FULL RACE | ADAC TOTAL 24h Race 2021 Nurburgring | RELIVE 🇬🇧 English

well we've managed to get it in the right time of the year close to where we are expecting to see the annual pilgrimage to the eiffel mountains with the formation lap almost complete with rain not just in the air but falling on the circuit with the vast majority of the grid on dry weather tyres with the land audi the number 29 car for the winners of this fantastic event in pit lane having decided to leave it to the last one it's very clever actually because if they've gone out onto the grid they're stuck on the tyres that they are uh on with five minutes to go before they are flagged out they stay in the pit lane they can make that decision right up to the moment that they roll down to the end of the pit lane hello to david drinkwater who's in the number 231 bmw 240i in the cup 5 category we know he's listening in he's been tweeting to us from the grid at rsl underscore studio hashtag rsl in 24 on the dotty get her the audi pace car taking the field towards a green flag much weaving in the marshes almost much weaving in the eiffel actually trying to get some heat into tires that would suggest to me that they're on slicks and it slips for the lads audi they have waited peter as long as possible and it would seem that they have gone with your idea that it is slick weather also down there the number 84 porsche cayman has waited to make that decision very late as well just watching nikki casper go over but as well not just weaving side to side but actually in a straight line just accelerating hard and stopping hard getting heat into those rear tyres on that rear wheel drive m6 bmw last year's winning car and of course then standing on the brakes really hard to get heat into the discs as well the heat into the discs in the front soaked into the hub gets into the tire so another way of getting heated through into those tyres ready for we take the start and of course the next important bit is the first corner absolutely getting it stopped and it's going to be damp now slick tires on a damp track maybe not much problem if you've got heat in them if you've got heat it will be less of an issue this is all relative to people who have zero driving uh talent like me i might hold a racing license but i'm living on my nerves just walking to the car and bolting myself into it never mind getting around the first corner but this is what these drivers live for a circuit that challenges every single fiber of their being every nerve ending their concentration their bravery and then add in that you don't know where the grip is going to be on this first lap because it's 10 minutes since you were last around this circuit and the weather will have changed the grip level will have changed the surface will have changed and there's already people diving into the pit lane they've been around the circuit so they're coming up waiting for going under their great great flag for the 2021 49th running of the total adac 24 hours live on the rsl network and it is the poor man the rover racing bmw who leads away smashing route approved around the outside by the philistine mercedes amg ktm cross ball right in the middle of all the action they're under the grand three circuit for the first time and there's a try for the lead down the inside the lance howdy remember going out on michelin slick tyres gets the green light now the uh porsche that was there will be starting at the back of the next group as its 84th position it's the 1-3-2 uh porsche that is also sitting in pit lane and that is the mouthful racing av porsche came against the wolfgang paper machine so they'll start i think at the back of the next group conrad lamborghini down to fourth place which puts the schubert motorsport m6 up into third place so uh the lamborghini there just i thought that would get a great start that lamborghini and it did did begin with but uh just lost out after turn one and just couldn't hold it down to the grand prix dropping down to fourth place falcon motorsport bmw's porsche is running all over the curbing on turn three of the 24-hour race unbelievable stuff both of them going past fenmore and making enough positions they did not qualify well perhaps peter mckay at one of the surprises was the pace of the falcon porsches in the qualifying sessions but they did not turn that into good grid positions but what we're seeing even before we've left the grand prix circuit on the first lap is they've lost none of the speed that we saw earlier in the week in the 33 and 44 car no they've it's as if they put it in the locker and brought it back out again for the race those cars were the fastest off the vice act build machines in the dry conditions in the wet not so much so the falcon team will really be hoping that this stays dry for as long as possible throughout the 24 hours and you could just see the grip advantage those two vulcan cars had is they drove past the number two audi like it was sitting still yeah and the frysanger porsche and mercedes having a side by side going down to hats and back on as we've just said uh john and peter the first lap of a 24-hour race we know it's ten minute laps let's call it that but uh uh already side by side duking it out and uh not giving anybody any or near respect but uh there's certainly elbows out that were you know not just the corners half doesn't corners into a 24 hour race quite extraordinary [Music] scenes on the opening lap ready wipers starting to be applied already as they go down through hats and back now there's a bit of spray coming up that's this the bit where it is tis slightly damp up over the top there and down through berg working so but but something got to carousel on the opening laps or the formation lap that was when it already dried out again so second group are going to come up through tier garden in the second and the second group will be starting very shortly john and this is headed by the two hyundais the elantra and the tcr i20n and the performance brand for i30n excuse me luca ensler will come to the line 8 30 and 8 31 on an absolutely mobbed at the start by caymans one two three cars has got a cooper right up his tailpipes as well as they head down to their start the mouth racing ev-132 porsche cable will join on the back of this one two three four across the start line north spring being kicked up there excellent battling for his position through the first of the esses not taking the full hough the only bit of the grand prix circuit that don't use in the 24-hour layout because it's actually being used in the early part of the week there's extra panic space what was a fairly expensive young time a three-hour race when the rain hit about an hour and 17 minutes into that race and there's a fan of old porsches i had to look away it was it's not pleasant so it is the elantra that leads the second group meantime rover racing and still out no not out front because the emg has stormed through the lead and pulled away and pulled away by a decent margin everybody else is bottled up so it's hrt in the sp9 class that's the adam christodoulou morrow engel manuel metzger and lucas stoltzka the number four in the yellow and blue colours uh nikki katzberg looks like he might have lost out round the outside armberg oh my goodness at the top of the foxhole in the dam down through the foxhole nicki katzberg for rover racing in the bmw that's where he lost the lead and it's katzberg uh driving as i said for rover racing frank frank fred mcavicki up seven places as well for porsche in the frigately racing team i think it's lucas stultz that started the hrt machine yes it is lucas daltz he's the man that leads and he's gone and i mean god he's cleared off extraordinary stuff just absolutely nikki katzberg and that's last year's winner that's that's no mean personal feat to mug as you said where it was as well aaron berg just going down to the foxhole that is extraordinary and it's the distance he's put on him already that surprises me john that's the start of where the track is getting wet it's where the weather comes from the distinctive yellow and light blue colors that of the bilstein shock absorber livery meantime at the green flag we saw a couple of cars jumping into the pit lane peyton mack was watching that yeah we've seen that the bmw junior team car driven by augusto farfas coming in at the green flag as did mario angle and henry walken horse in the pro-am class number 100 bmw so there is i'm trying to look through the the regulations because the sb9 card do have a five lap minimum stint time so without serving that i wonder if they'll be in for a penalty but i'm a cold caller i'm trying to find out force monsieur i'm sure he'll be spoken about already by the guys on the pit wall kevin ester in the 911 number nine eleven nine eleven uh for manti racing very much a local team their workshop is just the other side of the dodgy cohort voice path been there for many years olaf almost has this in his back garden as a i suppose there's a test track the number of ignorance life earned kevin ester starting that car there's a huge group of cars including both the fricatelli porsches that are having a cracking scrap down towards brunching through goes the reutronic silver porsche as well so three porsches chasing two bmws in that battle and that is i think the third on down actually maybe a little bit further back might have been much yellow and the emg team gets beat having to get used to that car being in uh different colours no definitely two bmw's they're at the head of that pwt sponsored mercedes in there then the first of the lamborghinis is the hancock tyres triple f racing team and that's mara marpelli [Music] and trying to follow him through is robin franch and this is all battles in the middle to the bottom of the top ten as they begin to pick up speed on a drying part of we've got almost thirds of the track peyton snowden uh up to about ironburg then the middle section and then it's drive here towards the end kevin astro there in the mantai grello car uh he's uh he started i mean he's come up through the food he's a tenth but he's i would say he's now on the on the boot lid of the 31 frank mcavitzi fricatelli porsche indeed he is on the dotting of her it is exactly that and uh getting that drag drafted there's two equal cars but of course in the slipstream there kevin estra and we saw this in the nls round all the six i want where he used a a little bit of the grass and a tiny bit more uh to get through the end of the first lap he's not shy no johnny johnny paul and i contested how much of the how much of the tiles were actually on the grass but it was a more than i would like put that way at the end of the first lap but he came in has done it again he's now ahead of uh the freaking daily number 31 car so that in my uh surmise is going to put him uh p4 at the end of this first lap job through their goal then to complete the first racing lap somewhat of a a lap of discovery with conditions changing all the time 77.3 second lead for a car unbelievable already in one lap wow and that is an amazing thing i'm hesitating because i was double checking i was reading the right take a dollar sorry i was just wasn't dead i was doubting myself is that seriously 7.3 seconds on the opening lap of the 24 24-hour race and kevin estra has come up peyton mackay from outside the top 10 in the third position at the end of the first lap rev kevin estra the lap record holder in the nls don't forget has never won the 24 hour though he's won pretty much everything else but i know i know it's it's scary i mean he's regarded as one of the very best in the world at this particular circuit but 11th to third however kevin is known for his pass on the grass specials but i don't know if we'll be trying that today because that grass will be soaking wet and those passing the grass has become a little bit more risky given the conditions we've had over the last two days absolutely right and it's it's fourth actually because our timing screen hadn't quite updated we had nikki katzberg at number one uh it wasn't it's it's the assaults were so far ahead exactly exactly it's dalton klingman and esther in fourth so it's mercedes bmw in the middle there but two different teams rover racing and schuberth and then the manti grello fricatelli and routronic racing porsches in fourth fifth and sixth so it's a it's a classic oh there's a bit of contact we've just seen on something going on there between them and the falcon porsches yeah at amg's and this uh i think dennis marshall is struggling with a puncture uh trying to get back to the pits which will slow things down for him oh no it was uh it was the conrad lamborghini right into the side of fred macavecki in amber the first time around so uh i saw a punctured tire but uh whether that was well that's also close contact as well uh from the five audi and the uh spx clicking house as well well they don't want to be involved in bumping and boring uh so far what we did say actually was the uh lemon hybrid car going around it may have done so but uh didn't uh notice that going out the pit if i'm honest before the race all right take a deep breath i i won't see it starting to settle down because even if i did you wouldn't believe me but at the front of the field luke stoltz leads for amg team hrt heading out onto the business part of the nordschleife for the second lap 159 laps is the distance record and at the moment it's seven and a half seconds the gap to second being disputed by rover racing schubert motorsport manti racing and fricatelli racing team julian handler right there for router racing and down towards the bottom end of the top ten and they're all close together the handcuffed triple f lamborghini team get speed phoenix racing in the ship of frank stitler in the audi and then that conrad motorsport lamborghini uruguay and interestingly nico muller has brought in the car collection team audi sport into the pits as well so that's i'm surprised that's coming soon is that a tire tree oh we've got a big fire a big conflagration uh and that is uh one of the porsche cup cars i think it's the 68 nine car the click for sharing team and that car is well alight the driver taking a fire extinguisher to the left rear but that car is i'm i'm not sure that server bullet certainly not coming back in the race that's a huge fire from the engine compartment marshall's getting in there as well now and so hatson back in and just going on to the nordschleife correct yeah early part of the hats and back just where you come from the middle of the road to break into that serpentine section and the driver is out of the car but this is drama early on in the 49th running of the adsc 24 hours of the nurburgring and that will have a slow zone immediately at that point don't actually if this is your first time we will not be talking about safety cars these they don't come out on this circuit unless we're bringing everybody back in the pit lane and even then it tends to be done under a red flag so hats and back accord 60 zone slows on before it and those are absolute drivers must must respect that they can be pulled out of the race if they aren't they've not got that out yet peter that's still burning underneath all that extinguishing that's been put on there we've got an intervention and one of the dodge pickup trucks out there which has got some dry powder in it as well they'll try and get that and i think that might be one of the fire tenders actually that has turned up there one of the dmsb but that car that's severe damage i doubt we'll see that one again 100 percent that's a despair for the team and drive everybody involved in that and mechanics will be uh looking at that car thinking that's that's just weeks and weeks of clearing all that foam and extinguishing off that car like you though john at first sight of that it was so well at the light it was it means kind of like the barbecue i do as in far too many flames and burn everything but it's uh it's just seemed to caught itself left-hand side it's almost as if there's an all union or something right just got onto the exhaust it's it's self-combusted that's a lap they've done a lap of the of the race one lap and actually the car must have been going quite slowly because they were already being caught by the leading cars and you've got a feel for click verse psyche whom team uh robert chenowski kirsten uh jordan x peter schamack and max because their race their weekend is now over the only good news is that the driver is out of that car take a wee while to get that one cleared out the way because that might not tour we might need a lift for that make time at the head of the field still seven seconds stoltz from plattsburgh mercedes from bmw team hrt number four from rover racing number one number one because they won this race last year kevin ester is right up against klingman for third position schuberth bmw from mantai porsche as they head down to brunchin and the still slippery surface flags out there now i wonder then if that porsche has been dropping oil all the way around and finally it's got under the exhaust or is that just the remnants of the rain shower from early on we've had some more pit stoppers as well uh just a few moments ago number two car was in and out of the pits for audi sporting car collection nikola muller now that was one of the cars peter mack that started on wet weather tyres uh there was a number of them uh also i've noticed a few mores that have come into the pit so have you been able to clarify that five lap stint ruling [Music] i wish i could no i i've i've looked the the regulations upside down and inside out we will keep looking and keep keep trying to find out it might be that you have to serve a longer pit stop of course the pit stop times are controlled here at the nurburgring and by uh you know each depending on the number of laps you've done you have a certain set time that you have to spend in the pit lane and to be honest you need it with the uh tesco club card the filling station pumps that they have here there's no um no uh shall we say defying the laws of gravity uh fueling here at uh at the nurburgring it's very much the same pace you would have when you're filling your car up at the supermarket yeah and that is something that again if you're not used to this you you won't believe it there's only one pump between two pits up to eight cars per pit and it is just a pistol grip so people having to work their way through it and there's an element of working together peter snowden that has to happen in the pit lane get back to that in a moment because estra is right up the rear aerial foil or the other way around it another worthy mention is of course uh the eighth sorry seventh place for eighth place now is from 18 yeah he's come up from 18 for that uh for that and peter peter mack you've got clarification on the calling into the pits early room that is about my apologies rookie error for me and only that only to do with refueling so you can come in for tires as much as you want within that opening five laps but you can't touch the fuel pump so uh those cars were allowed to allow to make those stops and it seems that those cars particularly the number two audi which was the only pro class car that went out on wet by our knowledge it looks like those tires are turned into chewing gum on the mostly dry circuit so the tires are either on completely dry slip tire or perhaps maybe an intermediate but i think it was much more likely to be dual slicks for all the drivers and they'll just have to manage it when they get to the wet patches it's not off and i'm right but he was put on there but i'm seeing can we just make a note when how clever then snowy that land thought we could be very right or very wrong here what are we gonna lose by sitting in the pits and watching from that's using the technology their driver in that number 29 car which all right it's dropped we're down um but it's still in the game and it hasn't had to make another pit stop if they'd put wets on for chris meese then he would have had to make another pit stop he would have been another 30 seconds 40 seconds a minute down the road and chris beats was watching an on board feed on his phone belted in the car brilliant use of the technology absolutely just on an iphone uh that's just the way to do it the um other brands are available of course um it might have been a samsung galaxy um yes um but the the point is you say it was always a bit of an anomaly for me when we did 24-hour races you've got all this pressure qualifying and stuff and british gt is one thing it's a sprint and it's how long is the rate an hour hour whatever it may be at the time you're doing it it's a 24-hour race now i always found it interesting apart from bragging rights you've got the rover racing bmw at the front today nikki katz both the winning card defending card from last year yes that what a way to go into the 2021 edition of this being the winning car from last year pole position cargo this year yeah it's great but in reality do you need to be up at the front there it's a 24-hour race we've been talking now a few minutes have been lots of excitement typical nurburgring weather we've got a car on fire already and we've got 23 hours and 39 minutes to go still and just let that sink in from it so what's the problem starting with the pit lane if it worked it'd have been great if it hadn't it doesn't matter what have you lost what you have gained as you said quite rightly john is of course a slightly different pit stop strategy because now they don't have to do that quite as early and that could make all the difference later foundations now [Music] so that was peter snowden peter makai with us as well in the rsl global broadcast center kevin ester is still unable to get by the second place bmw rover racing of nicki katzberg adna force the leader just being dragged back a little bit luke the stoltz is settling into his uh into his rhythm as a side-by-side battle bmw versus porsche and esther was around the outside coming out of adna forced past the duchy lorcan which is in the race over the top of the hill and heading down towards kalinhard [Music] worst job in the world by the way other than being technical delegate and having to do brp in any series is when you turn up at the nurburgring nordschleifer and you see it um and you're marshalling and uh you say which portion i want to tell you what push and what job you do blue flag made oh thanks [ __ ] absolutely absolutely lodatchia is in the race for those that were asking they're this well shortness did not qualify they had some issues uh but they're out in sp4 from memory right at the top of ad now forced that was a moment or two ago klaus bachelor has already gone through and following uh david pinnard off as well in the valvin horse bmw that's an unusual mistake from david he just slid off now as he got damaged as well he certainly clipped the inside barrier there i'm just looking at the right rear of that uh conrad um an odd angle so let's not let's not speculate too much but it just just looks if he'd rather like the number 72 uh bmw just spotted now that's got a broken toe link and it's going out with uh the number 240 car that's one of the cup five machines yeah the molini driven car uh with a massive right rear toe out that's a towing failure on that so he's obviously tapped into training again peter it is i think that's exactly what's catching people out john nicole muller just under steering off at the end of the fox hall again i'll say it again that's where you tend to get the first signs of bad weather uh nicole can't keep the car in a straight line so there may be more damage there super piece of driving in that number two four zero to keep that car on the road that's the one with the right rear talling problem that snowy was mentioning uh it's uh francesco merlini the man from residential john in france but he'd get that car back to the pits meantime seemingly unaffected by what's going on to so many of the others we've still got a cracking battle going on the lead is about still around about six and a half seven seconds from lucas dalton to nicki casberg with uh with sorry kevin ester who's gone through in the second now just waiting for the timing to catch up so esper estra back into into second in the 911. then in fourth against clingman machiavelli jalen adler marco mapelli and they are in one long line and in traffic down at luncheon at the moment where there's a few hardy souls gathered nowhere near the hundreds of thousands that would normally be allowed in the forest but there are a few spectated areas that have been allowed to be open and of course down the front street as well in the grand stands with allocated seating i believe this year fricatelli porsche on the back of that long train of cars which is uh matty campbell in 15th position so effectively you've got from what fourth or fifth down over there peter mckay all the way down to campbell in 15th and in fact the sven muller fought the motorsports cars not that far and behind that either so pretty much the whole of the top 20 still line of stern with the stoltz in the hrt emg out in front by seven and a half seconds yeah it looks like the the gap might just be coming down a fraction and now it looks like kevin estrada is really on the move in the number 911 manti porsche but horrid conditions here for the drivers on slick tires with no tread at all and going through some real damp patches we saw at ad in air force where there's issues there as well for a number of drivers spilling off onto the grass thankfully without too much damage um but oh this is this is as hard as you will possibly get doing slick cars and you don't know where there's going to be little sparks of rain and the thing is these little flash showers they can come up at any point and they can come and go in two or three minutes and that's the problem peter you don't know where they're gonna be at the front of the field at nine minutes and 11 seconds the time well over 10 minutes for most of the other classes and snowy as a driver you've got to expect the unexpected you've got to expect it to be different i said to bryce jones yesterday it's almost like driving a rally car on a forest road because it's 10 11 minutes since you were last at that part of the track and everything that you knew about that part of the trap may well have changed it's a movable piece to say that the only winner on this uh this nurburgring for this circuit this venue this this edition every year is the weather and uh it's a crowded house but absolutely right in 1991 with their heads of weather with you and that's what you need to follow with this this race i'll tell you who is on the move as well john is the uh phoenix audi robbie friends in uh 10th he's uh he's been a couple of purpose actors starting to show up for him he's been some great times there so keep an eye on that car he's of course behind his teammate uh frank stifler in the uh number 11 car in terms of position on track the uh into the pit lane the foxtail kissling manta with the uh venerable vulgar strike behind the wheel the man who used to head up the opal performance center to many long sensible chats for that and another car with overheating problems is it worse than that it's the number eight amg that's the fabian schiller mercedes and he's out of the car he's having a good look around that's not good news at all well this is extraordinary stuff been running very well at the front of the field for emg team get speed he was having a look around the right hand side towards where the exhaust was there at this what could be oil smoke it could be steam i i think it's the former he'll have smelt that peter snowden as much as felt the heat from that and he's got that car off the circuit as quickly as possible he left out of it as you say very animatedly dynamically and athletically i have to say let round to the right hand side who's deserving it is definitely smoke not steam you're right john but he's then gone jump back into it again with his equal haste as if he was about to start moving it i he'd get some air through it so i'm not quite sure what that's all about there's an intervention vehicle has now arrived at that but we've got uh still the clear-up going on back on the hats are back at the 69 car yeah zord is still there for the slightly medium rare porsche um and by the way that was at the uh down that uh dunlop for at the bottom of the grand prix circuit for fabian schiller kevin estra still having a go and estra is with luka stoltz now as the number 69 porsche but it looks bad from the outside it's going to be even worse in the engine compartment now fabian schiller reinstalls himself to the team get speed number eight car there is a little service road where he is he'll drive around there a bit of rally crossing he's that you said riley he's gonna prove in him well he has yeah yeah absolutely now he was in a close battle with uh one of the rover racing bmws a little while before that but i didn't see any coming together there mean time back for the lead let's get back to that now this is remember only lap three down of potentially 150 or 160 laps and kevin estra is right on the tail now of the leader lucas staltz they're coming to the end of the fox hall down one gear break down another gear brick down a third gear at the top of baden are forced and into the pit lane with uh this is one of the bunkhouse bmws it is the 101 car and that car's coming that's been off the track huge amount of grass deer bree on the front and it's going into the garage on the dollies doesn't necessarily mean massive trouble now that was david pittard who we saw off at the top of adnan forced a lap of gore and i think he clipped the arm core on the left-hand side with the left front of that car he's certainly been one of the most expensive and potentially quickest grass cutting machines in the world but he's got the car back peter snowden and and that's the important thing absolutely i think you're picked up the visual part is in the air intake it depends what damage has got underneath how much it backs over curbs we saw it in qualifying one of the i think from the m4s that had a little rotation then damaging the fuse which then dragged onto the track at the front end of the infuser that came they said just did you say it was always collateral what's interesting john is we're half an hour in now so now we've got we've got we've had this much excitement in half an hour we've got another 47 half-hour seconds to go look at it that way there's a different way of looking at it i know but get your call right now [Music] uh you're absolutely right what we're gonna do as in previous years uh we will do a hourly update for you uh and we'll do the hourly updates on the clock hour so it's just after four o'clock in germany now so in the next hour on the next hour we'll do you an hourly update and what we're to do is as we've done in previous years joe bradley has split the field into roughly two halves of the 20 classes or thereabouts and we'll do one half on the odd hour so four uh four o'clock or three o'clock in the uk and one half on the other but they will just rotate through the lava jeffries that was another car that was stopped at the top exactly and that car is moving again for now with the battle for the lead still going on uh lucas dalton still leads spx is clicking house in 21st overall cupx is the true racing crossbow in at 23rd overall it's the 36 black bulk in the series in 26th overall georgia piano at the wheel of that reading sp 18 sp pro i foresee a big buckling at sp brought actually black hawk at heart at the head of that with the 3 15 30 seconds christmas for hoover motorsport league sp7 in the gt3 cup car that's number 18 34th position the 18. alternatively fuel fueled laser missing 38th that's the 320 porsche cup car from four mortars by your concert sp 10 offer racing by from bmw m4 gt4 they are in 40th position for the number 70 the gt tyre motorsport number 53 it's the all-female driver crew christina nielsen and pit mcmahon in that car they're leading sp8 up against the might of the lexus rc f it's not a nice yes it's nice uh and we've got sp8 then leading matt class in 45th it's the middle of the motorsport porsche kiermann in 54th position leading cup three in three or nine mark bessing leads for hyundai in the elantra in the tcr class in the 8 30. schubert leads cup 5 which is the m240 class that's a the number 890 in 68th position peter kate leads his class in the late starting but meant we got to see it and now know what it looks like thank you peter 17 kim and gts in 71st position it is v3t the next leader in 72nd that's the 1618 math all racing 7 18 km s max crews are racing leads in the sp3 team with the golf gti tcr they're in 73rd in that triple three category five nine links b two t for fx performance gpr in a 335 bmw 81st position for the one five night in 19th 240i class leader is the number two thirty for ibiazor grand sport in their bmw 91st 165 is the leader in the sp2t hyundai motorsport i20n v6 team matal racing porsche kubernetes in the 132 their lead that class in 96 in 100th position sp3 leader is the 121 royal automotive club uh gt86 cup car that is the sp3 class that's the class that has the uh the uh foxtel manta as we've had a change of leads peter mckay yeah kevin esther getting a brilliant run there along the dottinger hall on lucas thoughts nothing stouts could do really as well it's just one three kilometers long the dottinger hulk so unable to make it move but also nikki katzberg in the number one the pole setting rover racing bmw is rallied as well and is now a three-car breakaway interesting to see if katzberg also goes by stalls and if extra breaks away at the front also a car on the move the hankook lamborghini of marco mapelli up into the top five brilliant run from that car i'll finish off the last couple of uh class leaders uh adrenaline motorsport with a porsche cabin nine eight one lead v5 in 104th position in the 141 car uh the thomas muskins entered bmw three 25 eye leads v4 in 110th position that's the 153 car it is the crawl family outing hoffa racing in the bmw m3 csl that leads sp 6. i think that car is literally in a class of it too and i don't think there's any other sp6 cars from memory the 81 cars in 111th position and in 112th position the number 325 is leading sp4 and that is a bmw 325 uh i and that is one of the 890 cars and now you know why we're going to split them up into two halves when we do that again in just under an hour's time john as you're running down through that class order as you said change the lead there but it was one two three one and a half seconds splitting the top three cards across the line estrella stolz and katzberg that was all it was across there uh stoltz not content with that kevin estra uh peter mack very kindly suggested that today wasn't the day for kevin after to do one of these parts on the grass well he didn't quite certainly he went beyond the white line let's just say he he kissed it shall we say in the meantime uh stalkers are going to come back at that day we've had a quick look at the conrad lamborghini and it's the left rear that's completely loose it looks almost as if the wheel that's come loose the wheels almost moving on the hub rather than towing damage that's just my uneducated non-mechanic technician eye looking at it see so if it was the pass on the grass could that have been streaming for winning as soon as he was uh don't be don't peek so early keep him for 2 a.m we'll hold that we'll hold that forward on the pin pass off the planes possibly yeah it's good it's going to be 24 hours of cliches isn't it it's bad to have the odds while it comes your bingo cards ready everybody it's really a sure limited network of audio and video channels visual channels uh with two peters makai and student and mate john heinz off in the global broadcast center robin frying chaminade or two ago going down in the first corner right up behind the rue tronic porsche just giving it a little nudge and the number nine car just about hanging on to its position sitting right in behind the fricatelli uh porsche as well career battles just outside the top ten i have to see it reutronic murray cratch behind the wheel of uh excuse me that's the wrong line i'm looking at there rutronic at the moment uh sitting right in that line of cars that uh has been battling all the way through since the start of the race and remember all the drivers it's fabian schiller isn't it uh nope it's still nothing who's behind the retronic i'm not sure just very quickly john as there are fluke plats they're the leading cars it is now properly wet again up there [Music] yeah it's always the top of the hill you know saw schweden creight's swiss cross area that's where it comes in so from the arnberg corner inwards uh i remember a porsche world cup race there when we had 90 porsche cup cars descending into kiosk and carnage when the heavy rain hit there a few years ago and we must have lost 15 cars i kid you not ex approach has got a slow zone as well that's marshall post 116. so somebody's in trouble that that tends to mean normally that someone's at the side of the road i think oh big big wiggle for the mantai porsche real struggle to find grip out there for kevin estra who is leading the mortar race and everybody's struggling how did fred mceventy steer away from the hancock triple f 63 machine a little while ago this all hit the water and started to check up they are living on their wicks at the moment robin frank's passing a handful of cars by picking the right hand side of the road and the conrad car has made it back to the pit lane that's a little house march coloured machine getting pushed pushed back into the garage and france conrad will be working on that i think was bruce jones that said yes they're always quick but they don't always finish well i'm not sure it was their fault this time i think there may have been a wee bit of contact perhaps with one of the bmws and david peters car but that was not saying so i have no evidence for that but remember my father was a detective and i did live with him for quite a long time so i'm looking at probability and evidence well let's not go there um it's uh you mentioned the latent house marshmallows i totally agree with that it always reminds me of is that is the vitaphone maserati mc12s uh that that sort of thought that's the but that's that's my kind of era so i'm just showing my age again you raced against that i did yeah i did big slide from the ktm crossport it's more than a slide that's all the way around yeah rears are into the gravel that's going to be difficult to get out that's the one one four ktm and that's because the rain is an absolutely it's typical somebody's turned the tap on at the nurburgring and that means people are gonna be on the grass all over the place that was the motorsport motor and sport machine that number 75 uh and that's at the top of the fox hall and the car team uh car collection off as well number two audi that's just that by the way was christian mensah driving that car and off as well for one of the gt the tires sponsored came in which is the 308 peter mackay and that's the same spot this is all at the top of the foxhole and it's just impossible to get turned in through the left hand the edge faden crates it's a little bit off camber there and the the water runs down the hill and even at relatively slow speed these cars which are almost always all still on slick tires the obvious orchestra in sport bmw wheels turning left and right totally locked up oh and another ktm i'm thinking now is that an audi it might be one of the audis this is carnage absolute carnage it it is three four five six cars and this is all the trading crates where the weather has hit it's slicker than a slick thing that's had oil poured on top of it the three five zero identi car porsche is in there that's one of the new uh shaped cup cars actually the 350 car yeah engine running still and he's sitting there too engines running lights are on his wife was going it's it's facing the wrong way at the moment oh it's only just been missed by one of the mercedes gt4s i think it was just went past it and it's stranded in the middle of the track there not where you want to be absolutely grown the number 350 car there john yeah that's that's a that's the uh black fault teen identical porsche that stuck and the problem is he's over the top of the brow there you can't see it and yes this yellow flags and you'll slow down it is walking pace now walking place only i also never thought given my advancing years i'd ever see a car racing in this and i don't mean the manta for bruce jones never thought i'd see a car racing this that i've actually raced as in a viper yeah fight but i thought they'd long gone i thought all the photographs that we had that were in sepia still yeah well much better in black and white yeah yeah in fairness uh that uh team falcon car is still there and it's in a very precarious position at the moment the edges of the track around the exit of schweiden kreutz are muddy and very wet indeed and this is exactly what happened in the young time maurice peter mckay on friday about an hour and 17 minutes in we haven't quite got that far we're just over 45 minutes in with appropriate flagging we're okay now because they're going to get the cars advanced warning there but we've still got the on the that's the left-hand part of the straightening because in the right-hand part we've got that ktm that we saw first there john that just swapped ends and we thought he went around ever so majestically we thought he'd catch it he just couldn't quite and drop the rears into the gravel so that's still there so we've got that falcon porsche on the entry and the ktm on the exit so two cars there john i think there's somebody off in the fox hall as well because the code 60 has been extended down into that cage in the leading sp4t porsche kiermann has come into the pits well if peter thinks it's bad enough for wets then it's bad enough for wets completing five laps at the front of the field and everybody at the front is coming in estra casper stoltz coming in now peter makai you can get wet tyres and you can chop the fuel up right on time this is actually for the sp9 guys they have the rain if the rain is going to come it held on for them because now they can fuel up if that happens eight minutes before that would have had the drivers would have had to come in put wet tires on and then come back in for their fuel because of course they're not allowed to fuel up in the first uh five laps so the sp 9 guys all in the same place so this should actually not shake up the order as much as we possibly thought because of course it's set coming up with another cliche for you it's the same for everybody except it's not of the dirt bird rig sometimes i know what you're seeing but how many times have we heard drivers in teams even this week's week p-mark saying if you catch an incident and the people in front of you haven't um then you're going to lose a load of time so it does slightly change now first set of racing pit stops that we're seeing at the moment if you're coming to this new and you're not sure about nurburgring racing you've probably heard the air guns going and now it's all good quiet fuel is going in it's been pumped in by a pistol grip from a fuel pump which is split between the two garages and that could be up to eight cars that it that single fuel pump has to service but there is a minimum pit stop time which right now in the wrist i won't confuse you any further is uh governed by how many laps you've been out and there is a table peter mack uh pimak that tells all the teams how long they've got to be in the pit lane for how many numbers of laps they have completed since their last stop so if this for those sp9 cars the leaders that are coming in right now their minimum pit stop times two minutes and 18 seconds however of course we had a couple of teams that have already had one pit stop that means that for them they're slightly shorter minimum time they're 129 seconds so they can get a little bit of that time back but not too much and i think we're going to have this code 60 at aronberg and schweiden courts for quite some time because there is wreckage everywhere and actually they're going to have to clear quite a lot of mud on the road as well and that is just as dangerous as the water itself and i can't decide whether it is a um a coarse vehicle that is right at the top of the fox hall very very unlucky indeed for the number three zero eight porsche which i thought had got through it this is the black fault of think textile so two black faulting cars at the same area of the track the cayman and the 911 manti racing car [Music] [Music] sp oh it's it's not tcr i don't think i'm just going to get my three card system i've just got the answers to the 350 porsche as well boys is that the i've just seen the incident there what's actually happened is that the left rear has taken an impact on that's what's broken that's why that car couldn't move the angle we saw it was uh it was possible the 24 round you know severe that's the car that went to zachary that's the damage on the front right we saw this as a bit of qualifying smoking coming back at quite a pace as well on the dry part of the circuit now i think he's coming up to tiergon back into our view very shortly but there's a lot of damage there on the front right of that audi this is one on two lion speed cars in that bright orange color i was just trying to work out which one it was from the speeding blurry number but this is indeed the 24 as peter mentioned so they're uh well it's been driven back at pace with bodywork damage to the front uh some tyre robe there are some radiators uh and ancillary bits and bulbs under that front valance on the right hand side it's a brave pace to bring a damaged car back i would say just just watching that it said smoking heavily and that's just from the sheer pace that it's been brought back up but if he gets back he gets away with it all well and good but that's the staff you say you saw one offered straightening poison did they hit the barriers hard on the right hand side hence the front right damage to that car so that's the number 24 line speed audi that's going to have to have a quite some time in its pit box john yoda's uncle's just traded hells bell 17 zones of chord 60. yep that's what happens when it starts to rain out of nowhere we've not done an hour's worth of racing yet still 10 minutes to go uh before that happens coming up a bit later on bruce jones with george bradley be taking over as we go for a lie down in a darkened room i think still the cleanup continues at schweiden kreutz but that's not the only incident out there the the the beautiful thing is that because it's such a long circuit we're still racing and fred macavecki is making good positions and just getting a little hip and shoulder from the audi that he's battling with that's frank stipler that he's having a go out in the phoenix racing number 11 and frank was i'm afraid deciding he wasn't going to go by there it was an outside maneuver but further around the track it is incredibly wet with standing water making it look like the cars the first and second place cars have got bow waves now they are still struggling i believe peter mckay i believe that the leading cars have not yet stopped so they're still on slicks no according to our information the number seven of rafaeli march yellow has gone straight through he now leads the race in the number seven mercedes the number nine get speed mercedes that's the pro am car that's the janine shaftner entered car driven by maurice grant at this moment in time it's gone straight through and also tobias mueller in the number 44 uh falcon motorsports porsche interestingly so uh sorry it's been wheeler i've done that twice now this weekend sven miller 29 year old from mainz so will that be genius or will it be foolish uh i wouldn't want to call which one wait uh it's it's brave the other car by the way that was sitting at the top of ireland at the top of the foxhole um was the obvious orc red sport bmw that's almost but not quite got away with it and that's requiring some attention as well there's slow zones and yellow flags so far and schwed crouch is now showing us all clear at marshall's poor 32-86 saw the marshals god bless every one of them wherever you work wherever you are in the world whether you call yourself a martial or a corner worker or a flagger or whatever thank you and thank you to all of our volunteer officials as well without simply whom we can't go mortal racing i'm not sure it is clear at trading credits actually it's still showing us yellow as morrow engel goes through there it's that 350 uh porsche remove isn't it john they've got to get that under obviously yeah you said about various names for marshals track workers corner workers whatever i think without over selling it heroes orange army yeah white in the states uh at the moment trying to steer as dry and as warm the change of surface flag out now to when when i first started racing it was called the oil flag that soon got changed to a slippery surface bike is now regarded as a change of surface flag because it might be that somebody's brought gravel debris grass correct et cetera and so it's a chase so it's a change of service as you i think you'll identify yesterday one point you need qualifying reports yeah but it's uh it's just it's to warn the driver that the surface has changed yeah it might be something totally different fluids etc etc but it's a change of service bug now which is probably one of those few things i'd say to a a good update yeah and it can't honestly ship it can be debris it was once described to me by rather senior at marshall and hello to everybody in the british motor racing marshals club of which i am honored to be an ambassador as seen our earp on the track flat indeed yes we we all like the pneumonic yeah yes exactly yeah so don't stop me i'll go back i think we could probably see it it was crap i think you can yeah well i have that twice i'll if i get slapped on the back of the head by the responsible adults it'll be uh any seconds now just listen and learn from our great leaders hardly hardly that raphaeli marchello then leaning by 5.2 seconds in the team gets beat amg mercedes from falcon motorsport in second position that's number 44 then money the get speed of the mercedes mg gt3 that's number nine manti kevin estra in the 911 is the first car that's been into the pits and presumably then gone on to wet weather tyres because i can't imagine they put a d um a new set of uh wets on i'm also hearing the s uh the glitten house uh didn't leave from the pits it ended from the padded paddock gates uh is uh what i'm hearing i'm not sure quite how long ago that was but that car the 704 is in 20 seconds position leads spx at the moment thomas much at the the wheel of that through goes the 110 this is the black uh glorious looking ktm crossbow from tykeman racing crossbow gt4 and the still with that signature lift up front where you climb in it's not doors are such rather a big clam shell luka ainsler is on perfectly dry roads coming through to the first part of the flan's garden for the number 831 hyundai i30n and in fan favorite news uh peter mac p mac tell us about two of the fan favorites well this is in the let's be honest the most important class on the field the sp3 dolly mixture class which of course has the two fan favorites the daxia logan and the opal manta and at the moment the datsia logan is beating the opal manta at the moment fourth in class plays fifth in class with their sp3 rivals a little bit further up the road leading an sp3 in the dolly mixture class right now is the toyota gt86 which i can imagine is a whole load of fun in these connect these conditions with its skinny tires well our man in the pit lane lucas you can feel the weather uh much better than we can in the global broadcast center it's raining again in the pit lane so whoever went on to wet weather ties including the 911 up into fourth position kevin ester and lucas stoltz are in his wheel tracks at the moment as they head towards the second of the carousels the kleiner carousel minimum pit stop time not complied with for the number 34 so that will be on realm gt4 mercedes yeah that is that is going to cost them that is the uh marcel markovic's car and they are going to get a time penalty of 35 seconds now that will be served the next time it comes in to put in there's a penalty box on the way into the pits he does not have to make his specific trip into the pit lane estra dragging up behind the number four mercedes having just been passed by stultz takes him back again these two swapping places around the lap and that is the battle for fourth position that porsche has some speed and particularly works well peter snowden in the draft in the slipstream it certainly does it works well in the uh in the west it's got some legs on that mercedes it's not not many a car i would say give an amg gt3 mercedes a run but it certainly can uh but it does they do seem to swap back again a bit later so uh i said we were looking through qualifying if you go back to the last couple of days just think so many reports john uh you and peter macker were covering and bruce that the mercedes were just outside of it for a long time and all of a sudden when it rained they seemed to come to the fore again and the porsche is back up there again so that just seemed to be the case at the moment what do we got at the front of the field though marciela muller and krantz in the pits now so uh uh mercedes porsche and two mercedes that's the uh get speeds falcon and uh amg uh sure you have to get to the second get-speed car as well i'm getting tongue-tied my apologies uh lead car is now kevin estra uh the anti-porsche at the head of the field with schultz in second place as we've got another uh car going off i think that's into hats and back it's the very early part it's another one of the [ __ ] it's one of the ktm itself down the barracks that's a number 60 car isn't it yeah that's another tykeman racing car that's the carl heist taikman driven machine with air can carter osman louder cry heimer who's very very quick uh the salzburg based driver and stefan at broad miracle and that did have some uh 309 one of the caymans after twice for that card losing somebody else behind having to avoid him doing it extraordinary to see though john is that some in some of these images we're just getting a quick clips off here is that the uh the standing water uh at apexes is one thing but it's on downhill parts of the circuit you say it's running down the hill so your driver wants to naturally go for the apex there and you can't because it's standing water and it just flips the car around you've got aquaplaning and all sorts of issues come into play so um it's still catching out quite often john i'm sure you're asked by people that are outside of motorsport you know what it is that we do and try and describe what it is about uh the nurburgring what is it about 24-hour racing well we've literally just a few seconds ago dipped under uh the first hour of this race you could show this first hour and say this is a highlight of a 24-hour race and then say by the way it's not it's the first hour that's the excitement level already one hour john 60 minutes it is completed then we'll give you a rundown of the top times kevin estrada now goes to the lead the brave three who stayed out have picked it it's the 911 multi-racing porsche by about a second from in second place lucas dalton in the mercedes from team hrt then the two rover racing the rover oil sponsored bmws nikki katzberg in the defending champion car from last year from this race and then martin tomczyk to one and 98 third and fourth julian and lav for reutronic porsche the number three car is next up in fifth and sixth is robin frange for audi sport team phoenix and seventh is josh burton for kcmg porsche number eighteen eighth frank stipler still having a cracking battle in his phoenix audi with the fricatelli number 31 of fred macavicki robin frank's facing the wrong direction for a moment or two but now he's pointing back in the right direction may have lost that sixth position i've just mentioned top ten made up by faulkner motorsports number 33 klaus uh bachler and that's your top 10 when joe and bruce take over in about half an hour's time they'll give you the hourly update with the top 10 overall again and half of the classes but the next hour of racing here on the rsl network of take a channels breath everybody we've still got plenty to go i hope you've stocked up on snacks don't forget if you've got a nip out and go to the supermarket you can take us with you rs1 unblocked without any adds at all still free player dot radio lemons dot co and select channel rs1 uh you'll get the audio from what's going on take a wee bit of the nurburgring nordschleife and the 24 hour races with you long recovery for the avia rennsport bmw that's still going on robin frank's now pointing in the right direction and joining me in the global broadcast center your first experience of racing on the nord schleifer for the last 90 minutes or last hour should i say also uh what do you make of it so far it's in one paragraph one paragraph well my english teacher always said my paragraphs were too long so hopefully try and keep them i mean again we saw it we said it in in qualifying last night in similar conditions these guys here they are the very best in the world at what they do and you can include f1 drivers in that as well this is just incredible you look at the bravery at the front from kevin estrella lucas thoughts nikki katzberg in you know 500 horsepower machines on slick tires coming through wet patches now they're on the full wet tires but you can see just how much standing water there is there's these michelin wets and in pancakes and falcons they're very very impressive tires but there is a limit once those tread blocks fill up oh you're a passenger and we've seen well unfortunately we've seen a lot of uh a lot of damaged machinery so far but sum it up in a word crazy crazy but beautiful in some respects that was a great song actually what's that beautiful crazy go and look it up kids this could be music so probably not but i can't play it i'll get the guitar out the minute i just i love the reference to kids go looking up kids well anyways uh bob strike uh in fifth position 170 overall fifth in his class in the month not sure how much of that manta is uh now original i've described it as triggers broom earlier on there was one year when it was so badly damaged that other teams chipped in to help them out they had all kinds of implements including what looked to be a 25 pound sledgehammer on the rear balance of that car hammering it back out it's got a five-speed gearbox now it's had its suspension change but it's still the fox tail manta as they say in the classic motors motoring world isn't it it's only original once but in this case the concept is still alive yes that's very true that is very true penny for your thoughts now if you're in one of those big high-powered cars whilst luka ainsler is enjoying the relative sure-footedness of front-wheel drive in his hyundai i30n tcr heading down towards the uh bridge at the very bottom of the circuit one of the lowest points of the track problem is there of course all the water's running down the hill to the bridge where the uh halfway point is for tourist laps used to be able to drive on there not sure he still can now do the half lap [Music] close backlit now having a scrap with fred macavecki sixth seventh and eighth there is another car ahead of them that's frank stipler not the close backlit can barely see the porsche ahead of him just about see the rain lights with the wiper on full speed toyota altis corolla altis in third in that sp3 category this is the man they called mad cow dada voodoo man from thailand big rallying background so he'll be loving this mata verde an absolute mega star in his home country problem for one of the bmws in cup five again yeah 40 now it's not the first time we've seen this car off for adrenaline motorsport team alzheimer automotive yannick fubrek francesco mullaney marcel fugal and roland froza and john that is well and well and truly beached is absolutely the definitive definition of beaching a car that's what that one is well into the gravel meanwhile the take man crossbow has been sort of recovered on the hats and back the well that's where the 240 cars off as well this is on the on the left-hand side of the hat and back what's it yeah right right okay uh it's not going to the tracker it is incident vehicles out on the circuits all for quattro now all the audi drivers will be thinking morrow engel has to try and get past the sp 3t gti who's out dragging him at the moment with just rough whale drive angle can't find the grip to get by him uh actually sorry it's still yellows it's still yellows so it just wasn't the chord 60 it was just a slow sword now they're back into code 60. fred macavecki he's driving into a wall of water so he must be driving on muscle memory alone because or looking to the side heading up through the mood curve now kettle should area all climbing uphill towards eventually the carracciola carousel fred macavette is slightly losing touch