from Raeder Motorsport was in third.
Full race results
Today's race is the final one before the big 24 Hours of the Nurburgring next month.
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| #15 Audi R8 LMS - Audi Sport Team Phoenix |
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| #36 Audi R8 LMS - WRT |
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| #270 Audi TT RS - Besaplast Racing Team |
