Bulldog Racing and MINI John Cooper Works have claimed second place within the SP3T class on the 2024 Nürburgring 24 Hours, persevering with a constant run of leads to the endurance basic. Following a category win in 2023 and a second-place end in 2022, the staff as soon as once more reached the rostrum in one of many occasion’s best classes.
Over the course of the 24-hour race, the MINI John Cooper Works accomplished 111 laps and over 2,700 kilometers on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The motive force lineup — Samantha Tan (Canada), Toby Goodman (UK), Sebastian Sauerbrei (Germany), and Markus Fischer (Austria) — delivered a gradual and composed efficiency throughout altering situations.
The race was quickly halted on Saturday afternoon following an influence outage within the paddock, inflicting a purple flag interval of simply over two hours. As soon as racing resumed at 7:45 PM native time, the staff superior via the sphere and gained greater than 60 locations within the general classification by the top of the race.
Fischer recorded the automotive’s quickest lap, a ten:02, narrowly bettering on his greatest time from final 12 months. For Tan and Goodman, the 2024 occasion marked their debut within the Nürburgring 24 Hours. The SP3T class winners of the 2025 24 Hours of Nürburgring had been the #312 staff of Wawer, Karch, and Rönnefarth in a BMW M2 Racing.
The MINI John Cooper Works additionally featured a customized exterior livery in collaboration with Deus Ex Machina, although the main target remained on the race efficiency, which unfolded in entrance of a document crowd of 280,000 spectators.
