2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours

4 8 15 16 23 42 108 · May 18, 2012

Will be a long night for me. What luck they are switching off cameras around the track at night, so I have good reason to sleep till morning

Thilo Falkenberg · May 18, 2012

The Nordschleife is way darker than LeMans for example... so it makes absolutely no sense to work the cameras^^

Roy Magnes · May 18, 2012

Very true. I have spent the last 4 or 5 years watching the livestream from the end of the start/finish straight through the night guessing what car comes past. When Radio LeMans came along the nights got even better at the race

Shane Burke · May 18, 2012

Hey, I'm planning on going Le mans 24hr and Nurbergring 24hr next year. Would love to meet up with some sim racers! ( none in Ireland ). Anyone going that would like to meet up at either race ? Trying to get a big gang of us at a corner, with drink, food, tent, fire! What else would you want at a 24hr race?

so anyway just leave a Reply if interested in meeting up or something!

Dave Simmons · May 18, 2012

Thilo Falkenberg said:
The Nordschleife is way darker than LeMans for example... so it makes absolutely no sense to work the cameras^^

Very true.. Having said that, when standing 20 feet from the crash barriers in the wood between Indianapolis and porsche curves.. it does get very dark there

Thilo Falkenberg · May 18, 2012

Final qualifying results and the starting groups.

http://www.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/12-05-17_Teilnehmerliste_24h-Rennen.final.pdf

http://www.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/24h_race_Grid1.pdf

http://www.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/24h_race_Grid2.pdf

http://www.24h-rennen.de/uploads/media/24h_race_Grid3.pdf

Thanks to ACCAkut from lfsforum.net for collecting all these links

nijeat · May 18, 2012

Thilo Falkenberg said:
Yeah, the yellow-green color came from a sponsor which now funds the International GT Open campaign of Manthey instead of the 24h race.

ohhhh I didn't know that, I thought it was just a symbol color of its own manthey. Thanks for reply.
Anyway what sponsor is it?

Thilo Falkenberg · May 19, 2012

WEISS, it is a printing company.

Dave Simmons · May 19, 2012

Any idea what time it starts UK - BST? i can never work these things out.

Peter · May 19, 2012

Dave Simmons said:
Any idea what time it starts UK - BST? i can never work these things out.

They are in the formation lap at this moment

Rui F. Martins · May 19, 2012

did the Mercedez tire blew up, or was it because of hte Audi^?

Thilo Falkenberg · May 19, 2012

Dave Simmons said:
Any idea what time it starts UK - BST? i can never work these things out.

BST/WEST is in UTC+1, so you need to add 1

Rui F. Martins said:
did the Mercedes tire blew up, or was it because of hte Audi^?

The tyre blew up while bumpdrafting.

Dave Simmons · May 19, 2012

Thanks Thilo

And quite a few incidents already.

4 8 15 16 23 42 108 · May 19, 2012

Tires will be a major key this year. Same procedure as...

Audi...

Bram Hengeveld · May 19, 2012

Andreas Scholz said:
Will be a long night for me. What luck they are switching off cameras around the track at night, so I have good reason to sleep till morning

Thats for me also the excuse to get to bed normally

Fingers crossed!

Roy Magnes · May 19, 2012

I love the way Christian Krognes leapt away from the rest of group 2 at the race start in the Scirocco. A very talented driver in a very good car, propably the best driver in the LMS-car this race