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FALKEN Motorsports Team’s “Porsche 911 GT3 R” Wins 3rd Place Overall in the “24 Hours Nurburgring Race”

 
    
 

FALKEN Motorsports Team's "Porsche 911 GT3 R" Wins 3rd Place Overall in the "24 Hours Nurburgring Race"

 

May 20, 2015

 

 Sumitomo Rubber Industries is pleased to announce that the FALKEN Motorsports Team's "Porsche 911 GT3 R," outfitted with tires provided by our European sales subsidiary FALKEN Tyre Europe, won third place overall at the "43rd ADAC Zurich Nurburgring 24-Hour Endurance Race" (commonly known as the "Nurburgring 24-Hour Race"), one of the world's largest touring car races, which was held from Thursday, May 14 to Sunday, May 17 in Nurburg, Germany.

 
The FALKEN Motorsports Team’s Porsche 911 GT3 RThe Awards Ceremony
The FALKEN Motorsports Team's Porsche 911 GT3 RThe Awards Ceremony

 
 

 The FALKEN Motorsports Team's Porsche 911 GT3 R started out in 19th place out of 151 competitors in the finals of this race, which is generally considered to be difficult even to complete, much less win. With constantly changing road conditions due to off and on rain, the team took full advantage of FALKEN tires' stable grip performance on both wet and dry roads to steadily pass other drivers one after another. As a result, in their sixteenth appearance in the Nurburgring 24-Hour Race, since participating in the very first race in 1999, the FALKEN Motorsports Team exceeded their previous best fourth-place finish (last year) to place third overall, finally realizing their long-held dream of standing on the winner's podium.

Team NameFALKEN Motorsports
Team ManagerSven Schnabl
DriversWolf Henzler, Peter Dumbreck, Martin Ragginger, Alexandre Imperatori
Race CarPorsche 911 GT3 R

[24 Hours Nurburgring Race]
 This 24-hour endurance race, taking place at the Nurburgring, which is also famously used as an R&D test circuit for automobile and tire manufacturers, is considered by many to be the world's toughest race. At 25km per lap, the race covers the Nurburgring's full course, combining the North Course (Old Course), which features an elevation difference of 300m between its highest and lowest points and around 170 corners (including blind corners), and the more modern Grand Prix Course, which is also used for F1 racing.

 

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