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ADVAN CHALLENGE – Nürburgring
Nürburgring. Most racing drivers around the world love this extremely challenging race track in Germany.
Many leading car companies and tire manufacturers have used this circuit as their products’ proving ground. Given such characteristics of Nürburgring Nordschleife, the 24-hour race held there has to be the toughest among all around-the-clock endurance races worldwide. Yokohama Tire has a long history of challenging the 24-hour race at Nürburgring, and a BMW M3 won it using Yokohama Tire in 1989 and 1991, and then a Porsche 911 Carrera did the same in 1993. And Warkenhorst Motorsport won the championship title of NLS (Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie) in 2020 with their Yokohama-shoed BMW M6 GT3.
The target is obvious. To receive the checkered flag first after the 86,400 seconds racing for the first time in 20 years. And to win the NLS championship, which is the authentication of the strongest throughout the year.
Thus, in 2023, using the traditional ADVAN-liveried cars, the new challenge for the victories at Nürburgring has begun.
Team Profile
Entrant : Walkenhorst Motorsport
Class : SP9
Machine：BMW・M4 GT3
Team Director : Henry Walkenhorst
Drivers(24Hours Race) :
No.100) Henry Walkenhorst / Jörg Breuer / Sami-Matti Trogen / Christian Bollrath
No.101) Christian Krognes / Kuba Giermaziak / Jesse Krohn / Andy Soucek
No.102) Thomas Neubauer / Jake Dennis / Jens Klingmann / Christian Krognes
Walkenhorst Motorsport participates in the Nürburgring 24-hour race and NLS with the ADVAN-liveried cars in 2023. The team led by Henry Walkenhorst has competed in major race events with the race cars produced by BMW for years and has an excellent track record at Nürburgring in cooperation with Yokohama Tire.
The team’s weapons are BMW M4 GT3 which they have been using since 2022. Two such machineries in the ADVAN livery were run in the SP9 class for the 24-hour race, its Qualifiers, and the NLS’s second and third rounds (as planned at the time of writing). The driver line-up includes Christian Krognes, Jakub Giermaziak, Andy Soucek, Jake Dennis, Thomas Neubauer, Jesse Krohn, and Jens Klingmann. They are going to make a concerted effort to achieve a glorious victory.