Darkness fell at the Nürburgring – and so did the rain. Rain so hard that even this race – the toughest of the tough – had to be called to a temporary halt because of the absolutely appalling conditions. Driving on the Nordschleife in the dry is hard enough, but with a track better described [...]
We’re eight hours into the ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hours and the rain is relentlessly lashing down. The race has been stopped for almost two hours now, neutralised under red flag conditions. The cars have been parked up in the pit-lane, whilst the crews go into hibernation awaiting announcement of a possible restart. The conditions [...]
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This was the scene with just 10 minutes to go before the start of the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours, as the leading GT3s headed the huge field on their slow formation lap. Ahead of them, a hard day of racing around the most fearsome track in the world. Ominous spots of rain began to fall [...]
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There’s less than one hour to go before the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours, and Speedhunters have just had the ride of a lifetime. We’ve been riding the Nordschleife in a Bilstein-liveried Vantage following no less than James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, as part of a 100 car parade around the Nordschleife to celebrate the centenary [...]
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Frank Stippler has put the Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS ultra on pole for the 2013 ADAC Zurich Nürburgring 24 Hours race. The running order for the Top 40 qualifying session was drawn by lottery after the combined field of 176 cars had completed six hours out on track. The cars were sent out at short intervals to make their two qualifying runs. Stippler crossed the line to post a lap time of 8m17.212s to blitz pole, while the second placed Aston Martin Vantage GT3 was over a second back in the hands of ex-F1 driver Pedro Lamy. The 24-hour-long race is due to begin at 5.00pm Sunday Nürburg time (Sunday 11.00am PST).
- Jonathan
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Two guys. Four boots. Four cameras. Four miles. No car. It’s a slightly different premise from the regular Dream Drive features that we have here on Speedhunters, but for the opening story of our coverage from the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours we decided that it deserved something different – and special. A trek out to [...]
Living just a few miles away from the streets where one of the greatest street races in the world is held annually makes me feel pretty spoilt. This past weekend was the 39th running of the Long Beach Grand Prix and my tenth year attending this historic race. In that time I’ve seen Champ Cars give [...]
Maxime Martin and John Edwards are rookies on the BMW Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan team. This past weekend was their first 12 Hours Of Sebring and it certainly won’t be their last. Maxime is 27 years old… …and John is even younger at just 22 years old. John will be driving with Dirk Müller and Joey Hand in [...]
I’ve never owned a BMW. In fact, I’ve never owned a European car – since I got my driver’s license I’ve had eight Nissan/Datsun automobiles. The only time I had a chance to drive an M3 was years ago when I was still actively competing in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) autocross. One of [...]
We always push ourselves to bring you the best possible coverage and photography at every event we attend, and I am a big believer in showing you Speedhunters out there what goes on behind the scenes. This time I’ve tried to do something a little different: I wanted to show you guys what I did on [...]
…and the beginning of another. The 2013 running of the 12 Hours Of Sebring endurance race might have heralded the final time the classic event would run under the banner of the American Le Mans Series (after a 15 year run), but the 61st edition signalled anything but the end. The big LMP1 cars would [...]
Since the 60’s, Bathurst has hosted some of the most gruelling racing ever held on Australian soil, with the Bathurst 1000 running each year, as well as 12 and 24 hour races held at various times in the past. The past few years have seen the interest in the 12 hour race reach new heights, [...]
When was the last time you guys stayed up for 24 hours? Easy right? Warning: this is when the nerd in me comes out. I used to stay up for 24 hours on a regular basis back in high school when I used to go to LAN parties. It was so easy to play video games through [...]
While the rest of the Speedhunters crew freezed their behinds off covering the Tokyo Auto Salon, my face was getting sun-burned and sandblasted as I was covering the Dunlop 24 Hours Of Dubai at the Dubai Autodrome in the United Arab Emirates. I arrived in Dubai tired as ever after a 15-hour trek from Los Angeles, [...]
When I started writing this post I figured it would be a great to include the exact amount of photos I shot this entire year. Well I got halfway and realized that it might as well be one trillion, because that was how many it felt like I had shot. This past year was a growing year [...]