with frank stitler joshua is a little bit further up the road as well he's right behind him he's got clash bachelor for company i'm going to throw in a curveball here john you mentioned that four wheel drive drivers wanting that quattro uh equipment underneath now i'd say what you need to do is a big straight six or v8 up front rear wheel drive nurburgring rain standing water poor visibility what's what's not to love driving through the side window hey if you can see here if you if you can see out of the rear window as roger clark used to say you can get it back uh rs31 capri anybody escorts of rsc rally days but that was always the view you see at the rear side window he could get it back but he was a legend i think a rear drive rs31 capri around here with the uh the old v6 that would be uh that would be very nice i've made one of my and where i started i mean well well i i i've raised one uh all of all of the first cars i i raced happened to be fords which was odd because i've only ever owned one at ford and i raised a ford fiesta and then i've raced to a capri about three or four times in the in the gt masters series had a lot of fun with that problem for the number three eleven at the first corner he's going to get all the way to the yokohama barriers as well that's the fk performance chairman that's a very interesting off there to say the least chocolate that's it's unabated speed and you you know it's the pit straight turn one you know exactly what's coming up and it's uh it's almost as if it's a it's aqua plane he's got it immersive it's turned around 180 degrees and kissed the barrier at that point you've got tires and conveyor belting in front kiss with the back of it barely any barely any mark on it and he's rejoined but it was always if it either throttle stuck open and or brakes failed or which is quite simply just just aqua playing and couldn't do anything with it but um sneaker otto behind the wheel there who gets away with it it's now getting visibility is becoming an issue out on the nordschleife the law cloud as much as anything else uh towards the end of the lap here comes kevin estra towards the end of another lap uh and we'll complete he's got about a second of a laid but even accelerating over the surface church peter from the nordschleife where the nordstriper turns right if you're on a tourist lap that little piece of of raw delinquent if you will under the end of the grand prix circuit that changes surface there unsettled the mantai portion and even into this turn one here 34 and one of the gt4 mercedes they're having a real moment uh even just just under breaking there uh quite that she did use a cliche for peter mack uh snaking under breaking thought gathering before peter did also but now the 98 rover run bmw having the same issue out breaking himself for turn one there just very very quickly saw the um the ktm offered to hansen back i don't really know but kevin estra had to go over the curves really hard to miss that and i just you just naturally think has that put anything damaged into that car underneath it went over those curbs just to miss that ktm a little bit earlier on the mercedes that was having trouble at turn one uh was one of the schnitzel racing gambiach cars and really did not look like the driver was in control and that driver by the way is marcel markovich so not as if he doesn't know what he's doing martin tomczyk following that line that we saw earlier from nico otto and there's so much standing water paymark that if you go off you're gonna struggle to get back on again and this is a game of inches take that one off your bingo card uh as to where the water is is running at the moment nikki katzberg's had enough and we still haven't managed to get that stranded number 60 taekwondo racing uh crossbow back to the pits and he's stuck in there it's definitely not laura cry hammer i'll say that um it might might have been her tykeman himself it's it's of course a lot of the when all the sp9 cars being an fia gt3 specification they do have a traction control and anti-lock braking systems as do the gt4 cars but i don't actually know if it's if it's helping or hence the drivers right now it's actually not slowing the car down it's gliding over the top so i'd like to say we said it wants to see it again these guys are running across two porsches touching fred macavecki getting very sideways with the fulton with the faulty motor sports car with which he was was battling and that was inside the top ten that would have been klaus bakler who was making the outside maneuver there um abs in the wet extreme wet with real tires it's often better to turn it right down peter otherwise you hit hit the pedal and actually nothing happens i've heard drivers call it icing before that the pedal actually has no feel whatsoever and you can't tell whether the wheels are locking or not locking but what you're not doing is slowing down exactly and i would say a feel is the operative word there that uh i think without without being uh being rude but i think for the uh the the more amateur drivers shall we say it can be an advantage it can be an aid as can tc the opposite way around in these conditions but for the the top class pro drivers there that uh that peter max has been talking about you need that feel and i'll tell you what tell you what this brings into play for me now thinking of one particular car in this field i think it's the one to five car which is the uh space drive mercedes with darren turner as part of the team this fly-by-wire steering on that car and i did have a bit of a chat with him on friday about that car and it was very interesting a bit more than a bit later but i just wonder how that would feel in the wet there because there's no no physical uh direct connection between uh the steering wheel and the the road wheels of that car it's the number 25. phil ellis who's driving that car at the moment he's in 58th position uh only two cars in the spx class the other one being i was only one out then uh the uh the yes it's the bachelor of auction just nip next door until um the uh yeah the the clicking houses view the car in that category i i i'm not sure about that you're absolutely right i don't mind driving in the wet and driving on a wet circuit but you need to know what's going on because you've got to find the right piece for you in the car it's not about being brave it's not about being clever it's just about seeing yourself right i can feel that i have some connection with the steering with the wheels on the front of the car with the track but i'll tell you what it is about uber uber concentration because every every millisecond nanosecond you've got to feel what it's doing and it's changing all the time and there is no respite and that's why these drivers need to be fit because tire drivers make mistakes klaus buckley's just gone straight on at turn one a couple of moments ago so having made the pass on fred macavecki 33 falcon car drops behind the number 31 red mike fricatelli car again so all of that hard work undone in the breaking area turn one which does seem to be one of the major action areas at the moment 15 minutes before five in central europe the nurburgring throwing its usual curve ball it's very wet it's very slippery all around the circuits and at the moment kevin estrada hauls their 2.2 second lead from luke stoltz in second place for mercedes teams here hrt the number four then it's the two rover oils sponsored rover bmws nikki katzberg mark tomczyk tom chick in the 98 and katzberg in the one that's three and four one and ninety eight then julian hunter and loud four rude sonic racing porsche the number three car in fifth position he's some 27 seconds off the leader and a little bit further back three seconds further back here cmg josh burden then battler then stitler seventh and eighth we talked about those two having their scrap then macavecki dropped down into ninth position ahead of against clingman for stupid in ten very difficult conditions uh peter mckay abs what do you know well i remember just it just came back to me a couple of months ago i was chatting to porsche factory driver patrick long um who races in imsa as many will know and i was talking to him about the new porsche 992 gt3 cup car and talking about the uh losses and minuses of those cars being fitted with abs or not and he told me that in the 911 gt3 r the same car that all of the sp9 forces are driving in this race he said that it fitted with abs as all gtp cars are but it's designed around it having the abs on all the times i said he said he's driven it with the abs off and the car is just horrible to drive with it off so they're designed in with that technology which is i found interesting so it's not like a gte car well gte car doesn't have it at all but it's not adjustable it's either kind of on or off and if you have it off the car really doesn't like it apparently witchcraft i would say yeah it's it's i mean i i i agree with what snowy said earlier on in terms of and i've only driven a gt4 with fairly and up quite an old gt4 that with fairly rudimentary here here bs i've driven a gt-3 car but not raced one i drove an aston martin uh gt3 car and the thing that it gave to me was somebody who hadn't driven the car and indeed hadn't driven the circuits that we were on it gave me immense confidence straight away to break hard and very very late and trail break all the way up to the apex the corner which as a a driver who drives very intermittently and i wasn't used to the car it gave me immense uh confidence in the breaking areas on a dry trap now i'll be on 50 lap all tires somebody else's tires but even saw i felt i could have that confidence to do that left foot break and obviously into the into the it says to the corner and [Music] that to me is where the big advantage is that that a a an applied and concentrating am driver in a gt3 carpet um can get should be able to get pretty close almost the last three four five percent it's going to be the hardest thing to ring out of any car whatever it's specification i think i got within about 1.2 seconds of johnny adams time on the on the track within four or five laps which i was quite pleased about but i said at the time that's not because i'm a lost racing talent that's how confident inspiring the systems on the car and that's the point it can do that and it's uh yeah that's close to johnny adams it's pretty impressive for anybody standing john um it's that it's that ex somebody unkindly said half of that was the fact that i wear more than him there you go there you go that's easily even more credit to the talent then but it is that extra bit and it's i think that's that's where the you just said that the pro drivers uh get the experience from and that's where they can then apply it um i mean going back even further i mean some of the some of the gt1 and group c cars are never out of these type of things at all uh so it wasn't applicable then quite quite quite different beasts um it's interesting to see what peter max has said about having uh the porsche that you mentioned being designed around it which is uh incredible how things just moved on but if we look at these gt3 cars now are doing the times that gt1 cars were 20 years ago and that's progress it's development it's evolution it's gonna happen um it's i find it extraordinary personally i i did uh i did quite a bit of testing on uh uh eskari the kzr1 traction control system uh never didn't have to race the car eventually but i did do a lot of the testing on the on that system and the the amount of settings and bits that were variable was uh was quite extraordinary and you could just check that's that's going back 15 years ago now coming up at the top of the hour we'll be running down the leading cars in sp9 spx cup x sp pro sp 8t sp7 tcr bfw 240i cup 3 and sp3 that's the even hours for those of you in the uk the odds then that'll be 80 sp 10 sp sp 3t sp 4 v 4 5 and 6 v 2 t and cup s so find out where your favorites are and work out where that is on that list that's about eight minutes away and at the moment the vagaries of the eiffel mountain weather playing that card at the moment the weather card has already been played extraordinary stuff kevin estra at the moment played that hand the best from lucas dalton second estra getting caught in behind here [Music] crossbow just a few moments ago and one of the fastest circus parts of the circuit coming up to first part the flansgard and dealt with that wipers now on intermittent but then you get onto the donnyga whoa and it's virtually a paddling uh how do you know you're on the dotting of that that's the problem the visibility is so poor isn't it john yeah it's uh it's shocking but uh here i'm on the right hand side doesn't seem to bother uh kevin astrid he's getting back to his uh close to his favorite part of the circuit there which is i the grass on the right-hand side and uh he does seem to favor that doesn't he over the right-hand side he loves that bit i i'm i'm in all uh david pick up by the way back out in the 101 bmw that had a close encounter of the armcore kind when the rain first hit at the top of the foxhole adna forced area he's got the car back it is uh refuttled it went into the box for a little while refactored and now on its way nikki katzberg fighting his way through to fourth position and very carefully changing down through the gearbox at the end of the tier guard into the final chicane are still getting a huge slide on there and he's barely using any throttle tries to stay off the white lines but even the outside of the grovery circuit that the very thin white line as he went over there the rear tires breaking traction and all the way down the start line of course he's got the grid hash marks on it and that's causing problems as well and issues all the way down the field peter mckay including for one of the cars that we were keeping a very close eye on at the start of the week the handcuff left racing team yeah the hancock triple f number 63 lamborghini huracan remember on thursday night merkel bartolotti pulling an extraordinary lifetime out of the locker in fact quicker than any other cars ideal sector bisector that was how impressive it was and they i wonder if maybe uh marco mckelley was running up in the top five but i wonder if he caught caught out when the rain hit and it's been in the pits for quite some time now classified 95th place um but he's not alone there's quite a lot of sp9 cars right down the order axel jeffries of course we saw he's back running again in the conrad motorsport lamborghini albeit in 114th uh overall so some yes and quite also the octane 126 ferrari uh still in the pits and nearly stone last at the moment it's stone lasting sp9 so that's a real shame because luka ludwig particularly in the octane 126 ferrari has been fantastic yeah and it was quick earlier on hank cook is [Music] well known for its wet weather tires ah good news it was kara osmond uh behind the wheel of the number 60. that's the aircon cara osman and that car the tiger man racing crossbow is moving again that was one of the cars that was caught out in the first rain shower but it's moving and it's moving under its own steam and uh porsche all the way around at tier garden isn't it coming into that's the seven mercedes gets that there was the freaking number 30 going around as well okay so the 30 car uh was being driven by matt campbell in 12th position rafaela and again this is right at the end of the lap it's just there's so much standing water very lucky not to hit the end of the nordschleife for pit lane the old vintage pit lane if you like there's still an old grandstand there as well when you're doing manufacturing deers you're often billeted in that area it is now tippy-toes stuff on so many parts of the circuit peter snow it is just one of our early charges by the way john the hancock triple f racing uh lamborghini huracan that was uh pedaled so well by mauro mapiely at the beginning has been in the pits now some 25 plus minutes as well so uh so just the standing water at the end of uh well top of tier garden there just caught out the number 30 fricatelli uh porsche and indeed uh won the amg merch on the also number 34 going round as well that's on uh that's on the gp circuit so it's just just standing water everywhere now cars just say tipito and another another spin for the uh number 30 is the other the other freaking daddy was a frederick mcaveesy that's a number 31 car swapping round and that's just coming off the gp circuit trying to go on to the nordschleife and it's just he's turned left to join the nords life and he kept going around and ended up facing back onto the gp turkeys which is not ideal but uh it's uh it is a tipito is not uh not just the phrase it is it was just it's horrible out there for these guys now but um it is it is all part of the nordschleife it's all part of the nurbur ring 24 hour you've got to deal with it and uh kevin estriot is still uh at the top and still a or again a chord 60 ray applied to aaron berg and to the top of the hill at schwed croix in fact this one a little bit further back as well so coming up this vehicle right to the top of the hill at ironberg and i haven't seen which car is still being attended to there marshall supports 45 i think he's still on the ground pretty circuit isn't it they're calling that jaguar that's right at the end either the end of the grand prix circuit at the start of the uh nordschleifer i've never seen jaguar written down before i was thinking exactly the same yes not just me then absolutely we switched circuits on the uh on the pitch channel coming up to five o'clock in central europe thanks for joining us quick rundown of what's going on kevin ester leads for mantai racing and the gap is four and a half seconds depending on where they are around the track of course with so many zones of chord 60 at the moment but it's lucas dalton second so 911 from four manti porsche from mercedes team hrt martin thompson third for rover racing his teammate nicki katzberg in third and the top six made up by jillian and lau for rude tonic racing and josh bird kc ng saw porsche 911 the series four bmw is 98 and one uh and lower in the three porsche then the 18 porsche for kcmg and uh that is your top six for the moment peter mckay will stay with you in the global broadcast center to be joined by joel bradley for the time being peter snowden and i will take our lead but we continue with more racing across the rsl network of sound and video channels and peyton mckay we'll start off this next racing hour right now so we look at our early update here at the nurburgring 24 what has been an absolutely extraordinary start to this race about 90 minutes in we'll start with our sp9 overall leader kevin estra for manti racing in the number 9 11 in spx at the moment that class being led by the space drive racing mercedes amg gt3 that's the car with the steer by wire technology racing up against the glicken house in that class in the cup x class at the moment that's the ktms uh in those in those cars running 25th overall and top of the class is the number 75 uh machine in sp pro at the moment we have to look down the timing screens of course it's a bit of a dolly mixture on the timing screens at the moment here at the nurburgring nordschleifer sp pro uh the black falcon and the porsche cup 911 gt3 cup mr now that is the car that is um out of there well out of the running and of course had a spin at schweden cars and quite quite significant damage so um out of that one there uh in sp 8 t class we have uh in that one we have to uh look all the way down in fact i don't know if we actually have anything running in sp 8t at this moment in time sp7 the porsche cup class uh in that one there that is um that one is christopher mies in the cooper motorsport 911 cup the number 80 car in tcr at this moment in time it's the hyundai elantra number 830 leading in that class in the bmw 240s it is the number 231 adrenaline motorsport car leading in there in the cup 3 class at this moment in time we have the number 309 milner motorsport porsche cayman 7 18 and finally sp4t class at the moment we have the number 718 porsche 718 gts and we're getting word now the sp-80 led by the piana in 26 overall in the number 36 mercedes thank you for that one bruce jones uh you're welcome peter well done in the early jobs watch the race from the sidelines and um boy you've had some weather and a bit more haven't you just we certainly have yeah we uh we've it's been a bit one thing that has been interesting though bruce is that the potential for strategy calls of course we saw a few teams throwing the dice at the start of the race but when we got on to that five lap stint the rain actually came at just the perfect time for those sp9 teams being able to all put on the wet tyre yes and as early as the well before the start of the race i dialed in to check how it was all running and saw a few cars diving into the pits so they started from pit lane didn't all work for them but again with a race like this where the field is potentially as close as it's going to be in the top class in sp9 class you've got to try something if there's half a chance that there's going to be a curveball coming your way with the weather indeed so and joe bradley welcome to the radio show limited broadcast center your thoughts on the race so far it's been unbelievable you you simply have to recalibrate your mind and that's really to do with the longer lap of course it's a completely unique track in so far as how you address strategy and skills but forget all that that's i've thrown because we've got a lot of standing water that's getting towards being just tipping over the edge of the need for a bit more thought about safety and well i think one of the problems is just picking up from joe there is the fact that if you're glancing at the screen for the very first time in this race the cars that we're being shown are halfway around the lap and the tracks looks as close to bone dry as it can be but then again you've got a circuit that's nearly 26 kilometers long and uh we've had an awful lot of rain and those who've been watching over the past 24 hours not just racing here but what's been going on at spa frankenstein about an hour and a half drive away we have had ridiculous amounts of rain and i can be sure that it's not as it's not the last we're going to see over the course of uh this 24 hour race the 49th running of this fantastic tricky dicey race the weather's already played its hand back on the ground pre-loop though the track is certainly peter far from dry and you've seen car after car in the past 15-20 minutes even the very top drivers putting their cars into the gravel sideways forwards backwards it is real tiptoe driving it certainly is yeah and it's just in a matter of kilometers you know you're going around brunching and on to plant's garden and it's as you said bruce absolutely bone dry and then a couple of kilometers later you're on to the dottinger hole starts to get particularly bad and we saw rafaeli martiello a couple of moments ago going through a deluge of puddles just at the top of tier gardens so the the drivers will be getting used to it now where the wet and dry parts are but my goodness me they're really having to work hard for it and what's what is nice to see of course last night in the wet qualifying session we saw a real flip in the phone book and we we saw that we saw the mercedes come to the floor there as well but it's been really nice to see mercedes get back up on the pace in the dry as well but here in the wet i think it's uh bruce it's coming down to the uh the fleshy bit behind the wheel it's who's who's got the uh the skill in these conditions and at the moment it's a quick kevin astro who's really impressing at the wheel of that manti porsche what he did in the opening couple of laps when drivers were doing the utmost is they hit the western parts of the track to hang on he was outside the top 10 and then suddenly he wasn't outside any more than he was third that he was second and uh of course when the visibility goes completely as you blast up the dotting of her he always seems to hug the right hand side of the track maybe he likes to see the barriers you know exactly where the edge is and we've seen him overtake on the grass there just before you get to that final sequence up the hill through tear garden he's super brave the lead though it's only just 4.2 seconds over lucas stoltz who was so strong in that opening lap of the race what was he about seven seconds clear at the end of lap one fabulous start he it really it really was from third on the grid he was just off like a shot and actually look although mercedes really came alive in the wet in the qualifying uh last night actually lucas dots might have wished for it to stay dry because really in those opening stages he was just imperious at the wheel of that mercedes amg from hype racing team so it's uh we're gonna see this play out all the way across the race but even if the rain goes off the standing water in certain parts is going to be here for quite a while bruce yeah it really is a case where the team managers want their drivers not necessarily to shave tents of a second off they just want them to keep it on the island in fact looking at marcelo when he had that spin you know effectively the final corner of the lap after 25 kilometers and it cost him about two and a half minutes to get the car turned around because even there the track is so so super narrow he came very close to hitting the barriers in that left right flick somehow avoided them but you just think of all the work you do to try and not lose any time one spin like that and it really really hits you hard as a consequence marcelo's down in 15th place before that he was inside the top 10. it hurts so wet wet i'm not going to say wet wet it's very very wet but other parts of the circuit are still dry let's just uh quickly refresh what's happening at the top of the charts kevin estrada leading the way in the 911 manti racing porsche by just under four seconds now from lucas stoltz the best of the mercedes from team hrt then the two rover racing bmws another handful of seconds further back uh martin tomczyk in 98 nikki katzberg in car number one last year's winning bmw m6 then two more porsches completing the top six in fifth place julian he's 10 seconds back from the second of those bmws and the first car not on michelin tires in the order here number 33 falcon motorsports klaus battle the driver who's going to be driving that car and the sister car he's going to get a lot of mileage on board in 33 and 44 and for now he's up into sixth place and that's a good return started down the order is the very wet weather last night did not help the falcon motorsport quarters so great run from the austrian there so hoping to hear from joe bradley who's watched the early stages this race since now joining the crew hard to pick out the cars a it's a a little dark out there and b all images are absolutely uh full of spray in the face and drivers of course they've had a lot of running on thursday friday this morning we had an hour of warm up not everybody made good use of it and um sort of know what they're doing but i don't think we've had two laps really with the same conditions once the rain has started to fall any on-board footage around the circuit you could just sense how the drivers are tiptoeing and then you get to the slow zones and you look at them fleeting in things after drivers got problems with their cars but they're down to 60. they look to the side of the circuit and they can see some of the screens pointing their way as well as the flags it's a purple backdrop with a white circle and a white horizontal diagonal cross and a 60 in the middle down to 60 kph and the driver starts to realize that every that they're probably going to find one in a different position and uh the race officials are very very clear anybody transgresses the mid limit speed they're allowed to run at and they will be picking up penalties meanwhile riding the tide sitting in the garage with the other drivers feeling like spare parts nothing they can do about it dries van tour one of the stars of qualifying yesterday evening as the rain was coming in hadn't quite arrived and he put in two super super quick laps in number 15 phoenix racing audi but for now he's got to twiddle his thumbs and sit there and wait his car robin frank's at the wheel that's in 10th place overall that was one of the spinners saw the dutchman getting it wrong towards the end of the grand prix loop before they go out onto the really really fearsome bit of the track which obviously is uh vert nord schleifer part slow slow slow zones rafaeli marcelo is still picking his way through lucas stoltz in second place but kevin estra waving the flag for porsche leading the way from anti-racing very very long slow section here for the drivers as they wait to pick up the pace again let's just have a little look down the classes as well sp9 phil as they should fia gt3 class cars filling the top 24 positions best of the rest cup x car ktm crossbow really well driven number 75 that's um making great great pace christian mental run by true racing sp seven led by alexander meese huber motorsport porsche that's the porsche cup class car but really at the moment it's all about two things it's about the sp9 runners at the top of the field it's also about keeping the car on the island i didn't do pretty much the operative term [Music] for the drivers who come out of the slow zone typically that's one of the wettest parts of the circuit and thereafter the track seems to dry out a bit and to me one of the most fearsome parts of the circuit is the run from brunch and flansguards and schwalbensvance towards the end of the lap and it dries out a bit there gives them more confidence but uh still huge amounts of sitting water rafaeli martiello has just hit one of them the tail of his his mercedes very nearly came around and clouted one of the bmw cut-class cars and so very very tricky tricky conditions car 890 leading the cup five class that's the class for the bmws and they look really really good the m2 cs races short squat and very very purposeful indeed in many ways there's not so much standing water on the ground free loop it's just very very wet track the standing water is at the apex of some of the corners where the curbing is higher out on the first third of the lap we've seen cars going around very much at hatson back and that's one of the places where the water is sitting and almost inviting the drivers to put their cars sideways by hooking a wheel into it [Music] and just give you an indication of the pace of the cars at the moment with the slow zones 12 minutes four seconds was the pace last time around of the race leading manti racing porsche the the grello car number nine eleven don't forget that we were getting close to eight minute second eight minute laps it's about eight minutes ten we might have had had we had dry qualifying that sort of the the golden stat is still in the hands of laurence fentore from some years ago now the reign of course in qualifying came down and in fact the final shootout for the the 20 fastest qualifiers uh the lap pace was the wrong side of 10 minutes but then it was super super wet for them so joe bradley it's wet it's dry but it's great fun great fun indeed we'll hear from joe soon just looking for any messages from the pits it's always quite useful having a pit reporter you can throw to them because or they can pass up messages saying it might look dry on the track but it's raining here still plenty of battling but at the moment with the slow zones it closes the battle up and then it opens it out all over again it seems to become all very very concertina-like and how's the weather doing at the moment clearly gray overcast and with the threat of more rain windscreen wipers on all around the circuit fred macavity is putting on he was one of the early spinners just outside [Music] looking to make up time looking not to make mistakes at the moment kevin ester not making mistakes out front he's got that four second lead his 911 porsche ahead of lucas stoltz in the better place for the two hrt team mercedes and that's the number four entry any long shots down the dotting of her and you can pick out the cars only by their headlights so if you want to run down the marks we had high hopes for lamborghinis but it's not been their race so far both of them showed great pace in the qualifying market the petty's cast the fff racing number 63 still in the pits action jeffery's also injured on that opening lap way way down the order outside at the top hundreds so it's gonna have to be a comeback drive in some order to perceive anything on the start finish line visibility has all but disappeared breaking into the first corner snaking away it's so difficult for the drivers on the grand prix loop they get some traction when they're towards the end of the main lap on the nordschleife and it all goes when they rise up to tier garden and then drops down [Music] into the first corner grand prix super super tricky all the drivers have been rounded a fair few times now seven eight laps on the ten laps on the board now for the race leader only estra and stoltz have gone on to lap number 11 martin tomczyk should be the next to do so any second now and then among all of this the best of the audis at the moment is frank stipler well it would be frank all that experience and he's just down at the bottom end of the top ten frank is in ninth position the number 11 phoenix racing audi so it's porsche mercedes two bmws three porsches another bmw that's the shooter motorsport car with the empty spring at the wheel and then frank stipler phoenix racing audi and the second phoenix racing audi robin freitz just uh well some distance behind he completes the top 10. double checking what sort of tires people are putting on their cars in any pit stops at the moment and uh not surprisingly nobody's thinking about slicks a fresh set of wets because uh 10 laps around here for some of the drivers is more than enough on their rubber wearing them out on the dry patches and not having enough depth in the tread for the other other parts where the water is deeper any driver getting out of the car will have their eyes on stalks and the visibility really does change from lap to lap with cars let's see the pace has now improved it was 12 minute laps a while ago with slow zones now 10 minutes 30 for the race league the last time around matched almost identically by lucas stoltz in second place overall [Music] and kevin estra that mixture of caution plus pace still leading the gap only three and a half seconds [Music] he's right there he's not just another great meister he's a wet nurburger and we really are seeing that [Music] with four coming in we have humidifiers we had reports from this control that fog is a tear garden well we can see that fog is now rolling towards take over not too far away from the stop finish straight and the pits and receive that club rolling in and it's it's just how far that fog will extend we've had this red flag at various points and there was there was one year of bruce which i seem to recall that the race was stopped for about six to seven hours overnight for fog and we've got so much weather in the eiffel running region that you know pretty much anything can happen i'm not expecting any hailstones to the extent we saw a few years ago though uh no we've had all sorts of weather you feel like uh they often joke that certain parts of the uk get a year's worth of weather in one day four seasons in one day i think was the the lyric from a song back in the period but here we we're having four seasons of rain in in effectively 24 hours it's a question of how it's spaced out and obviously after last year nine and a half hours from eleven o'clock at night uh no running because of unbelievable amounts of standing water hopefully it won't become that bad but right now certainly we're facing they're facing a deluge but how much is it actually raining and how much is the water just still hanging in there and it hasn't had a chance to dry what do you reckon joe you know what i was worried um just before i came on air i was looking at the track and i was thinking you know there's a lot of standing water there and standing water creates spray creates visibility and my big worry even in great condition in great weather conditions the speed difference with the classes here at the nurburgring 24 hours are massive and then when you add in a slippery track at work learning and then a complete lack of a complete lack of being able to see what's in front of you then you know it's got to be before we start considering whether it's safe out there i suppose one thing that's different previous years when we've had conditions like this is the fact that we had 121 starters in other years in non-pandemic years with another 50 cars out there on the track which does make it a little safer just by denser having fewer cars that may spin around in front of it kevin you mentioned kevin esteban um he's a nurburgring monster he really is and then you know adding the wet conditions he knows his place like the back of his hand and it's also know the wet line and you know what what do i mean by wet line well a truck gets rubbered in and a racing line is created and the grip is not necessarily on that racing line it comes down to experience and i think also you look how many years kevin she's been racing a porsche they can't surprise him in any way other drivers getting used to racing porsches might take a short while but uh he's got that and you look at his record here and his record of spa frankenstein you know the two trickiest circuits they'll race on and their circuits on which it absolutely stands out and i really think that sort of says it all [Music] so looking looking down the charts at the moment and it's kevin estra leading the way still by that margin um it's down to so around the same margin dotting between two and four seconds over lucas golds and then 20 seconds is the gap back to the best of the rover racing bmw's in third and the second that's martin tomczyk 98 and number one nikki katzberg in the sister car last year's uh winning crew reunited with the exception of alexander sims who's moved to number the 20 shubit motorsport car and number one shared by the american racer john edwards and it does seem already a long time since the start of this race when we had that fabulous charge down to the opening corner but uh all going absolutely fine now but it is super super tricky full concern it's beginning to shape up though isn't it you can see the guys that are experiencing these changeable conditions and there is no you know just no surprise that the cars and the teams at the front of this field you know you've got the mantis porsche leading the mercedes from the hrp team [Music] they're the first four cars and there's a reason they're the first four cars it's it's down to experience not just with racing cars but racing cars on the nurburgring because uh bruce you more than perhaps any of us have been coming here for so many years we you you see the nurburgring has always been renowned for changeable conditions in fact that was part of the one of the primary deciding factors to stop the grand prix company in the mid 70s it was because one part of the track would be wet the other part of the track would be uh slick tyres uh and it just created that sort of crazy anomaly that was just rendered not not any good for formula one not some not that difficult in the gt3 car but it all depends on speaking like i said earlier i've never heard of drivers being referred to as the fleshy bits yes but i'm gonna use that from now on i like that one the fleshy bits it's down to the fleshy bit now yeah but of course what gets obscured after everyone thinks that the grand prix world championship stopped coming here to use the nord fight after 76 because of nikki louder's accident i think it was going to the people the last year anyhow there were lots of meetings between the drivers of that meeting in the morning uh you know over the course of the whole weekend and uh well bruce in that in that week's sort of sport magazine leading up to the the 76 grand prix nikki louder added it there was an interview with nikki louder where he was uh he was really very judgmental and detrimental to the nurburgring being used for formula one and he was saying that you know this year needs to be the last the last time that that happens and then you know just from you know grabbing all the spot on the third on the thursday on the sunday that happens you know and it was like pathetic it was as if you saw what was going to happen in the future yeah i mean this isn't tongue-in-cheek but there was it wasn't an element that obviously nicki survived all that happened to him but it was a history with the magazine back in those days if the driver got a rare interview they often lived to read it it was a dreadful run but um nikki i mean what a loss for motorsport when he died last year because he just had an opinion an opinion that really carried weight in whatever element of the sport he was talking about yeah he really was and uh you know the sport like you said even when he stopped driving bruce he was such an influential character on the sport and all levels of the sport as well not just formula one he had an opinion on pretty much everything um i get back to the weather bruce um i've i've been checking the forecast since the waves started and every time i look every half hour i take a look and it's changing the weather seems to be changing direction and we did have another rainstorm due to pass across the building area uh however that seems to have disappeared so we might get some dry running soon yes in the space of the last uh ten ten minutes or so the visibility if you look back down the dottinger hurts where the cars come out of a galvanopod well you can see the end of the straight now that is a massive massive improvement so we've just had a place change lucas because is now behind martin tomczyk he orders the change but of course that's just before they come into the pit so it matters for very little other than for pride tom chick moving up fleetingly into second place so in they run into nikki katzberg coming in as well behind them second and third third and fourth into the pit bay in there timing screen and actually when they come to halt in the pit lane the ground beneath them is again dry just goes to emphasize how the weather is changing changing and having estra in as well for the first four cars all into place with 11 laps on the board and the gap between first and second this is 1.2 seconds i've got my i've got my timings to ensure you that the cars are still out on track cruise yeah well i tell you why because i just unfortunately jumped jumped across some climbing street and i've just been talking about a highlight i hope that's the last time i make that mistake in this race i could not work out without track i think it's important to stress the mistakes [Music] it's not yet dry in the pit lane that was what really threw me as well as the fact i flicked my timing screen why they not got red on the screen apologies to all of all them and me it's not a high benchmark to confuse me but you certainly did there we're just having a browse through the highlights there um i can't confirm that the front runners are still out there they're nine one one numbered porsche from mantai kevin esque still leads um not much in it though there's all the 1.7 seconds last time across the line uh another just under 30 seconds there before the third place tom chick rover racing bmw and then a further three seconds before the second of the rover bmw is this one castro giveaway that's the 98 and the number one in 34. fourth place of course uh sorry second place of course is the number four of lucas stops and uh i've always i use this term a lot um in endurance racing groups um some endurance races i feel are a high-speed game of chess and i think none more so than the nurburgring 24 hours it's kind of a a game of chess it's like the game of basketball where you know you can still get baskets but it's all about that final quarter and it it you know like a typical 24 hour is or even more so here at the nurburgring all about push without risk stay at the trouble which is a big ass in some circumstances and and be there at the end be there at the end of fight how many times have we seen down the recent years where this race has come down for the last 10 or 15 minutes of the 24 hours phenomenally and i'm sure this one's going to be no different well i think i think i can safely say there's not going to be one team or one driver in this that does not have a slip up at some point it's about minimizing those moments that can cost you time so a little bit of built-in caution don't forget of course this being a multi-multi-class race i mean potentially could have had 25 classes in this race um you do have cars of greatly differing speed which always provide moments of commerce through the course of a race as the fast guys come through and hope the drivers and the slower cars in the production class cars stay on their line and keep out of the way what you never ever want the driver in front suddenly in front changing changes 20 classes in this year's uh in this year's race uh tcr class uh down in 3rd and 6th place overall is the batting hyundai motorsport entry uh tcr class also uh i'm a big fan for some reason a front wheel drive uh touring car type racing and uh and the tcr classes has always been uh a bit of an attraction for me maybe it's just going back in the weeks a little bit um but certainly the uh the passing car getting well ahead of the other car in ttr both on the same lap again recalibrate your mind it's not just a couple of minutes lap time it's a full uh six and a half minutes well ten minutes at the moment on a wet track but uh he's got uh quite a gap he's got about 45 oh he's got nearly a minute uh on the next of the tcr runners as far as my maths can tell us we'll keep an eye on that as we will try and keep our abreast of uh what else is happening down through the 20 classes or so [Music] to my eye and it's easy for me to say it from a commentary booth joe does appear to be drying out visibility is picking up but again we've still got this this dichotomy but what we also have is a fantastic scrap at the head of the field kevin estrella's got lucas stoltz the two yellow cars the porsche ahead of the mercedes almost no still under a second between them now who's going to be brave enough to push up to 100 they've been driving maybe 95 but now there is almost a dry line starting to appear on the sections of the track that were that little bit drier they weren't the full full wet areas and because of the troughs uh and and rises in the nurburgring around the nurburgring track we are getting clumps of fog that are settling in the uh the lower areas of the track and and they're kind of drifting around i think you know once again variable conditions a very wet track uh towards the end of the lap up towards the the dottinger hall and through the uh through the uh schwallen schwanz area of the track just before then the plant's garden uh we're still seeing uh we're still seeing the tires cutting through the water and that for me is a is a big indicator of just uh how damp the track is and uh we've still got that fog at the tear garden uh bruce which look at that fog on the dot in your home one of the fastest parts of this track uh heading into the tear garden with poor visibility that's why i'm sat here behind the microphone well look i suppose you could say if it's going to be anywhere on the lap it's got to be there or there abouts that's one of the rare rare points in which they point straight for more than a handful of seconds and uh gives them a chance but obviously when you have that little left-hand king and start rising up the hill to the final two sequences of corners you do like to at least know where the turn it and the breaking points are yeah because it really is fast isn't it and you're three you literally are threading a needle there's so much time to begin there and um you kind of get towards the end of the lap and you think oh i'm nearly there i've nearly completed a lap so i'll just back up but then you know through the s bend at the tier garden and then through that final left hander and then on to the uh start finish straight you you need to be carrying a lot of speed of maximizing your entry onto the start finish still sort of pre-track i see bruce certainly is we just had a change for the lead kevin estrada lost out to lucas starts and then thought you know what i don't really fancy that so even before they got two corners onto the grand prix loop the porsche back in front of the mercedes but a great little dog fight here between the sort of custard yellow and blue mercedes that's lucas stoltz and acid green and acid yellow porsche who's about to be deposed again stalks back into the lead i i thought stalks would again just just mentioning coming out of the seaguar not at the start finish this i think it was the uh the mercedes who had a great run on the porsche out of that corner and was able to get by under the heavy breaking for turn one and i i was about to save just before he retook the porsche uh that he was kind of looking quite happy just to sit there behind the porsche however he proved me to be wrong and the number four mercedes has taken the lead of this race having watched a lot of racing yeah exactly and it's now starting to put away but what i've seen time and time again that amg mercedes always seems to have really good punch out of the final corner and therefore overtaking it to turn one is its favorite place then you get to the sort of sweeping sections of the circuit from oh notably brunching on and the porsche just looks so much better balanced and uh but that's what we want you don't want them to have identical performance at each point on the circuit you want them to have a difference that in turn they can exploit but at the moment the advantage of going to lucas dolls he's got another mercedes up ahead that's the cp racing entry running in the pro-am class of sp9 and the driver on board that one stays well out of the way as they go down through hats and back so very well done indeed doesn't interrupt the overall battle well done charles espinel yeah a very experienced driver in the cp racing machine that's the uh the predominantly white with the red and blue delivery getting in amongst the smaller traffic as they get into the hats and back and head out onto the nordschleife for now and no doubt about it the mercedes has pulled quite a gap they were pretty much notice the tail around the grand prix striker that's not the case and already just as they head down towards out of hattenback down to towards the footbats the mercedes pulling out a gap pretty much every meter that gap increases just over the grout towards foot flats very very fast part of the trap there through sweeping right hand curves and the portion looking like he's using a slightly different line to the mercedes i noticed that on the grand prix striker and uh so again it's it's about finding out where the grip is and trying not to start with them and see if they're completely offline and maintaining its momentum because that's where the tires finding the grip meant not necessarily on the dry rubber line but offline on the wet and there's the porsche just going through uh the um the right android irenberg and he'll be heading down to the heading down the foxhole towards enough force punching downhill and then uphill and great battle from these two and i don't think it's over i what i think bruce is i think we're seeing a little bit of tire performance coming into play here and there's no doubt about it that the mercedes is working in the better in these conditions and it may be down entire life i'm just going to check that whilst you talk amongst yourselves and just see where we are in the stint well certainly when the track got wet last night for qualifying suddenly the mercedes came to life they'd scarcely been in the top 10 after serious running and then suddenly they started to take half of the top 10 qualifying positions but then again there's wet track and there's very wet track we've had all versions of every every degree of wet so far but it must say he said lucas staltz looks super super pole poised in the number four hrt mercedes leading now and uh just starting to pull away kevin ester will be doing his absolute all to stay out at the front of the field but uh can he hang on to stoltz and behind them they've got to march in over half a minute now to nikki katzberg the two rover racing bmw sec third and fourth they're separated by only half a second but they just don't have the pace of the front two runners lucas stoltz now in the lead as he was in the opening laps the race and kevin estrada back down into second place both on michelin tires bruce both have into their spin by seven laps so entire life should be the same however what we don't know is how those cars are set up and set up in a way to use the tyres but there was certainly the mercedes had the advantage there when it came to finding the grip and finding the performance all across the lap and that's what we're seeing there we'll we'll see what the gap is next time by uh it's out to 2.4 seconds there as they just click past uh i'm not sure what sector they're on but it's out the two tuple 2.4 seconds uh already so i i can see that increasing as we get around the start they're getting towards ex muller bergberg will be coming up next for them so that is where they are around this mighty lap 25.3 kilometers of amazing fun but is it as much fun in the wet you know what joe when a driver has completed a stint here their eyes are going to be out on stalks but when they've done it in conditions like this i mean they're going to be hanging around down by their knees aren't they yeah absolutely brute it's all about the concentration level and you don't want the nurburgring in in perfect conditions uh it just sucks every ounce of concentration from you the the track is so fast in sections and you have to be so uh you have to have so much finesse and accuracy in where you place the car and you you're kind of thinking two or three sections ahead two three four head and add in the uh the unknown quantity or the voyage of discovery every time you go on to the brake pedal or turn the wheel into a corner and see what the grip level is it's it's just it's a phenomenal skill that these young men and women are able to uh to to drive these cars at the pace that they drive them and i'm not necessarily just talking about our professional drivers but our our pro arms and amateurs as well they come here and they compete at this level and considering you know the the complexity uh of the conditions we're seeing everyone so far and i've said it now so i'm touching wood bruce uh everyone seemingly able to handle the pressure it looks like we've had we've had plenty of off screws but we've had no major incidents have we and it's just it's incredible to think that uh that we've achieved so far what we've achieved in the weather yes i think we've had that period of uh even the greatest of the drivers out there finding aquaplating particularly on the grand prix loop and then they were having to work out where standing water was out around the full nordschleifer but right now it seems to settle down so you're laughing if you're fans of the house racing team just based just across the road in moyes path and lucas stoltz he's had a stormy first handful of runs of course they've had the pit stop and uh now lucas stoltz looting leading by two seconds from kevin estrada but the replacement drivers getting lined up conor felipe waiting to take over the number 98 rover racing bmw and i'm sure last year's winning car the number one rover racing bmw will be handed over soon nikki katzberg in third place at the moment haven't seen who's going to be next into that one but conor felipe getting ready to take over the fourth place car from martin tomczyk and of course his eyes will be within his skull at the moment but he's aware that all is going to be very very tricky as he does himself in i'm interested to see where the decision on what sort of tires to run out there it's got to be wets it we might be getting into the realms of intermediates i can't see anybody uh looking at the pictures what we're seeing on the live stream the teams are looking at the same pictures looking at the conditions looking and seeing what the cars are doing out there they can see the track conditions and it it's just got to be a straightforward set of wets going on to these cars that are about to pit uh i could i i wouldn't be brave enough there aren't any sections of this track that are even showing a damp line let alone dry like [Music] no and uh one of the glories uh these days is when you the visibility's good enough for that the helicopter carrying one of the tv cameras to be up there because again when you get that shot from above joe it really shows the speed of the cars plus the other element just how narrow the circuit is around the nordschleife the track and then of course just it's not a grass verge it's a grass fringe isn't it effectively then the barriers yeah and the race leader in lucas starts is coming in i think it's manual metzger due to takeover for him next he's also sharing with morrow engel and adam christodoulou three of those four drivers winners here before just lucas driver bring it in who has not got a win to his name and esther in as well the two leaders following one another in bruce so not exactly uh showing their cards in their hand at this stage and everybody just going through the motions like i said just a high-speed game of chess and it's just keeping to your strategy we're not seeing anything different from the teams and it's such a long lap that i i doubt we will one of the bmws is in the 98 tom chicks into the pit in the 98 first of the rover cars to come through and take that bit that is the number one has stayed out though so katzberg stays out for an extra lap yeah just looking to see we've got three of the first four have made those they're coming to the pits number four from the lead lucas stops the handover 911 porsche kevin ester will hand it over and the 98 bmw next car in line will it come into pitch no it doesn't josh burton continues for one further laps kcmg porsche goes up into second place overall for reference joe 21 seconds between katzberg and his race leading bmw and burden in the kcmg porsche on the start finish line great run from that number it in the kcmg team running a porsche this year and in the second hand lower in the retronic racing porsche uh he stays out as well let's have a look and see where they are stint wise i think they're pretty much equal yeah so the three they've extended that's into it laps um i'm just gonna see what the uh i'm just gonna reference my chart bruce and see what sort of la uh pit stop time they're going to cause so with a seven laps stint uh they're gonna owe us a 169 second kickstart uh the eight lap stint is gonna also 190 second pixel so that's that's so complicated at all is it no not at all but yeah well i'm quite accustomed to that to a slightly different sliding scale with the uh the green language trekking series and the later you make your final pit stop the shorter time you have the shortest time your minimum pit stop time uh it sort of plays one way and then plays another i got quite excited there joe you said you get a consult your chart i thought you were doing a manual note it down in pencil sort of pit start at just like the old days i've got a straw for the slate yeah i've got a slate yes yes with various different colored chalks um i did go to three on one year but the crayon just gets messy first doesn't work on hot weather in hot weather now reports of fog marshall's post 189 to 201 that is tiergarten effectively i think we worked out yesterday john and i it's 207 or 209 marshalls posts around the 25 and a bit kilometers but frankly we did see wisps of fog starting to come back down a lap or so ago but anyhow the officials have noted that down yeah there was there was fog bruce about i'm trying to think of the time it was quite a while ago uh maybe 50 minutes ago that report the fog leaders are out of the pits that's their pit stops completed and the mercedes steers ahead of the porsche and yeah oh and slides very very deep into turn one esther i believe staying at the wing of the porsche i think christmas is taking over actually chris but he got he halved the gap it was about one and a half seconds before the pit stop and it was about one and a half car lengths when they came back out and just completing the housework the rover racing bmw that was brought in in fact i was wrong i thought i saw no i was right connor de felipe has taken that over so he has rejoined listed his eighth place it will be lower than that but the the porsche the 911 porsche actually got running earlier it's pit garage was about two car lengths up the road closer to exit further from pit exit than the hrt mercedes but uh he was up and running but the yellow and blue mercedes just pulled across into its path to resuming effectively but of