Nürburgring 24 Hours Preview - Part 3
The Sp7 Class

The Sp7 class is where you will find most of the Porsches. Of the 23 cars signed up, 22 have a flat six engine in the back and were build in Weissach.

This year Olaf Manthey is rolling back out his Porsche 911 GT3 RSR, driven by the same line up as his green and yellow Porsche 911 GT3 R - Marc Lieb, Timo Bernhard, Lucas Luhr and Romain Dumas.

His team is planning on bringing both cars through administrative checks and scrutineering, with a very good possibility of both cars taking part in qualifying; and if both cars qualify why not race both of them? Double the cars, double the winning chance.

Also fielded by Manthey-Racing is the Wochenspiegel GT3 MR, which is a Cup Porsche, enhanced with GT3 R and Cup S parts. Georg Weiss, Michael Jacobs, Oliver Kainz and Jochen Krumbach will share driving duties. Another Manthey-Car is the Cup car for Rainer Holte, Mark Porsche, Arne Hoffmeister and Daniel Cooke.

15 other Porsche Cup cars have also been signed up for the big one, with the rest of the Porsches being various versions of RS or RSR cars. Wolfgang Kaufmann is supposed to share a Cup Porsche by Kremer Racing with Carl Rosenblad, which might also be upgraded to a GT3 R car.

The only car not coming from Porsche is the Artega GT.

The special thing about the car is the fact that it is a street-legal car taking part in the race in the Green Hell on legal road tyres by Continental. Uwe Nittel, Uwe Krumscheid, Dierk Möller-Sonntag and Christian Gebhardt will share the Henrik Fisker designed car.

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