BMW M Motorsport and ROWE Racing pulled off an epic win on the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, notching BMW’s twenty first total victory at this legendary endurance check. In entrance of a document crowd, the quartet of Kelvin van der Linde, Augusto Farfus, Jesse Krohn, and Raffaele Marciello delivered an unforgettable efficiency within the #98 BMW M4 GT3 EVO—capping off a wild comeback.
The weekend didn’t begin simple for ROWE Racing. The M4 GT3 EVO missed out on the highest qualifying session and needed to launch from P17. However as soon as the inexperienced flag dropped, Farfus was on fireplace—blasting into the highest ten on lap one. Then got here the chaos: a paddock energy outage and purple flag halted the race for over two hours. However van der Linde used the restart like a slingshot, rocketing from ninth to 3rd in simply two laps.
From there, it was a clinic in endurance racing. Marciello and Krohn saved the automotive within the podium hunt via the night time, whereas ROWE executed flawlessly within the pits. At dawn, the M4 GT3 was inside putting distance of the chief—and three and a half hours earlier than the checkered flag, Farfus took the lead. When the #911 Porsche obtained hit with a penalty, it was sport on. Regardless of crossing the road simply behind the Porsche, van der Linde and the #98 have been declared victors after the Manthey EMA attraction was denied.
This was van der Linde’s third Nürburgring 24h win, however his first with BMW M. For Farfus, it ended a 15-year drought since his final win right here. Marciello claimed his first 24h win with BMW, and Krohn added his identify to the Nordschleife winners’ membership too. BMW’s final total win got here in 2020 with the M6 GT3—additionally with ROWE Racing. This one? Pure redemption.
M2 Racing Steps Up with a Class Win
It wasn’t simply the large canine shining. The brand new BMW M2 Racing—BMW M Motorsport’s entry-level race automotive—dominated its class in its closing endurance shakedown. The #310 automotive, piloted by Jens Klingmann, Charles Weerts, Ugo de Wilde, and journalist Michael Bräutigam, was untouchable in SP 3T.
All informed, BMW M buyer groups collected seven class wins. Highlights included the AV Racing by Black Falcon M4 GT4 EVO (#67) taking SP10, Adrenalin Motorsport scoring in each the M240i (#650) and VT2-RWD (#500) lessons, rent2Drive-racing’s #700 BMW 325i grabbing its class, and RAVENOL Motorsport’s #277 318ti clinching SP3.