course that's got to wait for those that didn't come in to make a pit stop which is about the top about six drivers carried on by when they've made their pit stop next time around then we'll see the true order all over again but these two cars the number four mercedes from hrt and the 911 anti-racing porsche just remember they had a lead of the best part of 25 seconds over the rover racing bmws so expect them still to be in those positions and they're effectively uh our race leaders is everyone ahead of them bruce pulling us a pit stop um as you've just mentioned it it's it's it's looking like a sprint race between the number four and the number nine one one for sure um they are nostal now we did see the mercedes having the performance advantage and i put that purely down to the grip that uh lucas dolce was finding and can find the same level of grip um it's a void of discovery they've just gone out on brand new wets and albeit the wets were heated up in tyre blankets and in the oven the mother they've rolled down the pit lane bruce it's like when you pour water onto a hot plate the heat dissipates out of the plate immediately as soon as those cars were on the ground that heat would have just been leaving those tires and now they're beginning to uh to get the tyres up blue at their optimum operating temperature and the wet tire does operate at it's best at a much lower temperature than this see a slick tire do yes it must be quite remarkable you'd be quite easily convinced the team hadn't bothered to to warm the tyres at all and the fact that turn one is a very very sharp right-hander and it's wet really doesn't help matters but a few corners in once they start going through the nord cara and then down through the twisters at hatson back they should know the level of grips on their car but of course the drivers coming out of the pits joe they don't know where the water's standing around the circuit they might have looked at some of the onboard footage but even so they've still got to find what it's not like around this outlap quite wide lines coming from our race leader emmanuel metzger they're effective bracelets don't have to put that in others haven't get pitted but uh maybe pushing a little too hard too soon there well yeah but i did mention this just a wee while ago don't be startled by what looks like drivers driving offline and getting into trouble they're searching for the grippers they're going off the rubber race conventional rating line and finally where with ad water that actual conventional rating line is slippy and and provides you with less grip than if the line off the conventional razor line does and that's what we're seeing we're having glimpses of that from both of these runners um darren warden's listening hello darren um he's he's very sad not to be here it's uh it's an annual pilgrimage for darren and uh and his pals um he's just reminded us that the royal team may be splitting their pit strategy to avoid a double stack we know how cramped this pit lane is and that would be a very sensible approach to split the team cars down the middle and have one car hit earlier than the next now now that they've managed that that's gonna that's gonna pan out for the rest of this race and and just for your reference the numbers are now limited to below i think it's about 170 but not so long ago a decade ago we had a record entry of 229 cars actually that was 2007. first time i went i reckon it was somewhere just south of 200 and i couldn't believe it when i walked into the garage then i had to walk sideways to go down between the cars and say sorry for another mechanic i tripped over and worked the front of the garage stacked from front to back in the garage and um that was when the penny really dropped just about how big a race this was and that was back in the late 80s and i kept coming for a handful more years then i've had a ridiculous hiatus i've watched it but i've always been working with same weekend and it's great to be back an even better job it's great to be back as the track is drying out and i can now see much further whenever you're treated to a long shot of the circuit not fog anymore of course there's still that question mark around the area at tier garden but conditions for now are going the right way yeah we are seeing that and for me bruce i'd much rather have a consistent track condition than these changeable ones all right we're in the entertainment business and um the weather and wet tracks etc do through variables that we perhaps uh have to react to and the teams have to react to and the drivers certainly have to react to but we as commentators also have to do that and this track proving to be uh ever trickier it's down to patience as well bruce with just uh morrow engel just showing a little bit of i'm not going to say impatience because i think it was controlled patients there and just getting past a couple of cars perhaps one of the trickiest parts of the track it was at the uh the the hats and back where you've got them the sequence of left right left right flooring corners and he had to get round two of the slower classes there and he did so but i tell you what it was very very close indeed and almost made contact with not just one but two cars those are the variables on the variables i think we can say but um it's the same for everybody out there and just caution has to be thrown into the mix but of course with marrowing but sorry with um emanuel metzker and michael christensen there's that balance they're fighting for the lead of the race so maybe slightly less caution for the two of them yeah into the pits has come one of our porsche cabinets couldn't quite see the number there nikki katzberg now pits in the second of the rover racing bmws we we mentioned there that uh they've split the strategy not the double stack in the fifth giving themselves room enough to service this car so nikki katzberg will be getting out the car being refueled and it's intermediates going on the capitol car i was speculating as to what the chair choice would be with katzberg reports back to the team that the track is ready for intermediates you were right bruce you called it just on what you could see from the live stream and what you could see from the way that the track was beginning to come back to us well nicki casper certainly agrees with you that's the advantage of doing one further lap okay you know yeah about it just to stress people that further lap gives you about 10 minutes of time to consider what is the best option to put in your car when the conditions are super tricky and dry conditions it's a much quicker lap time in fact we're now lapping at around nine minutes 29 minutes 25 but advantage to nikki katzberg in last year's winning car he is now out of the car he's helping his teammate get fully strapped in and then we're going to get get that out rolling very very quickly indeed looks like i think john edwards on poor bed i'll confirm when he leaves the pit exit but uh don't don't forget this was the car that was running third overall so it ought to be able to slot back into that relative position and a nine lap spins for that number one so we mentioned there it's staying out a lot longer than the sister car the number eight ninety-eight the sister overrated bmw that will start uh rising to the top of the uh timing screens the philippines down down in eighth place overall uh two cars ahead of it they're all still pulling us a pit stop and that's in sixth with the number seven mercedes the get speed mercedes of march yellow and the yellow berman tenkey racing team mercedes cars 70 and 40 and sixth and seventh overall they're going to disappear very quickly into the pitch i would have told bruce and uh that will allow the nightmare back onto the tail of the number 9-1-1 um those three cars that have inherited the lead the number one global racing car the kcmg's fortune and the number three electronic car uh they're now are all three of them those cars are now in the pits and uh taking time in the pit stop fears that's going to allow the number four back into the lead let's get at the wheel of the uh hr team series builds down deliveried car of course bright yellow that's the christodoulou car as well by our good friend adam costadoulou sharing that car eventually today well he's keen to add another win he won in 2016 the barrow angle manual metzger and bernt schneider the great burnt we do miss him he just seemed such a staple for decades years decades here eternity the number one bmw sitting in a pit stop for no work being done on the car but waiting for the signal as to when it can get going nicki can relax the car that's a 213 second pit stop bruce because he stretched that stint out to nine laps i mentioned seven it was eight laps for the sister cars which meant that their pit stop was 190 seconds uh with duke by because it's done uh nine laps uh that's a 213 second pit stop so that's why it felt like an eternity it's a mathematical equation and come the end of the race it almost matters not unless you've really really pitted very very uh late on but we'll see the order you know what you gain with one hand you potentially lose with another and the driver who's taken over the number one skittering around it is indeed john edwards i surmised it maybe just trying to get a feel through that first tight ride and the tight left that follows of just how much or indeed how little grip is available and for your reference also just reporting john edwards taking over the number one the uh another driver just comes to the track josh burton has handed over the kcmg porsche to alexandra in peritoru the swiss driver who's been based in china for about 15 years now but very quick in everything no wonder he's always on the books at kcmg rest of the track beginning to come back to us but um it still looks very foggy down the bottom end of the darling hall into tier garden not as bad as it was and as the we're just getting uh information that the fog is clearing at tier garden so that's like we said bruce that looks like we're gonna the the weather's gonna clear the time in germany of course uh coming up to 6 p.m so we are gonna it is going to cool down i would have thought so slightly and that might stop uh more wind i don't know what the satellite picture is showing but the weather forecast i've got is for um not much rain in the area for the next two hours but then it goes a ride i think the uh the forecasters are even not willing to put a dollar on uh on any bets and what the weather's going to do here because it can change can't it it's the uh the territory isn't it the environment it just creates weather little weather fronts are created from the uh the the altitude of the eiffel tower and it does seem such a far cry from all the really hot running to the nurburgring 24 hours that you've been at that i've been at joe it just feels like it's from another planet oh interesting message from race control unsafe release car number four we know that car don't we of course that was the car that manual mets yes it was michael christensen remember i said that chris had taken over the banter racing car got going sooner and because he's his pit cars was closer to pit in but uh the yellow mercedes pulled in front of the grello i thought just squeaked it in it's under investigation so we'll check that one out keep an eye on that that could have these little things can really add up joe they really can't brutal at the top of the hour so it's our even numbered classes uh that their turn to find out what's happening in their classes uh the overall leaders we've mentioned uh them already the number four uh mercedes team hrt of metzger leads from the manti 911 conor de philippi is in third in the number 98 wolver racing bmw and then in the spx class we've got the uh glickenhaus that's leading 25th overall for car 704 and thomas much at the wheel of that car the cup x class has the number 75 uh auto motor let me just give the you this car's full title um autumn mundo on sport uh that car is 26 or also just behind the glickenhaus in the cup x class that's car 75 sp pro and just looking down the order for the first of our sp pros and i can't find it bruce that's typical uh i put it on the list and it's not on the oh there it is it's right down the bottom uh 119 spot for car 350. that's the black falcon team um that car looking like it's still running but uh we're down the order in 119 sport sp-80 and the sp-80 class i have to go up to 31st overall car 36 the uh other black falcon car in 31st overall leading the uh spft sp7 is being led by huber motorsports porsche in 34th spot overall that's car number 80. and the tcr class mentioned them before it's the hyundai motorsport car a31 in 42nd place uh overall and that's angstler at the wheel of that car at the moment the one of my favorite classes the bmw 240i class i really love the look of these cars that well that's being led by uh the number two three one that has a friend of the one of the collective david drinkwater down to drive that car later on uh and that car is currently 82nd overall in the order uh only two classes to go cup three is the next one on the list and i go back up the order to 36 overall for car three or five that's the gtech competition uh porsche cayman and that car is 36th overall and then the final class at the top of this hour is the sp4 tv runners and they are down in 81st overall and it's been led by the number 86 which is a porsche 718 with my chart uh that's the hourly upgrade for our even class er even numbered classes but not even numbered but even now with classes let's call it that um more of that and on the next hour where we'll have a look at the other classes in the order thanks a lot joe and while all that was happening of course those that uh haven't come in for their second pit stops have now done so and as predicted number four the health racing team mercedes car that is invest under investigation don't get leading the race now by seven seconds from michael christensen so mexicans settle down very very well indeed and he's stretching clear and then there's another 20 plus seconds back to conor the philippines [Music] and martin sprinklehock at the wheel down in 17th overall for the audi 14 car collection audi r8 lms um not used to seeing the number two running as far down the order but uh with just under 20 one and a half hours don't be surprised if you see the number two rising up through the order with that uh great driver line up i think at the wheel of the car but he's uh he's just look at the uh just look at the driver line of christopher harrison niko bullet and uh uh yet to have a turn in that car i'm not sure who started the number two coming down in 17th it does look as though they're just allowed to park in any angle they possibly can get into so someone knows in summer nose out some if they know no one's around them they can park sort of in normal parallel parking fashion but majority of them have to be swung around uh to make sure there's space for others to fit in it looks like bedlam and at times it feels like bedlam out around the circuit but the good news for all the drivers going out is what was a very wet track in parts is getting drier by the minute but don't forget it's five past six in the evening we'll have a few more hours of sunlight but certainly in terms of sunlight or light but light that can dry the track is ebbing away by the minute so any more rain and it's going to stay around a whole lot longer once it stopped pouring but for now it's dry joe jack well i can tell you uh bruce good news from darren ward our collective meteorologist uh the weather is traveling this way so we should have some good drive running as soon as that truck dries no rain behind the current band of weather at least as far as far frankly going which isn't that far away geographically speaking but thanks for that darren keep the uh the weather forecast coming i'll tell you what after yesterday's down paul i think spa frankenstein has probably moved a bit closer to be honest slide down the hillside in the rdn that was unbelievable wasn't it yeah absolutely unbelievable i've never i've certainly seen the access to its bar being blocked before bruce while we've been there and you have to drive the the long way out but i've never seen it filled to the extent that we saw those videos being posted on social media the the the tunnel was literally full to the brim it was it was level the the little valley where the urus runs through where the the corner takes its name from that the the amount of water that was running into that which is basically a drainage stream isn't it for the surrounding hillsides well it was certainly doing its job look joe we've we've both been at a circuit that doesn't get very much rain at all and the tunnel's been completely blocked and buy autodrome don't forget yes yeah you can you can forgive them that little bruce their drainage system isn't really isn't really built with uh deluges of the like uh of what we saw but uh you know i don't think there's any drainage system that could have coped with the amount of rain we saw not just at spa but here as well bruce it was uh speaking uh to a lot of the drivers that were out in this in the weather last night um which pretty much looked like the start of this race it was getting rewards for me i think it was getting towards a red flag and the weather just turned i think in just in time i think if it continued to come down we were seeing so much pooling and standing water i think there was a consideration to whether or not we should stop things but uh we got away with it let's open stairs so absolutely so i mean i think it really was that close you're quite right there and again as i said one mitigating circumstance we have 121 starters this year necessarily the field down a little bit uh because of the pandemic and people not being sure if they could travel but uh that gave a bit more scope but it was very close to the edge talking of close the edge emanuel metz is getting very very close indeed as he continues to eke an advantage in the race lead number four hrt mercedes four seconds to the good now over michael christensen who in turn is another 21 seconds clear of connor to felipe so again conor de philippe third for over rating and sister carl with john edwards fellow american is running another half minute plus in arrears in fourth overall best arrest alexander and peritori kcmg porsche in fifth and the brewtronic porsche crew in sixth place overall that's number three tobias muller and if you're not that accustomed to rutronic as a name of course the hcb rutronic team they won the adac gt masters title a couple of years ago so they're fighting their pedigree up against the team who are teams who are long long established and one of those jokes came here with the fricatelli racing two cars they were fastest in the qualifying six hours a few weekends ago and it hasn't been their race as yet we saw great pace from them in practice but at the moment they've got car number 31 maxine martin in 11th overall and in the pits earl bamber in 14th so they are going to have to really go some to try and make up the deficit they've been faced with after just two and a half hours yeah and that that's their third pit stop bruce let's have a look and and see just what the car did on that stint um sorry what number are we talking about i've just lost track of what i'm looking forward to 30 and 31 31 yeah he has done the 30 bruce had done eight laps uh matt campbell at the wheel that was his second stint first thing he did five laps in the car um so he's in after eight laps so that'll be um a regular stop so that that's kind of a regular stint they haven't stretched it at all and again the number 31 uh freaking led car that car has already been into the pits and has taken uh hits its pit stop first before the 30 and that car also did hitler and it's been wheeled into the garage booster number 30. that's never a good sign it's a sign of a consideration of further jobs required maybe at this point in the race they've been looking at the weather map and they see what's coming can we wait five minutes there could be rain and they're going to effect a change on the car maybe very early for any any break changing uh pads but right now you know you do have to consider with this super long lap around the nordschleife but if you think the weather's about to change and you can't afford to head out on a drive a set of intermediates if huge downpours on its way why not uh maybe use this roll of the dice and uh make a change buy yourself some some time before you have to make the decision on tires that's what the sort of thing you do if you're not in the overall reckoning which they're not really at the moment are they no and the the weather is moving across the satellite showing that the team is using the sim a similar satellite system uh to what our meteorologist darren wood is helping us with then the weather is moving away and there's there's no more weather between here and spa um some specks of rain just east of spa that will eventually develop as it gets towards us but that's that's at least two hours away yet so um i'm not sure whether that was a problem that's manifested itself on the number 30 fricativi porsche and they've brought the car in uh under the pit area where it did its regular service for of pit stop and tires but then the car was uh jacked up and swiveled round and it's gone into the garage and a lot of work going on in that car the car on the hijacks to allow crew members underneath the car so you never know bruce the car could have been cluttered across some curves have uh destroyed something underneath the car and majority from what i can see the majority of the attention is going on just behind the front axle which is pretty much where nothing is because the engine's in the rear of that car well if someone could let the mechanics know that but they've certainly removed the parts so they can see the parts that lie beneath so a big problem there for earl bamber i would suggest matt campbell did the fir the five lap the eight that they know did eight laps and then came into the pits but you know so many times on a circuit like the nordschleifer a problem for someone else but can become a problem for you if you're in the chasing car and perhaps going over the curbs in avoidance of a spinning car is what could have done the damage here to number 30 fricatelli racing porsche good point bruce yeah taking avoiding action and uh damaging the underneath of the car on the kerbs and there's some very high curbs here at the nurburgring uh but suspension damaging curbs uh is what i would call them and some of them you just want to be nowhere near them not anywhere you know not even clipping them when you you know just sort of uh glancing a glancing blow they're almost like street curbs some of them you know haven't quite got a 90 degree face but it's not far off oh the number of times that i've seen cars um get a little out of line they hit the curb at the side of the circuit they get the car then get bounced literally into the middle of the track so it's those the steep ones others you can ride at your desire that alas for the number 30 fricatively racing team and it's a team that's very close to the hearts of uh people who love the nord schleifer they've raced for years in what was the vln the uh langstrek and now in the nls new name for the long distance series here and had increasing success but of course with the loss of uh the heartbeat of the teams having schmitz earlier in the year you know hit the team and everybody in the pit lane here very hard indeed and her name is on the roof of both 30 and 31 and also the 911 porsche from mantai racing so she's got a three-way chance of victory but right now it's all riding with the 911 crew uh because 30 and 31 from frickadely racing down the order in 12th place for number 31 for maxine martin and falling down the orders it sits in the pit garage number 30 down to 24th and falling have you ever tried africa delhi bruce i've been eating freakadelies as long as they've been invented as far as i recall lovely lovely meatballs and i tell you what joe we've worked at a lot of long distance races it gets into the small hours in the morning you're in the pit lane and then someone comes in with a tray of food and if you just happen to have a freaking deli coming past on a little cocktail stick you don't say no no and you can just see also what it means to all the crew members just at low points when someone comes through if it's a cold night in the pits with hot chocolate or anything just to get the blood sugar back up but a bit of protein i think is really what's required and i think afrika delhi is as good a thing as any out there well certainly being in germany you have to sample the fricatelli and the absolutely endless selection of sausage not to mention the endless selection of beers uh it's a great place to be it's a great place to visit and um hopefully it won't be long perhaps next year's nurburgring 24 hours we'll be able to see the spectators back because it it's a festival of speed the fans come out here and they come out on the nordschleife and they've come for business the whole week and it is it is an absolutely visceral experience to go out there and walk amongst the fans who have got these makeshift grandstands these makeshift compounds blasting out german heavy metal i'm not really a massive fan of germany heavy metal but you can't it's too avoidable uh the 911 along with the four well okay now is this the title quickly hasn't it cars go on to slick so we've got 16 backs on the board but the highlander elantra running in the tcr class has just fitted slicks i've heard news from the pits so uh it's amazing how fast this track really has dried out and don't forget a while ago parts of the track were nearly dry now it looks so a big enough percentage of the circuit is dryness we can hopefully get a look at the tyres going onto the 911 and number four the two cars have been fighting for the lead of the race don't expect driver changes because michael christensen and emmanuel metzger not long ago came in to make their regular pit stops but now i'm sure it's just fresh tyres but what sort of tires the number four mercedes already got underway so it's gained an advantage in the pit stop and the 911 that came in from just a few seconds behind seems to have squandered a bit of time in the pit so anti racing would be a little bit frustrated though as the bilstein sponsored mercedes and pulls away through the first couple of corners and seemed to have a fair bit of grip last time he came out of the pits he commented joe about how tire blankets work for a second but once the hot tires get on a cold wet track the temperature goes away just like that well they must be on snakes bruce they've already done two laps now again recalibrating your mind two laps in the conventional track is a very very short stint the two laps of the nurburgring at the nurburgring 24 that's almost 20 minutes of driving so they've had a lot of time enough time to assess what is going to be the best way forward and they've got they've very quickly made that decision to get onto the right tire for the prevailing conditions because quite frankly your wet tires will just absolutely demolish themselves on a dry track and they'll not lap they'll certainly not last a whole lap of the nord sniper so they've they've done literally two laps and you can see the wet tire just beginning to melt off those heavy treaded wet uh the wet tires on the drive track and so slick tires pretty much being the the tyre of choice or the tyre of need i would say at this point in this race yeah and it's worth pointing out just the two laps you commented there for our first two cars the number four mercedes the 911 uh porsche but uh two laps here in old money that's 31 and a bit miles so it's it's like about 10 laps it's a regular sized braun tree type circuit so the consequences of just being the wrong side on the arrival of rain your timing of your pit stop either for or against it's really huge and it really swings the pendulum in the race but right now number four hrt mercedes the number 911 anti-racing porsche they're covering each other's actions as you imagine that they would so more and more cars choosing to head towards the pits and we're seeing the number 29 audi just coming off the pits up of course they'll not just be changing tires they'll be topping the fuel up they've done a two laps let's just see what the uh what that means in so a two lap stint means that they have to do a minimum of 69 seconds so one minute and nine seconds uh for the cars that i've done two since i'm not sure how many laps the 29 has that's currently down in 13 sport the audi steam audi sport team land car with vandalinder at the wheel out of the pits now uh having gone on to slick tyre so we'll we'll keep an eye on the lap times bruce but i'm pretty sure we're going to see them tumbling and getting awards at optimum time yeah we're just looking at the most recent lap times i mean a very quick the quickest runners out there last time around were actually the huber motorsport porsche marco seafried and maxine martin frickadeli number 31 they were lapping in nine minutes four nine minutes five so still potentially another 50 seconds to go down towards the qualifying pace don't expect that in race for but let's call it 45 seconds to be found as the track continues to drive at more to the point as they get put onto a slick rubber everybody else diving into the pits the number two car collection audi the latest one in marcus finkelhoen and into the pits bmw junior team car number 77 tell under the top 20 pair of them they're coming in wet tires off quite steaming as they're being removed but certainly slick tyres going on good to see we like a bit of variety yeah absolutely um rob chalmers spotted something that i was about to mention as well was uh the prickly belly portion we saw there the middle section of the of the floor the underfloor area of the car came off and it was very wet on the inside now whether that's due to the uh related wetness of the track or cooling i'm gonna rob rob charlie's follow this and i'm gonna have to err on the fact that i think that was probably cool and uh there's two radius the front of those porsches and the coolant would have flowed back and uh and i've got to apologize to mick palmer of water racing uk magazine i've woke him up by saying i didn't like uh uh german metal i knew that would work well i'm sorry mick i know you do but i don't sorry see you here let's have a walk out into the trees next year what have you started yeah let's have a few beers with the german metal fans he would love it well i tell you what any budding engineer or construction engineer would love walking around because what always used to stand out to me with the there weren't tabs these were edifices that were being erected out particularly in that wonderful sweep sweeping section of corners at the start of the lap down from hats and back and along these were castles being built and occupied and done in that very dramatic way with beautiful organization of their beer pits and their barbecue area and camping extraordinaire but certainly it must be said as the race went on not everybody was keeping up with the action on track maybe they were ducking out from a little too much metal but it really is an atmosphere like nowhere else you think about the atmosphere on the infield at daytona at sebring but the more all totally different and you know long may that rain this circuit is nigh on 100 years old and it's got history oozing from its every pore but the best thing about it you never have two experiences the same at the nurburgring everything every day you go to the circuit you get something new more information coming through on the number 30 fricative porsche bruce uh thank you to martial duke who who tells me steering issues on the porsche should be back on track in 20 minutes and that was sent four minutes ago so thank you to marcel for that information uh so steering issues delaying the number 30 in the pits as we uh we're speculating whether it was coolant that was uh i've been proved wrong uh thankfully i've been proved wrong it was obviously just wet off the weather and it's steering that's brought my car in well again i i honestly don't think that would be earl bamber who'd put it off i think someone else would have done something in front of the super capable kiwi but a rare setback for a driver who just has a habit of winning 24-hour races but uh anyhow that will be fixed i'm sure but uh tough luck for the number 30 fricatelli racing team at this point you always just uh very very pleased uh that the cars from a two-car team not a one-car team so they're hopes still right with the sister card number 31 that's running in ninth place maxine martin at the wheel at the moment i'm just going to check where the number 30 has dropped down where it's at this early stage of this race that's going to cost them daily and we're expecting that car to drop way down the field it has indeed it's dropping it's dropping like a stone 37 what's 35th when i look down it's now 37th and it's going to continue to drop isn't it alas it will may end up down to about 60th place or below but i'm sure once the car's back on track will have plenty of pace but the field too competitive to have a setback like that unless everyone else has some as well to stay in the overall battle and that's that's a feature since i started coming here long long ago is that used to have cars winning by margins of laps five laps once even a rare thing vodka strike still racing in the opal manta today but 2003 he his car an opel astra v8 coupe rather faster won by five laps sharing with manuel reuter timo scheider and marcel tiemann raced by t run by team phoenix and team phoenix on the track or in fact not on the track because suddenly dris van tour's gone off he slid over the grass virgin front three quarter angle into the tires on the outside of the circuit and uh the windscreen completely flooded with muddy water as it came back off the tires head in the hands for dries van thor there oh my word that was one of the favorites in the race has taken a tumble and that's phoenix now with its audis yeah you know what that was that car just snapped away from him again uh cars going out onto what is in in places still a very wet and done track and they're on slicks and when the slicks lose when you lose control on a damp track on slits but it's very very hard to get it back he was down in 16 frontal and he's he's money as he managed to get that car going i i think he'd hard yeah it was a big hit now be absolutely amazed if that car hasn't has not suffered any kind of suspension damage it's got to have suffered suspension damage that was a massive hit and the front end of the car absolutely buried itself but he's got every chance he's got every chance of crashing again because the windscreen is covered in mud the muddy water that came back so he's got to go back a because there's possible damage on the car which is a b very reduced visibility yeah and he's he's just at the part of the track he's just at the right hand before the steep rise towards the carousel i think uh from my estimation yes and dave confirmed that he's got a long way to go yet um he's got all of that sequence of corners out through whittleman and brucian to uh after of course he comes out of the and it looks like the car is damaged i would have been amazed if he if he hadn't bruce he's got to limp that car all the way back round probably two-thirds if not half of this norchley for track and we just uh can we you could see from the in-car uh just how deep he went and the car just snapped around on him and he caught the orbist here but then it snapped back on him and that that to me bruce was definitely down to slick tyres on on what is still a relatively wet and damp track the track went where left the car went left but then it went right and it had sort of two movements as it started to go away from him the second one was just the fact suddenly it was on the grass and the grass was wet and then the car whipped round when it went in front three quarter front right corner into the entire wall and then left rear corner spun around at another 90 degrees to that so frustration and disappointment and another spinner is car 100 but that's done it on the grand prix loop so sitting sideways on the track not having hit anything so that at least is good news for the pro elementary from walken horse motorsport but uh so just as the tracks getting dry you're thinking why are people spinning but that's because as joe pointed out they're out on slick tyres whereas before they've had more grip albeit going away from them oh and the long shots the there's no rear wing on bruce trantor's rather tattered and battered audi as it comes home the front corner is damaged front right hand corner rear wing obviously came off on the second point of impact with the tire ball the may need to be repaired also to the tar wall because he pushed the the strapping on the batting on the front up and certainly that audi is not running four square on the circuit joe rear suspension damage by what i can see as well bruce we've got the right rear wheel that seems to have a tall link that's become detached because it's absolutely flapping it's kind of he's getting a lot of rear-wheel steer from that right rear and that's and he's he's keeping he's keeping up with considerable fears to return to the pits uh quite quite a frantic place he's got nothing to lose the car is really extensively damaged that's going to put him that's going to just knock the number 15 audi out of contention for an overall win because there are people who are going to get through this without too many too much adversity and that's just a that's just an overwhelming amount of adversity there that's hit the number 15. it really is and that was a car that was you know one of the likely well i thought one of the strongest quartets mentioned rudy robins frank stipler who started it and dries van tour and dries was an absolute star in this car before as he has been in any audi he's driven for the past you know five years or so still only 23 years old but i'm afraid that's a little bit of experience coming his way what happens when you try slick tyres on a circuit that's still drying out you know what bruce there there isn't a textbook on it you can't get the textbook out and say what do i do when i go out because the track is different at various points and you can have as much concern as much awareness as you as as you can have and teresantor is here north slouch he's very experienced he's very experienced in driving in europe in all sorts of weather conditions as well and you know what you can't really apportion blame to him it's it's just pure bad luck that that car uh just found a bit of damn truck just you as he i presume just as he went on the brakes the car went out of balance and you know another part of the track he might have gotten away with the breathiness just you mentioned it earlier bruce there is very little if not almost zero amount of run-off you go off the track here you're gonna hit the barrier hard so conditions have been dry and the track had been drying into these van tours taken a tumble and uh really strike that car from the record but take it out of lead contention still a bit of miss joe hanging out over the circuits over the trees but it's above tree height at the moment which is definitely an improvement from earlier but any chance uh looking around the circuit to see a dry line it is there but it's only the width of the car and then there's a greasy bit beyond and i think dries just traveled up from the dry-ish part onto the slightly wetter part and simply there was no turning in in those fast sequence of corners just before they then start climbing the hill up towards well it's effectively i think it was close to tile he went in before they get to the section to take you up to the caracciola carousel andresa's made it back towards the pits and uh that's it's not the drive of shane but it's just it is one of those things but unfortunately it's a slow one oh good news though just heard from race control no good news if you're a fan of teammates the hout racing team no further action being investigated the number four mercedes the race leader for an unsafe release from its previous pit stop but uh no damage at but in fact just no penalties coming their way yeah i'm glad i'm glad to hear that bruce i would have hate to see regulations and politics intervening in what's turning into a very uh good race um the current leader you mentioned the number four leading you are right bruce uh because the number one rover racing bmw does in fact also also pit stop um and the interval the gap between first and second at the moment is only 31 seconds and we're still waiting for edwards to pit in the number one let me just uh have a quick check on how far he's into the stint he's not into the stink back by very much no he hasn't but what what time does he remember that sorry joe that had a long pit stop didn't it the number one was it the sister yeah uh that was the sister shorter one yeah yeah we just need to know what tires but the last lap was eight minutes 54 for for john edwards in the number one rover racing bmw the fastest lap of the race so far was put in by another bmw but that was shoot up motorsport jessie crone we were worried before the race that daxia logan this inimitable little charger wasn't going to qualify but it was loud into the race slaps in qualifying with 12 minutes whereas the fastest drivers were four minutes faster but the driver racing under the pseudonym of doom has had a little spin on the grand prix loop but gets going all over again but uh you know it is a splash of color a little bit not a very fast one but it's very much past the 24 hours of nurburgring running in 108th position let's get back to uh just what we think might be on that number one car i don't think bruce that the number one when it did pit and it pitted um it pitted uh three laps ago and that's how long it's been out on its current stint and i'm not sure whether he was able to go on to intermediates at the time that won't be as bad as being all wet that's kind of perhaps certainly the tighter half i'm sure um um greece van tour would have preferred to have been on intermediate at the point when he lost control of the audi um but we're not sure um just what tires the number one is it's getting it's it's mixed up now bruce we've got the cars very early in their spins their current stints and we've got uh the the lead the leader at the war but the number one as ah and as i say that he's coming for pits he has so again yeah i was just trying i think we were both trying to do the same thing there work out did he really preempt going on to sleep but the answer was he hadn't done slow enough laps and uh though his previous pit stop was two two laps before uh number four and nine nine eleven came to make their pitch john edwards clearly went out from intermediates i think his intermediates were going off as the slicks were getting up to speed but for the drivers on slick sir metzger and christensen who's come in from with the 911 porsche so metzker stays out in the help racing team mercedes number four we know that's on slicks it's now got uh i don't know how many laps two laps under its belt on slicks christensen reports the pits in the 911 or has he no it's now flashed up he hasn't come into the pit i beg your pardon it was simply uh screen changed and glitched but he just put in a very quick lap indeed took nearly four and a half seconds after the race leader out of mexico apologies for thinking he dived into the pits he's come through in second place but he's halved his disadvantages down to three seconds flat between first which is metzger and second which is christensen giving chase in the 911 grello porsche the cars light up with a dark red don't they bruce on the on the timing screen well that one that that lit up with a kind of a pink cerise uh beautiful cerise pink and that was because it just focuses the fastest lap of this race so far even at 35.5 is that and the car behind it the shiver motorsport bmw jesse crawl at the wheel everybody putting in green lap times eight minutes and 37 so just two seconds off that fastest lap the number one who came in and i i think that was immediate tires that came off that number one that would explain why he's at the pit after only what i think would be now four laps in that in that stint i'm just going to check that actually let's get rid of that just talking just as we were talking about him he dove into the pits and uh and that one was um that was that was the fourth lap of that room so as the drivers and teams are trying to decide what are the best tires to have at the moment oh another new fastest lap by the way kelvin van der linde audi sport team lamp car number 29 that is down the order but don't forget that started from pit exit i mean change target before the start of the race itself kelvin van der linde in 11th place now but eight minutes 32 and the times are really starting to come down for those who fitted slicks and i'm going to keep an eye on the pace of manual metzker the race can he rebalance and pull slightly away from michael christensen yes he can christensen took four and a half seconds out of the race leader last time around and this time around mexico's responding maybe took a little bit longer to get confidence on those slick tyres yeah it will do it'll be it would certainly be i mean this whole race has been a voyage of discovery um i'm thinking uh bruce that we've probably seen the retirement of the number 15 and i'm just going off the body language of the uh crew around that number 15. they've inspected the car after that heavy hit it was greek fountain remember in the uh in the in the audi are it of the phoenix team and uh slapping the backs and and hands on shoulders and shaking of heads going on in the number 15 pit there i'm not sure if that means just reading their body language levels that that is that card done and unrepairable well well padres fanta who was a winner here two years ago that's over and out but frank stipler he's entered in a couple of the cars so he can move across to the number 11 phoenix racing car when which he shares with nikki team kim lewis schramm and mikaylee beretta but so a gutted reese frantour i'm sure you're right about the analysis of the the sort of resignation in the pit lane but these things happen most notably on the nordschleife oh how's this for a fast lap sammy matty trogan last year he was simply a sim raiser who done a little bit of uh circuit rating a little bit of rallying he just banged in an eight minutes 28 second lap he's down in 18th place walking horse motorsport number 102 but that is way quicker than the best of the rest three seconds clear so the track is drying and the drivers are really starting to attack great lap from the flying fin and it's going to get quicker and quicker until we start seeing uh lap times beginning with plateau bruce we're going to see green lap times up on the timing screens every lap by and we are going to see purple lap times which denote the fastest lap of the race and that's just going to continue coming down grand prix strike a part of this course looking completely dry there are certain parts of the nordschleife that are showing damp patches on crucial parts where you know you need to be breaking and turning in and with it's been a multi-class race as well that adds into the complexity of things and when you're getting offline you've got to get yourself onto the wet and damp part of the track on slick tyres to get by perhaps a slower class car that can prove to be a bit tricky yeah well there's going to be a slight hiatus on really fast lap times because there's code 60s at cannon hearts and the corner proceeding that metzger's felt so um however fast they are in the other sectors this nine sector 25.378 kilometer lap that part necessarily halfway around the lap will be a slower part than planned but uh incidents need to be cleaned up i still want to see if there's a barrier uh repair where of course we saw dries fanta off about 10 minutes ago he hit it hard but largely it was the um the belting the sponsorship on it in front of the tire wall that got pushed up that would like to see another shot to work out if they're still having to repair the barriers there i think they might have got away with it let's hope they do bruce um just looking at the weather that the satellite hasn't changed we're still in a period of dry however um we've still got a possibility of fog being created because we've got a lot of damp and uh and wet foliage around this area of the uh eiffel running and as we get towards the evening that can produce a bit of fog as we get even cooler into the night with a bit of what's it called weather inversion is it called a heat inversion that can create fog from the exactly the cold air runs down the side of the valley to the bottom yeah above and the wall mirror is the bit that becomes fog yes and we we've seen that so many times so for now though bruce we can concentrate on a pretty consistent track and some good laps coming through we've still got uh recovery going on uh at various points but uh well i fronted the train which is settled down i think yeah well in answer to my own question they are repairing the barrier section maybe just the time putting the tire stacks back into position where dries van tour went off and did the damage that we think has taken his number 15 team phoenix audi out of the race that's a slow zone that is being fixed yeah that that's out of me metzgerfeld in towards through the left-hander and towards callanhard the right-hander um it's uh through a left and then a right and then you head downhill to calendar and uh for siphon um that's where that barrier repair is being uh adopted there they are repairing that barry after that very heavy hit from the number 50. it did uh it did make quite a mess so that's going to be okay but also joe just to clarify at the time we were surmising it might have been further around the lap more like closter tile but mexico's felt is definitely the place that uh the belgian racer went off a car we haven't talked about a huge amount joe has been schubert motorsport with their lone bmw m6 jesse crone driving it in third place putting in some very very decent lap times he's he's almost a minute down on the race leader but that team has worked its way bit by bit up the order yeah white bmw m6 with uh blue flashes at the front black pack and yellow ones at the side but importantly for them they do have a race winner in their car alexander sims was in the winning rover racing m6 last year but he's jumped out of that he's saying with jens klingman steph dusseldorf two drivers who know m6 is just so so super well jessica that's a strong lineup and they've kept their nose clean which is what you need to do in a race like this in conditions like we've had [Music] you know what bruce that is your primary objective when you go out there in a race like in fact i think that's your primary objective at the nurburgring 24 hours you know whatever the weather is it's about staying out of trouble and not creating adversity that you then have to react to and uh and i think that's a prime example of what you've just described of the schubert motorsport bmw moving up the third overall just under a minute i think off second by the looks of things but things beginning to heat up now at the front of the field as the number four goes right onto the tail of the toilet another 9-1-1 goes right under the tail of the number four uh mercedes uh and battles being battles out there on the track developing all the time and battles for position in fact well it's what we want there is still you were talking about a little bit of mist coming down it's uh certainly looking the far end of the dotting here or the near end if you're starting the straight it's still misty over towards nurburg village but uh the track is dry and the drivers have decided they're going to have a three by three battle for fourth place and let's just take a look at the protagonist there of course up front we've got uh metzger from christensen from crow but marco seyfried plenty of company he's got maxine martin in the frickazelli porsche the kcmg porsche's in that mix as well and it's great to see as uh the conditions become a little bit easier for the drivers we've got some fierce fierce racing dirk verner in the chasing pack he's eight he's got nikki team just in front of him and said conor felipe just up the road and as i say that dirk verner pulls into the pits so some people were some drivers were hanging on with a set of tyres that were increasingly the wrong ones to have and others are getting those slicks really really to come to life just remember the fastest laps so far eight minutes twenty eight point one seconds last time around sammy matty trogan for walking horse motorsport he's clearly on the slick ones so as verner pulls into the pits that battle uh just ahead of him in territory within the kcmg porsche and it was nikki team in the phoenix audi that went by both of those cars and into seventh spot as they crossed the line there and uh it looked like he pulled a gap i said i pulled a gap it was half a second across the line as the audi led the porsche and these two were absolutely well three were were there with the the verna porsche involved as well these three were north of killing looking like the ten laps sprint race as they came across the line with nikki's team looking we'll check the gap next time through the first sector uh but uh across the line it was half a second but to me it looked like team had the better of the two and was about to uh start eating a little bit of a cushion yeah and the other battle that's excellent at the moment is uh fourth fifth and sixth marcus seaford hoover motorsport in the uh 23 blue and yellow 911 gt3r the frickadeli number 31 with maxi martin and conor de felipe three of them covered by oh under a second so that's fabulous that battle for fourth place at the moment up front though as you pointed out it's really close indeed under a second between manuel metzger leading the way the number four hrt mercedes and 911 michael christensen the dane giving chase as you'd expect him to do in the mantai racing porsche yeah that's that that's not over is it you know what bruce i i can kind of see that uh mercedes porsche battle uh being that we're still going to be talking about this tomorrow afternoon we've said it before at the nurburgring 24 hours you kind of you can't i'm reluctant to always say that in other places but the nurburgring 24 hours it's it's just a game of of nerves in the game of uh it's a game of chess of just staying there and just keeping to a piece albeit a very very quick piece but just keeping to the piers keeping out of the way and it seems that the teams at the front the uh the hrt mercedes and the mantai team have maintained the lead of this race from the very outset and through various uh periods of very important tire chances the seat will have made the right calls at the right time and that's why they're still at the front and the other thing you really have to try so super hard not to do is transgress pit lane speed limits it is just it makes us weak time and time again when drivers have a really really good run one three three is the latest casting ping for that that's the v6 that's production class porsche 981 over xavier la madrid auctioneer of fabulous road cars and nicholas abril 30 second penalty for transgression of pit lane speed limit it's such a frustration battle with maxine martin in fifth and the fourth place car 23 of uh c3 super motorsport it's uh against frica delhi and they're coming upon the uh barrier repair at metzgerfeld they'll then get back on it when they clear that and they're nose to tail it's the blue colored hoover motorsport leading the red and white livery tricodelli car i do love red and white for uh obvious reasons bruce you've heard me um but they're they're now chasing down towards uh vice president they'll go through the section just getting past some back markers through the sweeping three apexed turn of the siphon downhill towards that tight breaking area through the left hander then they'll go on towards x muller where it's a very similar corner configuration sweeping right-hander into the breaking area for a double apex left and then when they come out of that they'll start going uphill now when it's to run down to bergdorf where the cars are now it's still the schubert car was crawling at the wheel sorry the hoover car with c3 uh at the wheel of it from maxine martin in the fricken delhi absolutely nowhere to have a go into third work heavy breaking down a couple of gears maintaining the speed because it's now flat out all the way through this section now and i'm i'm presuming it's flat out bruce because we've got a pretty dry track so it's absolutely flat out before we start uh thinking about the tight right-hander uh just before the carousel through across the top and again absolutely you've got to thread the needle here you've got to get your turning absolutely spot on the car maximizing its speed heading towards the right-handed now and still no change as we continue to monitor their progress on the track and we've got another incident with the number 71 looking like it's come to a halt just before 12 inch france yes yellow zone it's troubling france your spot on there joe yeah the number 71 it is bruce it's the pro sport aston martin this is a big disappointment for the aston martin fans that have been running pretty well in the 10 class that's the gt4 fia gt forecast cars but again it's a chance for the drivers to make sure they adhere to the rules when they go through now the gap between first and second was 1.6 seconds at the start of the lap michael christensen or like the race leader manual mexico had to slow down for those zones but sometimes you can gain a tenth of a second here or there or lose it in at those moments so it's up to both of these pro drivers to know exactly when to nail the throttle uh coming out of a slow zone still that battle rages though the hubermatt sport porsche leading the fricatelli porsche it's blue and yellow that leads red and white at the moment and these cars have been absolutely glued to one another they're just coming out of i think heading towards the flanks garden area of the track which is another section yeah they're into plants garden now just sweeping to the left through the left to the right over the the rise there cars going very light through the right-hander towards schwalben's france and then on towards the mini carousel absolutely nothing in it there they go they've got to slow down though because it's uh they're entering a yellow zone just actually that's where the 71 uh car is being recovered so it's kind of press the pause button on this battle but one of the difficult things joe i was talking about how you have to be right on it so when you get out of a slow zone to accelerate away but maxine martin all but overtook marco's seafood there because the hoover as they came up on a slow zone it's the aston martin being towed back to the end of the lap and he got he got the nose of the red and white freakadely porsche halfway up the side with the huber porsche in front so nearly a transgression there so it's it's reacting to slow zones as you approach them and then when you leave them he was caught out slightly wasn't either they're into the sweeping right-hander that's all important for the run down the uh dottinger hall and it we will see some slip streaming coming into effect it's the 23 ahead of the 31 down the dotting hall they are at the moment as we look at the leaders on the grand prix striker that's where they are on the tracker and they are north to till all stores so we really need our heads on a swivel here bruce uh i'm just monitoring the tracker here to see where the track positions are for the two battles i suppose the primary battle we need to check on is of course the leading mercedes number four being chased down by the uh the muntai racing car 9-1-1 currently on the grand prix striker heading towards the nordschleife as we speak three quarters per second is the gap between the pair of them another flash of pink at the bottom of the timing screen slow zone trolling stance that's one we've seen sorry i've got to keep the yellow flag at 177 the stefan bell off s towards the end of the lap we're having the problems in the last handful of minutes and let's hope that aston martin from pro sport can get fixed car number 71 joe reportedly at the side of the circuit it's uh guilo de marie maxine de moray alexander walker and michael hess sharing that aston martin vantage amr gt4 hopefully that can get fixed being dragged back toe back i'll drag back it's more style than dragging yeah we've got our member our aston superfan member of the collective sarah rigby who's uh just catching up with what's occurring here at the nurburgring and uh the sad news for sarah is our lawn aston martin entry has encountered some problems and being recovered back with the pits awfully like bruce says we'll be able to get that car back into this