24 hours in 19500 Frames

24 HOURS IN 19500 FRAMES from tim hahne on Vimeo.

Thanks to www.drivecult.com and Chris Harris (@harrismonkey on twitter) for this video link of a wonderful short film capturing the recent Nurburgring 24 hours.

Nurburgring 24 Hours

It's the Nurburgring 24 hours this weekend, the blue riband race for the VLN series. As my beautiful girlfriend is arriving from the States this weekend I am unable to attend but for those interested in following the race I would suggest a couple of follows on Twitter as two of EVO magazines journalists will be competing.


Chris Harris (@harrismonkey) will be competing in a near stock Porsche 997GT3 RS entered by Porsche itself.  Other than slicks and safety mods the car is road legal, It has prove pretty competitive in the intial VLN events


Meanwhile Richard "Dickie" Meaden (@dickiemeaden) will be competing in as works entered  Aston Martin V12 Vantage. It's actually the same car in which he won the SP8 class at the event last year, although this year it has gained some serious aerodynamic enhancements which should increase cornering speeds although possibly at the expense of straight line speed.


Both cars and serious entries and whilst 24 hour races at the ring can be something of a lottery, if they have trouble free runs you can expect both cars to be pretty high up the finishing order. I expect both with be tweeting updates and possibly answering questions in between their driving stints. Chris is also blogging the race on Evo's website (link below although you need to complete the free registration to the community section to read the blogs)


Good luck to both Chris and Dickie (my preference for front engined V12 cars means that of the two I'll be cheering for Dickie slightly more) and all the other drivers taking part.


Evo's web site

1971 Nurburgring 1000km

I'm pretty sure the organisers of the FIA GT series today would like to see entry lists and crowds the size of this 1971 Nurburgring 1000Km. 1971 was the second year of the famous battles between the immortal Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512. However by this time Ferrari had switched their attention to the 3.0 liter 312PB in time for the coming change to 3.0 engines for the 1972 season. Here however Porsche prefered to use the nimble 3.0 908/3 instead of the big 917. The Ferrari was the class of the field until engine problems sidelined it leading to a win for the Porsche 908/3 of Vic Elford and Gerard Larrouse. The work Ferrari put into the 312PB paid off however as the car utterly dominated the 1972 season winning 10 of 11 races (the one the one they didn't was Le Mans which they did not enter.