Nurburgring 24H: BMW hour 18 report

15th/16th May 2010 - Race - Bulletin 4Team BMW Motorsport experiences a trouble-free night.

Nurburgring, 16th May 2010. The Team BMW Motorsport drivers completed their night stints at the Nurburgring-Nordschleife (DE) without being involved in any incidents and managed to improve their positions in the 24-hour race. Jörg Muller (DE), Uwe Alzen (DE) and Pedro Lamy (PT) shared driving duties in the no. 25 BMW M3 GT2 after midnight. At the pit stop on lap 95, Lamy handed over the wheel to Augusto Farfus (BR) in fourth position. The Brazilian is currently running a lap behind the leading Porsche GT3 R Hybrid.

Dirk Adorf (DE), Dirk Werner (DE) and Dirk Muller (DE) successfully continued the catch up of the BMW M3 GT2 with number 26. The car had dropped back to 182nd following an early accident. On lap 73, however, the quartet of drivers finally made its return to the top-20 positions. Since lap 88 Andy Priaulx (GB) is in the driving seat of the GT sports car, holding 15th position.

-source: bmw