CONGRATULATIONS TOYOTA! TRIPLE WIN FINISH AT 24 HOURS of NURBURGRING!! - Page 2 - Toyota GR86, 86, FR-S and Subaru BRZ Forum & Owners Community

Turbowned · 05-20-2012, 01:13 PM

What a great race! I'm so thrilled with the results! Working for Audi, it's music to my ears to hear they finished first and second overall! To hear the Toyotas and the Subaru won their classes, too? Icing on the cake! My day is made

Arguably the world’s toughest endurance race, the 2012 Nürburgring 24 Hours ended with the Audi Sport Team Phoenix R8 LMS ultra capturing the victory after 155 grueling laps on the ‘Green Hell’.

“It was a great weekend for us, for the whole team,” [Marcus] Winkelhock (driver of the R8) said. “We had a perfect car that had no problems. It’s just amazing to stand on the podium. It was a really tough race and is really competitive.”

ZetaVI · 05-20-2012, 01:15 PM

Good day of racing.

LegendaryGT86 · 05-20-2012, 01:24 PM

Hi,

here (http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...716#post218716) are some pictures of the GT 86 and LFA during the race.

EDIT: If you want pictures of our cars please contact me, because i can´t upload all my pictures.

ichitaka05 · 05-20-2012, 01:27 PM

After this race, I kinda want built #166 FR-S LOL

Lasse · 05-20-2012, 02:02 PM

Gongrats to Gazoo racing&Swiss team! And of course gongrats to Toyota and Subaru for winning their classes. Racing results ARE important to me, so im happy!

And gongrats to Audi too! Usually i don't like Audi, but have to respect their performance

Lighting Red · 05-20-2012, 02:04 PM

And with this: Racing pedigree has been achieved.

Kiwi · 05-20-2012, 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lighting Red

And with this: Racing pedigree has been achieved.

Maybe the beginning of a racing pedigree, but definitely not achieved with just one race.

TRD_07 · 05-20-2012, 03:15 PM

Awesome news!

Dark · 05-20-2012, 03:25 PM

Wow, Great wins for Toyota.

Quentin · 05-20-2012, 03:38 PM

Sweet! Gazoo has had a few struggles the past few years at the 'ring. Good to see the team pull through.

Anyone find a good list of the overall classification? (to ensure these weren't 1st out of 3 results, haha)

Turbowned · 05-20-2012, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lighting Red

And with this: Racing pedigree has been achieved.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiwi

Maybe the beginning of a racing pedigree, but definitely not achieved with just one race.

True, but it's a great start nonetheless! It's very important for a car like this to achieve victories in racing, for the "win-on-Sunday, sell-on-Monday" strategy. Look at cars like the Datsun 240Z, which almost right away started winning races in nearly every class it competed in, whether it was club racing, pro racing, or rallying. It put Nissan and small Japanese sports cars on the map! Or the R32 GT-R, which dominated Group A and subsequently got Nissan kicked out of Grp.A racing for being too fast. The new GT-R continues to do extremely well. Other cars like the Audi Quattro come to mind, which was the first successful AWD rally machine, or Subaru's Impreza which won several times in WRC competition. All of these cars are now cult classics as a result, which I'm now fairly certain the 86/FR-S/BRZ will now begin to achieve!

DRACHENV6 · 05-20-2012, 03:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Moto-P

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3 min ago, Nurburgring ADAC VLN 24 Hour Race finished with....

LFA - SP8 Gazoo Racing
GT86 - SP3 Gazoo Racing
GT86 - V3 Team Suisse Toyota

All came in First Place in CLASS!!!

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That's amazing. I wish I knew that the race was happening so I could tune in.
Could you explain what the criteria for the different classes were? Whats the dierence between SP8, SP3, and V3?

Fish · 05-20-2012, 03:51 PM

Nice, congrats to the teams!

Lighting Red · 05-20-2012, 03:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kiwi

Maybe the beginning of a racing pedigree, but definitely not achieved with just one race.

I agree with your point, but this is a hell of a start!

05-20-2012, 01:27 PM	#18
ichitaka05 Site Moderator Join Date: Oct 2009 Drives: ichi 86 Project Location: Middle of No where Posts: 21,050 Thanks: 7,728 Thanked 19,278 Times in 8,388 Posts Mentioned: 697 Post(s) Tagged: 28 Thread(s)	After this race, I kinda want built #166 FR-S LOL __________________

05-20-2012, 02:04 PM	#20
Lighting Red Habitual Line Crosser. Join Date: Mar 2012 Drives: ^ Two of my favorite things. Location: Woodbridge, VA Posts: 327 Thanks: 115 Thanked 166 Times in 55 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	And with this: Racing pedigree has been achieved. __________________ But, but, but... It's only 200 hp?!

05-20-2012, 03:25 PM	#23
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LegendaryGT86 Junior Member Join Date: May 2012 Drives: Astra GTC Location: Germany Posts: 3 Thanks: 0 Thanked 12 Times in 2 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Hi, here (http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...716#post218716) are some pictures of the GT 86 and LFA during the race. EDIT: If you want pictures of our cars please contact me, because i can´t upload all my pictures.

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Lasse Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Drives: Avensis 2.2 diesel Location: Finland Posts: 182 Thanks: 54 Thanked 16 Times in 13 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Gongrats to Gazoo racing&Swiss team! And of course gongrats to Toyota and Subaru for winning their classes. Racing results ARE important to me, so im happy! And gongrats to Audi too! Usually i don't like Audi, but have to respect their performance

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TRD_07 Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Drives: Firestorm 6MT Location: Texas Posts: 456 Thanks: 435 Thanked 115 Times in 94 Posts Mentioned: 6 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Awesome news!

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Quentin Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Drives: ‘16 4Runner, ‘19 Corolla HB Location: Hurricane, WV Posts: 1,233 Thanks: 685 Thanked 813 Times in 435 Posts Mentioned: 4 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Sweet! Gazoo has had a few struggles the past few years at the 'ring. Good to see the team pull through. Anyone find a good list of the overall classification? (to ensure these weren't 1st out of 3 results, haha)

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