race uh still doing the barry repair i can tell you bruce that's the update on the metzgerfeld slow zone and as far as i can gather there aren't any other slow zones out on the circuit at the moment so just the one and that's down in mexico and and i would think bruce that all of our competitors will be aware of that section of the track now and be very wary as they head down through odd enough horst and towards mexico still actually a code 60 zone at schwalben's fans just waiting that's just now being cleared sorry just being clear as you look at the tickers they move to a different color and on so just i'd really love to see a lap where everyone can go for it without slow zones or interruptions because i want to see what sort of pace they can actually achieve without interruption or slow zones on these slick tyres a few laps into the their runs on slips now some went out on intermediates and very quickly regretted it including the number one bmw rover racing uh m6 that's down in ninth position don't forget before getting the tire choice wrong they were running in third position overall so they were the ones that lost out by just guessing wrongly let's say well the fog continues to come we still can't see the castle bruce from the paddock and uh that by all intended for muscle to confirms as well so thank you marcel um that fog is coming not uncommon but not an uncommon feature of the nurburgring in fact jackie shew's greatest formula one win was uh 1968 here in complete foggy heart to see conditions uh visibility down to about 100 meters and it was one of jackie stewart's finest grand prix i think he still cut classes that as his greatest win here i think joe i think he also i think he almost passes one of his top three wins overall but was he not racing with his right wrist in a cast that seems to ring a bell for me but the drive it was brain and fog and everything and he won that event by the best part of a lap think about that a lap around here yeah yeah and that's when there wasn't as much run-off try imagining that [Music] so 1968 let me just uh quickly check the margin of victory for jackie stewart the grand prix of deutschland and europa oh he won by four minutes and 3.2 seconds over graham hill lotus 49b the lifetime was about eight minutes bruce well it would have been long fastest lap of the race yeah because it was wet and foggy yeah stuart nine minutes 36 wow incredible i think some of the people who are watching are still drying out their camping gear yeah i think so and that and that was the 1968 race my memory yes it was yeah yeah well like i say the the fog not quite as nasty the conditions here as it was in 1968 but uh the fog becoming ever present as the actual track surface certainly beginning to evolve and becoming consistently dry fog doesn't usually create uh many issues with regards to creating a wet track bruce it just keeps everything cool now another thing absolutely sojo another thing you always have to look out for is cars that might have spun in front of you but at a certain point around the circuit some of the front-running cars were confronted just a few moments ago by lots of debris scattered left and right across the track and uh though they managed to knit their way past it including maxi gertz and uh kelvin van der linde running 10th and 11th they will snake your way through can't tell you who's dropped it or where precisely but getting some of that wedged under your car or or the debris maybe giving you a cut tyre you know undoes all the good yeah that can cause problems and uh so like we uh we've seen so many times it's sometimes very very difficult to just change directions unlike you so like when you drive to the shops and you see something in the road the cars are absolutely committed to the line they're on they're full chat and absolutely committed it's not just as easy as it as these boys and girls make it look by just changing direction they're absolutely on the edge indeed they are but for now they're registering the fact that they can see where they're going they can feel the track through their tyres and uh now as we approach the very end it's just coming up to eight o'clock central european time it's time for a handover for me bruce jones and joe bradley it's time to duck out and watch it without speaking for a while and hand over to john hindhoff and peter snowden ready to take over so that's it from us welcome the new crew at seven o'clock uh actually bruce start eight i'm sorry you've just uh wished another hour away i suspect that for some people that would be the case another racing hour starts right here but not before we've done the hourly update and as it's at the top of an odd hour we'll start with the 18 category and that is being laid by the number 13 in 44th position the dodge viper for alternative fuels a few cars had a goal but that push could cover the buyer fuel cars haven't seen the mustang yet leading that category sp 10 sp 10 is the huffle racing by pokemon support bmw m4 gt4 the number seven in 34th position xp8 that is going to be careful here because there's an eight and an eight t uh and of course i'm looking at the wrong one at nobel racing with toyota tires that's the lexus rcf oh dear what's happened to the gt tyres 53 which was racing earlier on i should check that for you in a wee moment 54 car then in 55th position at leading sp8 sp 3t is the andreas golden driven max chrysler racing vw golf gti tcr number 10 car in 37 a creditable a 37 at position sp4 is the next category and that is one of the all the bmw's the 325i 390 that is the number 325 car running in 89th position in v6 team all racing porsche cayman s is running 71st for the 1 3-2 car in andy's in the lead in v5 uh that category is the adrenaline motorsport porsche cayman 981 uh and that is the one for one car in 98th position in the fall am i going here i need to go down a little bit for that one my apologies oh there we are e93 25 the number 151 car is in 84th position v2t uh that's i do need to go down another ph4 there's the mouse gun the prepared better handoff and scroll down at the bottom before you needed to uh v2t seeing on my screen there i'll come back to that one [Music] yeah that's not showing uh and cup s i don't think we've got oh a good five that is excuse me i've been more than writing and that is the 61st position car just entered the pit actually the 890 bmw at c [Music] cs the m2 so now i'm going to be on a mission for the next hour or so to find out what's happened to v2t next i will do the other half and at the sharp end of the field in sp9 of course leading the race it is the bilstein b bilstein efg i've said that so many times still leading out over the rest of the fields so just after seven o'clock in the evening and peter snowden joins me back in the global broadcast center on a track that is looking uh damn site driver than it did when we left a couple of hours ago sorry yeah exactly right is it the same i'm not sure it's the same race at all actually i think i think uh bruce and joe have been there towards mostly entirely different um it is certainly changed and everything's changed at the top as well uh in some ways apart from that uh pesky um we've got office cars in the pits now we just heard the freaking dela car quickly there but the um hrt mercedes at the front now manti porsche in second with christensen metzger in reverse over there at the wheel the shubert motorsport bmw m6 in third place with the philippe in the rover racing car that was the defending champion and the whole system that was started by nikki katzberg uh sorry that sorry that car's down in seventh place my apology that's the other rover racing bmw that's up in and for best of the 98 car the number one car john edwards at the wheel that car now is down in seventh place so all a bit of a change right up front so mercedes porsche front two then a brace of bmw's uh audi porsche and uh uh lutronic also a little bit further down there as well let me get a whole group together we have however got 15 16th and 17th places uh in the pits at the moment that's the hoover motorsport bmw porsche my apologies frickadeli porsche and the falcon horse bmw trying to reverse order and got my makes mixed up there my manufacturers [Music] so um we've seen quite a lot um going on in the first hour r2 the the second bit there that uh bruce and joe had uh become had some uh barrier damage all sorts but the track drying out um consistently now but uh i think joe it was that was just mentioning our colleague joe bradley a few minutes ago that uh the fog is now starting to appear now it doesn't dampen the track as joe just said but it does of course affect visibility it sounds pretty obvious but uh it depends on how much it comes down we are in the eiffel mountains and we we were talking uh yesterday what you guys were talking yesterday during the qualifying sessions about what was going on at spa which uh is only about sort of 60 kilometers away um and it's often uh it's maybe not an exact reference with a little bit of a guide what's going on there but the rain they've had at spa is that the entire meeting that's running there this weekend has been cancelled uh to the point that uh the track at the source the corner there the track has been lifted by 50 centimeters five exactly sending five i mean you need parking centers for that well you did it pretty hard if you reversed it wouldn't you wouldn't it just um so it can it can happen and we we said at the very beginning of this image john at the top of the show that you can't you can't call a winner you can't call but you can't even try but the one thing that we know will have uh the biggest winner of anything taking place in the north life is always always the weather and uh bruce and i comment on this when we cover this uh for the radio limited when on the nls events and they're just a four hour race this is 24 hour race as it has a greater greater effect as you said multi multi-classes um that is another element of the 24-hour racing uh we saw some uh images that were able to talk about with um some of the faster cars coming through past the slower stuff and that's the speed differentials was absolutely phenomenal and that's where you've got to hope for in a faster class car that the the driver in front stays where it is looking in his mirrors and it's uh we always say it quite easily that it's the uh it's always the the faster cars responsibility to get around a slower car that's a it's an ethic of the track of track driving whether it be a simple track day a grand prix le mans 24 hour here at the nobel ring it's always a faster car's responsibility to get around the slower car [Music] but what you need then is you need some compliance you need some consistency from that and you need the compliance of the slower driver being experienced enough or disciplined enough more importantly that when you do have let's just say in this case an sb9 category car i a gt3 car and you're in a a tcr or a an m 240 bmw whatever class it may be a cup class car further down the field you've got to stay where you are you've got to stay online do your own thing and let the others get around you and it's a it's quite quite daunting and tempting i'm suggesting to get out of the way talking about tcr cars uh the 113 golf driven by uh vault and that's the vulcan golf seven tcr car that's got a a lot of damage front left and front right so that's uh that looks like it's been off and rattle against barry and tap the front and tap the back then so the side slapped itself against a barrier someone there i'm guessing it's also got the front left tyre uh disintegrating or delaminating quite excessively um so i'm not sure which has been causing effect there but that's the 91 golf seven from the tcr category that's going to be a slow slow journey back to the pits i would say that's been in the barrier left-hand side yet as you said whether the tire put them there or a vice versa because there's damage at the rear on the left hand side as well if i think he's got a rear left puncture he has double whammy to get it back to the pits front right sorry left left front and left rear uh the left front completely diamond in fact it's the outer side wall that's all that's remaining on that car and the left rear is going down just look at the bodywork damage there so quite surprisingly it looks like it's clouded the front left then kicked the back or kissed the barrier with the left and just taking some of the bodywork off there so that'll be a long long trip back to the pits that for the number 91 car it will make its way back at the pace it's going there's no smoke no damage in terms of that's not creating any further but of course it's now another uh hazard if you like for other cars approaching there will be obviously appropriate flags out there you could see the opel manta out there the foxtail caster there they're one the fan favorites great to see that still out on track but the uh the tcr golf will will proceed back with with as much caution as you can much pace as he can to get it back in one piece but of course that is gonna make life interesting for other cars approaching just not what you want a slow moving vehicle on the track but it's it's part and parcel of the north life especially the 24-hour races around here so um not quite the order we were expecting at the front here still the the defending champions uh the rover racing bmw that was started to save by nikki katzberg the number one car proudly carrying that number one from winning the race uh last year uh currently in seventh position yep as it stands at the moment some 58 seconds off the leading gap is between metzger and christiansen in the mercedes uh team hrt mercedes over christensen's manti porsche is 8.7 seconds we've got some 20 hours and 18 minutes left to go so almost almost getting sort of four hours in ktm crossbow into the pits that's the 110 car that's coming for i think look for a regular pit stop there that's merle bringing that's the tycoon racing uh ktm crossbow that's in the gt4 class uh 19 laps completed and that's uh that's brought itself into the pits there and just around that's that's in that 61st place at the moment but uh the 60th and 62nd place cars there so the novel racing lexus and the that's the rtf alexis and the fx performance bmw 330i those three all coming into the pits together so 60th 61st and 62nd into the pits together uh track now clear at uh arenberg and uh that's good to have that clear nine and a half seconds the gap's gone out it was eight point seven and lasted up for our leaders and our tenth place man the maxi gertz brings the get speed mercedes into the pitch as well 22 laps completed by the i was going to say the top 10 cars is actually top nine cars and right on cue had uh in fact well technically it has now because mueller's now take 22 laps the dacia logan still continued round had a couple of uh rotations as david colville would say and this is a number 110 car uh with uh with uh one of our favorite drivers at the world of that doom i wasn't going to do it so i wasn't going to mimic it i wasn't going to go that well i've got school you'll see exactly your lead you're allowed to do that so i just i just sort of gave you the intro and thought you might you might not pick up on it but you did but uh that's that's talking i had a couple of rotations you say and on one lap i think it was all about sort of half an hour ago in the definitions on the grand prix loop but uh it's still out there running so um a whole clutch into the pizza moment in fact 10th 11th 10th through to 14th in the pit so that's uh uh gert's raging bauman bastian goonon in mercedes porsche and uh [ __ ] all but for all mercedes but one actually so that's the uh maxwell and gertz and the get speed mercedes followed by ragging it in the falcon motorsports [ __ ] and then the four mercedes in a road the 10q racing cars and hrt and get speed of um bam and bastion and goon on uh great to see the viper still going out it's one of the older cars in the series but it's also um is that your patreon arrived someone's ready to turn it back off on a break and forgot something back on again my apologies uh yes the dodge viper out there the gt3 viper there over shall at the wheel of that it's one of the last vipers but i thought they'd stop racing those these days but great great to see it out there in the 24 hour running on the alternate fuel class they have over the years um messed around with various fibers uh and sometimes only run eight cylinders out of ten but they're back i think to the full tailed cylinder car there so kevin ester leading by 4.3 seconds back to eric stultz so that at least has remained the same with mark tomczyk behind the wheel of the third place car now uh so they've swapped positions since we were last talking to you it is rsl underscore studio rsln24 if you want to get rid of us get rid of us uh well actually you know um if you want to talk to us metzger and michael christensen driving the leading two cars they've both been out for six laps jesse cron was out a lot longer they had a very short run actually just a two lap run in that schubert motor sport cut five since his last quick stop making team fourth [Music] that's how it stands [Music] so our gap we talked about there was nine seconds just uh is now down to 5.1 seconds so uh christensen and the manti porsche on a bit of a charge there trying to erode that gap down to the hrt mercedes in front the number four car driven by metzger and christian doing a fantastic job i would still say that in the mantai of them they've got a they've got a bit of a record a bit of a history around this this circuit let's say the least and certainly in 24-hour races so i would say that there's a good opportunity for that car uh still there 5.6 seconds it is i'm just going to look at the sector times and that's uh the fastest car on the circuit currently is uh interesting the number one car i drove head was back in the rover racing m6 bmw it's back up to sixth place and uh that's just set its fastest first sector and by some as well uh a good half second that's only one sector i know what he said to three my apologies um but just keeping we'll keep an eye on that one i'm surprised that's uh not back up in there with the pointy end of it as it were [Music] so the we've got one of the uh of course one of the fricatilla cars that was uh in the uh drop right down the order whilst it was on john and sorry joe and bruce's watch the 91 golf has made it back to the pits looking decidedly decidedly second hand i think is probably the best way of describing that golf at the moment but it's uh uh it's front left tyre as i said just the the inner inner side wall and tread have gone completely no tread but where the tread would be if it were to slick if you know what i mean that bit of contact patch has gone completely out a bit is there still and the the rear tire done almost exactly the same looking uh like a deflated kid's swimming but it was an intermediate tyre that was on the back there so um i might explain that so driver out and that car will be popped on it's on its jacks i'm sure and popped into the into its box to have some work done that's got quite a bit of work required on that there's a it's actually not as bad as it looks it's uh the front left is it's a lot of it is just tire damage i think and it's it's it's body work she's looking at this i love your boyish enthusiasm just just just come with the happy optimist uh but you know in inner wings and all that sort of look it's body work that's come off the mostly so as you said i'm not we're not sure john we speculated whether it was inspected he tried not to speculate as to what was causing effect there in terms of the tyre uh but i wonder if he's just had a i had to run a run off the track somewhere because of a tyre deflating and then he's kissed the barrier that's taking the bits of body work off it but uh the bodywork isn't there for them to put it back on and have a good old tank tape put on it to get it through so unless they've got spare panels for that car that's uh possibly going to continue the end of the race that the headlamp was there but not operational uh we needing that in the next few hours uh the grello car the number 911 manti porsche with uh pedaling by christensen at the moment uh the gap dropping down now it's uh we're talking about 4.3 seconds uh for the lead over the hrt mercedes [Music] say manta i've got a just just a little bit of history at this so you can say the least especially in this the 24 hour races so they'll be keen to establish uh i'm surprised they have sort of put it up at the front there already because that's what they like to get there really quite quickly and then kind of manage the race from there but uh their efforts to lead the race outright consistently has been thwarted by a team hrt with mexico at the wheel county in the g3 and uh the schubert motorsport m6 is now into the pits this is the third place car the number 20 that's now into the pits 23 laps completed by our top three runners to say shooting possible car just uh tripping that uh transponders you like in the pit lane and we also have uh yes that's the chrome car the number 20 car that's entered into the pits uh and i think it's just being rotated i'm sure making sure it wasn't rotated into its box but of course it's been rotated on its go jacks to its 45 degree angle for uh refueling just coming up to eight minutes short of the 20 hours to go which just sounds quite ridiculous it's uh effectively uh this is the one the races that were the nls races that bruce and i cover for uh radio show it would be eight minutes off the end of a race um so four hour races for the rest of the season but it's a this is a 24-hour race it's hard to get your head around it sometimes just quite what that is uh your drivers get a rest although you don't really get that much of a rest you're always on alert or you get a little bit of kick but it's not quite the same thing it's a it is a 24-hour marathon but of course the car is a bit that goes through and does the whole 24 hours yes it changes tires and obviously get refueled but the poor old car has to do the whole 24 hours and it's uh we were talking a bit earlier on about how 15 20 years ago it was it was still a reliability uh race where the the cause if you had an issue or attrition or whatever something broke down that was actually just kind of accepted it's now completely reversed as john and i were talking about earlier that you you you don't the cars don't break down it's almost always certainly i'd say well into the 90 percent of more probably of outside influence that causes a car uh to retire i damage tire you know failure punctures things like that whatever contact whatever it may be there's a whole bunch multiple but the cars are so reliable these days which is a testimony to engineering and and development of engineering and race cars which transpires down to road cars of course uh through this uh um this series of racing racing is development exactly what it is but the cars are now just so reliable we expect them to do a 24-hour race and in fact we're almost surprised when they don't if something breaks it's just it's just unheard of which the the other side of that the net effect of that is of course that the racing um has become not so much of an issue regarding looking after the vehicle it used to be 15 20 plus years ago you had to look after the vehicle a lot more these days they've got so many systems on board and i think it was i think it was thursday actually when john opened the show we had an interview with klaus backler and he was just saying that it's it's it's a series of sprints now that's exactly what it is the cars are driven virtually flat out each of their stints there's no looking after the car being kind to the gearbox or doing this or i'm not suggesting they're the opposite and cruel but they're so reliable they can just run right through to the end of that and we're still surprised uh when they if anything happens we've also got the vulcan horse bmw into the pits i think uh just looking that was uh it's not up on my timing screen but i think i'm sure i've just just seen that there the falcon hall's car into the pits they must be well done uh they it is it's actually it's a 101 card that was one that was that was the david pitt car that was delayed earlier on mostly yeah we've been bent up at the wheel so the 36 so we yeah um so yeah they have my eyes not deceiving me that they hit the barrier um in the first few laps didn't there that was the yeah the issue there two laps down that car now on 21 laps but uh as i said we're in five minutes time we've still got 20 hours to go good to see our ktms out there the 110 car that had a few issues a little bit earlier on but good to see that uh that plugging away still and uh very soon we're gonna start getting into a change of another change of condition for the circuit not so much just to track conditions but of course uh the next big factor we've had we've had the rain we've had a nice dry start we've had the damp we've had the bit where we've gone from slicks to wets to intermediate so back to slicks again uh and now just to add in another layer we're going to have fairly soon or fairly short an extra short while a change of light which adds just a yet another dimension um some drivers uh john was alluding to this yesterday when we're doing the uh the top qualifying the tq and the shootout that some because it was uh we delayed for quite a while while it was precipitating shall we say um some drivers relish those conditions and some in the wet and some drivers relish the dark as well there are a few um weirdos and i would say that because i classify himself as one of those that enjoys the wet and the dark uh in a racing car and i'm not quite sure why i think it was the wrong the wrong ecu anything or wrong genes uh and now now we've got now we've got a vibration very very very easy viper he's got a car sideways it looks like is it not it's a chairman it's a number yeah 87 that car is sideways on the track this is up at the top again we've seen so many incidents in the same place in the seven one eight porsche seven one eight came in and uh uh john the stephan brunner think there's front end damage to that car i think that's beat off and the barriers can come back again and that's where it's resided just uh looking at some damage on the side of the track and i just wonder if that's what's happened it's uh now if this one we had issues earlier the laps or coming off the dotted hall through a tear garden and he's but he's ruled it's ruled the car actually went over it was over on driver's right great avoidance by the viper and straight on clips the curve hits the wall one side and then the other and it's been over at least once so right at the end of tier garden and i think that might have ruled twice snowy actually yeah it did uh the is it tear garden uh yeah it's right at the end of the lap i think um just coming out from underneath the bridge that's what oh i was at the end of the foxhole heading up to abner yeah sorry my apologies ah no i was right the first time it's tiago uh what was going with your first instinct i think um no it is teargarten the trees are looking uh particularly well in leaf this year uh the car has ruled off the circuit but it has been upside down so a nasty moment there for that uh porsche stefan branner sharing with ernst three from greenville to another munich based driver andrea schlafitzel and this has caught up the leaders awful lot of [Music] porsche bits on the road to drivers right at the end of the lap that's going to take a bit of clearing up but it's going to require a oh hit the bump just wrong kicked it out so coming up the hill to the breaking area the first left you don't break there but there's a little ridge in the road and that just kicked the back end out which pushed him wide to the right-hand side that clipped the curb he's already sliding with the back end going out to the right car turning to the left that kind of pulled him into the inside wall on drivers left flipped the car over and in the whilst it was rolling it rolled all the way back to the other side and clipped the other barrier well it's back on the wheels and on it let's hope you say it's gone over that bump and it's just crazy basically snap oversteer hasn't it yes exactly that's it but unfortunately it's flicked it on to the curb just a little past there's a little rise just before the first of the left hand is coming into tear gut and that's pushed him wide he's hit the curb on the right hand side which just speeded him across into the arm core and started the rule which then pushes him into the right hand side and then he's rolled a bit further and ended back up on his wheels almost at the end of the arm core on the left-hand side john edwards uh immediately coming past one of the cars there where the green flag was that is a big big role there and just goes to say what we said before and john about the the narrowness of this circuit the the lack of width and the lack of runoff as well if it were a grand prix part of the circuit there and that happened it had just caught it it just been like moments and uh you know a little bit of a pucker up and carry on with it unfortunately the track's so narrow there hasn't gotten away with it and also of course it does mean that they're gonna have to put out the uh put out the yellow flags quite a long way back stand by we've come to the end of another racing hours only 20 hours still to go so let's take a look at how they stand at the top end of the field it is still bmw that is leading and they have uh done a really good job in the last few hours so conor felipe leading john edwards from sven muller in the roo-tronic racing at number three porsche then all coming into the pits fourth through to eighth manuel metzger for mercedes michael christensen for months i porsche 911 nikki team from phoenix racing gambiach audi then vandalinder for audi sport team lance number 29 then alex imperatori also uh no hasn't come across the line yet in the ship at motorsport car but i think he's just pitted if memory serves so those guys who have just pitted were seven six and eight laps in [Applause] and so they were coming to the end of their pick stop anyway now you might ask yourself dear listener and viewer why would why would those guys come in when they had another lap probably in the tank well the question is that's a slow zone at the end of the lap peter at the inordinately fast part of the circuit which isn't going away any longer so they might as well take the shorter pit stop now uh do a driver change if that's what they're going to do get service and then basically come back out again and see where they are i think that's really sensible the porsche back on its wales by the way the number 87 the ninth at the kiermann gts i think it actually landed on its wheels anyway john probably might be right quite foggy i'm going to give you a warning here now it's a ridiculous statement coming up now uh you said that ridiculously fast parts of the north cypher yes there aren't many slowly a little bit on the grand prix i'm not trying to contradict you not at all john i'm just saying it is it is a it's a roller coaster quite literally at some point never mind the altitude changes uh and that's uh it's it's caught out that uh that 79 porsche just of course to sit sure they'll pay what we were saying earlier on doesn't it about the um we were talking about that the narrow margins that there are here and we saw there i don't really think if i'm honest that stefan branner did that much wrong at that point the car just took a nasty little hop and at that point i'm not sure there's got very much you can do about it i'm saying exactly the way it goes up there and i said had that been a few moments later on the grand prix circuit had that uh change of tarmac and that surface there caused that little hop as it did and that's all it was he wasn't he wasn't offline or anything that particularly it's just a it's just caught it out uh it's it's literally it's almost like a bunny hop and it's exactly what it is giving it a snap oversteer and had the truck just been wider let alone and not that curb when it it bunny hopped jinked to the right and there was a curb there and it's just it's just kiss it you say it's almost like it's almost like sort of skiing on mobiles isn't it it's gone over one off another and it's it's an accumulative effect exponential and all of a sudden flip flip flip and all of a sudden perfect storm and eventually you know he's going over once or twice once you get out of sequence with those more guns perfect piece of description by peter snowden there then you're in trouble and at that point it's a pinball because uh the car's sideways at the tip of the wall it starts to roll uh and of course you're not in control nick or bastian just coming through that area of the circuit now now back on to the start finish line and carries on now a moment or two ago the fricative getting turned around by bmw number 331 and was that connection with the wall yeah it was on the inside sorry john don't mean to cut across you just you look it just clipped it and it's just done the it's turned that frickadely porsche around twice but the end of that second rotation it's gone into the barrier on the on the outside not particularly heavy but enough that it's going to make you wonder what's going to happen with another 20 hours of the road sorry 6 minutes less than 20 hours of the race to go now uh not what you need and certainly not what freakadeli were wanting uh uh double winnings the last two two rounds of nls with us and the six hours they've done right up with the front there great uh just just didn't see it coming we've talked about this time and time again haven't we john and we will continue to talk about it and i'm sure our colleagues will exactly the same but uh these uh slower-class cars it's multi-class racing you've got to hope they see you and i think in that case uh it just it looked unfortunately like they just didn't quite see the frickadely car there also and it's there and they've just ever so gently tagged it uh and it's i'd hate to say it it's a racing incident it's not like somebody's gone for a gap or somebody's trying or whatever between two peer-related classes that happens i just think that was just pure misfortune and it just got just got tagged and around it went it's a damp track and it's spinning twice and it's it's connected with the barrier so there'll be some damage on that uh on the meatball porsche there the figured early one it's not uh not their race at the moment no but there's plenty of time to go and nobody's seeing by the way that the driver of that adrenaline motorsport bmw it's a g20 car to 330 eye and it was philip uh philip lyson who is behind the wheel nobody's seeing is i've said that it's this is not deliberate but it's just not good oh in the mastermind car anti-cars just been off as well pushing far too hard with yellow yellow flags out and slippery surface flags coming out of the hats and back on the run down to fluke plats and matteo caroli has scraped the wall there was a lot of dirt on the inside of the of the corner there and he just skirted off on it but there was slippery surface flags there which might give some credibility to the the bmw that tagged the frickadeli porsche exactly exactly circuit maybe he's already having his moment and he just can't do anything about it and he's unfortunately got intact on the leading cars and he will i'm sure that's what's happening will feel awful about that but it's just it's just a change of surface again uh it's uh it's the nurburgring it's what it does you you get a little bit of period of settling down and it just says hang on i've got something else in my armory here i'm gonna throw this at you now just see what happens and that's what this place does and that's why it's such a challenge and that's why drivers and teams and fans alike just adore this circuit because it is a constant constant challenge and just when you think uh it's almost like jaws isn't it back in the 70s just when you thought it was safe it isn't and something something else occurs but uh the manti porsche there i have to say that was um if it has got away that that was a uh i was gonna say a lucky scrape was exactly what it was a scraper the barriers on the right hand side but that could have been that could have gone in any different angle than a lot more damage do you know straight away peter on something like that when you're driving the car whether you've done a bit of the tour on either the front or the back i mean with a bit of luck you'd have had the front wheels nearly turned straight down it it didn't look like that caused them too much of a problem but you've got to worry about the camber on the rear wheels on that porsche as well and whether it's just not something out of true there because this is a place you don't want any induced three-wheel steering not really no it's not any additional steering enough from the driver input the first thing that happens is that there's an expletive that you can't repeat uh certainly over the other inside your helmet that comes out if you brave you might put that on the radio to the team but probably not the second thing is you say straight away is starting to feel what's happened and often it's collateral damage and so you might if it slaps it completely sideways there and hits the rim on the end of the wheel what can happen is it might not damage the rim but it can send shock waves down that does something internally suspension arms etcetera etcetera rover racing um bmw into the pits ready for a driver change that's uh that's unless these philippe isn't it into the pits in our number 98 car yeah and that looked rather like marco vittman for my money about to get into that car as connor de philippe is already out connect helping bolt his teammate in as the team rather leisurely go to work you won't see two second pit stops here the situation is that uh there's a set pit stop time and there's plenty of time really to do tyres driver and get the fuel in oh now there's a shouting going on there in the background of the bmw team and they wanted to get the car turned around to 45 degrees and meantime the number 19 conrad car is in and i thought for a moment that was going to get pushed into the garage but it's not she's turned around on the dollies i do notice by the way that the uh the falcon tire logo that is on the bmw the vaulted horse uh sorry the uh racing car that's just come in they've put it on the it's a requirement it's they're a sponsor of the whole event uh they've put it on the louvres peter on top of the wheels and so it's there but it's almost completely uh unreadable uh for the car that's running on michelin taylor funny that isn't that yeah who'd have thought hey you'd have thunk it uh and the frigately car you know that's funny i was just watching the lap times i think there's fluid out of that car john yeah i think there is and who did we decide uh that was was that the 31 car you should be able to check on the uh the tracker and see if it's stopped there pete um cairoli is still running after tagging the wall but i wonder if there's been a secondary incident because there was a bmw there as well so maybe that was a bigger ship 31 cars on the dotting of her at the moment so it must be the 30 so there we are well according to the tracker that is moving but very slowly uh having just come out of uh the carousel heading up to her act which uh the highest part of the circuit which wouldn't make any sense to me because we just really stay straight on there so unless the track is not quite up to date uh we'll just keep well an eye on that what's the red and white porsche well that does my thinking could it have been because it was definitely a red and white porsche and my mind immediately went to one of the two fricatellis either the 30 or 31 car [Music] now uh and it did look like an sp9 car if i'm brutally honest that's exactly where i went with it john would you thinking i'm just going to scroll through our images of uh participants i i i i'm at a loss to explain that let's uh see if we can find out as uh nico bastian is coming to that area now that that's africa that it's a freaking car most most emphatically that is the thing i am positive absolutely positive that that is the freaky delhi one of the two freaking deli cars um well the thirty nine is on the pit straight and that's just that's just gone gone past the pits well third goal at the wheel that's running in uh 11th at the moment really well let's see if we can work out what's going on with that that's a very very odd one 30 car so it's the 30 car and it's got a left rear puncture but it is now moving right ray sorry right yes thank you peter so it it was a fricka delhi and it's now moving again after that tag that was the side that wasn't the side that was tagged by the bmw it was tagged on the left-hand side by the way that was right because it went round didn't it went around the bmw right on the left-hand side yeah absolutely right did the right rear tagged it spun it tapped the barrier so it was it was where it was tapped so that's going slowly so i think the tracker was with virtually right because it was it is moving slowly so it said so that's that's the the number just to clarify the 31 cricket daily cart which is now up to nine for pilay at the wheel and it's a 30 car that is returning to the pits very slowly with a right rear puncture we think as a result of the contact with the bmw at the beginning of hats and back uh going out onto onto the nordschleife so that's going to be a little way back but it's it's got most of the circuit to most of the circuit to run yet um but it will it will find its way back yeah that's a that's an odd one that that is an odd one unless it was stopped because of another incident but it was definitely stationary for a while that number if that indeed was the car and working on information that we're gleaning from tickers it's obama behind the wheel yeah did a 4 11. that's what i was looking for did a four minutes 11 in what is in fairness a long sector five but that's three times longer than it needs to be so that has been standing still for a little bit now john you talk about fog and uh we've just been looking down the pit straight nice and clear see the pits almost at the pit exit is like a curtain a wall of fog as they start to go on to the gp circuit now that's one thing if it's that on the gp circuit what's it going to be like on the nordschleifer fog visibility reduced and we're heading towards night time anyway why ever not how many more things do you want to challenge do you want us to go around silverson and just do a one and a half minute lap just keep going around for 70 times no let's go to the nords life and do it properly let's go around for a day properly proper racing we're biased there weren't we so robert racing bmw last year's winners and therefore defending champions naturally john edwards at the wheel of that the number one car carries that number one proudly from winning last year new code 60 at uh foxhole again and leading up into uh adenauer forest and that's uh just going to try to see who that's for that's for the 171 car which i'll just tell you what that is in one second he lied it slightly longer but not much longer so that's the cooper leon competition car that's the bonk motorsports car um always worthy of the name check peterbox is driving as well this weekend but i don't think he's in that car uh if i'm right and seeing uh now he's in one of the sp3 cars memory serves uh matteo caroli is back up to speed we've got a fire truck on the circuit and he goes straight by that golf pickup truck he heads into the cratchula carousel got a blue porsche ahead of him which is flashing his lights well that's it already i know it wasn't the one i thought it was might have been the 350 the black fault of team identity a car but that car had its problems earlier yeah i thought it was out well that was definitely a porsche cub car but just slightly oddly there he just mateo crowley was was flashing his lights at him so he indicated right to get out of the way and then didn't get out of the way it's just like well if you're going to do it do it you've signaled i mean you don't have to signal on the racetrack but he did it so i have to say is the faster driving approach and that if somebody's kind enough and kurdish enough to say after you claude and indicate i'm going to out of the way unless he's just not the talk he then didn't do it and that's that's exactly how instant's going to happen because it looked like he's going to then doesn't this is going to be a long uh chord 60 at the end of tiergarten because they're doing barrier repairs as the 18 mustang indicates wright coming through the final part of the nordschleife and john edwards takes that to mean he's going to pit and then goes random and puts himself in the number one uh 71 car non-respect of court 60 and that is gonna be a very big penalty indeed for the pro sport racing gm [ __ ] aston martin well that cars have problems anyway that's the guido de marie maxine de marie alexander volker and walker excuse me and michael hess uh that will be a one minute 32 second penalty the next time they are in the pit lane remember you do not have to make a special visit down to the pit lane for penalties [Music] well there's our number 87 porsche it is being brought back to the the pits on the back of a of a flatbed uh hey i'll tell you what it'll take a bit more than polishing out but it's it's repairable i'll tell you what peter that cage has done its job hasn't it because there was a few dents in the roof but the doors were still able to be opened that's a cracking i think it's fair to say they can reshow the cage yeah possibly with a better scripture the repair on that one it didn't look nearly as bad as i've seen cars that have they've had lesser looking accidents that was a spectacular accident they're not in the right way earl bam smeared it back to the pits in the 911 gd3r for through beer and claus abilene's fricatelli team uh a rueful i think it's fair to say kiwi who was coming round let's see if we can identify the beamer yeah 331 it absolutely was the 331 tap the rear of the car that spun earl round uh one and a half times well let's call it two one and three quarters that's punctured the right rear michelin on that car and that was right at the end of the hacks and back before they head out onto the flat out run up the hill and so that's three quarters of the maybe even more than that actually eight tenths maybe of the nordschleifer before they get the opportunity to come back to the pits what i can't tell you is why that car was stopped for such a long period peter parkway around that lap and that is still a mystery but it was because the tracker the tracker didn't uh relate that and convey that at all it had it moving a totally different part of the circuit which slightly worries me because we do rely on the tracker uh slightly got a depth of information sometimes but uh uh our former race leader that's in the pits now the uh we've got three bmws in uh third fourth and fifth at the moment that's the schubert m6 first and then the two rover racing cars that's never been interested because we've got there so yellowly is now back in the number one car and we saw some stunning qualifying didn't yesterday where it was uh but there are just some times isn't it john when you when you watch a lap and you just we're commentators we're supposed to talk but sometimes when you're just watching again i'm not quite sure what i can add to this it was extraordinary uh from nicki ellie yesterday but he's now back out in the rover racing defending champion card the m6 and of course the m6 being on its swan song really isn't it now uh it's like it's just m4 new m4 coming out it's uh uh competitively priced it's nearly quite a bit more than its rivals should we say is that right it says it's it's a little bit more it's a good it's a good fifty thousand more euros more uh what are we talking about then for a gt3 car now forget about a spare part four hundred thousand euros they're a give or two yeah yeah yeah yeah interesting very interesting i remember when we were first working on the salinas 7r which was a gt1 car of course in those days and people said we wouldn't sell it for 200 000 pounds it's too expensive extraordinary isn't it how times change so quickly the law cloud or fog still over parts of the circuit but it's patchy and at ground level actually isn't affecting the visibility as much those of you with access to the internet wherever you are in the world you can get the onboard cameras even if you can't get the cut pictures and looking out the front of some of the cars as we've got to the ability to do here in fact as half the drivers as we saw the view that was the land car earlier on wasn't it checking the uh what the the conditions were further around we've got another empty flatbed going on the way to something else up so that suggests that there's a there's collateral john from the great that's a bit again hardly surprising on a circuit that's 20 25 26 cage rounds it's not really surprising is it no not at all so trying to get into a rhythm is the job now for the next many hours we haven't done enough laps yet to be able to give you a an idea of where we might be at the end the distance record is 159 that's the magic number as far as that is concerned and it's still that number four emg gt holding out i know i know a bang on about this and uh sorry for repeating myself but there's uh there's a piece of the circuit that always always stuns me and it's the hats and back and i'll tell you why not just because it's beginning of the nord's life but it's the transition you've used the phrase quite a lot during the qualifying uh john of having to recalibrate to drive them to recalibrate your brain when you're driving this circuit you do a modern grand prix circuit they held a grand prix here last year a modern grand prix has to have a certain amount of width runoffs etc nice wide spaces i think you could refer to them kindly earlier on as car parks at the side of the track we used to have gravel traps that's exactly what you've got on the grand prix stick you get to the end of that grand prix circuit and you don't turn right and restart the lap again you turn left and go on to this nord cipher and the first bit you encounter is the roller coaster of the hats and back and it's not even it's not even a ribbon it is fast it's fast downhill it's a ribbon of tarmac it's a thread it's a sinew of it down through that and then you've got a bit of grass either side and i think um bruce used the phrase there's not there's not even a verge it's a fringe of grass at the side and it's that sudden change that and if anything anything exemplifies that uh or illustrates that recalibration required is you've just come off a modern contemporary fully supplied faa grand prix circuit you turn left and all of a sudden it's never one elbow's in it's breathing it elbows out breathe in quite the opposite the narrow bit don't get it on the grass because what's next to the grass barriers and there actually isn't even a car's width of grass on the right-hand side down there it's that you know you come on you do that almost happen on to the nordschleife and you go right out to the right hand side into the actually the old pit lane exit there you put your right hand whales over the white line and that first downhill left-hander it's not very quick but it really sets the tone because the inside curve looks like a small garden wall and you roll out the outside curve you don't really want to be anywhere near and then you're picking up speed so quickly down that first right by the time you get to the second right you're in fifth gear at that point and it's just about on and off the throttle and and watching that and it's really bumped you there even though it's been resurfaced i think you spot on i think it's a it's a real culture shock in that respect coming off the wide open spaces i think of another factor john also is that the growth of cars now the sheer physical size of a contemporary gt3 car um you know you've only got to look at a fiesta on the road it's so much bigger than the original fiesta the road cars have grown bigger and bigger our parking spaces in supermarket car box haven't grown with them you've only got to have a what we think is a medium-sized car now and put it on a into a car park space on the road and you know how tight it is big sports cars ferraris porsches they've always been big cars now they're even bigger and bigger uh and it also they go to this narrow bit you literally you you're threading it threading a needle down the straight trunk start trying to push a cow through a cat flap going onto the hats and back another non-respective chord 60 for another 1 minute 32 penalty this time it's going to go to the moon and motorsport porsche cayman number three zero nine this is one of the seven eighteen cayman club sports that's a 982 in that porsche type number so next time that one's in will be sitting in the penalty box for 92 seconds i think yellowly trying to make a bit of progress at the moment is he comes down through fluke plats heads towards uh they actually it's uh just heading down towards uh brunch listening still some hardy spectators there a few tents have been pitched as the photo voltaic illumination behind the number one on that car is beginning to become a little more visible [Music] now he is on the second part of the hats and back and blasting down through the super quick areas [Music] another came in in trouble on the grand prix circuit just plowed straight on yeah i remember that tangerine one we've talked about it before that's been offered is that the beginning of this is that turn one no i think that's coming out oh it might be turnpod yes i think it's the 311. yeah we've talked about this car now that's what went off before didn't it and swapped ends and went in and bounced off the boat and came back out again so it's fk performance gpr uh jen's motor think otto nico otto it was he went straight on at term one like the clappers i know what it is what is it he's done his ring go got his reserved parking space right there at turn one using it up i think that's what it is 311. let's see hopefully it's not nico otto again is he or he's going to uh incur the wrath it is turn one john but it's the second part yeah it's the second part when you turn right there's a obviously the track goes straight on there so there's a gap effect it's closed at the moment for this configuration but normally the gap's there so there's a it was the previous bit on the left it went through and this time it's on the right-hand side so uh uh not lucky for for that porsche so let's hope it's not ultimate at the wheel i don't think it was was it this time uh new slow zone on the main straight which i guess is possible for every as a result of that it was torsten volta the berliner actually that's not right berliner is a um small doughnut that's something totally yes as in as in jfk he is from berlin across the line for uh the number nine eleven that's another lap completed for manti and for matteo caroline he's just under 50 seconds behind the leading team hrt and straight into the slow zone for that stricken cayman uh it hasn't moved it's dug right in and the snatch tractor is on its way to pick it out it's on its belly there isn't it so we've just gone through another uh hour it's just after eight o'clock and it really is just after eight o'clock uh here so time to look at the even our updates manuel metzger leading in sp9 for mercedes team hrt it's frank mayer behind the wheel of the spx leader that's the seven or four at the clicking house uh they're in 22nd position cup x true racing ktm crossbow very famous name around here it has a stuck behind the wheel 25th position for the 114 sp pro is the black falcon team car 911 gt3 cup mr that's down in 119th place for the 350 that's the car that had all the problem earlier on in sp 8t that's another black fault car this time the 36 that's doing much better in 29th position sp7 is huber motorsport in a gt3 cup car it's number 80 in 30 seconds gt3 cupcake up in the you know up kneeling knocking on the door the top 30. very impressive it's a cost-effective way to do this miss and do it very competitively remember there were 32 gt3 cars you call me an optimist cost effective and motor racing in the same sentence yes i'll move swiftly on tcr all right well there's a tcr in 33rd the hunt there romano lauc in the elantra in the 8 30. that's 33rd the 8th 30 car uh the bmw 240i class which is the old class 5 cars that is adrenaline motorsport and they're at 83rd with that car cup three they're up in the top 50. well inside the top foot in fact just inside the top 40 w and s motorsport porsche cayman the number three or two is a 39th position and finally for this run down sp 4t is another porsche 789 chairman about every version of that that is the number 718. and that is in 65th position and leads its class paul markhart would be delighted to see all these 718 of all these caymans at least leading their class prep number 987 i think that uh paul is driving now and enjoying every moment of it fine choice kim and s i think it was that uh he and travis managed to get their hands on and having lots of driving fun in that machine thomas prident respecting the chord 60 coming up to the scene of that scary looking accident driver by the way was taken away um seen walking from the car to the ambulance and best news of the race yeah that's good and that's long since gone as is the car so what's keeping that at code 60 at the moment is the barrier repairs on which subject i should say by the way oh and good news um we've got uh toast and volta back into the wrist barrier you said you say good news he's now weaving around the track throwing all the gravel out of that car so it's good news for him but not everybody else on the track indeed i was gonna say the uh the barrier repair is is a subject on which the authorities here are assiduous um and i think rightly so at this track three layer arm core at most of the places around the track and any anything that could be caused it called even minorly substantially those two words can't go together and uh no they probably can't they can't now they're there well the half now but it might not have been brilliant you're heading into english but if there's any kind of visible damage there they're in there um with the gear and the replacement barriers they're checking the upright stairs and the bolts around it uh they make no bones about the fact that they want to do that through the shoemaker s for priming sun beginning to fall down in the sky official sunset tonight uh in on the fifth is uh still a ways away 21 38 so uh 22 minutes before 10. so and then we expect to see the sort of the morning fog permitting at five or some uh seven hours and 45 minutes of darkness one of our less dark races when we talk about 13 hours plus for daytona 24 and dubai 24. nearby for where we are in the uh in the universe what time of the year it is all that sort of stuff just a few days here and there can make a difference second ridiculous statement of the hour coming up there's different types of darkness as well oh no i can't completely but i'm completely but this is prop out the forest here he's he's proper dark lemon illuminated tis now exactly it's like driving in dubai it's fine no problem dubai haven't got the um rounded track i don't you mean about driving dubai on their roads that's what i meant sorry but round the track at the dubai draw there's maybe a couple of lights on one of this a light at the end of the middle it's but that's about all dear torna fully lit like you steered him you were quite right to correct me there i meant dubai i realized that i realized that obviously run out of money for lights that you bought the motor drone motorcity exactly circuit didn't need some camels on a treadmill or something like that uh let's not go there but uh spa for instance the pits is illuminated then you come down to our rouge pop out of our rooms at the top at radion and go into the facing into the woods and it is pitch black and that is that is quite extraordinary and oh just seeing the uh alessio piccarelli there in the uh falcon motorsports porsche at the correct speed not breaking any rules anything wrong but there's a uh an intervention vehicle and a a flat bed on the right hand side of the circuit and just sides his way by where i'm glad i'm not a track worker let's put it that way down to the bottom of the hill the bridge it's out and out and now starts climbing back up again still that slow zone towards 60 the fox hall issue has been cleared uh it clears backwards normally from the incident so i don't know forest was where the issue is but still at tier garden the issue persists and this is an issue of track barrier repair so remember day of year and listener some time ago now uh we were talking about drivers taking pit stops slightly before they needed to well they've all come in again since then it goes so very very quickly doesn't it but they are getting eight laps out of the tank now easily not having to worry about saving any fuel get a few