24 Hours of Nürburgring in Int'l GT Challenge

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May 27

The 52nd ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring (N24), will be staging from 30th May to 2nd June. 12 drivers split among 9 teams of the 26 world best GT3 teams are participating to the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli as the “race of the year” is now integrated in the challenge.

The following table gives you the different lineups with the drivers participating to both, the 24h of Nürburgring AND the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli. Column “Int’l GT Pos.” gives the current ranking per driver. Highlighted in yellow the drivers who previously won the N24 race. The column “Top Qualif.” gives you the top qualifier number they will participate. “Pos” gives their ranking in the Top Qualifier 2.

Table 1: Drivers ranking in Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli with respective teams participating to the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring (N24).

Vanthoor - Güven with Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 hours of Nürburgring 2023. DNF for #911 Manthey EMA driven by Christensen Michael, Estre Kevin, Makowiecki Frédéric and
Preining Thomas.

Among the pre-race favorites, the #911 Porsche team Manthey Racing will start in the familiar “Grello” design, with a quartet of proven top drivers at the wheel: Laurens Vanthoor (winner in 2015) and Ayhancan Güven, who are currently leading the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli, will share the #911 with Thomas Preining who won Sunday’s DTM race at the Lausitzring and Kevin Estre who won N24 in 2021.

Laurens Vanthoor and Ayhancan Güven won the Repco Bathurst 12 Hour (first round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli) in the #912 Manthey EMA Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) with Matt Campbell who will participate to N24 with #5 Renauer u. Renauer GbR Porsche 911 GT3 R he’ll share with Kolb, Olsen and Renauer.

Both cars are already qualified for the Top Qualifiers 2.

Stolz and Gounon split in two Mercedes-AMG GT3.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 hours of Nürburgring 2023. #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 by Mercedes-AMG Team Bilstein driven by Philipp Elis, Luca Stolz and Raffaele Marciello ended 3rd.

Luca Stolz, currently second of the Intercontinental Challenge, will share the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team HRT with Maximilian Götz, Daniel Juncadella and Arjun Maini.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps test days. The #130 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed will have the same livery as the #130 Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO that Daniel Juncadella, Frederik Vesti and Ralf Aron shared during the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps test days.

Jules Gounon, who finished the 12 hours of Bathurst in P2 with Stolz, will share the #130 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed with Maro Engel (winner in 2016) and Fabian Schiller.

A third official Mercedes-AMG team (#8 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed) will be driven by Mikael Grenier who is currently 5th of the Int’l Challenge. Grenier shares the #8 Mercedes with Adam Christodoulou, who won the race in 2016, Philip Ellis and Lucas Auer.

📷 © Courtesy of Mercedes-AMG. This year liveries for both Mercedes-AMG Team HRT #3 and #4.

The #4 Mercedes is qualified for Top Qualifiers 2. Both Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed ( #8 and #130) will have to run Top Qualifiers 1 and be in the top 5 of the race to be qualified for Top Qualifiers 2.

Eriksson and Picariello with Falken Motorsport Porsche

The green and blue 911s with the start numbers #33 and #44 did set the benchmark for the whole field as they both qualified for the Top Qualifiers 2.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 24 hours of Nürburgring 2023. #44 Falken Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Joel Eriksson, Tim Heinemann, Nico Menzel and Martin Ragginger ended 10th overall.

#44, which qualified fourth for the Top Qualifiers 2, will be driven by Joel Eriksson (currently third in the Int’l GT Challenge), Tim Heinemann, Nico Menzel and Martin Ragginger.

#33, which qualified first in NLS races, will be driven by Julian Andlauer, Klaus Bachler, Sven Müller, and Alessio Picariello who defend a P8 in the Int’l Challenge.