for the very 1st time!





here are the results:


1. Basseng/ Haase/ Stippler/ Winkelhock Audi Team Phoenix - Audi R8 LMS(#3) 155 rounds
2. Mamerow/ Abt/ Ammermüller/ Hahne Mamerow Racing - Audi R8 LMS - 3:35.383 Min.
3. Frankenhout/ Simonsen/ Kaffer/ Arnold Hankook-Team Heico - Mercedes SLS GT3 - 11:31.116 Min.
4. Leinders/ Palttala/ Martin Marc VDS - BMW Z4 GT3 - 1 round
5. Fässler/ Mies/ Rast/ Stippler Audi Team Phoenix - Audi R8 LMS - 4 rounds
6. Abbelen/ Schmitz/ Brück/ Huismann Frikadelli - Porsche 911 GT3 - 4 rounds
7. Müller/ Müller/ Alzen/ Adorf BMW Team Schubert - BMW Z4 GT3 - 5 rounds
8. Hürtgen/ Schwager/ Bastian/ Adorf BMW Team Schubert - BMW Z4 GT3 - 5 rounds
9. Klingmann/ Wittmann/ Göransson/ Lamy BMW Team Vita4one - BMW Z4 GT3 - 5 rounds
10. Zehe/ Hartung/ Rehfeld/ Bullitt ROWE Racing - Mercedes SLS GT3 - 5 rounds

others:

Glickenhaus Ferrari P 4/5 Competizione 12th
Lexus LF-A 15th
Aston Martin Zagato 26th
Nissan GT-R 30th



Arguably the world’s toughest endurance race, the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours ended with the Audi Sport Team Phoenix R8 LMS ultra
capturing the victory after 155 grueling laps on the ‘Green Hell’.

It’s the first victory for the German automaker at the famous Nürburgring 24 race with drivers Marc Basseng, Christopher Haase, Frank Stippler,
and Markus Winkelhock at the wheel. Second place also went to Audi with Chris Mamerow, Christian Abt, Michael Ammermüller, and Armin Hahne
finishing behind their fellow Audi teammates while representing Mamerow racing.
Third place went to the Hankook-Team Heico Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 driven by Christian Frankenhout, Andreas Simonsen, Pierre Kaffer,
and Lance David Arnold who barely edged out the Wochenspiegel-Porsche 911 GT3 R with Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas, Lucas Luhr, and Richard Lietz
behind the wheel.
As expected, the race was not without any drama with less than one-third of the 31 GT3-spec race cars having trouble-free races.
Team Schubert’s BMW Z4 GT3 held the pole and the race early on but lost six laps from a driveshaft failure.
Its sister car experienced gearbox issues after leading, leaving the race down to fellow German automakers Audi and Mercedes-Benz to face off.
Audi’s top entry, the number-2 Phoenix car, crashed in the early morning after rain fell in the 15th hour. The ROWE Racing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG
GT3 took over the lead before it found trouble with a suspension failure that ultimately took it out of the race with six hours to go.
This is the fourth Nürburgring 24 Hour attempt for the Audi R8 LMS race car and marks a historic 1-2 sweep along with Audi’s first win.
As for Team Phoenix, it’s enjoying its second win after capturing the title in 2003 with an Opel Astra V8 Coupe.
“It was a great weekend for us, for the whole team,” Winkelhock said. “We had a perfect car that had no problems.
It’s just amazing to stand on the podium. It was a really tough race and is really competitive.”

 

What no TT Gallardos. Hmmm

R8>Gallardo

 

Team Phoenix great guys........... We do a lot of work with them.

 

Very cool!

 

I've seen this car and it is no joke. Congrats!