extra liters for the nurburgring 24 first than they do for the nls because the nls of course uses a slightly shorter version peter of the grand prix circuit goes down to the first hairpin before coming back and you're mentioning earlier john about our listeners the world over and uh which means about dubai and we have a man that races in 24 hour races uh quite a lot in his uh uh citroen c1 uh 24-hour race they had only only last weekend but he's had to works out in dubai nick uh nick payton uh and he's got a new team going uh for this year for east citroen c1 which is uh i believe is going to be called team tag nut uh and uh not quite sure where you go but he's he's he's a banker he knows what he's doing uh he's out in dubai and uh uh wishing he was out he's done lots and lots of laps around the north cypher and there's building up to getting into the uh 24-hour race apparently which is not something you can just turn up and do we've had a number of tweets at rsl underscore studio using the hashtag rsl n24 uh i used this analogy the other day i'll change it up a little bit now um cleaning it up for air if no no i i said if multiple world champion lewis hamilton wanted to come here but if um pick any great sports car driver stefan sarazan or uh alan mcnair i know he has got a driver's license race license now but even in his pump if tom christensen had wanted to come here you can't just rock up here and say oh you know i've got an international a or a super license from the fia i'll be doing the 24 hour race because the organizing buddy here edac uh will be saying uh i think not actually because we're going to put you through a rookie course i'm sorry a rookie course yes you have to do some classroom sessions uh and then you'll have to uh be shuttled around the track we're going to show you the track and we're going to give you some uh information then you're going to do some slow laps in lead and followed up and tricked uh and then you can go out and do a nurburgring tracker and you have to do and i'll get this wrong but i think it's 13 laps or maybe 14 laps of a of a nls race in a car that is limited to a certain amount of power permit and at that point if you uh you can go on to do what you want to do in the big race and do the gt3 cards and that doesn't matter who you are and but i have not won iota of issue with that because of the nature of you of this place you wouldn't have had to do that when you were here didn't have to do that at all a rookie orientation uh yes how to do that yeah as a basis but uh it was quite funny for me because you had to sit down with a with a an official and say right what have you done what's the last race you did so and so it was like a spa what was it in uh group c car okay right so that's not an issue so you're gonna write with a mitsubishi lancer hopefully well i love your description there of lewis hamilton rocking up here just being presented to that seven-time world champion and uh you can't take part in this race you're like you serious man right yeah no we're deadly seriously deadly you sit did it uh and then went raced with his son alex for aston martin finished second in class actually in a nls race not in the uh not in the 24. uh in for oh he was 24. i think i think he did yes he did yeah alex won his class in 2019 yeah but uh martin martin did it as well yeah very very good fun uh and if you can find that on video channels it's it says the bro it's called the brooklyn's take on the notch lifer you can recognize some voices in there it's johnny farmer's voice always in that a bit as well so the fricately car that was brought back to the pits by earl bamber with a right rear puncture and therefore and had in fact stopped on the circuit uh i don't believe that car suffered any other damage that was a 3-0 car wasn't it and i think i've just seen that car back out again yes i have nick tandy the man from bedfordshire he is in that car tandy who has a poncho for building rc remote control model cars has just completed a rather stunning mach 2 rally escort that he was uh showing some video of and the corvette driver of course he's got a larger scale corvette c8r which uh he took up to a bit of private ground that has some old runways on it and this rc car which is about probably 18 inches long beautiful model of a c8r um using some clever gps bits and pieces was timed over 19 miles an hour not skill speed absolutely pushing on towards three figures quite extraordinarily from tandy so let's take a look at how things stand at the sharp end of the field it's team hrt by a full minute now four visits to the pit stop and manuel mexico will be due in the pits in about another four laps time uh depending on the conditions and how many more slow zones we get matteo caroline in second position for manti racing his 25 call at 26 seconds on yes he crowned for the number 20 from sherbet motorsport in the first of two bmw m sixes in the top six make that three actually uh it's kino it's not cool or whitmer at all it's uh number 98 rover racing car and uh that at the moment is being driven by marco fit the commitments of the mers mixed up there i think the team is in fifth in the number 11 and right in behind that though the crown whitman team uh all separated by a little under seven seconds then nick yellow lee for rover racing in the number one car he is 32 seconds ahead of penny rast for audi sport team land which started from the pitts lane 31 car is in eighth position for fricatelli they're better placed at the two cars and behind that is kcmg quite going about their business all right two and a half minutes down marco holds behind the wheel of their 911 gt3r number 20 number 18 and they are nine seconds ahead of the 23 mark c3 in hoover motorsports 911 gt 3r that's your top 10 and uh just outside the top 10 roman chumat for reutronic racing that's another porsche maxi goats for team get speed in the seventh emg nicole bastian in 13th for hrt team get speed second car with still only half a lap down really uh that car at the moment and that's got shields going on driving that car which he shares with a really good line up there jerry miller as well beyond that it's uh the falcon motorsports number 44 which we've been seeing quite a lot of out on the circuit because it's been driven with some verve by uh alessio piccariello then it's sammy matty trojan just as good in full metal racing as he is on the esports in the 102 10 q racing team how plus mercedes excuse me the baltimore hospital bmw that 10k racing team how the series says dominic baumann behind them in the number 40 car then thomas printing falcon motorsports number 33 bmw junior team running a little further down than they might have liked but still even with the shout it's doing very much on the lead lap with dan harper from the sheffield air sorry from northern ireland uh the northern ireland island hillsborough uh he shares with matthew neal the hagen and augusto farpos and behind that car to make up the top track 20 is the phoenix racing number five that's how they stand in the top category uh with still uh well it's 20 past eight in the evening we've got plenty to go story of the race so far has been one of changeable weather conditions and that dominated the first few hours of the race even as far as on the warm-up lap the formation lap raised control saying there might require a red flag that if the weather gets got too bad it didn't uh and the race start happening but the rain dropped fairly quickly after that and we saw at one stage absolute carnage up at trent and croix at the top of the hill there just before dropping down to ironberg in the foxhole there was at least half a dozen cars off there within a few seconds and super driving by the following cars to miss them and turn it into an even worse situation there's pretty much as soon as the rain came it did stop raining and it just dry pretty quickly and in the space of what 90 minutes or so the track had dried up one or two cars did take the gamble at the start of the uh race to go out on wet weather tyres that really didn't seem to have paired off and they came in pretty early ultimately everybody had to go on to full and i would say probably whatever version of monsoon slicks there have the competition on the circuit just as tight as in the pit lane with uh martin tomczyk and kevin ester coming out of the pits close together and an immediate mistake by the number four mercedes has it rejoined the circuit after each pit stop almost gave kevin ester the opportunity they had a pretty good battle actually through there they were swapping places dress fanta was going great guns until he wasn't a tiny little right rear drop off the circuit as he was climbing up towards the hill before kalinhard and he put the front of the audi sport team phoenixina hard to the right-hand side again no chance for drace to be able to recover that and that car did make it back to 15. having to undergo some severe uh work on that car then the big incident down adds tiagot which has got a still under here uh code 60 there was the uh one of the caymans that actually ruled twice there even the best at the front of the field mateo karoli not exempt from making mistakes a little bit of dirt on the track coming out hacks and pats and back and he ran that car down the wall [Music] some very sad looking cars including that number 87 okay glad to report that uh stefan planet the munich-based driver that did was taken with an ambulance standard operating procedure but uh was seen under his own volition there that full court of that uh 60 there pete is still going on because of barrier repairs but we have got another car took out on the circuits the distinctive i can say that the angel eyes corona ring lights that you can see there yeah exactly that that's identified first before i saw the number how sad is that uh i'll just get my bmw spotted guide out and put that away yeah i'll go back under the under the rock shall i i think that that's the shoe but motorsport cook 5 leader in class bmw m2 um i'll see if we could get that confirmed it's the number 890 if it is they're running down in 63rd position hello to lars klavita to chris suku jonathan min dear monks all tuned in the bomb cupra also has had a problem as well the 171. that car we were talking about a little bit earlier on peter that had a problem out on the track and i think that's come back on a flatbed eagle eye jake parrot watching that coming in um not by the usual route yes because the tracker even if the the flatbed goes off the off the circuit and out onto the public roads the track is still working and quite often you'll see a car going round the surface roads that uh are the public roads around here much easier by the way the cars to get back to the pit when that happens and it doesn't outside assistance doesn't end their race here um it's very much encouraged to get the cars back running again as matteo caroline shaves down the inside of an emg that was the cp racing car charles putman it all but the point that somebody was making earlier on peter is it was a lot easier for teams to get around here and if you do have a problem instead of it taking sometimes hours to get back on the flatbed they're you know 15-20 minutes once they're on the public road without the race to go so yeah that's just brilliant and it's uh again it's it's i hate to say it not the stereotypical thing but the german efficiency uh it goes back to what you said john about the the licensing process how you have to go through it uh yeah that lewis hamilton can't just turn up here seven times for the world champion no you can't do it tom christensen seven times seven times nine times in one winner isn't it nine times yeah nine nine times yeah uh he can't just turn up and do that he's got to go through the process such as the is the scale of this place and quite rightly so but that efficiency filters down through all the levels as you say not just the driving on track and the processing the licensing but the efficiency of the battery repairs and and everything else interesting just a little talking earlier john about the um the weather over at spa only a few what 60 k's away but yesterday created a lift of the track at the source i.e the first corner of the circuit there by 50 centimeters um belgian efficiency coming into play as well that track is being that bit of surface has been resurfaced already today really that's been done as we speak unbelievable lost revenue i guess uh kind of the trap not working so stitch supercars this weekend that they've had to cancel their event haven't they i guess we'll let the top max settle down but so we're just coming up to uh with three minutes off 19 hours to go but you know what about you but i'm worn out already with all this excitement but what it's it's good i like this i know uh i i know that we're a long way from being anywhere near the end of the race and we've had quite a few incidents that have caused slow down zones and 60s but this is still running at a pretty hectic pace particularly at the front of the field and uh the best lap has been an 8 34 so still about 25 seconds or so maybe a bit less than that 20 seconds let's see away from what we were expecting but we've not really had the clean track that we wanted to um so i'm still hopeful might get somewhere near 159 laps somewhere near and i'll keep an eye on the predictive oh big incident this is one of the black fault and it's the three or six came in and that is a lot of steam and smoke that's been in both ends i'm afraid for that car uh that is going to cause another slow zone sorry that's the gtech competition car not the black falcon machine that's the yan yap van through uh tom cornell maxie kurtz and alex kruger car and that has done itself some serious damage on the right hand side the leader was in that area has that happened right in front of the leader yes it has come into france garden too just understeered off to the left-hand side great flag work absolutely brilliant flag work by the marshals and whoever was driving that three or six i don't know if they had much control of the car at all but they did absolutely the right thing to stop the car spinning right out in front of what would have been peter completely hapless it's tom cornell i was just looking down to see if it was coronel not like him to make the mistake but my goodness he avoided something worse there by keeping the car from spearing back on the the track and locking the middle pedal the matteo caroli cart was following on behind the leader had just gone through and kairuli if that car had come off the track there kyroli was an absolute flat out flansgarden is so quick the distinctive bright yellow helmet of tom cornell out of the car as he ruefully walks away with barely well i was going to say barely a backward glance i'm going to suggest something here i know we don't like to speculate john but i'm going to i am for a moment just bear with me i'm going to suggest almost a car failure or something there because that is so so unlike tommy cornell um i've had the pleasure of driving with him years ago well i wouldn't say the pleasure i can't tell you why it wasn't a pleasure but i'll tell you off there and you decide whether we can mention it next time anything to do with the damn suit correct yes his shoes he scores yes not the message you want to hear from an outgoing driver as you do a driver swap and uh sitting there thinking that i'm i'm sitting in yes and it's and it's not mine exactly yes a dutchman you reckon that right ria was gone then i don't know what to call it i don't know i don't know i want to go that far it's just i'm it's just looking at where it is did the marshalls get the double it's just not like tommy carol i'm not not putting him on a pedestal anything but i've just i just it's just not like him i'm just very very surprised just on half past eight central european time we start another hour of the race with just under 19 to go and a slow zone in fluge platz for tom cornell and the three or six porsche cayman gtech competition in the black and blue colours which is why i thought immediately a fault black faulkner so apologies for that if i panic anyone who's particularly following at those machines now fog starting to uh really descend at the end of the gp circuit onto the north life of the hats and back and uh just watching uh carrioli there in the mount or going out onto the north uh we've said already it's daunting enough coming off the gp circuit that hairpin as john described it quite rightly uh onto the north side there but the narrowness of the track there that's recalibration of your brain every lap every 10 minutes or so or just under 10 minutes it should rejoin that but the folks starting to hang into the trees there now as we're heading towards sort of dusk and twilight in this and it's uh the visibility is starting to be really effective we're now starting to see uh just tail lights of cars as opposed to the silhouettes of cars and the next hour or so it's going to be very very different fog bringing that in even sooner rather than just fading light yeah absolutely right hello to richard bradley hello rich i hope you're well i hope peter gets some sleep before next week racing in the sterling moss trophy is that right correct yeah you're in pete uh it what the affectionately known as maureen ah you know what more you know maureen is it's now officially over there the 1952 aston martin db2 which as far as far as rich is concerned because he races a 1920s or 1930s car apparently i'm driving a modern gt aston stop because it's 1950s ah right excellent compared to the man that jumps out of lnp cars and jumps into 1930s aston's and disappears and people just think hang on a minute is there's a reason he can do that he has a talent box yeah it's very simple yeah absolutely hello dave monks as well dave's been listening on the podcast yes indeed uh on the podcast uh since all 2 30 each time this and he set off uh he's coming home to the you coming back to uk should i say it with a very nice bmw on a trailer for his rolls-royce he'll know what that means he'll respond right okay they've ever been missing since goodwill 20 2017 festival of speed it's a two is that a 16 or two or two double or two turbo tube on the back of that uh on the back of that trailer very nice car british registered yeah very good ti t double i two double o two two turbo nice like that like the blister arches on it though very good nice mr monks hope you're well welcome back to blighty nikolai with this interesting has the relatively low number of starters yes barely 125 rather than 170. this year made the drivers push harder sp9 seems especially to be much closer to the edge it doesn't feel like the drivers are using the same amount of caution we've been used to i think it may look like that thing alive but i i honestly think that the guys we all the drivers we've spoken to this week at the same last year to be honest from the moment them if they're in a gd3 car and particularly if they are driving as a manufacturer representative even that if it's not in a courthouse full works team there are many works supported works blessed teams here but you're really on it pete here if you are in one of the front running cars um representing as i see it one of the major manufacturers you're on it from when your thumb comes off the pit lane speed limit until it laps later and it goes back on again absolutely just very quickly john watch you've been talking about that we've just said you've heard of synchronized swimming uh we've had the synchronized pit stopping here from mercedes two different teams there though uh the get speeds uh sandwiching the hrt young cadella and bastian and vasavier in the three cars respectively all going out of the pits uh into 13th 14th and 15th uh with driver changes to yunkadela staying in the get speed car helped taking over the hrt and neufer taking a uh my production who was housed in the hrt and young goodell staying in the get speed car uh vasevier staying in the other get speed but all three in there still got this uh slow code 60 or slow section past the stricken porsche from uh tom cornell who's uh stunning he promised me a go of his tcr car he said we would race it in uh he said he would uh race it in a creventing race and give me a driver that i think he's probably just sent me a text to say that's not happened now or a twitter message but it means he can go to the bar sooner or later and and have these do his party trick which is to drink the beer and then eat the glass you think i'm joking but no i don't no no so it makes a damp seat just pales inside all insignificants think how much weight [Music] excuse me no he doesn't he's second in tcr in the hyundai i-38 it's the elantra that i the 830 car that leads under another manufacturer here who have uh for quite some time use this uh race as well as the circuit itself as somewhat of a test bed double wave yellows as he comes through the last part of the flansgard to where tom coronel is standing by the side of the road i think somebody would stop giving a lift back to the pit it's not that far from here well no he couldn't he's obviously waiting for the car to recover to the pit so he can go and sit in it whilst they repair it it would be back out yeah interestingly after that huge accident the headlights on the camera are still working it's just somewhat unfortunate about the wheels on the right-hand side not pointing in the correct direction but not anywhere near the right direction nasty accident that but tom at least you can see where it can't go yeah poor acts from race control warning drivers of lord cloud and fog there horse 152 thank you rennet all right the highest part of the circuit so just starting to this end there yeah we are about uh an hour away from official sunset uh this time of year 15 or 20 minutes after that before it gets very dark indeed although there were i i i dare say it'll depend on what state the sky's in because we had some beautiful last veg vestiges of of sunlight and spectacular sunset on certainly thursday evening at the end of or in the night time session day if you're a listener you might be thinking to yourself that it is a remarkable feat of self-control that these drivers are immediately down to 60k when they have to be down to 60k when you see how many times yellow flags are if not abused then certainly stretched in terms of speeds in other motor sport events [Music] peter mentioned a word respect earlier on and i think that's a very good one to apply to this situation as well it's respect for the guys out on the track we don't stop the race here for incidents we don't even put a safety car out anymore and pack the fields up uh it ha it used to happen here we put safety cars out actually several of them remember matt neal telling me a great story about that when he was driving something bizarre i've been a viper actually said uh first darkness middle of the night fog's cooked down i'm tearing through the back part of the circle coming down towards flansgard and in front of me there's a safety car with a yellow stationary yellow light on the roof so i slow straight down and drop him behind him you know how fast it is there he said people are going by me and i'm thinking what's going on here get round onto the dottigo hall where the visibility is a bit better i realize it isn't a safety car it is in fact a vw estate car with a keychain and a taxi sign on the roof in full taxi livery from whatever so he said and i've never seen that car all week i'm convinced they've just got themselves into the race somehow i must admit i did exactly the same but just really because i just assumed it was nintendo it wasn't until you realized on closing especially it was a bit more than that uh and they did have safety cars in those days yeah i say it was i say it was all in it it's a long long time ago and they're all cpf type photos but in those days we were encouraged by a uh german teammate in a or the same garage shall we say from a different rival team but if there was a safety car section then the idea was turn your lights off and go past two or three cars on the grass and join in for and then turn your lights back on again that was a top tip from a local should we say it was just like seriously yeah what about transponders and things and whatever it is just be careful just like okay and uh you know the the legendary german sense of humor that apparently is non-existent rip back for second actually going on out on the track i promise you uh out there mateo karoli and the in second place at the moment for mantai in the porsche and he's having a pretty decent battle through the interrupted lap as it now is with the number 98 marco vitterman driven rover racing bmw and then carving their way through traffic again now in the early part of the nordschleife on the hats and back in fact just cleared that heading up over the bridge to luke platts and then up to schwed right to switch across where all the incidents were this morning [Music] up this hill really got to put as little steering as you can in the car you do not want to be scrubbing off any speed whatsoever fluke flats by the way because not because the cars get off the ground and go flying not at all up on the hill on the left-hand side there used to be a little airport there through flats i still think the flight gliders out of there but in the early days of this race they created the group from the big cities of germany and particularly from berlin used to fly down in chartered planes and land there to watch the race and that's why it's called flight paths what are you shaking your head for don't make this stuff up you know i know it's just it's just a pound of knowledge it's things that it's not real i thought one year i found a website somebody put me onto a website where every corner name was translated and uh explained and uh i went through that at various times for 24 hours i just kept popping up and trying to it i thought i could do one of these maybe once everywhere hours of endless fun on the wintertime they're just fly by uh the gt53 tyres car this is one of two in its class put them on among their driving strength here and just very quickly john a quick driver change there the number 11 phoenix racing out he's popped into the pits nikki team getting out of that car and kim louis schramm uh now just taking the wheel of that car uh the gt team the 53 team uh very much echoing the situation that we had from perez auto sports at the indy 500 and i'm going to see it more than a majority i i'm pretty certain that pretty much every active member of the team from the driving staff to those changing the wheels and fueling the car uh are all female now that makes not a difference to me uh to be honest neither does it make a difference to the car or the stopwatch but for some people that will make a difference and ironically not to christina and her teammates because they want to be seen as racing drivers and not female racing drivers however that said the opportunities there when i say it doesn't make a difference to me i mean in terms of performance but i mentioned it because of the opportunities that have been afforded there it is a truth of course that there are no separate classes based on gender uh in racing we don't have a men's race in a women's race and it has been ever thus and yet it doesn't seem to work out like that does it when we look at the opportunities for drivers the 101 vulcan horst motorsport m6 has also just been pitted john by ben tuck and that is now that was the car that was driven by david pittard at the beginning and that's now goth's uh christian crowns at the wheel uh had taken over from ben tuck it's the uh the 306 porsche that uh had its uh uh indiscretion shall we say with tommy cornell uh it's been facing still facing the wrong way up the circuit but they've got a flat bed alongside now and that's going to be picked up and onto that and returned to the pits and assessed i think we can uh possibly preempt the outcome of that assessment i don't think it's going to be a lot of polishing going on for that car for a while um but it is more to the point from a continuation of the rate it'll be taken out of the way and we can get rid of that uh slow zone past that at the moment so uh meanwhile at the front though the um anti-porsche coming under increasing pressure from the rover racing bmw immediate behind it to whitman and just behind him is the uh the teammates car nick yelly in the other uh m6 from rover racing so mercedes it is at the front hrt with mexico at the wheel carrioli in the mantai porsche in second place and then a brace of bmws for third and fourth that gap just closed out because they just approached they're just reaching that point there matteo carioli it is uh at the wheel of the mantai porsche just going past the stricken tommy coronel 304 porsche which is now up in the air it's already been moved on to its flatbed and you've got to wait for the green flag matteo carrioli and get on it he got bittman right behind him now as they start to send off through into the fog as well he's ever got enough on your plate clear track in front of him though mateo carioli it is that's got bittman's bmw coming up right behind him jiggling where they're having a little look other side just sort of letting you know i'm here just fill in the mirrors i'm here get on with it now our race leader i'm gonna have to get is into the pits the number four team hrt mercedes and we're keeping on who's going to be the driver change on that it's uh it's currently being peddled uh by manuel metzger and he's definitely out of it i'm just trying to spot who that is that might be going into there the car being we take it on it's go jacks uh it's 45 degrees ready for its uh refueling let's get out yeah just throwing uh i think what i think i'm throwing into the garage i guess was probably is i was gonna say need a seat pad but highly unlikely uh because he's a he's a fairly fairly tall champ his manhole mexico just giving some instructions to the incoming driver i think that's adam christodoulou that's getting in i've got a feeling yeah the mountain wimbledon what's up originally well okay okay well wimbledon sounds better not if you're from sullivan no no no i'm good i'm waiting for um my phone's going to light up now with chris hodges saying what do you mean two cars in from second at the same time by matteo carrolli and whitman yeah yeah marco fitment as well so that's going to promote the number one car back into the leaders and potentially nickie ellie just seeing how far down it is he shouldn't do that he's gone through already yesterday promoting it back to the lead now yeah so nick yellow it is the the race winning car from last year is now back at the top of the dungeon of course still owes us a pit stop though 32 laps it is completed by our top four cars three of which uh two three and four are in the pitch job just uh check in with our next incoming driver swap ourselves do a little bit of a handover hello to peter mckay who was rejoining us on a a track that just keeps giving peter 10 minutes away just getting all your kick together and sort of metaphorically making sure you've got your ear plugs and your helmet your gloves and everything ready to go this is heating up nicely isn't it oh sorry peter wait that's all right as well it's already arrested yeah as well okay what amazes me peter mack is that even with all these slow zones nobody has yet nobody has yet uh gone more than eight laps even with all of these slaughterhorns just underlines okay mark just uh how long this track is and how much fuel you've got to save to risk that extra lap well this is uh nick damien will appreciate this this is why you need scott dixon in your car too to make fuel um with some lifting and posting but if the rain comes they might be able to stretch to that ninth stint of course that's one of the advantages of the reign of any uh is that the fuel does last a little bit longer but uh eight laps at the moment at least everyone's on the same um the same playing field i suppose which is always nice to see and shows you how well the how good a job the organizers are doing in balancing what are very different cars you know a rear engine flat six porsche without a turbo front engine twin turbo v8 and the bmw and the mercedes big front engine v8 again it's uh it's mighty impressive i have to say you were absolutely right john that the driver changed from emmanuel metzger in the number four mercedes was adam christodoulou which might say wimbledon what he is indeed from solihull as in court as indeed it's of course it's nikki yellowy yeah yeah racing hotbed that it first here is radio show limited there you go peter market you're surprised at that yourself hotbed of fantasy yeah well that as well absolutely this up to right folks not going to make this any easier pmac um out there go back to the racing that yellow league's gone through for over racing uh he's not a million miles away from his next stop he's just started his seventh of what we expect to be at it luckily but we're starting to get pimac just a little bit of divergence they're not all coming in at the same time it's not massive it's a lap here a couple of laps there but we've got to try and keep across this for everybody watching and listening around the world because it's too early to start back counting but what we can see it as the clinton house i think has just had a spin has it no that's a yes it was believe your eyes hanged up uh down at term one but it's too early that's why i mean it's it's an odd one um it's too it's too early at payback to uh to start back counting but it's going to be worth keeping an eye on those gaps between the cars and whether they stay at a couple of laps or whether to start to go out with three laps because at that point they start to become more significant peter oh indeed yes uh well we're the number 704 clicking out so richard westbrook is parked at the side of the circuit and richard westbrook is out of that car so john you might be forgiven by richard that his spin might well have been to do with some sort of mechanical failure on that beautiful glickenhaus machine he's giving it he's looking at up and down and well the uh very dapper clicking house team they love this place and that will hurt a lot jim clinton house talking to the engineers and obviously getting some news from the car i don't think it's good news from west east looking at the left hand side of the 704 double or 4c they were very very confident about the additional speed uh pmac will let you continue your prep talk in about six minutes when you take off from it copy that back thinking there john that the you said uh you said write down richard respects had a spin in the car there make a note of it as it is slightly highly unlikely i think strike that out i've got a feeling that there's something called that first one something calls that second bit there that uh that's just not it's like tommy cornell that's not uh that's not normal just very very quickly the uh the manti porsche uh john when it pitted um whilst it did have its pit it no change of driver so uh matteo carioli obviously got his eye in there and they've left him in the car yeah and i i kind of understand that in some ways westy came down into turn one and the card literally swapped ends on him it was like somebody pulled on the hand handbrake and he's left facing the wrong direction well i've done that plenty of time but that's lack of talent i'm going to say something something's failed in the left rear i don't know why all the gearbox and the gearboxes because he hasn't got that much further around does he no very difficult with all the fog to actually identify i think he's at the ford chicane at marshall's post 19 yes he is so he's still on the grand prix circuit so he's barely got halfway around the gp track so i think that's is that just before or just after the deadlock just happened just before yeah just uh he's just there before that happened yeah it's actually about where yeah it's actually about where you break for that hairpin there's a access road comes in from the left-hand side what makes because it did that into turn one i just want that's why if something's broken in the left rear yeah if i pretend it breaks it's just giving it some massive toe out or something again we're speculating we don't know so perhaps it shouldn't it just just seems odd so coming up to nine o'clock in the evening the drama continues for top runners that away from his fifth pit stop the best place car that has done its fifth pit stop is now adam christodoulou behind the wheel scored in second place at the moment i could just refresh my strategy screen and make sure i'm reading the right things he's just taking over from his teammate hasn't it yet so yeah okay so that is a very good turnaround for mercedes amg team hrt the number four car he's five minutes down but he's done the pit stop that nick yellowly will have to do in a little while so nine o'clock german time that will be the a t s p 10 s p 8 update which uh p mac and pranas will bring you up to date with uh snowy night head for some some sausage and some vice beer i didn't i tell you that the solid whole comments would kick off straight away yeah i won't say who but somebody very involved in aston martin's and master martinez club raced very many years his son has just sent a message to saying that he was born in sally hall and worked there and just bearing in mind it said now i can see why your other half has ordered your headstone their company is monumental stone masons very good that's what you get for making one comment about something hey girl dear bamford family we apologize or i apologize unreservedly there you go the the wrong has been rises uh and please can we note the vampires that hanged off here the lad from the north east was was defending the honour of sully ul uh so basically just partly more of it my way absolutely i'm just associated with yourself mr bradley came out with last year there was even a meme for this during the 24 hour last year when i predicted the weather correctly in the race stoppage and it was called hashtag blame snowy yeah live story yeah yes but it's come back around again so i apologize i shall go and take my penance very shortly and uh obviously no no food no no no no refresh no r r for me don't sit on the doorstep for two just before our stint that comes to an end we're doing very similar stints to the drivers because we've got a maximum stiff length of three hours as well after which you must have a two hour rest uh but in the early part there is pretending to do two uh two hours double stints if you will triplets will come in the nighttime hours um which is always dangerous a big thank you to everybody at nurburgring tv once again for just this race but also for our nls coverage this year always a pleasure at working with renee who it is at the moment michael nico and the myriad others who work so hard on a circuit that he's not exactly built to televise stuff easily let's be honest uh and also big effort from our london main control room staff hugh and rob and i know that uh tim gray's been at setting things up down there as well and we had kez kob in there today big double week end with elms tomorrow still to come mlmc today and qualifying for jp and goodis that's on rs3 tomorrow if you can tear yourself away from this but of course the archive will all be there taking later on and our final act is to say that the retronic porsche the gt silver car is in to the pit lane that's your uh no match here fox fier at all brought that car in i thought it was dumat who was who brought that car in he's just fired his case it was he's up in uh fifth position when he pitted uh and he's brought that in and handed over the ruetronic car to his teammate which i think was julian handler that got into that car it's not exactly a motorsport related injury expect to pay cover at a circuit in the pit lane is it being uh hit by a flying seat about a wheel maybe and a car a seat it was lauren's fanta addition to that car not exactly slowing it down any just on nine o'clock central european time our hourly update is the et sp 10 and b classes and that starts right now with peter mccutt well we are here into the thick end of this motor race 18 hours and 28 minutes to go so let's have a look at how some of the classes are running right now in the sp 8 class it's the number 54 lexus rcf that's a toyo tire car leading ahead of uh the gt tire audi which uh john mentioned a moment ago that's the all-female crew with christina nielsen and pip and man being a good battle all weekend long between those two cars in sp 10 it's the number 70 bmw m4 gt4 leading the way at the moment in sp4 the number 325 bmw 325e 90 leading the way in that class now i know that uh there'll be many of you listening and watching to see who is winning in our dolly mixture class the sp3 class now if you're thinking which class is that that is the class with the opal manta the foxtail and the dancia logan and at the moment it is the number 120 toyota team thailand car the toyota corolla altis that's actually beating its much more exotic cousin the gt86 for fans of the manta that is third in class at the moment so very much in the running in top five it's the hofer racing by funk motorsport number 242 bmw m2 leading the way in v6 it's the team math all porsche cayman number 132 in v5 it's another porsche cayman adrenaline motorsport number 141 and then v4 is the number 151 uber dmw now do i have a joe bradley alongside me i will certainly hope you do peter am i connected i can hear you yes i can hear you very well have you been watching the action before we've been off here yeah yeah i've got to say it uh you know during our our rest periods it's a bit like being a racing driver that you see get out of the car and then he spends his rest period staring at the timing screen watching how his car does um i i've got to say it's the nurburgring 24 hours as always for me being a race which you just can't drag yourself away from because there's just always some something going on whether it's an incident whether it's the weather and i've got to say peter um you and i are from the northern part of the british isles and i'm on the northeast coast so um you know fog is an ever-present thing in the summer uh here in the northeast or where i'm from um i would imagine being from scotland you're not too shy of fog as well and that fog is coming down thicker than ever it is it's getting very close to the border line now here at the nurburgring in scotland we would call it a har coming off the sea that would cover the the landscape and yes it is interestingly it's actually the worst of the fog is on the grand prix circuit where the number 301 porsche cayman has just had a little bit of a twirl and of course on the i suppose joe if there's anywhere where they're going to have bad fog the grand prix circuit is certainly the best place to have it as opposed to on the nordschleife yeah i think so i i think there's something in the regulations about whether or not the marshals post can see one another and i think as long as visibility is is such that the marshals post can see the next and i'm not sure if that's still the same what with you know modern communications um but yeah i mean because bizarrely um the grand prix grand prix struck a part of this of this course seems to be suffering the worst of the fog and certainly the worst of visibility but like you say it if we're going to have fog anywhere that's perhaps the the best of a bad deal because you've got proper run-off areas and the like and a bit of room to make a mistake and a bit of room to have things knight you out of the fog well i always think the the two-wheeled cousin of the nurburgring north life of the isle of man tt mountain circuit all 37.7 miles of it is very similar to here and i believe there it they have that marshall close to marshall closed rule and and that just gives you an impression of just how many marshals are required to give up their own time for us to go motor racing at all and we we can never say uh enough about the job of the orange army at the moment it's the pole setter nick yellowley the man from sully hull uh in the number one car of course this roller racing bmw m61 the 2020 nurburgring 24-hour in the lead at the moment but uh owes us a pit stop at the moment joe yeah it's um for me at this stage of any 24-hour race it's a kind of a i call it a high-speed game of chess you're just waiting for someone to make a move uh albeit at a very high speed and and you know these drivers out there are not forcing it at all they are absolutely pushing to you know push without risk i think was lena gates favorite thing uh or usual scene and i think it's a lot to be said about that um i see adam christopher now at the wheel of the number four mercedes and i had the uh i'm gonna i was gonna say pleasure i'm gonna sit honor to do the eye racing nurburgring 24 hours without him in our team and um when you're not in the car you can have a chat to one another and i was just seeing how ridiculous the uh visibility is in the dark on irising at the nurburgring and he and he and he astounded me when he said oh it's much worse than real life i was like what it got it couldn't possibly be oh it's much worse in real life into the pits is that it's the leader indeed it's the number one peter and he's in for what looks like a regular stop i'm just going to take a check on um where we are state wise um that'll be eight laps in the bag so that's unscheduled isn't it right on cue yeah absolutely and i think you know there's gonna be a handful of cars that are gonna have a flawless run through this race and that is all that will do but i guess it's going to come down to who is going to be the most flawless who is going to win out of that pack of cars and this number one rubber racing bmw is right in the hunt at this time 18 hours and 22 minutes to go and tell you what joe for this railway team they are on the crest of a wave of course winning the nurburgring 24 hour with their m6 but then going on and winning spa with their porsche um joining the dtm this year is putting it on pole again in the n24 it's it's all going very well for this company yeah but um a very well put together team aren't they they've got the right people they've they've grown they've it's kind of they they've kind of from what i've seen when the team first appeared at this level um you know they were always there or thereabouts and they've kind of it appears that they've grown organically and learnt from just being part of these huge events and then they've started to win they've learned how to win and they they're struggling to lose aren't they sometimes i mean last year was a very successful year for them um like you said this race and the spa 25 in completely different machinery usually teams tend to be experts and kind of uh become the the go to uh team for information on a particular mark and sort of climb at the bed for one of a better term and form a good business relationship with a particular mark but uh rover it seems um all the marks like them because you know winning it spa with the porsche what car they're in they're going at the dtm with the bmw aren't they they they're actually going to be the dj by the way let don't get me started on the dtm being a gt3 sports car kind of yeah i can't agree how do we leave that one and struggling with that i believe they're going in with bmw and bmw took some talking around uh into getting re-involved with dtm and and that they are i mean it shows how much trust bmw have in this outfit to uh to put their reputation in the dpm it's very important to the german manufacturers that series isn't it it is it's kind of like the sprint alternative to the nurburgring 24 hour actually in terms of precedence and corporate um corporate swagger shall we say domestic corporate swagger would be the way i would uh describe it but but yeah i do agree with you it is a strange one but you know what if it keeps the dtm alive because it really was under threat and if it keeps it alive all all good in my book that's for sure um at the moment we've got hoover hyped on board the number six mercedes now this is quite a unique story because hubert is actually the team owner of hb hp hey sorry hrt racing and it's an off it's a pro car it's not a pro am car and hubert one of the older drivers in the pro class at a 52 years old man from munich but he has driven some very cool stuff in his time he actually drove in the indy lights championship against greats like greg moore and james weber and also drove in the very early days of the porsche super cup but makes his uh makes his living in property development but brilliant to see uh what we would maybe refer to as a gentleman driver competing at the very top level yeah and you you i certainly you mentioned that uh stacked that information on his career in one of the qualifying sessions and and of course you know then it comes to you and you think of course of course yeah you know he started in single seaters he was looking towards uh a single-seater career veered off from formula one to towards indy cars and uh and and you know there's a lot of i think that just epitomizes the the route that a lot of these young drivers have taken into sports car and endurance racing and and sort of veered away from the single-seater route that just outpriced itself uh and that i think peter is the reason why we've got such a quality of field not just in this race but pretty much in the majority of endurance raising series the quality of drivers is so high it's uh it's easy to forget that these you know people like you but how did start off on that ladder [Music] exactly couldn't agree with you maura i think it's interesting we see it in the single-seater world and actually funnily enough seeing it in touring cars as well certainly here in the uk that it's quite difficult actually for drivers to be proper professionals and i always think professional means that someone's paying you um and at the moment in this field we've got a band of drivers from mercedes audi bmw audi and porsche as well who are all being paid a salary to to race the cars now at the moment on circuit we have a number of code 60 zones we have nine of them most of those are for the fog which is rolling into the nurburgring north life at the moment but joe i think this is superb from the organizers that in the areas where it's bad code 60 but when it's when it's clear they can go on and race i think that's superb yeah it is it's good planning actually the thing is peter it's going to get worse when we lose light yeah you know yourself when you're driving in fog on the road you will you know you can't use your full beam for sure which is what these guys are using pretty much as a as a default setting on their headlights it's full beam the full beam the the beams of light just bounce back off the fog and it it actually blinds you that's why you have very low down fog lights on your road car i think we're going to get into the realms of a possible red flag if this fog does increase and get thicker um darren woods still our um collective meteorologist and he's telling me there's no rain on the way his satellite scan has showed that there's no rain on the way however we have got this uh temperature inversion this uh thermal inversion creating the fog here there's so much moisture in the air it's hardly surprising that you know we've still got the ambient temperature relatively high it's not exactly cold and that's going to create fog again not something we haven't seen before at all times of the year here no no not at all it's uh interesting there hubert hurt he might be one of the older drivers in the uh in the class but he just left eduardo liberati and the porsche the kcmg porsche four dead uh coming out of one of those code 60 zones and uh it's almost like every time they get to the end of a code 60 it's almost like a a traffic light dash when when the uh the green light shows again it's it always reminds me of driving on a motorway and you've got the the um the intelligent waterway system that slows everybody down to 50 and then 40. and then you get the all clear and everybody just accelerates off and it's like i see i'm sh in my head i'm pretty much on the waterway going green green green and and set it off again with the uh with all the traffic around me um up to the speed limit of course of course we've got in this country germany well they have been known to get i'm probably the only one of our team that have got the speed ticket in germany i mean of all the places you know you've got the unlimited uh roads the autobahns and stuff and bradley got got a ticket last year i wasn't the year before but leo before us last year didn't exist did it oh so your um police long service sticker and the windscreen doesn't carry any weight in germany it doesn't work neither like neither should it you know no no you're right you're right straightforward collar i can't argue with it you can't you can't reason with a camera can you no no that's true i remember my my dear late grandfather was chief superintendent of fife police and long after he'd retired he had a nissan note which had a gadget on it was one of the first cars that you could fold the mirrors in on the go with a touch of a button and he got all of a sudden got very paranoid about having his wing mirror clipped off and he kept folding them in and my my uncle who's a class one instructor said you know dad you're gonna get you're gonna get booked doing that don't do it and one day he did get pulled over and they just sort of spotted the sticker on the windscreen they said have you any and my grandfather bless him didn't want to bring it up but he was just like oh well yes i wasn't before many years ago and i'm like oh okay right and they just let them away with it and no more yeah yeah pretty much yeah the brotherhood he would have also gotten another five to ten miles an hour top top end speed following these mirrors back of course active aero especially the aerodynamics of a brick it was it had some surprising pick up and go considering it's like you say it's a sub-optimal aerodynamic properties yeah in ron's speak um it's it is still well we can at the moment the fog really coming in hard now and it's uh i can give you an idea peter of where the uh the cold sixties are um that that so we we come out of plants garden uh down towards schwalberg france and we've got code 60s appearing all the way it's it's in the loop it's in the low ground actually as the as the track rises through schwab and swans and into the mini carousel the chord 60 disappears for a very short time and as the as the track then comes onto the dottinger hall we've got slow zone pretty much all the way down the dotting the hall street um the grand prix striker looks pretty clear and then my little truck keeps zooming in then we've got further code 60s out towards um again down down the hill uh trading credits down towards arenberg uh we've got in fact it's a chord 60 from floodplait further round so out of the out of the hat and back and up to the flute plats uh the flute flats down through short and crouched to aaron berg we've got chord sixties there um the track from uh the arduino force through metzgerfeld all the way up to bergberg carousel horace the highest point uh is fine and even down through brunching is fine until we get back round to the flan's garden and then you know what it's it's pretty slow slow going that's where the fog is it's kind of to the to the east of the track i would think from uh from what i can see here so roughly speaking about half the circuit maybe even slightly yeah yeah yeah so but maybe maybe your third finger i would say yeah yeah i think it's that's interesting that it's uh of course under a code 60 60 kph that's pretty slow so even in really bad fog the drivers will be absolutely fine there and then in the clear spots they can still keep i think it's really important i think given of course last year we had a long red flag stoppage i i wonder joe if the organizers are really keen to try and keep the race green as as long as they possibly can i i think they will i i think they will peter but then it gets to a point where you know safety has to come first um you know don't want to avoid any kind of criticism uh and rather than wait for the incident to happen you know cause or effect um you know the the stewards the organizers are very experienced in dealing with weather here at the nurburgring and there will be a there'll be a threshold and i would imagine the threshold is one of visibility and and how far you can see and and just looking at it we're probably going to be all right but i'm not sure where we're going to find ourselves when the spring goes down and the sun it's 20 past nine i think we've got before the sun fully disappears we've probably got about 90 minutes the sun's not really going to disappear out of the sky until around towards 11 p.m in in this part of germany so we might be all right up until we start losing the light [Music] well we will certainly keep you up to date on it all we hope you're enjoying coverage in sound and vision here on rs1 part of the radio show limited network of channels and of course on line on radio show limited dot co dot uk and also on the 24 hours official youtube screen we really and thank you for watching well at the moment it's the number four mercedes which has really been the car that's had the edge on the field since really since the green flag lucas stokes starting off that car really opening up a lot of pace and joe what amazed me about the mercedes particularly is that they were really scratching their heads on thursday night and even friday morning a couple of seconds off the pace of the rivals from bmw audi and porsche but they came alive in the rain last night and during the race today it looks to be at least in the hands of the number four car running very strong yeah um and i i did hear you mention balance of performance but there's nothing being there's no kind of balance of performance advantage being given a mercedes to affect that and it wasn't adam christopher who said that the last thing he wanted was actually to have a wet race he was wanting a dry truck um and the opposite that happened the car became very very competitive uh lap time wise when the inclement weather arrived and yeah whether they've had any tweaks with regards to set up and i'm not sure the mercedes things actually share set up data because they're competing with other mercedes teams as much as anyone else so it can't be as simple as somebody's found a sweet spot with regarding regards to how the tires have gotten how they've got the tires to work uh because it seems to be all of the mercedes i've kind of stepped up am i right they they have yet they certainly stepped up in the in the really bad rain last night in qualifying they all all of a sudden like really surge to the front and yeah that could well be a a setup issue but it was in warm up this morning great to see a lot of the mercedes cars finding three or four seconds from their previous dry pace but i guess that just comes from from track time because really there's there really is just no substitute for mileage in this place yeah and the thing is peter that the majority of these teams will kind of know this cycle back with their hands it's been through the qualification that it's not their first m24 the city teams that we're talking about so they've got a they've got an absolute vault of data uh to to kind of look back at and analyze and and pretty much taken into consideration any kind of uh issue with regards to weather ambient temperature they'll have a massive database uh one of our bmw's into the pits it's the number 100 and that's down the order if i uh if i'm right face of that car not exactly in contention um in fact it's way down i'm still scrolling that's the pro um that's the the car that henry walken horsed himself team owner of walking horse motorsport is in the crew for that car running on yokohama tires one of the few cars in the field on yokohamas henry walken horse dr friedrich von bohlen york breuer and andres zeidler but most importantly the car is still running there's a lot of cars parked up for the night and probably well of course the number 30 uh for kadeli porsche parked up it seems for the night and they're probably enjoying a nice cold through right now i would imagine yeah that car i'm not sure why that car's lost as much times as i did six laps off the lead lap and one up down off the car in front which is a car not in the same class um so that the the number 100 breyer has gotten out of the car not sure who climbed in but that's a car that's just going through the motions there so a car not in contention in fact that car's dropped so far down it's 60 second overall so well out of contention now and that's a shame because fault of those you know we're talking about the mercedes teams volkman horst running that bmw another team that's got a wealth of experience and data and knowledge about how to get the best out of that car in this particular race so that's you know what it's a damage limitation the pressure's off the drivers in that car can just enjoy the experience and just see where they pop out tomorrow afternoon you never know they might be back into uh into some kind of class contention