Ferrari victory at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring

On Sunday, May 21, 2023, the Ferrari 296 GT3 No. 30, of the Fricadilly Racing Team, owned by Klaus Aplin, won the 51st edition of the 24 Hours of Nurburgring race, in front of a crowd of 235,000 spectators,

All these thousands of fans gathered around Green Hell, the famous Nordschleife circuit in the Eifel mountains.

The victory goes to the end of the 162 laps – a new record – for the crew consisting of New Zealanders Nick Catsberg and Earl Bamber, Germany’s Felipe Fernandez Lazer and Britain’s David Pittard, who gave Maranello its first victory. Its the legendary German event which is the 24 Hours of Nurburgring.

Which rarely escapes a German company, Audi, BMW, Mercedes and Porsche!

To find such a feat, you have to go back to the 2002 edition of Zackspeed’s Dodge Viper win.

Congratulations and respect to Fricadilly Racing, Ferrari and their drivers!

It was David Pittard who crossed the finish line, passing under the chessboard as the winner, b 26 seconds 911 Before the BMW M4 GT3, the N° 98 Rowe team was tasked with Belgians Maxime Martin and Dries Vanthoor, German Marco Wittmann and South African Sheldon van der Linde.

Mercedes-AMG GT3 N ° 4, from the Mercedes-AMG Team Bilstein Polymens, the trio formed by the Italian Raffaele Marciello, the German Luca Stolz and the British Philip Ellis, finishing the third stage of the podium.

The top five is completed by another Mercedes-AMG GT3, the Getspeed team No. 2 of the trio with Germans Fabian Schiller and Maximilian Götz, with support from Britain’s Adam Christodoulou.

and by the first Porsche 911 GT3 R, No. 96 of HCB Management GmbH with Frenchman Julien Andlauer, Italian Matteo Cairoli and Norwegian Dennis Olsen.

First Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo 2, No. 39 Audi Sport Team Land, Germans Chris Haas and Chris Mies and Swiss Patrick Niederhauser, who finished sixth.

Among the many retirements, let us point out in particular the Porsche 911 GT3R, in which the Frenchmen Romain Dumas and Comme Ledougar drove the Huber team, Kevin Esther and Fred Makowiecki, for the Manthey team, Mathieu Gaminet and Patrick Pilet for Lio, Speed ​​by Car Collection .

and Jules Gounon Getspeed Mercedes-AMG GT2.

Peter Sall

Images: ADAC-TEAMS