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june 01, 2022 - Audi
Facts about the sixth victory of the Audi R8 LMS at the Nürburgring 24 Hours
Audi Sport customer #racing won the anniversary edition of the Nürburgring 24 Hours on May 29. Facts about the brand's success at the 50th twice-around-the-clock endurance race in the Eifel.
Audi decided the iconic endurance race in its favor for the sixth time. In 2012 and 2014, the first generation of the Audi R8 LMS won and in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2022, the second generation was victorious. As a result, Audi has remained the most successful manufacturer in the race during this specific period of time
For Phoenix Racing, the team based directly at the Nürburgring, it also marked the sixth victory at its home race, the fourth of which the team has clinched with Audi as Audi Sport Team Phoenix. Ernst Moser's squad was the fastest competitor in 2012, 2014, 2019 and now once again with the R8 LMS.
Audi Sport drivers Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and Frédéric Vervisch each have previously won this race once with Audi. The South African van der Linde achieved his breakthrough in 2017 with Audi Sport Team Land and the two Belgians, Vanthoor and Vervisch, were part of the winning team in 2019. For Robin Frijns, this was the first 24-hour race victory in his career.
A total of 42 lead changes between the individual race cars from Audi, Aston Martin, BMW, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes-AMG and Porsche characterized the anniversary edition. Consequently, all of the manufacturers represented in the leading SP9 class were front runners at least once.
With a total distance of 159 race laps equating to 4,035 kilometers completed, Audi Sport Team Phoenix equalized its own distance record in this race that the squad had set in 2014.
In the race, Robin Frijns, #kelvinvanderlinde, Dries Vanthoor and Frédéric Vervisch listened to the commands issued by their race engineer Wim Everaerts. He regularly works for Audi’s customer team WRT and was signed for Audi Sport Team Phoenix just shortly before the Nürburgring 24 Hours.
Some of the factors that Everaerts was not accustomed to included the frequently long names of the many famous track sections at the Nürburgring. The Belgian openly admitted that they were not always easy for him to understand and that it repeatedly took him some time to find them on the map. The engineer also had to get used to the prevailing temperatures: at night, it was so cold that he wore several jackets.
Not unusual at all for him was working with the drivers. Everaerts, in 2019, led #kelvinvanderlinde, #fredericvervisch and #driesvanthoor to victory with Audi as their engineer at the Suzuka 10 Hours, a round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge.
At the Nürburgring on the last weekend in May, van der Linde reeled off 49 race laps, Vanthoor completed 40, Vervisch 38 and Frijns 32.
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