i think if you're a fan of endurance racing or either as a fan or or a competitor i think the the it's amazing how the personal goals fluctuate over the course of a race depending how well or how badly it's going but the spirit of endurance racing is never give up and a working horse and his boys and fury and girls will be uh will be pushing hard they can be they do have a crime of comfort though the number 102 car the sister car run by walking horse motorsport that's the one in the alperson anti-balding caffeine shampoo they do have the fastest lap of the race right now the eight minute 28.183 so any of the uh follicly challenge like me will be uh have a little bit of a soft spot for that particular car yeah that's you've adopted that car as your fan the fan favorite the uh the storage car i would just refer to that as the hair restoring car um again you know that that's kind of confirmed the point that our parts have just made the vaulting horse team there with the 102 current holders of the race faster slot where they did 28 like you said and again you know very experienced tape and all this place uh literally like the back of their hand and uh and for me peter you mentioned there what endurance racing means and and for me the primary objective of any endurance race is to finish the risk the secondary uh priority is to have a great risk and to actually be able to compete but firstly you've got to finish so it's not good having a driver that is full second to last quicker but he crashes after 10 laps that's not going to get you anywhere in jerusalem no definitely not and i always say that here at the nurburgring 24 hour i personally believe this is the hardest endurance race in the world to win and and also the harvest endurance race to finish both on driver and on the machine as well but you've got to think from from a marketing perspective now joe there's so many different ways that that companies can spend their marketing dollar and through the digital world there's so many very accurate measurable ways that they can spend their money but for me there's just no substitute for companies like porsche they sell the 911 the audi with their r8 bmw the range of fast kind of executive cars the mercedes amg and so on to say that if people say oh i don't know if i could buy a flash car like that will it let me down well i know these race cars are different but to the to the the passing viewer to get these cars to run non-stop for 24 hours around a place like this what a way to prove through concept improve your technology and the old adage is of course when on sunday sell on monday and as well as that i mean this didn't this this race start out as a proving ground all the manufacturers um and it's a way of testing technology under very hostile in a very hostile environment and in a competitive environment i think this race is very important certainly to the german manufacturers and i'm sure the italian manufacturers want to interject and kind of take some of that glory so yeah i mean it's a it's a big event it's it's it's unique in the sense that the race track that it's on is so unique there isn't i mean there isn't any way you know we compare tracks to one another you know transactions like a bit like open park etc but there's no way you can't see anywhere it's like like the nurburgring i mean i know some people have said cadwell park in the uk is a little bit like the nurburgring but it's a tiny little bit like the nurburgring like it's got a steep hill and then after that that's pretty much it isn't it really you know absolutely there is a good reason why that not only do the car manufacturers take their race cars here to put them to the test of course the road cars are laughing around here all the time i mean for example lars kern who is in the crew for the 911 mantai car it's uh a tio cairoli at the wheel of that car in fifth position at the moment but lars karan he's spending large amounts of time laughing this circuit in cayenne's in mccann's panameras even the electric uh thai can as well and you know it just shows you that how you know how much data they can get and for the time manufacturers also if you're you know someone like henry walken horse you know he's got three cars in this race and he's got a big chain of bmw dealerships and clearly has some sort of business relationship with yokohama and when he's got people coming into his dealership you can say well we use yokohama and what is the fastest lap of the race absolutely you know you're gonna go to the dealer well i am and i don't know if i'm a good example actually because i'm a bit of a billy in a bit of an anorak so it was like um in fact in fact hydoc bought a jab which i then bought up in and it had a twi jaguar sticker in it from the dealership so it was actually bought from one of tom walker shows delegates and that that gave that car much more credibility than a one that had been bought from i don't know another local dealer or even a national dealer you know there's a there's a lot of uh credibility um as you know horton horse are a bmw dealer and he's going to be able to absolutely milk the marketing and it's a red flag we've got a full course red flag so i'm not sure that well i was about to say something which sounded ridiculous that's got to be for visibility i think it will be yeah so red flag here at the nurburgring that means the drivers will come back into pit lane they will go into park fermi conditions and wait until conditions improve now uh for those listening on rs1 is there's about a half to a third of the or to two-thirds of the circuit covered in quite bad fog some parts are okay for our viewers if you're watching or you're just joining us you might be thinking hmm there's parts that look absolutely fine but joe it just seems like a there's probably too much of the circuit now covered in fog but also the organizers probably know something we don't about what's on the way possibly perhaps and it just you know we we've just speculated uh only a few minutes ago haven't we peter about what was the threshold what is going to be the decision threshold uh from the organizers how you know how there's got to be a criteria and we've just crossed that threshold and the you know the the the the organizers have have made for me i think the organizers have made a good call we the the sun's dropping in the sky we're going to have reduced light that if anything exactly exacerbates the fog visibility issue and i think you know not an uncommon occurrence at the nurburgring 24 hours basically down to geography the track is where it is and it's prone to creating fog um but i i've got to say i agree with the organizers because we were getting very very twitchy with regards to the closing speeds uh adding reduced visibility uh and the closing speeds of these cars we couldn't have had a full course called 60s not at the nurburgring that that would have been ridiculous so instead of doing that they've pulled out the red flag and i think that that would have been what they say wasting fuel around the code 60 yeah absolutely that's not competitive conditions so you might as well be parked up well that is uh at the moment 9 30 p.m local time in germany at the nurburgring as mattia cairolla gets out of the manti porsche a little scrape with the wall for matteo and that he'll be very very glad to see that that did not cause any further problems so um other than that peter there's your answer the teams now know that they've got at least until 6 a.m to find out what they're going to do next so they'll be working through their job list right now the cars haven't just come off the track the drivers can go where they can go and grab something to eat and then get you know at least four or five hours sleep some of them even more because you only really need your first two drivers back so at least the teams and that's why the organizers have done this it's doing it's to give the teams a plan of action they know exactly what they're doing just rather than saying there'll be more information in one hour there'll be more information in one hour the people who run this race are very familiar with the the weather patterns in the area and hence that's why they've called it and the next uh the next decision will be made at 6 00 a.m in the nurburgring well i think a very wise decision indeed have to echo those uh sentiments well it's going to create one heck of a sprint to uh to the finish between the guy the mercedes number four the number one rover racing bmw the porsches will be back in there as well and if we have a dry running from the the green flag to the checkered joe it's throw the cards up in the air and see where they fall again yeah absolutely um and again it's you know you can only do so much now at this time and we you know we will come back and and i think i think we've just made the decision that we're going to do the same peter uh so i'll let you wrap up and uh inform everybody when the next decision time the next decision time from the organizers will be so we'll uh we'll hopefully be able to give you some idea at uh in the very early hours of sunday morning yes so we're we're getting word that the earliest restart of the race will be 7 a.m nurburgring time that's 6 00 a.m here in the uk we will get the next information at 6 00 a.m nurburgring time 5 a.m in the uk to see if we will get to restart at that point so join us back tomorrow and we'll see you in the morning [Music] [Music] we are a minute and a half from getting things underway for what he's going to amount to probably around three hours to the checkered flag coming up to 20 minutes before noon in the eiffort mountains still foggy what are the conditions like out of the nordschleife it's another one of these drives into unknown territory as far as that is concerned we're live across the radio show limited network of audio and visual channels rsl underscore studio rsl n24 one minute the engines are fired the revs are rising i suspect there might be a little flutter even on the heart rates of some of these seasoned professionals as they get ready to go expect to see a lot of weaving around on the formation lap it will be single file behind the safety car for the full lap of the grand prix circuit and the nurburgring nordschleifer 63 lamborghini is in the pit lane remember we've not been under uh park fermi conditions so that car may well have been worked on overnight and it looks like it's back in if not ship ship condition for hancock triple f racing team certainly enough to get it back into the race it's still cold the engines are still cold there's condensation as the cars are ready to roll and taking you through to the start and for the next hour or so after that here on the radio show live at the network of channels sure bradley but first is bruce jones well it's just thanks very much john it's just fantastic to have cars rolling again if you just happen to be checking in now you go good grief it's still foggy it's been foggy since before nightfall last night but at last the cars have been underway the drivers the cars have been out on the grid with their teams for over an hour they've been jumping up and down they've been talking to each other they've just had all that nervous tension running through them but now going around on this formation laughter piece will have a three and a half hour sprint to finish hopefully but the race start joe bradley will be behind the safety car single file when we talk about this race being the toughest race in the world um that's an arguable especially when you consider the weather that we've had the adversity that we've had to go up against this year bruce and right now the car's just peeling off and it will be down to the drivers to get those cars where they need them to be with regards to operating temperature it's a hugely long lap here recalibrate your mind from a conventional two to three minute lap time we are laughing in and around the nine minute mark here in most of the fields so plenty of time to get the tires the brakes up to those optimum temperatures and that's not going to be a problem bruce by the time they come back into our view on the start finish straight and get this race back underwear 24 hour sprint not anymore we're at that point where we would normally be with three and a half hours or so to go bruce where it really is now now's the time to pull out all the stops it really is going to be the sprint risk we may even see some different driving tactics because there's nothing to lose now absolutely so the teams that were still on the lead lap but uh were effectively right at the back of it so almost 25 kilometers down they've been shunted up onto the tail of the car that was ahead of them on the laptop but not necessarily on the track so everything warming up but no since but not to be the drivers as well i don't think it does drive is a lot of good to be standing out on the grid just thinking about what may be coming trying to visualize the track most notably however visualization is going to have to be a very very strong feature for a lot of them because the fog is still incredibly thick at least on the grand three part of the circuit the field is running line of stern more than 100 cars coming out to play for the final three and a half hours and as they still go around behind the safety car lights flashing on the roof of the audi's safety car visibility as they come up to the vidol chicane is poor poor muscle memory we've talked about this joe drivers need to rely on that at times of fog they can engage it but it's quite hard to do that when you're running behind a safety car because of course that's a reduced speed so it's really not letting the brain get up to where it needs to be but next time around well we'll see how how many laps it's going to be behind the safety car because it may just be this one but with conditions as poor as they are in terms of visibility they could yet call another lap or so we talk about drivers getting into a rhythm don't we and it really is that it's all about timing and it's you get into a floor and obviously behind the safety car that we're nowhere near getting to that floor once we get underway and we get this risk started i think the drivers their nerves will settle if you're not getting if you're not nervous at this part of any water is then what's the point in doing it there really isn't it's got to give you a thrill it's going to give you that that buzz and there's no doubt about it in those cockpits those drivers will be buzzing just trying to calm themselves down and get on with the job and certainly the pros standing around the grid bruce that they're well honed their protocols and the processes and the idiosyncrasies and the superstitions all come into play you know putting on the left boot before the right or getting into the car you know the right leg or the left leg first or whatever it may be all of that now is filtering away as we continue on this warm-up lap and get ready to restart and we get a bit of a a visible indication for ourselves as to just how tricky it's going to be out there for the drivers and once again you know the nurburgring is such a challenge and it's been an even bigger challenge this year i think with the delay absolutely so in fact the way the way i liken the drivers as they stand on the grid they're like people those of us remember today standing outside the exam hall outward sort of bother me and laughter and inside thinking what is lying ahead good news is actually out on the away from the grand prix loop as the cars go out onto the rest of the circuit in parts of visibility's better famously with the start finish line being one of the highest points in the track that is where the fault is worse but no sooner have i said that then as the cars are running around the early stages of the lap they can't pass hats and back up the visibility then drops away again it is not good so any driver with many years of experience there's some here with decades of experience on the nordschleife they're going to have to call in all of that and keep their focus super super sharp but we've had many many hours of delay because the fog that fell just before nightfall last night and then after an accident uh the problem of getting a medivac helicopter uh became insurmountable that's why we've had all these delays since hours of delay but right now the good news is the track is dry it's not warm but visibility is still what you'd say at the poor end of the scale yeah it's uh some of the parts of the track that we can see our camera positions are really high up so it's we're looking at the track through the fog so it's not a real indication of what the drivers can see uh what i can tell you bruce we've got some information as to who our starting drivers are so i'll give a quick rundown of the top ten um the number one car leading the field round behind the safety car the rover racing bmw now has philip n installed in that uh second place the number four mercedes the hrt mercedes as uh morrow engel now taking over that car um steph double door uh dusseldorf is in the number 20 in third place that's the shoe with bmw and then beretta is in the number 11 in fourth place in the phoenix racing audi that's car 11. in fifth place uh tomczek is now at the wheel of the second of our world of bmws uh that's car 98 and then the porsche of the mantai 911 numbered car in sixth as uh superstar kevin estrin in the in the uh taking the start or the restart i should see it my question machovecki in the freaking deli car in uh seventh place that's car 31 it plays to number 29 audi from the lan team as uh christopher meats at the wheel of that one ninth is the number seven much yellow at the wheel of the mercedes from get speed cars seven and then running off the top ten at the restart is uh car number eight with schiller at the wheel of the second of the get speed mercs well it's like a who's who of the top gt drivers in the world really is uh for a lot of them joe this opening lap or when they get released and can really start racing it's going to be their chance to gain a position or two so just look for the like the real charges in there the kevin esters who did it yesterday worked his way from outside the top ten up to very sharp end of the field he's sure to be trying to make a move or two in the 911 grello livery mantha manti racing porsche and also rafaeli martino starting three positions further back in one of the two uh pink white and blue bwt livery mercedes history team gets the he's car number seven look out for the in particular but the person with the biggest fan in his face ought to be ma it ought to be philippines starting the number one bmw from pole positions but morrow engel will be asking those initial questions of him he's starting second the number four hrt mercedes and uh it's going to be what they can do according to what they can see i feel i think all bets are off bruce trying to pick a winner out of this lot uh at any stage of the nurburgring 24 hours it's for me i'm not quite sure how we're gonna see these drivers approaching it's not like we're getting towards you know three hours to go in and we've run for a full 24 hours because by then the cars are tired you you've got little vibrations that are developing you're hearing noises uh coming from the car you have hopefully kept off these uh some of the kerbs at the nurburgring you just steer well away from um we've got pretty fresh cars um they've already done five and a half hours or so of racing before we uh went to the red flag and so they're pretty fresh to start with they've had a bit of a wipe down and a bit of a service as well so we really have got 100 machinery under under our backsides out there on this track so it really is it's gonna be it's i i think we've got a three hour ten lapper ahead of us if that makes sense yeah i get what you're saying there joe i think i think the simple point is the fact not only the cards fresh i mean the team's going why did we bring so many tyres honestly just haven't been getting through them this year but of course the drivers are fresh and the portable drivers are nose to tail so it is effectively a restart of this race yes we got the order dictated by how they finished when the race was red flagged uh last night but uh a chance for those to atone for either driver areas work their way forward or for the fact that they picked when the track was changing conditions got the wrong sort of tyres and we saw some crews going out doing as few as a couple of laps than having to come back in and change to a different sort of rubber it was going to prove effective at the track at that time but it was a changeable beast and it will ever ever be so well the field brutes are already through bird work and already making their their way through those flat out sweeps of casual trend uh and on towards costa tal heading towards the up towards the uh starting to climb up towards the carousel and horace the highest point of this track and i've got to see a visibility from the in-car cameras on the live stream showing uh to be all you know pretty perfect almost no fog at all that might change as we right right and altitude on this track with true tesla now just heading towards crosstal this part of the track absolutely flat chat in a well-handling gt3 car and it's not until you go through that uh tricky left-hander where you maybe just feather off maybe even a downshift for some of the the other classes through the left-hander across the tower but it's one of those corners where it's so easy to lose time by just being a little bit too tentative you don't see that in the uh that the pro drivers in the gt3 field they are absolutely on it all the way through there already beginning to rise though bruce towards the carousel now heading down towards the uh the right hand that leads to that that curving hillside where we see the textbook racing line just going from left to the right and side of the curb as the the entry to the carousel kind of twists and turns doesn't it yeah and it's no surprise that that massive bank just beyond the right hand if it turns the track up towards the carousel just the most fantastic vantage point it's one of the best places to see the cars really really working but what i noticed is that cars you talked about the visibility not being too bad through kessler the closet starting to rise up carousel you're suddenly going up in the sort of clouds that no doubt are still hanging around on the start finish trade but the lower parts of the circuits and the parts of the track that run with the trees close to the side necessarily have unfortunately had better visibility but it then starts to fall away again the visibility as they go towards her again there's a bit of a glue high point on the circuit uh they'll drop away again and the visibility will improve but it really is going to be changing a corner to corner but i don't think the weather's going to change anytime soon it's had all these hours to do so there's been no wind to blow it away the temperature hasn't risen so i think this fog will be with us at pretty much the duration three and a half half hours of racing hopefully uninterrupted i think somewhat come up major i think the first lap is going to be absolute fireworks oh bruce i'm can we just clarify that the gaps between the cars how will be zeroed as they cross the line it's not gonna be uh the gaps we're not gonna carry those gaps that we uh that remained at the red flag uh i'm led to believe that it is as we see it it's now basically a race for position as we go green when we come by um so yeah fireworks indeed i mean just look at those names you know uh maro engel uh with kevin estrella down in sixth marrow angle in seventh second you you can't uh you can't rule out any of those drivers in the top what top twenty um it's going to be phenomenal and you know i'm hoping that everyone will be sensible it's still an endurance race it's still over three hours so there's you know still anything can happen and you know sometimes discretion being the better part of valor this i think the mindset has got to be disregard that it's a 24 hour is that's been reduced to this this is now a three-hour mortar race and we're going to address it as that and we're going to it's a complete refresh it is entirely and we heard just a recorded interview with trousers he was grilled by john reinhold he said it is just a sprint but this is even more so this isn't 20 for our spring three and a half hours to the flag some of the best practitioners of gt3 racing in the world don't forget even through the pandemic you're getting championships running worldwide these drivers have cropped up an awful lot of air miles and very best great pretty much every weekend these cars aren't a mystery but for now what is a mystery is the track [Music] tracking is dry visibility is still poor but it's way way better than it was so the field just did the first time watching or listening uh to the nerf dream 24 the cars will start in three groupings we still have more than 100 cars coming out to play about 110 cars out to play this morning but it's not play this is cut and thrust motor racing and i'm right on the balls of my feet already in the concrete box just thinking about what lies ahead and hopefully we'll see enough to call it joe filled into the schwaldenschwanz area which is getting towards the last stages of this uh warm up laugh and we've got uh through troubling strands towards the planet carousel and then we'll be making our way on to the dottinger hall under control conditions still though bruce and we can see the fog increases as we uh as the track rises in altitude pardon me we've already gone through the highest point of this track at whoa act and the fog was perhaps i thought at its very thickest from what i could tell from the onboards um the field goal bruce out onto the just about to come out onto the dotting aho now and so we should be seeing them really starting to up the game they've got the tyre temperatures up to where they want them the brick temperatures are there they no doubt the engine thames gearbox oil temperature is where we need them to be so we're about to go racing we're not far away from that green flag bruise yeah one thing i keep looking for joe is how easily can they see the marshals post which don't forget extra set of eyes for them of course marshalls worldwide wear bright orange overalls because it helps them stand out you can see them not quite so easy to see all of their flags i was seeing a white flag being being waved as you can understand slow moving vehicles they're all slow moving vehicles are behind the safety car uh for this restart that should start um at the top of the hour the white flag does rather disappear in the gloom it does but from what i can gather bruce that the the reason why we've got a flag wave is so that the uh that the drivers can see and sight and and get a location on where they need to be looking for the flag so we do have flag waving on a warm-up lap like this for that very reason it's just a reminder it's a bit of a near memoir to the drivers and as we are probably halfway down from my estimation halfway down the dotting the hall uh roots will be starting the heart rates will be rising will be a little bit of a heart flutter with the adrenaline beginning the floor we're about to go racing and it'll be on to the grand prix striker for the first time at this restart very very soon and just to reiterate the point you made a short while ago zero the gaps being zeroed between the cars they can be nose to tail and of course first time finish line has to be the rover racing number one bmw that's taking this restart from the front of the queue of having been at the head of the queue uh when it's the flag the red flag was uh waved last night for the poor visibility no overtaking until well you can overtake within a meter to start finish line if you so choose but you have the car in second place the number four mercedes tyro engel has to keep his nose behind as does everybody else no overtaking before the start finish line so up and down the pit lane nervous tension the tapping of fingers in the garage for a lot of the drivers they've done a lot of the hard yards before the red flag last night they don't want it to be thrown away with the first lap lumber fumble but uh that first corner turn one always inviting for an overtaking move show and we've just had clarified a minimum of two laps during the race for drivers to be classified so um i'm pretty sure that that's going to be tricky with some of the four driver teams so i'm i'm thinking that is for the this restart of three-hour section so a minimum of two laps for the drivers to be signed um just a little thoughts lovely there's a comment from michael hedderington on the twitter feed at rsl n24 the datsia is only 10 laps down it could yet win this but of course we laughed the slowest car in the field and 10 laps here equates 250 kilometers but it's still going the spirit of the event but right now the audi's safety car lights still flashing on the roof turns left for the final time of this lap just waiting to see accelerating down the starting straight the lights go out the visibility is very poor indeed for philippe he's waiting for the start waiting waiting waiting now he's forward the truck won't be able to take it before his start finish line he hugs the pitball side because he can see that more easily and in behind we've got some possible overtaking including the 98 sister car looks like martin tomczyk may be gaining position as they dive down but it's so hard to see the drivers but i tell you what overtaking already joe yeah i'm not sure whether the stewards will pounce on that already into turn one and uh it looked a little bit messy it looks more it looks much more frantic from our viewpoint than it ever does from the one of the driver's seats but it's philip who led across the line we've got cars almost three wide into the left and right heading down towards the gunlock curve now leader pulling away and the number 11 there of beretta getting losing a little bit of time there as he went wide that's allowed estra sorry not estrogen mcavecky in the frickadeli chart has come alongside and get the line into dunlop and he's made that place change so the number 31 ahead of the 11 audi now the 31 triggered every fortune on it yeah and uh hands up this is the quiz who's made an overtaking maneuver kevin estrada of course he also went past michael beretta so but estra started in sick he's up to fifth and for the phoenix number eleven alby losing ground but up front there's a real real twitch where the track goes from turmoil immediately cuts left to turn two and uh to maintain the lead filiping had been right across the nose as he was challenged but uh resisted the efforts of morrow engel no sense no no let's not talk about the weather it seems a little brighter up above so hopefully just hopefully the fog will go but right now these drivers are racing not blind but the next closest thing yep still got thick fog as we're already off the grand prix striker and on to the nordschleifer into the hat and back part of the nordschleife at the first part of the green hell as it's affectionately referred to and it's very much the leader of the race very much the property of philip hang in the rover racing bmw um we talked about race has not been one on the first lap but you can do yourself a lot of favors in getting up as many fists as you can the cars are punched together you can make places before the field gets strung out then it becomes a real effort to overtake and when you've got to make those moves you've got to pounce you've got to take advantage of drivers ahead of you who are perhaps a little bit more cautious than you can be however at this level groups nobody's that cautious everybody is absolutely on it no there's a special rule anyone with the first three letters they're certainly starting eng they should pull through the opposition so philip hang from pole position morrow angle doing just that steph dusseldorf in third place it's about a second back he's got a bit of a gap then comes tom ching estra machiavelli beretta marcelo meese and completed the top 10 fabian schiller in the second of the team get speed mercedes and still there is overtaken down the pack neil verhagen making up a place or two for the bmw junior team you're quite right you've got to make those moves around the grand prix loop as soon as you turn left and start heading towards hats and back then that's the point at which overtaking becomes oh so much harder but the good news is the track drops away down the incline the visibility is certainly getting better in the lower reaches of the circuit you know what bruce we talked about the nurburgring mulch life has been a very tight and twisty truck it might be tight it's relatively twisty but it's very high speed the twists are very high speed and there's very little speed variation in the corners it's not like you've got a massive uh breaking area where you can kind of park the car and turn all the corners float to one another and hence that's why it makes overtaking on the nordschleife so much more difficult uh second group across the line and restart there at nurburgring 24 hours a seat i like the way you say i see it's immensely hard to see but we can hear them coming past the lights are on we can pick them out and certainly some of the tcr hyundai's or a pair of them right at the front but any swivel from the top of the pit building to look down towards turn one you lose the cars even before they get there that's just an indication of how thick the fog is headlights fully ablaze that quick flick turn sharp right through turn one then immediately cut left not using all of the mercedes arena and then continue all the way down to the bottom of the hill to the dunlop the hairpin at the bottom and then back up and of course when you go through the video chicane up a little bit further then hard left hard left again over that bridge and then down onto the nord slider and off you go and luca angstler in the second position in the tcr class as far as my memory serves me just looking down the order they were in and around the in fact i'm gonna have to take a little while to find them the way down the order but that that tcr battle they're not too far apart the two hyundai's battling it out it's a team battle in the team battle there for tcr honours and we've got a pit visitor straight off the back of the restart with a driver change uh taking effect um that that's without completing a rare slot there at the restart an unusual one changing the wheels changing the tires as well fantastic battle on track it's for fifth and sixth places it's kevin estra being carried very hard by the frick delhi porsche with the fred machiavelli and in turn kevin estrada trying his utmost to hang on to the second of the rover racing bmw passing top chip at the wheel of that but the first three cars in third place stephan pulling clear and fully clear of all of them tomorrow angle in second he's four tenths of a second down on the race leader in that number one merced uh bmw for rover racing philippe eng holding on the austrian leading this race and for those behind just trying to hang on get a toe rafaeli marcelo now all over the tail of michael beretta beretta started fourth he's in seventh that could become eight before the end of his flying lap they're already out of the carousel and heading towards the vet it's the part of the truck but arguably everybody says that's where the lap time lies it's through whitman into brunching and then out of the brunching area it's a sequence of corners that are really challenging and it's you it's not just where you can make up time but it's certainly where you can lose time and it's all about keeping that momentum so easy to lose all you need to do too wide on on a curb get onto the slippery uh slippery bits of grass and the outer curbing uh there's no grip whatsoever and it's very very tricky but uh not that tricky where we got we have this very high standard of gt driver making short work they're already into the flansgarten and bruce the sight of these cars just coming through the flanks garden through the fog headlights the players i'm hoping that these drivers haven't got the similar sort of visibility that we have it's very hard to uh to pick out the cars within these foggy conditions yeah but i think we came up with a very good point joe that um the camera positions are up high so there's a degree of fog we're looking through some positions higher than others but down at track level as long as the drivers close the car ahead they can see them what i did spot you were talking about these top drivers making mistakes i think nico muller in the number two car collection out he slightly cut clumped a curve car came back across the track and in behind neil bahagan the bmw junior team racer had to check his momentum otherwise he might have flattened him up the back so again the mistake not necessarily because the fog it was probably simply the car's running so close and perhaps hit the curb on one side of the track and it can fire the other way but a good avoidance by neil verhagen yet bottom end of the top 20 down in 18th place but uh nearly collected someone else's problem which ever has been an issue at the nurburgring leading group onto the dotting yahoo and this is where the slipstream comes into play we may see some movement in the order i'm not seeing any at the moment to get liner stern through the merc heading down the fastest part of the circuit towards the tier garden and we'll be threading the needle as we go into tear garden for hardin very very racy indeed right under the till pulling that before the king he's just behind the number two of the audi sport team car collection audi r8 but he has to slog back in as they come into it really is threading a needle off the dottinger into the tier garden through the sweeps of that section of track and out onto the start finish screen this is a good spot one of the cars in that group into the pits we'll clarify who that is this is a breaking area into turn one you've got to follow the car through to your garden and then get yourself in a position where you can outbreak and it has indeed been the leaders who've done just that bruce well in fact what we've got it's it's delaying from engle but in behind we've had a change kevin etcher has gone past martin thompson has thompson got it back no tom chick is now the meat in the sandwich he's estra in now in fourth place macavity and sick and between them is tom chu in his bmw's that was a move made down into turn one and the car that came in was a kcmg porsche he could just about through the fault it's going onto slick tyres didn't really see what everyone was starting on but a decision josh burden brought that in he was a well placed at the restart but that's obviously going to drop him right down through the pack well there's an indication of track conditions bruce their first slot out on the restart and phillip eng and the rover racing bmw the leader of course being the first car across the line has posted the fastest lap of this race so far we're down to an eight minute twenty point two phillip uh uh maro engel wasn't that far behind with an eight minute 20.7 so that's just showing me that track conditions are possibly the best we've seen since this race started yesterday let's just let's just focus the mind the fact that's in in qualifying i know conditions are all quite mixed but uh any time under eight minutes 17 was considered a good lap eight minutes 15 super special but eight minutes 20 when you can see very very little that says a lot in all sorts of ways and so let's have it it's bmw from the number four mercedes just as they uh started this restart steph dusseldorf in third kevin estrada up to fourth in the mantai racing porsche rover racing martin chop chick fifth and fred machiavelli freaking delhi porsche in sixth place just noticed there the number 22 the the ferrari of the dwm wtm team they're running with phoenix racing here this weekend uh george vice indy donchi uh yacht and chromeback and daniel kelevitz at the uh down to drive that car that car in the pits and looking like it's sort of a pit stop time i mentioned bruce that the pit stop times will be taking on uh from yesterday's stint when we went to the red flag it'll be classed as one long stint and it was taking on fuel there uh the tyres had already gone on so um i would have thought under park permanent condition uh without any park burner conditions the cars could have been refueled for the restart so i'm i'm a little bit amused why the 22 was taking on more fuel unless it was just topping off yes and also in the pits jan eric saluted and finally out of the number five phoenix racing audi at worth pointing out often gets lost in this sp9 the top floor the faa gt3 type cars also has a proam class and um janna exclusive running in that you know way shorter experience compared to his own teammates max hoffman cole and dennis marshall but um climbing out maybe maybe that was a pre-ordained tactic he would take the restart but i thought the least experienced driver probably didn't want to be doing the restart in all that missed anyhow finally out of the number five phoenix racing alex for the best phoenix racing audi in the race just for looking across the teammates mikhaili beretta started in fourth got monstered on the grand three loop on the opening lap he's down in seventh place he's right under the rear wing of fred machiavelli we were right bruce's two three and a half hour ten lapper we're seeing the cars not taking out any kind of cushion so everybody in this whole field is pretty much on high alert hanging onto the car in front being aware of where your competitor is behind you just keeping an eye a wary eye in the mirrors but as long the thing about the norch lifer is as long as you can keep momentum it's very very hard to pass there's the this very few heavy braking areas certainly on the air the 24-hour configuration one of the greatest passing places into turn one it's a really heavy braking area and uh it certainly rewards a bit of bravery we saw kevin estrada there just taking advantage of a absolutely last of the lead britney's that who were to move ahead of the bmw and as we continue on it's going to be that kind of opportunity we're going to see this whole thing looking for just again constantly looking at any cams cameras i can see camera angles again the visibility still far far better at the lower parts of the circuit but he does appear to be improving but the drivers are still really making a few mistakes i've been talking about this neil bahagan battle number 77 bmw junior team uh entry with the number two audi and nico muller when they got to tiergarten on the last lap was out of line he was on the left-hand side and tracked kinks to the left beforehand he clouted a curve and got i would say all four wheels off the ground before he came back down and still kept it front for hargan but very very spectacular and i'm sure over the next few days all sorts of onboard footage will be uh landing uh you know for you to be looking at and some of the moments are just extraordinary it really really focuses the mind as to just how good these drivers are and i think the gt3 car is the classic car for the circuit at the moment i think their performance great you've got all the manufacturer variety and with balance performance we've got a great mix of cars at the top end we haven't debated whether the uh these gt3 cars are too fast and indeed too wide for the north slater we'll leave that we haven't got time to even to even talk about that this year bruce um thanks to the collective jake parrott and brody have just reminded me that the new regulation of course during the red flag there was a limit of only 20 liters allowed to be added during that red flag period uh we talked about um there's no apartheid so we can pretty much do anything we want to with regards to repairing the cars but only 20 liters of fuel being allowed so if you were down on fuel and you've factored in a very early pit stop at the restart which a few cars we've seen done that bruce um the reason why they're putting fuel in is because we've already been able to replenish 20 liters during the the delay okay that's a good answer just um the dacia logan has already been lapped and the speed differential as race leader murrah sorry philippe and mario engel flash fight is astonishing that in its own will be up as on board footage for people to look at that that's here keeping out of the way as well as it possibly could but um certainly very very eye-opening as uh lachmeyer hangs on corns us to the best of his ability in that doesn't actually logan but uh really quite scary with the car's flash pass and he hasn't got one or two coming past he's got 30 coming past in the space of literally about a dozen corners new improvement i see bruce with regards to the fog in the high places on the track um about four act um i'm being argued with as to what the highest part of the track is by uh another good friend of the collective darren wood who reckons that the highest point of the track is where the grand prix wrecker goes out onto the nordschleife it's the whole rack is 617 meters above sea level and the left-hand turn onto the towards the north side from towards the hatton backers at 628 meters darren takes our nerd award for the weekend i think at that so um we're getting back to what i was saying still quite foggy in the high on the high ground uh a lot better visibility for our drivers though bruce and from drivers level i think enough visibility that we can have a very clean race we're seeing some great racing here with some very we've already seen and discussed how good the track condition is seeing the fastest laps we've seen so far since the race began yesterday afternoon so perfect really and there's another fastest lap down toward eight minutes 12 for schubert motorsports bmw car 20 currently third and eight minute 12 there quickest like we've seen all day um that pretty much puts it up quickest all weekend yeah so the drivers are getting into the swing the track as i said though they can't see as much as they'd like the track is dry it's constant and uh that's a big big help also for steph dustin's running slightly on his own in third place one and a half seconds down on those ahead ah the fricka deli number 31 the remaining frickin deli car the sister car had all the problems yesterday which accounted unfortunately for earl bamber matt campbell matthias and nick tandy tandy the only one of those who's got a win in this event before won't be getting it this year because that was parked up last night so his win from 2018 will have to stand the number six the very luridly liberated palace sponsored mercedes from the outracing team in the pit lane as well so the front runners continue on their way but quite a few of the others reporting into the pits it was the 31 uh fricatelli racing porter the number six out racing team mercedes the vulcan horse bmw that's kubernetes coming in neil for hagen who was so feisty trying to overtake around the outside at schweden kreutz to make it work but uh gets a medal for trying again yell the birdman the number 10k racing team mercedes also calling into the pit after that second flying lap of the circuit first a second 1.8 seconds visibility still poor classic battle at the front and a great overtaking coming from the land audi as it works way up the order with uh the smiling assassin christopher mease at the wheel it's gonna be a really tough one to call bruce while we are in this the first of our pit stop callers um it's going to rely on us back counting uh counting back towards the end of this race with regards to how the pit stop phases flip-flop between the runners very much at the front of this field though the rover racing bmw being chased by morrow engel in the number four out into the gloom and then the other bmw m6 of schubert with dusseldorf at the wheel in third kevin estrella moving up the fourth we thought he would make a move and he has he has indeed and it's whether or not that number four we spoke to adam just a doula last night and he was very confident that they have the pace to actually win this race but a team that's going to try and stop that is of course the bmw that he's chasing down yeah chasing around but actually it's sort of it's ebbing and flowing a little a short while ago the rover racing number one m6 was in 1.6 seconds clear now it's one second flat but traffic can start to have a little role to play in this and uh certainly as they come across the slower production class cards the like of rafaeli martiello are definitely looking to see if they can gain places often that's the moment as you said so hard on the nordschleife to overtake between similar cars but with one of the cars in the group losing momentum for maybe just not having guests the right way to get around a back marker that is the opportunity these top tribes are looking for and it's a great battle for those sixth seventh and eighth marcelo chasing down the two audi's at beretta and mates just ahead of him as we head back to the pits and see that the number 31 the prickly porsche just coming to the final stages of its big stop the tyres going on to that porsche at the very last moment they're coming out of the blankets right at the very end of the pit stop no need to have the car sitting on the jacks with the brand new tires uh just losing that heat watching the heat leave the uh those tires that have gone on there they'll not be up the optimum but it's a better start having them just out of the blankets when you go back under the track for sure yeah absolutely so joe and you commenting last night that if you do that on a wet track when it's not very warm all the time blankets best efforts get reduced into next to nothing within the space of no time at all and certainly yesterday evening the grand prix circuit was just so so super wet the rest of the track not so bad but boom there goes your tyre temperature and a lovely little tweet from martin here he says i kind of want to buy a dazier logan and drive it in a tourist tourist and far is this how marketing works all the money a multi-million dollar budget and then you can get someone driving adapter logan it pulls your heart strings yeah it is actually how marketing works and uh you know up at the front of the field you know bmw and mercedes and audi and everyone else showcasing that technology in there what is effectively their supercar range isn't it you know the audi r8 the bmw m6 and the mercedes amg gt3 you don't see many of them on the road but the ones you do the technology that's going into these cars do uh just cascade down over the whole range of audi and mercedes and porsche and the bmw range so very much so but i'm still not tempted into getting involved in one of those care dustier things i'm i'm really not bruce it hasn't worked for me either there we go wow near near contact battle for sixth place rafaeli marchello all over the tail of the katie bertrand and it has led to contact the rear body work of the audi got tagged there because he only had to back up going past i think it's the toyota gt 86 the yellow car with this green red and blue stars on the side oh beretta all over the place probably got a punch now he's been hit by marcelo cause he slowed down wentz or you certainly went sideways and off so left rear puncture round it went really unfortunate neither driving to blame in that boat yeah it's one of those things i'm surprised it took so long for an incident like that to happen and it's you know with the driving absolutely on the limit with only you know macros of centimeters in uh between the cars and it was just a little bit unfortunate there i was gonna say it that tire is not going to last very long and it was i was proved to be uh completely right on that one it didn't last any time at all the bodywork that was pushed onto the rear left tyre of that audi pretty much siding its way through the tire and causing a puncture um we've got a slow zone out where that incident occurred and that's just after the carousel up towards horror act and i'm not sure if the audi is into the barrier it was clipped by the marcelo mercedes and you know what bruce the the the run-off there is so tight i'll be amazed if that audi did not connect to the barrier code 60 no longer a slow zone and the audi everyone else behind don't forget behind marcelo there's another train of cars they got through the audi of beretta was already pitching sideways because that puncture at the point that was the tap from marcelo i would think but um unfortunately it's the royal auto motor club san beats toyota gt86 it's just ran out of anywhere to go and the others behind were so tight oh one of the pointing the wrong way is one of the it's the number 33 thomas priming driven falcon motorsport 4 so that's got to get going again the young austrian chairs at the clouds back with dirk berner last david arnold i think he was caught up just after going past the the spun beretta audi but uh again it could have been another car going through the carousel of course the carousel was the point at which the contact was made oh no sorry he's slightly further around that app i beg your pardon just spun coming out of the corner all on his own oh well was that the clyder carousel where that it was the classical car completely gets disturbed there if you just happen to be on the power at the wrong time so easy to do and that's what we saw thomas printing doing exactly that um other information coming through that a penalty has been given to the number 11 for uh a a flag infringement and that's the number four mercedes off track from second place so and he's pushed up the tyre barrier was it all on his own under pressure well lost it come long before the corner cut across the grass with the opal manta the foxtail manta that then slid into it at the exit of the corner before getting out of the way but uh so suddenly in the space of half a lap it's all happening yeah that's unfortunate and the manta there that got involved somehow i'm not quite sure how that car got involved but uh heavy impact on the left front corner of the manta i'd be amazed if the suspension of the steering hasn't took a hit there on the uh on the manta the mantas already made its way to the track i think that's occurred at the tier garden uh bruce um that's kind of confirmed by the speedy access to the pits that the manta has been able to uh to get onto there's the we're just seeing a bit of a replay now just trying to try to clarify exactly what happened to the number four mercedes bruce now still uh it's still unfathomable what caused that mercedes to go off and hit that barrier so heavily he's uh he's hit the barrier uh with quite a whack but that the incident started way back the car was already on the grass when he came into our view yeah what we couldn't tell with i mean that the banter sort of came into view first but traveling at far greater speed as you would imagine was marrow engel and and to me that was probably my favorite to win this race adam christopher murrow engel manuel metzger and the odd one out lucas staltz has driven brilliantly he hasn't won this race but it goes to prove as good as the chase was he pursued uh philippe who was leading by a second unfortunately just got caught out and for those behind kevin estrada martin thompson chris bernice they all move up but it just goes to show when you get in among the back markers you have to hope that everybody sticks to their line and certain points you you make a move maybe around the outside and really the word is out sure driver will be fine but uh unfortunately for team hrt one of their two shots has now been fired so no no surprise a code 60 zone at that final sequence of corners between marshall post 202 and 204. i've got to say bruce doesn't cover any surprise that we're seeing this kind of incident with that markers there's such an urgency now time's running out time is running out to keep the pace up you don't want to lose you know if we start 18 hours to go there might have been a little bit of discretion or a little bit more discretion in overtaking that black marker however with just just over three and already two minutes uh over the three-hour goal mark and so you know there is a massive urgency about the body language of these drivers as they make their way through the the back markers and the other classes in this race and in fact joe message all this insult to injury department non-respective flag signals time penalty one minute thirty two to car number eleven that was michael barretta's now battered audi the one that was clattered up the back so race control had seen something they didn't like so unfortunately for them already held back by the damage to that car and the penalty to go with it and that would certainly remove them from contention but up front suddenly philippe enjoying the race instead of having just a one-second advantage over mara angle he's chased by another driver whose surname starts with e kevin estrada nine and a half seconds behind the last end can concentrate as the visibility does begin to improve around the circuit let's not forget though bruce i'm just gonna have a check on where they are with regards to their fuel stint and estra four laps into his the number one rubber rating car not quite sure that that theater is correct so i'm gonna feel out of that but uh we'll keep an eye on that gap the gap nine and a half seconds between the leading bmw and kevin estra and that is the and that's the number four morrow angle looking like he's gotten out of the number four mercedes still off track still into the barrier he's chosen not to continue and that is a big shame i was hoping that number former series that we spoke about earlier in that uh in the incident the most recent incident was able to get back to the pits but uh apparently not so a big enough hit for marrow engel he's standing up he's walking to the medical team now so these cars may be fast bruce but they're also built very robustly with driver safety being the primary aspect of the engineering of them i would think yeah and he went in clean sideways into the tyre wall having crossed the grass effectively straight line that that final sequence of corners so after the reckoning with the cars scrambling in and out of the pits the schubert mercedes super bmw came in from what had been third place steph dusseldorf uh and uh now we've had changes from both the get speed mercedes as well danny young cadella has taken over the number seven uh from rafael marcello and the sister car number eight also came in at the end of the last lap and has been handed over from matthias vasilier to to young fabian schiller visibility's still dreadful we've got three hours to go in the race but the driver's really starting to stretch their legs at the front of the field it's pretty tight on the restart but uh supremely controlled under pressure from morrow angle but philippe kept the nose of his bmw in front for rover racing is now sitting on a 10.8 second advantage over the charging kevin escrow that for me bruce is the battle of the race astrid chasing down until it end in the bmw it's developed into a bmw porsche battle now we've lost the mercedes in the former series that was very much looking on target to be there at the very end however as can happen so very quickly at this track in this multi-class race which we love so much it's uh it's never over until it's over and we can continue to just monitor that gap the gap is out to 10.8 seconds as we go through and getting towards the end of the norch life up towards and out of the kind of carousel [Music] we're getting towards that sweeping right-hander that brings us on to the whole rack it'll be [Music] quick work for philip end to get past the not small class cars ahead of him on the horizon and yeah and i i would expect i've got one i want to throw into the mix for you joe look out for the land of motorsport land audi sports team land audi christopher meese on board how's this for a line-up all four of them winners christopher meets renee rask kelvin van der linden and fred vervice nice driving at the moment he's picked his way forward forward forward from eighth place yes some of the rivals were pitted but this is a car that was pitted at the end of the formation at the start of the race yesterday afternoon had guessed wrongly on tyres and it's fighting its way back and it was outside the top 20 then outside the top ten now it's up in fourth place yes the cars are all in the pitting sequence you know what you really want to do your pit stops now because with the slow zones of the final sequence of corners where number four mercedes is still on terra firma about to be uh lifted onto a flatbed and taken away this is the time you can maximize if you dive into the pits i think we may still have got to double check have a code 60 zone at the exits just after the no it's cleared up just after the carousel where beretta's audi went off after its puncture well i'm believing bruce that we are due a pit stop from the number one the leading bmw who didn't have that much fuel on board we've lost one of the main protagonists in the form of the number four and the fan favorite that was involved in that the opal manta martiello just