2022 24 Hours of Nürburgring Qualifiers 1
The Qualifiers 1 of the 2022 24 Hours of Nürburgring was shortened by a red flag.
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#98 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 emerged fastest in this first session. Nicky Catsburg, John Edwards, Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann will share #98 during the 24 hours race.
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#101 Walkenhorst Motorsport driven by Christian Krognes, Andy Soucek, Sami-Matti Trogen and Jörg Müller confirm the velocity of the BMW M4 GT3 on the Nordschleife with the second-best time.
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The third performance is close to 4 sec. slower than #98 (3.828 sec. to be precise) with Raffaele Marciello, Philip Ellis Philip and Luca Stolz driving #12 Mercedes-AMG Team Bilstein.
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Julien Andlauer, Matt Campbell and Matthieu Jaminet with Toksport WRT Porsche 911 GT3R #27 are fourth.
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Mario Engel, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella share #4 Mercedes AMG GT3 by Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed in P5.
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The first Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II is sixth with #15 Audi Sport Team Phoenix driven by Kelvin Van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor, Frederic Vervisch and Robin Frijns.
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Dennis Olsen, IMSA Dpi driver Earl Bamber and WEC LM GTE Pro driver Nick Tandy are seventh with KCMG Porsche 911 GT3R #18.
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The second ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 (#99) is eighth with NLS3 winners Connor De Phillippi and Augusto Farfus. For the 24 Hours race they share the BMW with Philipp Eng and Nick Yelloly.
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#90 Aston Martin Vantage BY TF Sport AMR is ninth with WEC 2020 champions Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen as well as IMSA GTD driver Maxime Martin and David Pittard.
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The top 10 is ended by last year's winners #1 Porsche 911 GT3R by Manthey-Racing GmbH driven by WEC Porsche #92 Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen who share the car with 24 Hours of Le Mans’ number 3 pilots for Porsche #91 and #92 Frédéric Makowiecki and Laurens Vanthoor.
