Nürburgring NLS4: Walkenhorst second NLS win

NLS

Jun 18

Jakub Giermaziak and Christian Krognes with the Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3, win for the second time this year a Nürburgring Endurance Series race (NLS4). It is the fourth win for a BMW M4 GT3 in the first four races of the Serie.

With this victory, the Walkenhorst team move up from 6th to 2nd in the 2023 NLS Speed Trophy championship, 9 points behind the leading BMW Junior Team.

Top 4 Overall

📷 © Luc Warnotte at 2023 NLS 4. BMW M works driver Jesse Krohn and Jakub Giermaziak in the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 claimed NLS 4 victory

Jakub Giermaziak and Christian Krognes with the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 took a definitive lead after the first pit stops at lap 9. They led the remaining 18 laps without any threat from other competitors.

After 9 laps, the two BMW M4 GT3s of Walkenhorst Motorsport were leading the race but not for long as the sister car driven by Neubauer / Krutten / Pereira crashed in the Schwalbenschwanz entrance area.

📷 © Luc Warnotte. For **24 hours of Nürburgring**,

The premiere of Octane126 with the new Ferrari 296 GT3 #26 driven by Björn Grossmann, Jonathan Hirschi and Luca Ludwig ended with a second place, 2:04.759 minutes behind the winners. The Ferrari 296 GT3 lost a bunch of time as the tank cover had not been fitted during the last pit stop causing an additional pitstop with 20 minutes to go.

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Nürburgring NLS4 2023. Maxime Dumarey and Christoph Breuer with #17 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 from PROsport-Racing won the SP9 Pro-Am class, ending 3rd overall.

Maxime Dumarey and Mike David Ortmann celebrated the first podium finish for the #17 PROsport-Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Ortmann took the lead at the end of lap 1 and defended it until the first pit stop on lap six. The tandem kept in contention for a podium during the whole race. They also win the SP9 PRO-AM class.

📷 © Luc Warnotte. Kolb and Stippler with the #5 Scherer Sport PHX Audi R8 LMS Evo II.

Frank Stippler secured pole position in qualifying with the #5 Audi from Scherer Sport PHX but drove into the pits before the start for safety reasons after driving a foreign object into his tire. They ended fourth overall.

SP9 PRO-AM

📷 © Luc Warnotte at Nürburgring NLS4 2023. #25 Huber Motorpsort driven by Dennis Feltzer, Klaus Rader and Hans Wehrmann.

The #25 Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Fetzer / Rader / Wehrmann / Rivas took briefly the lead as #17 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 and #34 BMW M4 GT3 pitted for the first time but was gradually overtaken by 3 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup of the CUP2 class to finish 8th overall and second in the PRO-AM class.