receiving a penalty for that contact that caused the demise of the number 11 audi and we were speculating and twitter certainly lit up with regards to whether or not martial should be getting a penalty that's transpired in the rare stewards and officials agreeing with pretty much everybody a little bit unfortunate i thought on him but it's one of the it's one of the parts of the game that you uh you have to really be on top of your game to avoid contact with the car when you're running so closely it can easily happen absolutely so whether it was the for that contact or when the buretta car already with that left rear puncture then was getting out of shape and there was further contact but i suggest probably the former because the latter it was the car wasn't really in his control anymore as he tried to turn right but with the left rear puncture the natural dynamics of your car take you on into the barriers still waiting with the flatbed the final sequence of corners waiting for morrow engel stricken number four bilstein mercedes one of the cars easy to pick out in the fall bright custard yellow with the blue flashes on it but the race leader in has been running very comfortably at the front field philippe and he was the one that angle was hunting down and that little slip-up occurred the beretta car has made it back to the pit lane it's having uh well just a fresh set of tires the body works patterned but actually not too bad i thought that was more of a trumpet received yeah just bodywork that was damaged and they've removed that section of bodywork that was uh impeding the tyre they've just removed that new tyre on and the number 11 audi back into the fray um also into the pits you you mentioned there the 911 numbered porsche 911 of mantai kevin estra at the wheel into the pits along with tom check and the 90-year bmw into the pits um i'm just wondering bruce when the number one's going to pierce its jews and we will see both the number one leading bmw along with that land audi that you mentioned christopher meat uh getting towards pit stop time as well and it's until we kind of fears out of this this sequence of pit stops that we get a look at and see just who is back in the contention pick a winner not really i'm not a betting man and it's hard to pick a winner out of the top 12 if not the top 20. oh i think you come on joe top 12. but don't forget we've got other drivers coming back into contention like josh burton who was one of the very early pit stoppers after the restart of this race he's now back up into ninth place and climbing the kcmg porsche and but what we have seen is the confidence for full slick tyre running the visibility may be poor but the track conditions are very good indeed except of course if you start running up onto the curbs which after you've had a lot of fog overnight will still retain the dams that can make all the difference between carrying on and being carried off 18 seconds joe so uh of course have been gaining ground sorry cut across your nose there yeah sorry bruce just about to mention that the mantai car about to resume i'm not i didn't see whether we had a change of driver there will not be able to check that one out until they click out onto the track from the pit stop kevin estra still showing at the wheel of that car and nothing changing on my timing screen we'll see i'm not sure did you notice that we we went to that in the pit we went to that manti what i wanted to pick out was the fact that uh one team that gained a lot of ground in that pit stop sequence was uh rootronix racing and uh the drivers stayed on board that's lawrence van tour on the silver porsche and he's got right on the tail of the mantai car and yet he was some distance back beforehand so uh certainly the retronic crew proving their worth but actually as they then proceed and he's jumped the second of the rover racing bmws he's got his nose in front of sheldon van der linde and that's that's good for vancouver not so good for vandalinder but since he got back on the track christensen has just taken off he went down into turn one with the reutronic porsche all over his tail and now christensen has rocketed clear and i think he's got past one of the other bmws as well which uh no hold on maybe that's out of sync it looked more like uh a new over haagen car which should be behind him but certainly s christensen doing exactly what estra would have wanted him to do don't forget this car just seems always to walk towards the front end of this field and when joe is deciding between the top 20 this is definitely one you can consider joe no gambling there absolutely bruce and with that slozone still out at the tea garden while we clear up the number four mercedes that fastest lap of the race still stands steph dusseldorf in the schubert bmw still standing that car down to 11th as we cycle through the pit stop phase is still at 8 minutes 12 that's not gonna we're not going to see any improvement on that fastest lap in the race until we see a perfectly clear track and uh progress report on that car being recovered is that the car is now on the flatbed and uh will very soon be uh we'll very soon be seeing that slow zone removed i would have thought now one big problem if you're running in one of the slower classes is when you've got a group of cars coming out of the fog behind you and they can catch you out and the bonk motorsport tcr cooper just had to shortcut the circuit as the rutronic porsche and the second of the rover racing the bmw's came through and almost collected them as he rejoined so i've said it before and again it's worth reiterating moments small moments become large ones but fortunately that didn't prove to be the case very early coming up the hats and backs but good evasion there cooper but it could have been a whole lot worse well done all involved it could have been and uh there's fanta in the retronic porsche and kelvin vandalinder in the rover bmw there they they're very much in contention that's a battle for fifth and sixth places so that would have been a bit of a tragedy if they had gotten uh tripped over the uh the cupra running in the tcr class but after avoiding action a bit extreme almost put himself out the race bruce just stopped that car before it contacted the barrier on the outside to welcome him yes but it could be one of those occasions when in trying to help out you actually make things a whole lot worse but well done to alexander prince the 171 bulk motorsport driver there he avoided a problem although it really became a far far bigger one so let's just take a look at the times at the top still waiting that pit stop from the number one rover racing bmw but all those behind that have pitted are almost nose to tail he's sitting on that advantage of nearly 19 seconds over christopher meese both of us pit stop up into third place the number 23 porsche from hoover motorsport but michael christensen leading the next train of cars the ones that have made their pit stops but plenty of action to enjoy but christensen the dane really earning his keeper running in fourth and charging pit stop strategy coming into play i would think they were already expecting it in bruce that whether or not some of the teams are going to reduce their stint length to seven laps and just to remind everybody that the stint length designates and gives you a minimum pit stop time so a seven lap stint will give you 169 seconds minimum pit stop if you stretch the stint to eight laps you've got to sit in the pits for 190 seconds and so on and so forth nine laps 213. so the question is for the pit wall strategists staying out longer doesn't necessarily give you any advantage for stretching your fuel mileage because of that pit stop time that you have to that you're obligated to to stay in the pits for and uh and so it just it just adds complication to the strategy of this race and talking to pit stops the leader is into the pits the number one bmw on pit road yeah had to make that slow approach through the final sequence of corners still the number four mercedes the car that i've been chasing having to be cleared let's try and take a look joe did you know the windscreen on eng's car was cracked or has he had just a huge piece of rubber whack its way up just in front of the driver's face can't see from one particular angle but riding on board it certainly seemed to be a great glitch across the screen but the mechanic cleaning it now maybe it was just some rubber that fired up and bounced off the screen not what you need in the fog not at all and i'm not sure we're going to see a driver change there plenty of time of course and whether or not we're going to see a driver change for the number one bmw there didn't seem to be much activity in getting the driver out in complete contrast we've got the land audi into the pits now and i'm just trying to see kelvin van der linde climbing in the system getting out of course they reverse the roles one straps the other one in and certainly this land motorsport car is looking very very strong worked its way into contention and of course the team won this event four years ago conor the phillippe christopher meets remember that name kelvin van der linde remember that name and marcus finkel been there seen it done it so just waiting for the last of the the crews to come in the huber motorsport porsche continues on its way though so it's going for one further lap they've obviously done their sums accordingly and uh they've worked out the different time time intervals just had a place lost out at the back of the circuit the two bwt mercedes running nose to tail caught the dazzy logan and for them suddenly they were jumped by the number six mercedes so grant great run there from patrick assenheimer splitting those two rivals really took advantage of it saw the six moves ahead of the seven and he's in between the seven and eight now he's in between the two pink vwt mercedes they're seven and eight of the uh tim gets feed he split them up and he's if anything asenheimer right now looking very racy indeed as klaus bachler in the 44 gets involved as well so that's a four card battle for 12th 13th 14th and 15th now developing out there yeah it's all good stuff they will all shuffle up when those uh those that haven't pitted do so they move up about three more positions i think but super super close between the mercedes but not one of the mercedes running at the sharp end of the field that's interesting suddenly came good in qualifying in fact when the track got wet at various points through practice and qualifying the mercedes seemed to come back into the mix but when the track's dry they just don't seem to have the wheels under them particularly so marco seyfried veteran racer leading the way but he is out of kill so his pit stop will come at the end of this lap he's still got about 20 kilometers to do to the end of this lap while all his drivers in the sp9 class have made their stops he's on a six lap stint at the moment bruce so this will be seventh lap again it depends on whether they're going to stretch it the way it laps um so we'll keep an eye on the number 23. i don't think it's gonna make a difference to how the number one cyclist back in are the number one under 29 indeed the bmw and the audi on pit lane at the same time first and second place is are the positions of those two cars when they came in to take the fifth stop that's allowed the hoover marks for porsche into the lead however that's been a change isn't it uh yes in the most certain it certainly will but of course uh coming in off the same number of laps the audi the land mode sport audi and the number one rover racing bmw will have to serve a pit stop over an identical time because of the number of that's but the dolly jacks are going under the number one bmws it's about to be pushed back into the garage this could be a sudden tumble yes the notes being swung round so maybe there is a windscreen that needs repair as as it happens at number nine audi gets underway and the bmw number one the race leader since restart is going nowhere yeah i thought bruce that they were just shuffling the car around to a 45 degree angle to ease the access out of the out of the pit area um he's dropping down the order massively the number one down to 11th already and no sign of that car from what i can gather from the timing screen no sign of that car getting out onto the track at the moment i'm just wondering if ang had stayed on board he knew there's a bit of a problem that he had been nursing even though he was leaving the race and he thought it was best that he would continue but until we get a camera down the pit then we can't tell you what's happening but we can tell you according to the time screen the us while race leader is now down in 15th place and falling so rover racing's help her hopes are in the hands of the sister car so what looks so good with them running first and forth it's now in the hands of sheldon van der linde in third overall right the number one bmw back down on the deck off the dolly jacks engine on is it about to leave the pit lane but it's fallen outside the top 20 disaster for last year's winners this is what adam christopher was telling us about bruce this is the car that took on the um of the pit that pitted just before the red flag and i'm just going to get uh adam's information back up um you you basically we expected this it's gonna this is effectively a 16 lap stint for the number one which means that it would have had to have taken uh sort of 353 seconds and that's why we're seeing that car remaining static on the pit lane it's to do with when it fitted just before the red flag and now we're seeing the car being released back into the race but i've got to say bruce that car has fallen way down the order as it resumes down to 19th place would you believe okay so pain they knew was coming of course i conveniently glossed over where it was in the pit sequence last night but they've got that one out of the way but that car has shown good pace all weekend but you don't fall to 19 to go charging back to the front of the field still waiting for marcus c3 to pick the number 23 hoover motorsport porsche from the lead and that should put michael christensen who was so quick that's the second he left the pit lane the manti racing porsche he will move into the races five seconds clear of sheldon's chelsea van der linde so 98 bmw gives hope at least for the rover racing team off their previous leader the number one car gets underway around the grand prix loop but has fallen right down the order then rutronic racing in fourth place which will become third that's florence van tour josh burton who was one of the very first top front runners to pitch for kcmg and his porsche he will move from fifth to fourth risk has been turned on its head doesn't it bruce we were talking and speculating about the battle between the number one uh bmw with the number four the series we talked about adam christopher from the number four mercedes he's he was the he was the one who i got that information from and he was he was beside himself thinking he'd been disadvantaged this race is completely on its head because now we've got the number one dropping out of contention dropping down almost out of this outside of the top 20 just inside in 19th as it resumed the number four a retirement and now we're going to be talking about the battle between the the the 23 leads the number 911 manti porsche is in second uh the 90 year bmw the number three retronic porsche in fourth and then we've got the kcmg porsche 911 uh corey in fifth so you know it it's still impossible to call where this is going i mean i think it's always always a feature of these variable length pitch stops that are controlled and managed they can confuse a race the teams know that they've got one person they've got one person who looks after the weather and probably someone else who's in charge of just knowing exactly how many seconds your pit stop will be all right a little dive into the pit lane the foxtel manta the one that's had the clash with the car that was running second with miro angler that final sequence of corners at tier garden front left suspension being repaired bodywork it's surprisingly good nick so maybe clearly in that accident something went wrong i saw that happen we'll be back yeah i saw that happen bruce the manta slid into the into the mercedes and pretty much the only point of that manta that contact with the mercedes was that right uh that sorry that left front wheel it literally just hit there the body work is perfect so the contact was being directly onto that front wheel and that's why i speculated that car is going to be very lucky not to get away with without any kind of suspension issues and sure enough that's the team they're still working on it so it it's been delayed it'll not stop them getting the car back out and taking the flag we've seen that done so many times with that awful manner it's great to see that castle going around here in uh every year it comes out the fox still man a fan favorite firmly so i was saying through the course of qualifying uh joe that i quite like a few other cars like sierra cod was to come out and play in you know the period m3s that were so so strong here winning this event so many times as we went uh from the late 80s from 1989 when pirro revalia and johar won through the fact m3s run one all the way through until 1997. we've got the number 11 audi in trouble all over again don't forget this is when michaeli beretta was clouted up the back when they caught the toyota gt 86 by rafaeli marcelo got the puncture had the repairs came back in and beretta has spun well look so he's on his own but the car is now stationary in the middle of the track waved yellow flags for everybody else uh coming through but it looks though he hasn't got any drive in that at the moment so uh trouble all around for the felix audi team just coming out of the clinic carousel just up at the schwalbern trance section of the track i'm hoping he will get that car back underwear uh we've got some good news though we saw moto engel uh walk out uh from the number former series and and was uh taken to the center the medical center by the medical team good news he's been checked and he's fine he's been released so that's uh great news no problems from other engel there other than that number four mercedes being out of the wrist of course so the huber motorsports uh poor shirt marcus c3 brought it in green green blue helmet marks him out of the car strapping in one of his teammates i'll tell you who it is when they leave the pits but it's the choice of phillip neuffer stefan oyste or nickel sorry stephan house or nico mental take over the 23 porsche that's running the pro-am class of sp9 so the race leader is michael christensen the manti racing porsche blasting towards the end of another lap on his advantage over the chasing sheldon vanderlinder over racing number 98 bmw is five seconds he's going to take that lead no question in my mind about that he's already into the king on the dotting a horse straight into the slow zone which remains there still repairing the barrier that's where the number four mercedes went off of course that car being recovered um a while ago but still barry repairs going on there was a big hit from the mercedes you don't have a small hit at the tier garden that's for sure it's a very very fast section of this track and michael christensen just having to slow down to what feels like warping fears having been flat out and this is the battle for the lead that we're looking at right now the number 23 remains on the pit lane just so we look at the pit stop time as christensen comes by now he's released with a green flag out of that slow zone and down across the line he will pass the 23 porsche that sits on the pit lane right now just to drive us right christensen taking the lead and the mantai racing strategy coming to the four with that nine one numbered porsche now taking the lead worth pointing out joe that at the at the restart the one-by-one restart line of stern uh the 23 hoover porsche started 20th so didn't expect it to be coming back out in the lead anyway but they running a long long pitch stop by pitting later than the vast majority of their rivals so it's just a case of sitting still waiting until the stopwatch uh takes its way round to the appointed hour literally and then they can get going yeah we're still waiting feels like an eternity there sat there he's dropping down the field the 23 is dropping down the field like the stone of course the cars all bunched together because we wouldn't normally see the cars being so close to one another on the road with uh this amount of time ago coming up to two and a half hours remaining in this race and of course that's because of the long delay and the restart we've got this massive bunch of cars and that's why we're seeing cars pit and then just literally plummeting down that timing screen like a storm and as the 23 porsche resumes the hoover motorsport car already down to tenth place overall as it resumes and gets on with its risk in fact that's dropping still down to 12 there bruce as it gets back on track yeah but it's still been a good run and don't forget of course that's going for pro am honours it's not going for outright victory if that comes their way they'll be more than happy and more than a little surprised but really the top guns showing why they are the top guns michael christensen now 7.6 seconds to the good over sheldon vander linde so it's porsche from bmw another porsche hello we've heard this name before vantour and it's the lawrence variety he's really really going very well indeed rutronic in third place he's just 2.3 seconds down on sheldon van der linde's bmw and there's another porsche in fourth place josh burden he's another well he's 11 seconds further back but he's got company from neil for hagen who didn't get out of the pit the driver chain was no driver change for the bmw junior team and he's been one of the real stars of this restarted race and the hargan in fifth and catching all the time number two audi they're showing smoke coming from one of the wheel arches um that car currently in sixth place was very much in contention the audi sport team car collection with uh i think it's nico muller at the wheel i'm not sure whether that car has had it coming together as we stay with the audi story this time it's the number 11 though and the number 11 audi that we saw just spinning out of the kleiner carousel has made its way back to the pits and the team go to work it's into the pit garage it's off the apron and more work going on on that left rear um it was the sorry the right rear is where the work is going on it was the left rear that the problem with the body work cutting the tire um in fact you know what bruce that's that's attention pretty much across the wall of the rear of that car uh engine cover off mid-engine car remember and we've got crew members mechanics on the left rear on the right rear rear and across the engine beer so i'm not sure whether that is you know what considering that was a spin that might be a gearbox issue well you know what i was impressed with how fast they turned it around at the first pit stop after after the puncture and the contact with the barriers as you said they removed the rear body work but perhaps not enough checking or they just didn't guess and maybe some of the initial damage then reared its head because i didn't really see we didn't see the incident we saw the beretta had spun but whether it was an assist or was it a technical failure we cannot tell right just looking at the order and uh just looking for other people who talk about that number two audi don't forget that was a car that was um jumping over the curbs under pressure from neil bahagan the young american nico muller at the wheel of the car collection motorsport car and again damage doesn't always reveal itself immediately there could have been damage um incurred in those incidents that would then built upon the points of weakness being established but suddenly for the audi teams it's going the wrong way with the exception i would suggest of kelvin down the limb the two van der linde is in the race both on the track at the same time land motorsport car is uh getting closer and closer to the tail of nico muller muller sick audi sports team car collection but the adi sports team land entry with the kelvin van der linde will soon be in the top six i'm sure of that [Music] so it really is heating up isn't it bruce it's uh we thought it was going to be a three and a half hour thriller and it's certainly shaping up to be just that um like i said look rich turned on its head the two early protagonists now seemingly out of contention one of them indeed uh retire and now it's all about montaigh racing and the other rover racing bmw was the number one last year's winning team that was very much in command of this race the sister car now has taken up the gauntlet and it's only just under eight seconds behind the leading porsche of mansai car 9-1-1 well the clock has a habit of ticking on it's certainly not the friend of that number one entry down in 19th place with uh just two and a half hours remaining in the race and the person really struggling as i just mentioned a while ago is um nico muller the number two audi has now been passed by kelvin van der linde and dropped the next one going onto the tail as mullet limps around the circuit with the schubert motorsport bmw steph dusseldorf he's the one doing the catching now for muller it's a real odyssey of pain in so many ways the car just isn't performing beneath him clearly something wrong so one audi going forwards that's uh kelvin van der linde up into sixth place nico muller it's going horribly wrong for him thank you bruce we're at the top of the hour and it's an odd hour update for us so that means we are going to have a look at some of the class leaders um we start with the alternative fuels class and that is car 320 it's in 51st place overall and it's the full borders by your concept porsche that leads the alternative fields the at class sp 10 is the next of the classes on my list that's car 70 the hall for racing by bank motorsport bmw m4 gt4 leading sp 10 they're currently 29th overall sp 8 is uh their class leader there is the gt tyre watersport audi r8 they're in 56th place overall that's car 53 uh the sp3t class as sees the max crews racing volkswagen golf uh the golf gti tcr to be exact that's car 10 and that car is in 40th place overall uh the v6 class is the team matteo racing porsche cayman that's car 132 and that is in 68th spot overall v5 v5 where are you on my list it's weird down the order 107th place for the number 142 uh rent to drive familiar racing porsche cayman and that car is in 107 like i said the v2t class is further up the order in fact i have to scroll down a bit to find the v2t and v2t is the fk performance bmw 330i they're 58 overall good run for the v2t class category 1.159 is who we're talking about and then the final uh class in our old hour update is the cup five runners and come by is in the first of the cup five runners is in 69th spot overall and that's car number 242 the adrenaline motorsport bmw m2 and that rounds up our class our odd numbered uh or so odd hour class run down we'll be going to other classes just give you an idea of who's who's leading overall at the top of the hour it's called 991 the manti racing porsche 911 with christensen at the way leading in second place with a gap of just under eight seconds right on eight seconds let's uh not be pedantic is the rover racing bmw car 98 and in third place uh all these cars sp9 of course and the overall third place card number three the electronic racing porsche and it's uh lauren van tour at the wheel of that car currently in third place so as we continue um i'd like to welcome back peter mckay peter and i know you haven't been able to drag yourself away from this race but your thoughts having just witnessed the restart after that long delay it's uh in my view i i'm not gonna it's impossible to call but who's gonna who's gonna be there at the end [Music] well thank you joe it's 1pm uh local time at the nurburgring we've got two hours and 26 minutes to go just under the distance of a normal imsa sprint race and yes i don't think we're a great deal clearer i mean what has amazed me i i really echo your sentiment from commentary earlier on about the frantic nature of the drivers the drivers know in traffic they can't afford to even give a tenth of a second away and that's caught a few drivers out you know it's it's frantic when a driver of marrow engel's experience gets caught in a big incident um at the tier gardens so a lot of surprises you have to say um you've got to be gutted for the number one role with bmw crew because it seems something relatively trivial that's taken them right out of the contention yeah it was it really was and uh we see a challenge there uh just a couple of uh a laplacian gore a few minutes ago the the number 77 having a draw that's the bmw junior team bmw verhagen again trying to get down the inside of vandalinder what i think peter is the the only real passing spot where you can kind of just throw a caution to the wind and have a go on the brakes and that's in the turn one after that uh fabulous run down the dotting a hall through the tier garden it kind of breaks it up and then just carrying the momentum through the tear gun and we're seeing that lap after lap aren't we that's that's where if you're gonna pass gt3 cars tend to be so close performance wise they produce whether it be the rear engine 4911 or the mid-engined audi the front-engined cars of the mercedes uh they kind of produce the same lap time for in very different ways they really do yeah and you've got you have like you say they've got the engine mounted in different places and it's a spin for the kcmg porsche josh burton i think on board that car into the barriers i i think that's the hatsune back door yeah it is pat and back catching out burden there and just spinning he did contact the barrier and it remains to be seen just how hardy contact with the barrier there's nothing visible a little bit of bodywork damage but through the hats and back again we talked about the need to keep the pace up and not give away even a tenth of a second and he was being pressured massively by vandalinder in the 29 audi who had only a few moments ago being was being pressured by the bmw of the bmw junior team um but uh the the kcmg car now falling down the order it's resumed contact the barrier a little bit of rear body work damage i'm not sure whether the bodywork has been pressed onto the rear tyres but he's managed to get that car restarted and away goes back into the wrist but he's dropped down the order now with such a short amount of race time left peter it's you you said it you can't afford to give away a tent he's given away more than tenths there yeah these guys are all on qualifying speed and qualifying pushing at the moment and that was just at the bottom of the hats and back at hawk icon before going on to the quiddlebacker hoe what's amazing is you can see just how well these cars are built for endurance racing particularly the porsches we saw the falcon pores going into the wall as well and it's amazing how well they bounce i don't know if a road version would bounce as well as that and unfortunately for fans of the defending uh nurburgring 24 hour champions the number one roller racing bmw m6 still in pit lane and i tell you what joe philippe's stint from the restart was absolutely majestic and actually philip looks like he's going to be getting out the car that's that's a really sad end to what's been a hard charge by that crew the pulsator as well yeah i i'm not like in seeing that at any time but when you've seen uh where that car was very much in contention for a consecutive win it's i believe a consecutive win at the nurburgring 24 hours has not been done in the gt3 era and saw that car was very much on target to do that i've i've not got any information peter as to what the problem is that's retired that car um so we remain to be saying that there's nothing visible so it's it's obviously a mechanical fault with regard to the drivetrain or the engine or something but uh it's not like he's been up or anything but uh such a shame there they uh they were a little bit disadvantaged somewhat by that long pit stop of something like 353 seconds minimum um when the their first stop after the restart but uh you couldn't you still couldn't discount them and uh i was looking forward to seeing that number one bmw just making its way back up it's had the pace pretty much all week hasn't it oh it's it's been right there and i tell you what nick yolole's qualifying lap in sudden conditions on friday night was for pole position was absolutely majestic um and that crew will be gutted nikki katzberg john edwards uh philippine and nicky lilly you know all big names in endurance racing of course john edwards nikki katzberg winners of the gtlm category in the rolex 24 hour over the last two years uh one with bmw one with corvette um so ah they'll be gutted however rolla of course winning the spa and nurburgring 24 hour last year and their number 98 sister car in the right in the hunt but they're gonna have their work cut out joe to stop the might of this 911 manti porsche currently driven by michael christensen and one thing i i'm loving seeing is seeing kevin ester and michael christensen back together they were such a strong pairing world champions together and they've just taken off where they left off yeah absolutely what a driver fairy and of course you you can't discount the other drivers that are in that car as well i mean just look at the strength of that team peter it's uh it's a hard one to to really discount you know last cairn and mario carolee sharing with those two world champions um however you know you still can't discount the rover racing bmw they know how to win this race they know how to uh win uh three-hour races as well as 24-hour races and this is certainly what it's turned into the nurburgring 24 hours uh 2021 very similar to what happened last year of course um with a weather delay in 2020 also um but the 2021 race will be known for its uh three and a half hour sprint race to the end and what a spectacle um to to you know we've been very unlucky with the fog but do you know what this is what a consolation prize this is to have a three and a half hour sprint with the best drivers in the world and the best gt cars in the world and uh michael christensen on board the 911 but his teammate kevin extra watching the timing screens intently that gap is coming down a little bit there's quite a lot of traffic for the manti porsche coming around uh s back and into brinking and uh vandalinda in the role of bmw now only three and a half seconds the gap uh at the front and we can't write off the retronic racing porsche with lawrence vantour on board and he is flying the belgian driver and well whatever that keto diet is said joe it appears to be working maybe we should try it after all you know what i might look into that yeah i might look into that he's probably a third of my age but hey who knows i tell you what i was going to mention i was going to mention that um it was becoming quite difficult to see the the top teams across the spread of the i've seen the top 15 we had a we had a difference of uh pit strategies however making our job a little bit easier we've got the cars in first second and third place now on pretty much the same fit strategy um with all of the uh the top three runners three laps into their stint they're on the fourth flap of their stint and that feet was going to make things a little bit uh easier for certainly me for my little brain to work out as to as to who's gonna make and when would just whether they're gonna vary that with a dip with an extra lap etc but that should balance itself out well i do have my sliding scale at the ready because of course here one of the unique factors of racing here at the nurburgring is the minimum pit stop times of course we do see that in sro racing at spa and things like that but it's a little bit more complex uh in uh the nurburgring and we'll keep you up to date with that folks as we get closer to the end of the race it all depends on stint times how long they've got to the end of the race and uh there's a minimum amount of time that the cars have to sit in pit lane and uh while they get filled up with the uh tesco club car fuel pump that it just still gives me a chuckle every time you see a half a million pound gt3 car getting filled up with a supermarket petrol pump yeah i did i did like your um your comparison there and there's your example there and that that's that is exactly the only way to describe it for the listeners i mean we you know we're used to seeing fast filled systems on sports car racing it's all about getting in and out of the pits as quickly as possible well in this pro-am style of racing it's not necessarily about that there's an element of safety and the way that we can maintain that safety is you know forget about the fast field fueling and the issues of refueling on fitline are ever present uh even with a with a service station type uh um delivery system it's still having inflammable liquids anywhere is is a little bit tricky but uh we we seem to be able to get by and taking away the urgency for pit stops gets around potential accidents and that's what it's all about it's all about these races being fought for on the track rather than necessarily being in the pit lane that's not taking away any of the pit strategy because i've always been an advocate of endurance races peter and one on the pit wall and i still i'm still going to stick to that i i would agree i think actually it makes the strategists say you know work even harder actually because you've got to be so ahead of the game and know the rules inside out with the courses the guys on the pit wall uh guys and girls they're just the smartest minds in motorsport and also knowing different situations require different driver personalities most of the pro teams have four drivers to drop on and one you know one situation that might require a small angle the other might require a michael christensen you know it's that's who you're gonna put in the car for a certain time i mean it's no surprise the 911 manta team put kevin estrada in for the heavy bunch start because he's so good in close combat likewise the 31 for kadeli team putting in fred macavecki but tell you what the gap is coming down um sheldon vandalinda the south african driver in the roller racing bmw now down to less than three seconds the gap up to the leader michael christensen and what i found interesting joe about that number 98 roller car is that a lot of the drivers in that car have had a lot of success conor the felipe martin tomczyk and sheldon vandalind have all had big wins uh but they've all had their big career wins with another german manufacturer in audi so i'm sure the bmw board will be hoping that they uh eclipse that with a win here for uh for their mark well it's probably not the concern of theirs whatever car they're in uh great battle for seventh place here with the lance david arnold driven portland motorsports porsche being chased down and under immense pressure um it's uh the number eight mercedes the schiller driven mercedes number eight is right on the nose uh sorry on the tail of the porsche ahead of him and lance david arnold just trying to keep his composure and driving a really strong race would probably be put under a massive massive amount of pressure it's the number seven porsche behind uh sorry the number seven jumps to dell in the series to the delamar city trying to get him on the app as well he's got the number six ahead of him the assenheimer mercedes fourth fleet pink mercedes involved there there's a ferrarian ejecting their feet but it's not involved that's out of contention it's not a risk for position with that ferrari keep an eye on the porsche and the mercedes though the uh the fulton car with lance david arnold and the schiller driven mercedes didn't get speed mercedes there right on its tail well it's getting really frantic in the traffic now michael christensen having to barge past one of the ktm cup x cars there it was at bright side on the run up to x muller and last day with arnold absolutely flying on board the falcon porsche uh lancid arnold of course a lot of experience with fricatelli racing another nurburgring specialist team then death i i know there's stuff of his instagram page the other day joe that he's actually a harley davidson rider with the uh open base helmet and off all the gear he's got to relax somehow not more relaxing motorcycle i'm not i'm not really a motorcyclist you have to get uh hind off engaged in this i'm not sure he's uh he's into his comfortable motorcycles as well uh he drives our rides i should say a sort of a laid-back bmw big huge thing that really the ending um back with 180 horsepower and a straight six engine with uh i just fell asleep on it i fell asleep on that that's because i'm a good rider it'll it'll still have drag and now handle both badly written sports bikes in fairness and that's still backing in the corners yes without even realizing john's vintage on bmw getting back of the net yeah i'm sorry i've just felt i had to interject there because i heard my name mentioned that battle for 10th yeah uh just before brunch in the 53 gt tyres uh gt4 car which was fighting its way back up after problems has just had a weak spin right in front of the leader indeed yeah that's the number 53 gt tyre um predominantly female crew and all-female driver lineup christina nielsen and pippa mann in this car been running very very strong now they're in the sp 8 class i'm looking to see who is leading that class at the moment they are yes they are the number 50 car leading in class beating the uh toyo tyre lexus rcf so um good stuff uh there i tell you what joe um neil verhagen all of the guys in this number 77 bmw junior team they've impressed me all weekend long yeah you know what i tried try to put a finger on the most impressive driver pairings or driver lineup and and it's hard to judge this race um the cork in the bottle is very much the landscape with arnold fulton porsche um he's definitely the cork in the bottle because he's causing some delay and there's a move for position with the um the number nine the series um who's not in race position there so that car the number nine down the order just moving out the way and letting these people get onto it um i've just got to remind everybody that uh infor not remind just in form um info from risk control there's going to be no further stopping all penalties because of the amount of race time we have left just coming up to probably nine minutes away from the final two hours of this race so no further stop-and-go penalties uh been um given out but um we'll get some information with regards to any further penalties that's going to be dished out by the stewards getting confirmation that it's the number one role with bmw that's now retired it was an electrical issue that has thwarted the charge of that car and uh just a little gremlin like that can creep in on any car we saw it nearly steal the funnily enough the roadway porsche team that spa 24 hours last year an oil well ironically an oil leak nearly nearly taken that car out of action but they did get it over the line just but that is the the agony and ecstasy of endurance racing still a slow zone at the top of tiergarten a lot of um very important barrier repair going on there the team here at the nurburgring absolutely world class in getting when we've had barrier repairs require gun them in such a quick and efficient manner and tell you what to at the speed that that mercedes um of maro angle went into the barrier it's amazing that a mar is okay b the car didn't even look that damaged and see how quick they're getting it back up and running yeah it was indeed and it was great to see uh that information that uh everything was fine uh the corp has been taken from the bottle and lance david arnold has brought the number 33 porsche into the pits for a pit stop uh according to my screen also into the pits has come the number 77 bmw of verhagen and also in has come the number five from 15th spot the phoenix racing audi uh into the pits also but the uh the biggest um uh news there is that the lance david arnold porsche who was the the corp in the bottle what i mean by that is he was he was no doubt about it holding up um a few cars that were behind him uh the number eight mercedes of schiller and the team mate of the schiller car the number seven junka della uh those two mercedes now being released and can get back underway they've got about a six well they've got about a 30 second gap before the car in fifth and that happens to be the audi's 14 car collection uh carnival 2 that they are now chasing them down assenheimer uh forgot to mention that sennheimer he's in the eighth and uh it's a three-way mercedes battle now for six sevens in it so that's caught eight class seven and classics and they've been they've been running on this track pretty much for the whole of this restart so for for over an hour now nearly an hour and a half they've been like that on track so lance david arnold serving a pass long stop uh stop and hold penalty in pit lane the number 33 falcon tyre porsche um that's really going well and with only two hours and six minutes to go that kills their chances of a run at the podium or indeed the outright win but still it is the manti porsche marching ahead and just while we've been having a chat about motorcycles etc michael christensen's been hard at work and he has doubled the advantage back to sheldon vandalinda in the number 98 roller racing bmw 6.6 seconds the gap now michael christensen the great dane very quiet man but my goodness me can he pedal absolutely it's uh it's developing into a great race and it's you know what this race always delivers a very exciting finish we've had some last lap changes for lee etc and and this one with such a short restart time of three and a half hours it's always going to be it's it's kind of always going to have delivered this kind of finish to this race and and and even more so the fact that the top three are now on a similar strategy oh that's not right there's something wrong with that lamborghini 63 peter with the rear wing that's all all right it's uh still traveling at some speed but he'll certainly not have any kind of uh downforce coming from that that rear wing it's the 63 lamborghini and that car down the field somewhat so that's the hancock fff racing team i'll see where that car is one of the fastest cars over one lap marco bertolotti put in arguably the last of the weekend on thursday night under cover the complete cover of darkness just blips the entire field um and we're looking really strong but hit problems early on yesterday and i i think they that that team is not done i think their day here at the nurburgring will come in the next couple of years i'm convinced of it actually they've been really really impressive now so we've got two hours and four minutes to go interestingly kevin extra on the pit wall there dancing up and down of course kev neither kevin ester nor michael christensen have won this race outright and i'm sure that's one of the only ticks left in their very impressive tv and of course the thing is said joe is that kevin and michael have you know they've won spa together they've won them on together they've won the world championship but split up basically in the world championship at the end of last season so i can imagine kevin is fully aware of the significance of what they're what they're leading at the moment yeah but it's still too early to call isn't it it's still two hours yeah i don't know it could happen i mean you know we were talking about how strongly the before mercedes was looking and uh and that's now out of the race the number one bmw uh we you know factor in all of the elements all we can do is get very excited about this battle that we've got um and it's not just the lead battle that we're talking about peter it's this beautifully looking mercedes battle for six seven eight they're circulating around this track and just watching them uh watching them drive absolutely on the edge just listening to their throttle applications absolutely getting back on the throttle at the apex of turns clearly all of these drivers know this place like the back of their hand i'm not gonna hex your question about christensen and um kevin esther i'm just going to continue talking about what's in front of us because i don't want to say i'd love to see the witness race i'm sure they want to win this race more than anything else because it is a box that isn't ticked on the cv one of very few and with the uh the lovely caroline esther uh kevin's wife and their their young son tommy in the mantai hospitality watching on uh in intently watching uh watching dad at work so you're absolutely right joel this is still impossible to call and the traffic for the leading sp 9 cars is such a challenge because yes sp9 cars are going for the outright lead but there's cars up and down the field who are all in their own class battle which has got just as much significance to them absolutely and into the pits has come the lamborghini we talked about the 63 lamborghini the hancock fff entry way down the field um that's had a real wing repaired um and it just shows you know peter that the the problem with calling the winner of this race with still two hours to go has just been emphasized by some onboard footage from michael christensen and how he gets around it's how we get around the markers that's going to be the the the element of this race that's going to bear fruit and what i mean by bearing fruit you can gain a lot of time by getting past bat markers better than the car that's chasing you down and you mentioned there that the gap six and a half seconds well it's four five point four seconds now so it's it's ebbing and flowing depending on how christensen gets through the traffic in comparison to vandalinder in the bmw and that's going to be a constant that's going to be right for the flag peter mckay and joe bradley taking you through the last moments of the 2021 edac total 24 hours of nurburgring we're about to start the penultimate racing hour here at this wonderful race circuit the nurburgring north life at the moment it's the number 911 manti racing porsche of michael christensen leading the way by five seconds from sheldon vandalinder for rowa racing bmw we hope you're enjoying this absolute thriller of a sprint race we're going to take a quick run through the top 10 there's a number of cars coming into pit lane in fact the number 98 rover bmw coming into pit lane as is the reutronic porsche joe yeah we've got uh two of the top four into the pits the 98 vandalinder rover racing car into the pits along with the number three the vantour racing porsche they will drop down the orders so it's kind of always just we were just about to give you a a top 10 run down uh so we'll give you that as we see it on the timing screen it's going to be a little bit different because we're now into a pit stop fizz uh showing uh leading this car is christensen in the mountain wrestling porsche 911 that's car number nine one one car number nine eleven leads the 29 vandaling audi sport team land audi is now up into second the 98th bmw of rover racing drops down to third because uh it's in the pits as the retronic racing porsche car number three down to fourth in fifth spot and into the pits come the audience 14 car collection audi and nikola muller now in the number two that car running in fifth and then we've got that grid battle the mercedes battle three cars in it sixth seventh and eight that's car eight of schiller seven of junkerdella both from the get speed mercedes team that's the pink bwt livery cars and then we've got the patrick asenheimer mercedes in eighth place ninth is the number 44 klaus bachler faulkland motorsports porsche and then rounding off the top 10 is the hoover motorsports porsche car 23. so we've got a good day for the vandal linda family we have kelvin vandalinda in the audi uh the 24 year old and younger brother sheldon 22 year old in the bmw both cars right in the hunt for this victory with two hours to go number of cars that could be in for this victory it's going to go right down to the wire also the aha the alphason anti-balding shampoo walking horse bmw the number 102 car in for service as well is the number 98 roll of bmw back on the move again now we saw lawrence banter get out of the number three retronic porsche who has he handed over to we will find out in just a moment as the electronic porsche heads out of pit lane over the timing beam and we will find out who is in that car we've got quite a choice in that retronic portion i mentioned peter that weeks we're gonna have to wait and see wait and see how it plays out with regards to stintland and and how that plays out with regards to pit stop time the 98 bmw has done a six lap stint there before it came into the pits the number two the number two has done seven laps let me just confirm that the number two did seven laps before it it fitted so we're seeing a variation on attitude and opinion on how to take this race to the very end we're gonna be back timing now we're underneath two hours now so we're going to be back timing now and a little bit of variation in how we address the pit stops is what we're seeing now and that's we've now got the 98 dropping the weight ignore that because it's going to climb back up when the cars ahead of it choose to take their pit stop [Music] so roughly roughly with uh two hours to go or just under two hours to go for the gt3 cars joe would we expect just one more pit stop for these cars that have popped off now well we're getting there i'm not yeah i've definitely one more pit off but we're inside two hours the car certainly can't do uh two hours um around here it's usually i think the maximum we've seen is a nine laps stint but again peter what varies that um perhaps less sort of the nordschleiber because of such a long lap um and fuel saving to get you a lap of fuel is impossible at the nordschleife um it's a an airlap stint is is um is over an hour i've seen the nine laps thing but then i don't know how many slow zones we had come into effect where you can fuel safe so the maximum i would think at this stage is a an eight-lap stint which is gonna be around about yeah i've just been confirmed there uh is about an hour so yeah we've potentially got at least another potentially one more full stop and then potentially you splash and dash towards the end of this race oh and that's when it starts getting that's when it starts getting dicey of course we do have a sliding scale of um pit stop times which we will update when the teams come in for their last stop that sliding scale starts with 69 minutes to the flag so still a little bit to go now uh update on the retronic porsche the young superstars julian andla are also from uh leon like uh young mr estra and julian one of the youngest le mans winners ever one lemon in the gte am class at just 18 years old very very impressive driver and let's see what the young frenchman can do strangely joe i haven't seen roman dumas out much in that car i would have thought they would have been there stretching uh roman for all they could get but uh maybe he's a bit tired after all these pikes peak testing yeah you just don't know what's going on behind the scenes i'm not sure uh without falling back through the data how many laps he's done again it's you know it's it's knocked the team's off balance somewhat with such a long delay hasn't it not so soft balance with such a long delay but even more so for the uh for the teams um we're still let me just check on what lap of a stint the leader is on he's only seven flat so potentially he could come in this lap but then again unless you are part of the multi-racing team you're not gonna get any insight as to what their plan is and they're certainly you know if i was in the fit lane and i asked that question of them i'm not it's not necessarily i'm not necessarily going to get the right answer no no that that's very true you can you know if you're getting a diplomatic a diplomatic line sometimes we've had a very good question uh here from jake parrott about lars kern of course lars the uh one of the real stars of the road car laps here at the nurburgring and very very quick in a gt3 race car as well he is registered in he's entered in the 911 porsche manti the leading car however he hasn't been out on track in that car yet so i would assume joe that maybe now that might be that lars is is not actually going to take the wheel in that car yeah we are getting down to that point where we're running out of time to if you haven't cycled your driver into this race uh we're basically running out of time with only what we estimate you know maximum of uh two stops at least another stop for the gt runners who have just pitted um just keep an eye we've got information coming through that we've got written at horse 188 i'm not sure where course money is i'm thinking that is up at the potentially at the start of the stopping before yeah yeah yeah just as i said get that information through so we'll uh we'll keep an eye out for that uh which we wipe is going on some of the cars and we have got track conditions beginning to change at that arguably highest point of the track so if the rain was going to come that's where the cloud is in its densest it's most dense densest is actually in them uh it's most dense so that's probably why we're seeing a bit of rain coming down there [Music] good being and this is where this is a critical snap decision that the 911 crew and indeed the 29 audi and the two more bwt mercedes as well in third and fourth need to make that if the rain comes down hard they've got the opportunity to to fit either a cut slick or even a full wet at the pit stop if they didn't actually necessary but of course there's large parts there's 20 huge parts of this 25.3 kilometer circuit that are completely blown dry and will remain so for a while so oh i would not want to be on the uh the pit wall right now and making that decision as the number 29 audi vandalinder coming in for service at the foot lane now joe so the two mercedes into the pits christensen at the whale and sorry at the wheel at the wheel of the leading manta uh leading porsche he's on his eighth lap so that's what we've speculated might just happen um penalty for the 77 which is intense that's the acoustic farthest bmw junior team bmw that's for an incident with the number two and he's been given a two minutes and seven second penalty um i'm thinking the longer he can go the better because then he stretches i'm talking about christensen here again the longer he can go the better because that stretches that fuel window towards the finish it's it's eating that and stretching that window out towards the finish i'm still he's still gonna awesome all right he's gonna come in after this lap i would have thought i think having completed it lapse but he's and he's still going to just do us potentially just one more pit stop after this and then it might not be a complete uh amount of fuel that he needs to give us well it's going to play out as the mercedes team um the bwt water sponsored cars and daniel young cadella in the number seven material of actually the air in the number eight machine of course it was the number seven that ended up in contact with uh the audi of uh michaeli beretta earlier on uh so as we can see kevin estron now putting on his balaclava preparing to put on his specially painted uh grello manti helmet so that means then that he'll be taking over the wheel i presume for the last hour and 45 minutes or so from michael christensen so that answers our question about lars cairnville yeah that's uh you know what who would you who would you put in i mean no disrespect to maria carolli and lars kern who are exceptionally very very quick drivers but kevin ester is just something else isn't he's he's like that exact missile he's like the uh he's like your superstar striker that you know you you put on in the last 15 minutes and he will get the goal um pulling off to drivers left not quite sure where that is but that's going to cause a slow zone is the number 311 and that's a porsche that's smoking heavily that is the i think it was 311. it's the fx at the fk performance porsche kim and gt4 just going out of our site there and a problem there i'll just try and find out i think that's towards whitman so it's out of all act out of the right answer at all iraq and towards whittleman where we're gonna see a slow zone be deployed okay so that i think yes it looks like that's where that is going on so we'll keep an eye out on that hopefully it'll only be a small uh stoppage interestingly just this uh as uh augusto farfas has been given the uh he's maybe angry he's been given notification of the penalty he's just set his uh personal best uh an eight minute 23.1 uh at the wheel of that car so do we know any more joe i wonder what obviously some sort of contact between number 77 and number two audi and that's a real pity for the 77 bmw because they've been charging so hard yeah i'm not sure exactly what it was in it that it's come to me as an incident with the number 22. um the number 22 so that's the 77 sorry not the 22 the number two um so that's the 77 farthest bmw car having some sort of incident i know not what uh with the harsa audi uh currently running in 8th and 10th respectively um more information on that porsche that's caused this slow zone deranged rear suspension that that's a bit of a clue uh to me peter that looks like he's been off the track and made contact with either another car or maybe a barrier body work looking relative yeah it looks like it's at the right rear now this is not good news in the at class for the dodge viper the alternatively fueled dodge viper the number 13 car in the pit lane being looked at very closely the enormous v10 engine in the front of that dodge viper will a whole stream of mechanics looking in there and that will allow um the porsche in that class 911 to escape at the front we've got a problem for the 240 bmw as well and vasquez front right looking looking like a puncture there joe it seems no that's more than a puncture it looks like peter it looks like the right rear wheel is about to uh come off it looks like the suspension maybe the the steering armor's uh broken the the tyre looks inflated so a brooklyn tour link connecting the steering on that car limping back to the pits and the adrenaline bmw just doing a great job of keeping that car in a straight line it's every tiny time he inputs the steering that's going to be that's going to where he where it becomes tricky because if he gets that right hand wheel out of sync with the trajectory of the car the caster angle on the front will be keeping that car but like a super market trolley when you push the supermarket trolley forwards all the wheels get in the line and that's pretty much the caster that's doing that but when he turns the corner he'd only be using the left hand wheel to change direction [Music] if honey you mentioned the supermarket trolley how do you know that you're a petrol head is when you get your supermarket trolley constantly and overseer going around the supermarket just just me oh okay maybe no i do think i do take the racing lives through the court [Music] yeah if there's a and if there's been a spillage i get the cans of beer right at the back of the trolley 911 style that they're crashing off the corner talk about a balanced car and we're talking about the um of of the weed distribution on a car in a mid-engined car like for instance the ferrari the lamborghini or the audi r8 you'll try your best to get a 50 50 split between the front and the rear a front engine car completely different because there's a lot of weight over the front axle i know they've got heavy gear boxes in the rear end but it's very very difficult to achieve a 50 50 split but that's exactly what you're describing there it's the same engineering principles and concepts that you're applying to get your supermarket trolley fast through the called meeting into the fruit and veg that you're seeing here at the nurburgring with these wrist guns exactly the same joe thing don't know how you who you're feeling that you're going into the fruit and vegetable is it straight for the straight for the crisps and the beer from i thought we were on a beat i thought we were on a keto diet yeah next week all right okay right next week after the excitement i'll put that well we should we we should have the 911 porsche coming into pit lane very soon we have the number 44 bulk entire porsche of klaus bachler uh up to second now and just as we say that 911 manti porsche in pit lane joe yeah mansai in he's uh he's completed eight laps i think he's tripped the timing beat um he's got it laps on that stint there and we you mentioned earlier peter that it was kevin ester who was getting suited and booted to [Music] and that's going to hand the lead of this race oh it hasn't because the fort i was just about to say the 44 faultline porsche of course that car also is going to be towards um that's on a i think that car's completed again another eight-lap stint for that car so that battler driven porsche into the pits also so the two leading porsches now into the pits that's leaving the 23 uh of hoover motorsport that car's only on a five lap stint at the moment so they'll be coming around to complete six laps of its thing so i'm suspecting or expecting the 23 will take over the lead of this of this race so not too much hurry in the mantai racing porsche garage the mechanics studying around great discs and pads while the wheels are off they're not in a hurry they have a minimum pit stop time they have to serve so just making sure that everything is absolutely as it should be before sending kevin estrada back out onto the nurburgring north side but as as you mentioned joe the number 23 cooper racing porsche hits the front of the field and this is gonna so at the moment it's a porsche one two three but we have a lot oh because we have a lot of a lot of stuff to shake out and we've got a mercedes hard into the wall at cluster crowd on the run up to the carita carousel yeah it might be the hope yeah i'm not i didn't get the identity of that mercedes i'm just trying to find out um if we've got it's the 54 so the 54 mercedes is into the barrier it looked a very heavy impact as well oh no it's it's not the fifth and final truck my truck has let me down it's the six it's the humidor without at the wheel of the uh of the hrt car car number six they're having no luck this weekend are they none at all well the the only crum of comfort there is that cooper hout um is the owner of this team of course the carrie that picked up the mantle from the black falcon team that had so much success here at the nurburgring and who were crypt one of the oldest drivers in the all-pro class and the team owner and well that's um you know if you're gonna crash the car at least it's you paying the bill uh of course you have an incredible history drove in the dtm uh in the early 90s and in 2001 do you remember the opel astra coupe in dtm he drove in one of those yeah yeah of course and of course one here too that's what the dtm should be it's a touring car it's a two-ring car anyway let's not get into the gt3 dc um what my fault on that one yeah it's a if you know that was for the middle of the night still wasn't it um we're we're calculating here with the help of the rest of the rsl team who were probably sitting back in their uh in their reclining chairs being fed tea and biscuits um so they're working this out so if the 911 uh manti car there's another eight laps that will leave about 34 minutes to go when he pits for his last stop and we speculate further you and i peter that that may be when we see last kern take some driver's duty so no pressure on him if that that pans out and uh becomes the case well interestingly the number 911 crew bought that brought that car in within the last two hours and of course the drivers have a maximum two hour stint time um so they they could keep kevin air in the car to the finish if they so wish um will they do that well that that that's what makes this that makes this type of racing so exciting who will be in that car next will they stretch kevin ester he's done a lot of driving time so um i'm an incredible athlete but um this is a place that takes it out of even the very best number three return it court start that again the number three rutronic porsche still carries on now i don't like the look of that joe that is yeah slick being prepared in pit lane down in the pits we are having some of the teams cutting grooves and creating intermediates from a set of slick tyres now from my the um meteorologist in the collective darren wood has messaged me only a few minutes ago showing me the satellite view of the weatherproof in the area and actually no rain but of course we have still got dense fog on the higher ground here and whether that dense fog sort of manifests and becomes a little bit too dense and becomes rain that might be what they are you know what let's not look too much into this what we're seeing there is a team that's preparing for every eventuality and when we remind ourselves we're at the nurburgring and you know if you don't like the weather wait five minutes is to say isn't it yes i was just going to pick up on that cooper might well have done the other sp9 runners a big favor by crashing on on just it's just started raining at the bottom of the run-up to the carousel just at the top of the kessel chin straight uh oh that's uh well of course all the teams will have that information now they will relay that to the driver saying be careful at the uh on the run-ups to the carousel and i would imagine that well at the moment there's no slow zone and no code 60. so who about how it got that car going so they will go through their fuel raising speed but we'll need to approach with uh with caution there that is for sure but if it's only just at that one localized area you've kind of got a tip to tiptoe through on slicks i suppose joe yeah again the problem with the nurburgring if you you know you you you can't really go on wets if there's just a small amount of racetrack that's wet because by the time you get back around to it you pump the wets off and the treads you know just chunking and disappearing so intermediates is probably the uh that i mean that's what the intermediates are for aren't they but i think also it depends on the amount of green as well if we if we're just dabbing the track then you can pretty much survive the short area of track if it's if it's let's hear from the carousel around to the uh start of with them then you can probably survive on slicks by just tipping all your way through if it gets very heavy and you've got standing water that's when the slits become dangerous and that's when the apple burning comes in and you see costs skidding off the track and as if they're all nice which effectively they are they're basically you know traveling over a layer of water the cracking battle for the last spot in the top 10 at the moment between the number 44 falcon tyre porsche of klaus bachelor who we heard from earlier on thanks to boys and falcon tyre for um giving us that in review earlier on in the week daniel young cadella though in the get team get speed mercedes the bwt pink car pressuring bachelor hard here because young cadella 2011 macau grand prix winner and uh this is this is just like macau with trees here at the north library we haven't got a hairpin where you've got to kind of stop and lift the car around real quick um my new turn one's not far off was it [Music] it that would be yeah that would be the is it liz boa the hairpin yes yeah that would count and uh close backwards going up the kettle chin there just into uh up towards the carousel where the rain is falling and actually having to put two wheels on the grass to go past the slower car up towards the carousel and young cadella taking similar caution and oh and kevin estrada has gone off the road i i don't know what i didn't know at um x back i think joe it's good to rain i think that's heavy rain that's caused that issue now i'm not sure if that's rain that i can see on the windscreen of that car but he certainly got well offline he couldn't change direction at all and it's the plant's garden we're being told that that car we saw a car off um no it's not france garden we're just it's not coming now we're from which is where we saw the car go off earlier um so it's the whitman's that section of track just before we get into that very technical area of brunching um we'll sit we did have a car off the painter i saw a car off and it was kind of it was again heads-up driving from uh from kevin estra who i think if he continued to try and take the line he would have been unable to the land how do you stay on the track it was the land i think it might be the land audi joe the 29 so the 29 spun the number two took avoiding action and then along came kevin estrada who again took avoiding action i think this is because of of rin i think the ra the rain has come the 29 audi sport team land of kelvin van der linde was the car that caused that consternation we've now got the number three retronic racing porsche of julian antler who's come to a hall suspension do we think that the suspension was crabbing must have yeah because the julian antler tried to get the car going over the grass and over the caribbean crabbing all over the place so that odd agony for with an hour and 32 minutes to go that looks like the number three retronic porsche will be out of the running we'll see if julian and laura can get the car going and limp it back to the pit lane but oh that is well what a close call for the number 911 manti porsche it seemed joe that kevin knew what was coming there and actually straightened the wheel off and and went for going over the grass here and and let's just go for the gap in the middle amazing instinct there yeah i think so and you certainly saw esther in the 911 numbered porsche the the car he just conti if he continued on the lock that he was on he would i just think he had the feeling in the car that he was not going to make the corner so he straightened it off and went between the number 29 land audi which was pointing in the wrong direction pretty much facing him and he went through the gap between the land audi which was off the track and the barrier on what would have been his driver's right and he just literally he just he just put he threaded the needle quite literally and went on to the grass and that had to be very very delicate on the pedals and on the steering not to put himself into a spin and he's uh he certainly it's not delayed him to any great extent and he continues round up into fourth place now as he came across the line that time well as we catch our breath after quite a dramatic couple of minutes here the nurburgring nordschleife as we are at the top of the hour 1400 hours local time at the nurburgring nordschleife 90 minutes to go in this motor race let's have a look down the order of some of the classes so in sp9 at the moment the hoover motorsport porsche the number 23 leads but will that will shake out over the next 10 or 20 minutes or so as the pit stops continue to go on for the sp9 runners in spx it's the space drive racing mercedes driven at the moment by darren turner's lemon legend darren turner and the 25 car that is the experimental steer by wire machine developing that technology for uh drivers with limited um with with a disabilities or or what have you um amazing technology so the glickenhaus that's also in that car has in that class hasn't been able to catch up to the mercedes at this time in capex with the ktms it's a very well known name here at the the nurburgring stuke jr uh leading in the number 114 ktm in sp pro and only one car in that class to start with that's classified as the 350 black falcon porsche cup mr but it had a crash at um at schweden course last night in the xb8 t class at the moment we have a poster back in the schnitzel racing mercedes amg gt4 that's the number 37 car leading that class at the moment in sp7 for the porsche cup cars it's the cooper motorsport so double delight for hoover motorsport at the moment the number 80 uber car leading that class at the moment in tcr a very closely contested category at the moment it is the hyundai i30n leading in tcr so um looking good then of course that is the car with jean carl verne and um and mr and mr ainsler as well who had a little bit of an incident yesterday in the tcr race so that might well bridge the gap there bmw 240i class the adrenaline motorsport team also car number 231 leads that class cut three uh at the moment looking up and down my timing screen that's the gtech competition porsche cayman 718 gt4 the 305 car leads and finally in sp 4 t we have the porsche 718 cayman s number 86 leads that class so peter mckay here on rs1 for the next hour and joining me is john hindoff john we heard from you briefly there when we were uh mentioning your motorcycling habits but uh you've not been able to draw yourself away from this dissing my bike the mighty gt you know old man's bike i'll say bradley next to there's a story about him in a gsx 750 um and uh how well he did on that when he was turning it around looks like the plast audi team are commiserating with each other did the car not go back out uh i see that's well or do they feel they've done what they need to do uh sorry to come on and bring bad news but uh in the motorsport world hearing uh that's uh the the very sad news of the death of monsieur ogier a key figure in the history of mclaren for the last 40 years or so has died age 68. relatively low profile per sauna but certainly was instrumental in mclaren's successes over quite a long time now he was on the board of both mclaren racing and the company's group as well sorry he's he was replaced by uh sultan manches his son on the mclaren racing and clown group board but you have to remember that mansour's career that mclaren saw them win 10 f1 drivers titles with vicky louder alan prost cena maker hacking and lewis hamilton nine constructors championships and through engine partnerships that included porsche honda and mercedes back in 2013 he had a double lung transplant but uh did recover and played a key role in ousting ron dennis from the company they'd fallen out a few years before of them it's described as a personal matter zach brown the clown racing chief executive officer has been caught to say mansur was a true racer in every sense ultra competitive determined passionate and above all perhaps he's defining characteristic sporting no matter the intensity of the battle monster monster always put sport first dominica stefano dominican f1 president said he was someone with incredible talent passion and energy was a giant of our sport we'll miss him greatly and so will that f1 community as a whole we sent condolences to family friends in the mclaren team of course on the news of the death today of manchester united at 68. so uh just after two o'clock here peter uh weather is still trying to play a hand here we've had splashes of rain we've had people shaving off what looked to be very lightly cut slicks strut intermediate and now just coming through the kleiner carousel to galvin cop the gallows hill and onto the run back is the battle for second position between bmw racing number 98 and schubert motorsport bmw number 20 evenly matched cars on the long straight yeah some rear uh some real heavy headers here sheldon vandalinda and jesse crone of course jesse crone the winner of the 2020 rolex 24 hour daytona remember sitting there with himself john edwards um augusto farfas and none other than chaz moster as well and i'll never forget john edwards couldn't help himself but get his rolex his new rolex watch winners watch out of the box and he's got it on and it it was about twice the size too big from us so you need to take a couple of links and then of course jesse ever the crew the the cool thing he's uh he's just sitting there just the the ice man as always and well they'll need to be the ice man here because this battle between the robocar and the shubert car they need to be careful for bmw say they don't knock time out of each other uh in this context i don't know if that will be crossing their magazines right now well it's now the battle for the lead because in the pit lane is the huber motorsport porsche after an eight lap stint so they're gonna go very deep into the race if they do another eight laps that's somewhere near 68 laps take that off 83 minutes and you can see they're going to be down to the last 20 minutes or so that means a super quick pit stop stop at the end splashing for just enough fuel so in athletics terms here peter the stagger has not yet unwound we are gonna have to wait until everybody's done their last pit stops to see where people come out it's going to be i think the number nine eleven of kevin estrada who'll do his last pit stop first that doesn't necessarily help you normally in the rule of thumb is get your last pit stop done first in case you get caught behind a safety car you'll get safety cars here you do get slow zones but even at that situation the longer you go at the wrist because you stop back you stop timing the pit stops on high how many um how many laps you've done and you start they might be pit stop time from 69 minutes onwards 70 minutes onwards how many minutes there are to go so you get inside the last 25 minutes that's down to 84 seconds if you're still at let's call it 50 minutes you're at 143 seconds minimum so it is going to make a difference rule of thumb at the end here is always always always as i'm reminded by paul truswell go as long as you can on your fuel there was a couple of odd six and five uh lap stints earlier on relatively soon after the restart i think that was more tire dependent uh than anything else because there was no i could see no fuel maybe i suppose if you've done two laps and you only get 20 more 20 more liters maybe um could have perhaps gone on too soft to tire and that pulled them in but they've since gone back to the lap stints we've got a completely clear track now peter as that number 23 porsche of hoover motorsport with niko mensah behind the wheel rejoins and has dropped down to 11th position and is something over two minutes behind the leader how much of that can they pull back on strategy we'll find out in about an hour's time well exactly and that just gives you an impression of just how close this race is because they came into the pits in the lead and then 11 you know come out in in 11. what is interesting to me is the number 77 bmw junior team card driven by augusto farfast you're thinking he's not necessarily a bmw junior but he's uh there to help out the juniors i think more than anything is you've got an incident for the number 153 bmw 3 series hats and back right in the middle of the road but does appear to have drive getting the car off the road great work although a little bit of bodywork maybe they might need a slow zone to recover some of that bodywork sitting on the middle of the circuit as a very sad looking number three retronic racing porsche being dragged off the circuit and john you've got to think that uh julian handler he will be absolutely distraught at the moment yeah damage on the rear of that car also a right front puncture on the gt golf number 166. this is the gt time motorsport by ws racing this is the axle john sven triseca wayne moore and nails button good to see wayne has managed to make it back to europe and that was a coming together between that car and the v4 bmw that pete was talking about a moment ago the thomas muskins entered uh machine the 325i for moritz and bernard hussein fauna and philip and richard gressick and saw both of us cars losing out and dennis olsen now having a cracking battle with the bmw junior team as they head down to the bridge at adna this is curious this is what i was going to say before we we saw those accidents john the number 77 bmw driven by a goosebumps they have a two minute penalty hanging over them for an incident with the number two audi the number 31 tricky deli porsche does not have a a penalty hanging over them and a goosebump is making dennis dawson's life in the number 31 tricky daily porsche absolutely well really a nightmare and to be honest it appears that olsen has plenty of taste but just cannot get past the big bmw of uh of farfet and you can just see there opening up that twin turbocharged powerhouse of the bmw up the kettle chin that is pulling away from uh olsen even with olson in the draft only when they're reaching top gear is also in the little porsche able to catch up porsches are playing very good in the slip string particularly down the donkey hook when they're following the cards and even following uh another porsche three moods curve and up towards the base of the hill that climbs towards the carracciola carousel and they're a lot of parts on fuel olsen uh has completed six laps since he came out the pit far off his five they're still very much in the fight though with uh just around about 30 35 seconds between them and the leading cars so they'll be coming in in a couple or three laps time and then that's gonna take them to let's see my goodness they're going to be only needing a very small splash of fuel at the end they could be inside 20 minutes they will be inside 20 minutes their last stops are going to be super quick what they won't do i think will put new ties on them they will literally just splash enough fuel to get them to the end and send them and again this is that that stagger unwinding at the end of the running race when everybody started in the uh think of the four by 400 meters really and everybody starts in lanes and then it's only after 600 meters the stagger unwinds for the last couple of laps it's this that sort of idea we're not sure how they stand in terms of where they lie with the cars like the leader at the moment and the fonda linda driven bmw m6 gt3 of the number 98 rover racing well looking at the sliding scale for the st9 cars and their minimum pit stop time if the drivers did have to come in at say 20 minutes to go as a 73 second minimum pit stop which is not long at all so you could be absolutely right there john that there's not going to be time to put tires on uh it's just a quick fill up at the pumps and uh and off you go again of course these michelin tires designed for the job and most of the top runners yeah they actually the first non-michelin runner is of course the falcon porsche in sixth at the moment in the number 44 machine but this is just too close to call the only thing that could be the deciding factor john is if the manti porsche number 911 it might be the only car that only needs one trip to fit lane from now quite possibly uh yeah that they'll be in first place yeah they'll be in first for their last stop the 166 the gt tires motorsport by ws racing that car is moving slowly down the draw the the white flags beach on for a slaughter moving car um that's car where are we manti uh estra has been out for a couple of laps in that since he took over i think it's a bit more than that actually let me just do a quick piece of calculation yeah a couple of laps next in from the leaders will be second that's the yesi kron driven ship at motorsport number 20 bmw m6 gt3 on his seventh lap at the moment so potentially one more after this the lead car which is the 98 that we were talking about at the moment the bmw uh at the moment uh driven uh by as i said conor felipe for no apparent reason at all at sheldon fond delinder i absolutely know that because i just mentioned his name a couple of moments ago somehow i failed more fatigued having only done 12 hours of the 24 than the full 24. i don't know how that works out i think it's it was being around and watching a lot of fog drifting across the field actually actually tied me out more than if we'd had racing cars going around so uh thunder linda is a couple of laps better off on fuel as i said they're gonna go really really deep into this race for that before they need their last pit stop so i don't uh frickin delhi they're going to struggle because dennis olsen he's going to come in at the end of this lap will he be able to get to the end yeah i think he might actually yeah he might depends on when the white flag comes out it'll be tight it will be unbelievably tight yeah um but who knows um you probably will see uh how that was going to play out over the course incredible nurburgring 24 hour yes we've been short changed a bit with the weather with a short amount of running but this sprint to the flag john has been absolutely fascinating it's been like a it's almost been like a really really exciting uh it's a sprint race actually well it's it's just i mean it was just a bit shorter wasn't it than an end normal nls fish three and a half years rather than four and peter snowden and i were discussing this um whilst you and joe were on commentary and you know the drivers have got a car that's pretty much brand new all the service items the brakes and all that will have been done um and they've got the chance albeit with a restart that put everybody back together again notwithstanding the weird rule about stintlands where the red flag um carries through it uh which joe was explaining earlier nicely done but really everybody's close together so the battles that we've had at this stage of the race have been really close and i think some of the drivers will be [Music] very happy to have had extra rest because the concentration levels here are always required to be optimum as uh and it's even worse in these conditions hyundai coming in with a bottom and has managed to get in the pit lane so number 89 not like the bmw a couple of years ago that drove into the end of the pit lane that's the carlson peninsula by tomka i-38 three driving team marcus lew from uh nurburg dan burkholt and uh dr andrew engelmann from uh florida actually has made it across uh and i don't think race tape is going to hold that down if i'm very honest oh never underestimate the power of gafferty that's amazing uh um adhesive properties uh if you put enough of it on uh oh the bigger problem is going to be the windscreen the windscreen smashed to bits on that audi i30n fastback it's the same model they've been using in the british touring car championship and tom ingram campaigning that kind of very well in the opening round at brooklyn but that's that this car is definitely going to need a replacement windscreen um and that's coming from the bonnet flicking up onto the screen isn't it yeah that's probably the last thing you want to happen when you're careering along along the nord's life and your bonnet pops up and smashes the windscreen that that must have given the driver the freight of their life the bonnet catchers are broken there's been damage there earlier on and i wonder if that is the failure of a bit of budge or whether he's had another incident because there is damage to the grill to the front balance on the right front in particular but the bonnet catchers have failed completely and they're trying to tie it down with tie wraps meantime daniel younger in the number seven here amg for the bwt sponsored mercedes team is still right on the tailpipes of the faulkner motorsports and klaus back now earlier on when this bot was going on klaus was on his outlet and the back end of that car was moving around bridget adenauer now was moving around mightily he was doing well to hang onto that and these two this battle is actually dragging them up the field peter absolutely this these guys here claus bachler in the number 33 falcons sorry number 44 fulton fire porsche uh with daniel yunkadella in the pink get speed mercedes of course i came based here at the nurburgring uh 8 20 for uh bachelor 8 21 for yunkadella for context have an extra three point one yes he's throwing eight twenty five so it gives you an idea just how hard these guys are pushing and of course remember um klaus battler the top uh the number forty four fault entire porsche the top non-michelin runner in fact both of the bulk entire forces the in the in the top ten the only cars without michelin tires in the top ten once again falcon um really showing what they're capable of into another area of incident uh and this again is at the bottom of the hill up uh barrier works where hubert went in the hrt mercedes but the showers that were happening there earlier and actually slightly heavier than showers it was slightly more prolonged uh episodes of green they have stopped there and that tracks dried up again so i mean it's just roll the dice peter if you're trying to call strategy here you've almost got to leave that to the driver indeed yeah i mentioned team of bernhard a number of times over the over the weekend and that he said you can be coming down the dottinger hole and you're still 50 50 whether you put on wet or dry or depending on what's going on on the circuit and he says sometimes you can literally be pulling into your box and then you make an instant decision there and then um because your soul your mind your your brain capacity is at a hundred percent you know when your computer gets too hot well that's the time for driving around and never going north life or using up every even somebody uh like chemo or or like kevin ester or a yeti chrono or crystal parfaits they're using every last fiber of their talent and ability to push these cars to the lap times that they are and to make those strategical calls at the same time incredible of course this started all the way back in in the early 70s when uh 1973 daytona 24 hours which brumos eventually won but penske were had mark donahue in the car calling strategy back and forth with roger penske and even the penske mechanics in those days thought they thinking how is he able to do this and of course it became a bit more common but of course penske and donahue what a surprise the trailer blazing a trail shall we say unfair advantage in all of that sort of thing uh was privileged to work with uh davidson mark when he was running in vipers in lms competition down through the years and a proper chip off the old block he was uh we're coming down then towards the last hour here peter and i i get the sense but we had a clear lap or two and the lap times came down we've now got two uh slow zones one at close to towel and one at style striker uh with that chord 60 at style stretcher so relatively clear track there's the manti porsche driven by esther kevin ester goes through once more now who came into the pits last time i think that should have been shoe but it was stupid and yes he could that's at the end of his eighth lap so if they can do another eight laps at let's see the sake of argument around about eight and a half minutes eight eight to sixty four eight half minutes or another four that's an hour and eight minutes we've only got an hour and five minutes to go they're going to be knocking on the door of going to the end of the race with that car so keep an eye on the pace of the shubert motorsport bmw they might might have got this absolutely spot on porsche pitstop as well there peter right alongside it for fricatelli indeed the number 31 tricky daily dennis olson what a job that young man has done took over from frederick mcavecky a couple of hours ago and yeah what an amazing driver that young norwegian is and cricket daily well still in the hunt they've not given up they lost the 30 car the sister car uh last aim in in the night last night and uh well they're still in the hunt they will not give up and i can assure you folks that team owned by claus abilene who of course um late husband of the late great sabina schmitz and i can assure you there will not be a dry eye around the circuit or indeed in this commentary box if ricky daily worked this bring a surprise win here and they've never won the nurburgring 24 it used to be a brilliant annual outing for for klaus and for being behind the wheel this is the first year actually joe where klaus hasn't been driving yeah the porsche have really thrown all of their big guns at that two nls wins already for the fricatelli abalone team and it is this is the place of fairy tales and stories isn't it uh it could happen and you know we saw hannah shy driving the car that sabina took to victory overall victory here the bmw earlier in the weekend and the marshals came out on the side of the track they even had special banners made loading sabina as the queen of the nordschleifer and a well-respected and much-loved individual in her home country where she was well known through her exploiting racing and on automotive channels and of course in the english speaking world because of her association with top gear and the global phenomenon that that came and that's how i got to know her working on top key alive we caught presented the motorsports side of top gear live with tiffany dell and that wasn't any fun at all sabine schmitz tiffany dale oh gosh and me um on i can't remember how many live shows we did it two different venues i've been birmingham and then down at the docklands arena so massive chore that was to do that job and i say that with a big smile on my face uh he's a responsible adult uh do you know what you might well you might well be right because neither of the three big three amigos um would have counted as responsible so perhaps it was indeed me who was left and that's a scary thought in itself isn't it i'll let you get back to the battle for fourth position we'll move along for that because i'm sure we've got solicitors on standby at the bourbon battle for fourth position it is still the falcon portion of the 44 and the pink and blue number seven amg team get speed backlit versus yunkataya and the pace still absolutely electric between this pair claus bachler the austrian long-standing nurburgring driver long-standing falcon driver and driving his socks off which i'm sure are blue and turquoise uh his socks if not they should be we'd get him some falcon socks but daniel yunkadella very impressive single seater driver of course one at macau in 2011 and beat some very very high profile names in f3 as well including none other than ferrari f1 driver carlos science jr so that gives you if you're an f1 fan watching endurance racing for the first time gives you a bit of an impression of the caliber of the drivers at the front of this pack here in the nurburgring 24 hours we're just about to reach the top of the final approaching the final hour of racing here at the 2021 24 hours of nurburgring still impossible to call will it be the 98 rule of bmw will it be the 911 porsche will it be will there be any other surprises will it be the 20 hubert bmw absolutely impossible to call and john i'm certainly no clearer on it from on your side any particular car pointing out to you at the moment start watching the split times of kron and see if he's pacing himself and saving fuel or whether he's going for it klaus battler is driving the rear falcon tyres off that at number 44 excuse me uh yes 44 porsche as he is climbing up now towards kessel and those ever tightening left-handers and now at the edge of the ravine of the right-hand side but the back end of that car is bouncing out all over this place meanwhile chris harza has had two wheels on the grass in his audi sport team car collection number two r8 sitting in 14th position and didn't even lift now this battle for fourth is back into the slaw zone for the barrier repair and the leader is down at brunching and the final hour of the 2021 total adac nurburgring 24 hour is upon us so john hindoff and peter mckay here to take you through the final hour of this incredible motor race impossible to call at the moment sheldon vandalinder throwing everything at it at the wheel of the number 98 row of bmw the sister car the number one the pole setter the defending champion unfortunately out from the lead with an electrical issue absolutely gutting for those guys but for the team if their 98 car was able to make it to the flag in the lead that would certainly put that one uh as a distant memory you would imagine but they've got to get past a whole raft of opposition from a variety of rival german manufacturers what's interesting me john is that we're still waiting on augusto farfast to come to pit lane in the 77 car this time still not serve that two-minute penalty yeah he's on his eighth flat at the moment so you'd expect him in at this time that's gonna put him that'll be his last stop um he can go to the end there with fewer than 59 minutes remaining it'll be fewer than 58 by the time he gets in the ones we've got to keep an eye on for me schubert motorsport uh jessie cron on his first lap out of the pit as is uh dennis olsen steer in the 31 freaking telly uh porsche uh no he put patrick pele in uh saw paleo taking that car to the end and they are going to be very very close indeed to be able to go to the end of the race without another stop audi gt4 and audi gt3 getting rather too close for comfort as christopher haaser makes friends with the drivers of the driver of the what was earlier the class leading number 53 gt tyres right okay um that wouldn't have gone down very well if those two would come together it cost a class win there for the gt4 pittman christina nielsen on the driving strength there christina knows uh strange at the winning races and titles double himself champion of coursing gt dear torna and has driven a myriad of cars down through the years fits into a team immediately cut a teeth in porsche carrera cup middle east i remember doing the commentary on her marathon right as we expected then peter right yeah yeah well you're uh i'm glad you're on top of it i'm only doing it by eye now that's interesting goes straight past the penalty box does augusto farfa so here's a question can he they serve that penalty in the pit in their pit box i would have thought they would have to sit in the pit lane in in the penalty box yeah two two things here without going to have a look at the rags new set of tyres by the way for that car um i i reckon that they could still come in at the end of the race and just sit there and then cruise across the line so long as uh they don't get locked of course or is there an option to add it onto their race time at the end and now they're gonna try and just stay out there um or that was b or c are they still arguing the case and therefore they seem to the drivers stay out there interesting uh number 12 has just picked up a penalty whilst we're on the subject of penalties there peter let's just tick this one off the list as well uh this is the line split by car collection motorsport neither of the lion's brake cars have had particularly trouble free runs but the sp9 number 12 that's uh the jean-louis hartenstein klaus [ __ ] feeder leap and johanna stengelcar picking up non-respect of uh speeding replay what's they're calling a replacement penalty a minute five so um with so little time left before the end and some people having perhaps already made their final stops that could be added to race time meantime the battle for what is now third position crater on the grand prix circuit these guys are have i i bet you there is massive grins inside the helmet of daniel youncadella and claus batler do you know what these guys have they're both professional racing drivers i'm sure have been at the wheel of gokarts since they were in nappies and this is what they live for on the best circuit in the world in proper factory race cars porsche 911 gt3 are mercedes amg gt racing wheel the wheel this is what they come for and this is what we come for as fans as well brilliant brilliant stuff uh to watch coming back to the number 77 bmw junior team uh penalty or potential penalty it's certainly been handed out but hasn't been served yet that's interesting they could be debating it but also i i have to say john i am not a fan of tagging on time at the end of the race if it can be served if it can be served in the race it should be um i i remember what was it sebring 2012 and two races going on at once in the city that didn't work no i i i hate that because the whole the you know you get across the line in the the excitement of it you forget who's got the minute and 20 second penalty and then you're reading down the results and you realize the results have changed oh yeah i forgot about that penalty thankfully timing screens nowadays tend to upgrade very updated very very quickly at the end of of the of the race third position battling under the yokohama bridge down into the foxhole um whatever happens we will make history today as the shortest oh uh nurburgring 24 hours on record i think i'm going to bring that up well i i think it's i think we've had a 64 lap race before um we'll be the shortest in time weather will be the shortest in great flag time maybe the shortest in the race itself i suppose we will do because what we're on now that 52 with 52 minutes to go uh yeah it's going to be the shortest in distance as well by some magic but over 12 hours overnight that was lost due to whether fog mainly both in terms of the issues for visibility for the drivers and i think then more tellingly in the early morning hours it was quite clear out from the nordschleife but the fog was hanging around at the pit straight area which meant the many heli was unable to operate and at that point of course you have to keep extending but i thought the adac and the organizers did a crack job got the cars out onto the track so they could do what's called a quick start procedure and a law the original formation that time was extended by uh 80 minutes when we thought they were gonna roll out that meant at least assume the very moment that the sun started to break through burn off a bit of the fog and in fact actually the wind got up a wee bit as well and that allowed us to get started again right heading up from bergberg as well this battle for third position peter and still barely three or four cars linked between daniel juncker there and a bit of clear track ahead of the man he's chasing klaus bachmann they're coming back up to that slow zone whilst the leader a little bit further around the track is heading down to downtown indeed yes it's uh those guys in the the 44 falcon porsche of klaus bachler and the number seven mercedes of daniel young cadella it's coming you know we've got a falcon tire porsche flat six naturally aspirated engine in the back and you've got the mercedes 6.2 liter v8 in the front on michelin tires and both absolutely inseparable now thanks to the folks at [ __ ] tire europe who have tweeted us john with a picture of house bachelor socks or at least well maybe not quite specular socks right now but a clean pair of box fresh uh folk and tire themed socks uh which so that that's very cool i like that but this number nine i need to know why we haven't got them for uh for the commentary booth yeah you stand to be standing in them all day yeah they need to be strong the uh now of course the 98 bmw here will need to pit once more as will have an extra at some point it's just how deep into the race they go i suppose go as deep as they possibly can everybody goes as deep as they can now also you've got to think for uh the guys who are certainly stopping again which is uh all those guys that you've mentioned you want to keep the pace up you want to get the laps ticking over and the reason i say that is you want to not make it easy for the likes of the shoe but number 20 bmw the deli 31 porsche they've got it they took on eight laps worth of fuel when they last stopped and it's pretty tight on that you get a few liters extra from uh each stint from uh nls race because of the slightly longer lap on the grand prix circuit but there's certainly at full speed there's not line laps in the car no way so you are pushing really hard as the is that that's the second race car now the rule for racing coming into the pit lane for what would be its last stop so with 48 minutes remaining it has a minimum pit stop time of 138 seconds two minutes and 18 seconds for that car this could be critical because the manti racing porsche of kevin ester which now heads into the league so manti racing back leading the 24 hours of nurburgring with 48 minutes to go they've still got a good couple of laps left and therefore their minimum pit stop time will be shorter so the closer you get to the end of the race your last pit stop time you have a smaller minimum pit stop time and john i actually think that's going to be the very much the deciding factor of this motor race so the first car that we think potentially has made its last pit stop is currently in seven and it's a minute and 37 seconds away from the leader and if esther can go where is he in his full stint uh he's starting his seventh so one more after that so 47 and 40. uh we're gonna be down to somewhere around about 32 minutes maybe 33 34 minutes is what i said before and i'm sort of sticking with that what's what's his time minimum time stop when he comes in let's hear the circumvention uh 100 seconds uh that's spot on the 97 seconds behind at the moment in in that number 20 car but what what we need to know is how how many laps will be left and they don't know how many laps are left here nor they've got eight laps of fuel in that car and they can't do anything but push on 44 and the seven the porsche uh side by side with the emg mercedes on the grand prix circuit going down to the dudlop happened and for a moment daniel youngadella was rally crossing peter that was a involuntary rally crossing there close bachelor shutting the door hard saying if you think you're going around there you're gonna have to do it on the paint my friend wow there's that the cartwheel the uh the grenade pin has been fooled in that particular battle and who's gonna blink first between those two warriors the 44 of bachelor and the number seven of yunkadela the number 98 roll of bmw back on the move uh in fifth position so they're good to the end of the race but that minimum pit time could really hurt them compared to their rivals i would suspect then john that the hulk and porsche and the bwt mercedes the number seven uh are gonna have to pit at the end of this lap they've got to be near the end of their stint for the mercedes uh yes the team gets paid car but i think the falcon porsche can go one lap further he's coming out of turn one the old over and under move by yunkadeli got right up under the door panel of klaus battler on his right hand side as they went over under the pedestrian bridge there on the grand bridge circuit down to that tricky downhill left-hander they were still side by side uh um the faulty car on the grass and there was a bit of contact through the right-hander as they're headed down the hill and that was very firm driving indeed from klaus backler defending he'll say defending his position did he leave a cards width on the outside no it's the answer that i was going to say it's a bit but it's not um he was giving the that's your logan racing room uh that's what he was doing of course was the buggy in that oh you're very good you need to be a team manager that's very good indeed uh other flight plans and heading up the hill for that battle uh in uh which is for the moment for second and third would that be broken up at the end of this lap when i reckon you candela will come into the pit lane so the key point about that is that the rover racing van der linde driven 98 now did they get out ahead of jesse cron i think they did but i can't tell you by how much at the moment until we get to the end of the lap because that was the car that we felt was up until that point that that pitched up with the 98 the car that was highest place um of the cars that had done the pit stop so rover racing bmw gt3 the m6 in fifth position ahead of jesse cron and we reckon those two in fifth and sixth on your timing screens at the moment are the cars that are best placed to go to the end at the moment there's no doubt in my mind the 98 can go i think it's much tighter for yesi and therefore for the 31 as well which is two places further back when did sir mark was stopped yes he's got 40 seconds to make up on the 98 bmw as well uh in 20 cars so the 20 car is it's gonna need i i think it may they really have a few things to fall in their favor likewise the 31 ricket daily porsche but this is the thing is that it was seen it can just anything can happen in an instant i mean kevin esther when the when the rain fell went straight on at whifferman we nearly ended up in a race winning a race-ending accident so it can just just be a click of a finger it can be gone and there is there's not just one car to pick up the pieces there's there's eight of them um it's this is what i know it's been a sprint race of about three and a half hours from the from the uh restart this morning but this is i don't think really would have been in a greatly different position if we've been racing all through the night as well well you'd hope you would hope that yeah more incident out on the circuit for what is now the leading card to go by this is more barrier work uh heading uh up to uh [Music] yeah so that's the uh run down into uh first part of the plants garden i think uh or is it the running of brunching to run into brunching my apologies no i'm wrong back that barrier that yeah yeah first part of the flights garden uh no i was so i'm coming back between the 29 audi and the wall i mean if this 911 manti porsche the grello machine wins they will look back at that that replay will get that will be giving them nightmares for uh for the next little while um i hope it's one of those near misses possibly that could be definitive in this motor race but it's far far from done with 41 and a half minutes to go here at the nurburgring we expect that this is the penultimate lap of kevin estrous stint and i know that the there might be well there's a question john if manti wanted to train to change driver which i don't know if they would um i don't think there'd be time to make the driver change with a minimum fixed time uh that is a good point as well it'll just be fuel i think hello to randy sherwood at rsl underscore studio listening in san diego to burgess noradol i hope i've said that right uh burgdis uh doing a great job fueling my urge to get something a little bit more fun and exciting than my old 1.6 liter daily driver rsl underscore studio hashtag rsla 24 uh penalty served no penalty served the pitman in the last three hours of the race the time added afterwards is what ian mccarthy is seeing he's been flicking through the book here's the 911 coming through to the end of the lap and let me just check what you were seeing he'll complete seven laps of a stint here so he should have one more lap in the front of that car which is where the fuel tank is and indeed he does stay out here he does indeed and kevin esther goes over the line in the lead blasting past the hyundai i20n a completely stock standard road car with a roll cage in it and of course that car will be launched to the public uh very soon here in the uk and i guess in the rest of europe as well and although they haven't had 24 hours of running that they would have liked that little i20 it said i've heard very good things about that little car and uh you can't put it in through a tougher test than here at the north life i i think esther as if he needed it has been told to push um his last lap was an 8 38 with two slaw zones and three chord 60s so he's not hanging about no there are people who were quicker than him but last time around it just depends when you catch that klaus back there in the middle of that phenomenal battle with uh young catalan you can tell us how to come into the pit lane and saw his shields queen on top it's last pit stops then for the two team get speed cars peter mckay coming in together well this is um the uh the get speed team of course based here at the nurburgring this is their super bowl this is the one they all want to win and certainly the most distinctive looking cars out there with the pink and blue sponsorship from bwt water both cars in now with 38 minutes to go on the clock their minimum pit stop time is 115 seconds so that that so is in about eight minutes time we'll see can an extra come in for his final pitch stop people only have to stop for 96 seconds so that sliding scale is absolutely critical yeah absolutely right all of that time the big fight before the racetrack and they make up that number of seconds by going one lap further on the fuel remember that kick team had 70 7-0 minutes to go we had mark bessing in the pit lane a moment ago in the tcr number 8 30 hyundai he got out man where lauk is going to take that car to the end now i know i do like a bit of drama peter and the more you work with me you'll realize that but um am i just adding a bit of extra in to say there are parts of the circuit where it's starting to look a little more overcast and a little more threatening weather-wise well i must be a fellow doom merchant because i that was exactly what was crossing my mind and i i didn't want to stoke drama where it's not there but there's definitely the certain camera angles where i'm thinking kevin esther needs his lights on there uh just come to the grand prix circuit particularly and thinking hmm well i i really hope not let's let's have a straight fight i think uh for 37 minutes i think i don't think i could take any more grammar quite honestly um oh no no no drama we'll take as much drama we'll take family okay and again you see that that will help anybody who's got a late stop to make because what you want now if you are um at the front of the field and you've still got your last stop you're thinking right if it's gonna rain rain really heaven's hardest as i'm coming the last third around the lap put rein on the first third and the second third of the lap please so that i can come in and put a set of wets on for the last four or five laps oh big move down the outside on the dolly get hurt patrick peel it giving best there to augusto farthest fricately versus bmw junior team and the bmw goes back ahead they've been swapping places on this lap for ninth and tenth position overall nico muller in behind the number 23 mark or see freed huber motorsport porsche same part of the track drags through uh no porsche comes back we've said how quick the porsche has been in a straight line under the bilstein bridge they're nearly side by side there and they'll come side by side at the breaking area up the hill for the tear guard did they both get through we may never know as we wait to see how they come back across the start finish line kevin estra is in bergberg and starts another climb up the hill peter mckay using all of those 500 horsepower or flow from that four liter flat six in the back of this gtcr this is a car kevin airport knows inside out now and as do his manti racing team they have more wind at this nurburgring 24 hour than any other team with six wins and the previous team owner olaf mantai more vln wins than any other driver a lot of people forget that mr mantai was a very very special driver in his own right will this be an unprecedented seventh victory from anti-porsche are these looming clouds that are they really are looking quite menacing now with 34 minutes to go this is i think the um what i don't know what the anti-rain dances but they they certainly will be dancing in the mantai racing garage now i want to raise a point about them number 31 fricatelli car uh john because if you're klaus avlin the owner of frickadeli you've got to be pretty angry with the seven there's nothing the 77 bmw is doing that's out with of the rules but with a two-minute penalty to be served after the race they've that they've had a lot of on track battles that have really kind of hampered the pace of that 31 car but all fair and loving war as they say uh yes and everybody's battling for position as the fricatelli gets the upper hand the fricatelli porsche gets the upper hand for the moment with the phoenix porsche of this porsche some of the phoenix uh audis that's in there as well yeah i think that car is out of position peter is there come to the top of arnberg and drop down the fox hole again no that's the eleven car we had michael beretta frank stiffler uh kim louis sram and nikki team mandel for those of you who follow nikki team on social media you'll get a very clear impression of his opinion of the incident with the rafaeli martiello and the bwt mercedes the number seven car which has got them with the evidence of that accident on one of the front headlights they're having excitement to come perhaps in the last hour last uh half hour should i see it a couple of three minutes away from our finally final uh hourly update which will take in the odd classes uh slightly further down the field quite difficult to try and keep up with that such as playing the pace at the front and to give it the time that it probably deserves for all those classes so we will give the roundup in a couple or three minutes we'll bring everybody back in as well for the last half an hour manta using every bit of technology they can't attract kevin estra who i reckon at the end of this lap as he's coming through to the end of it now and by the time he gets in oh my goodness 77 coming together they've been threatening to do that peter mckay for quite some time high speed incident on the far side of the nordschleife oh my word that is a huge incident the number 77 bmw is now ground to a halt at verse life and was going very very slow there isn't i don't think there was a slow zone that patrick certainly some of patrick pele's experience wouldn't have noticed so the bmw going incredibly slow for an sp9 car may be dealing with an a mechanical issue patrick pele's got completely caught by surprise plows into the back of the bmw we've seen the bmw come to a halt and it might well bring the 31 fricken daily car to a halt as well massive incident and that that actually could have been a lot more nasty than it already was in front right puncture for the tricky daily as well more than that the steering arm has broken as kevin estra does indeed come into the pitch that's on the run down from calendar to the siphon it's downhill it's fast you're picking up speed and you were spot on there there was some kind of issue far for sony a lot or so out of the pits so it's not a fuel issue but something went wrong with that bmw junior team he is the uh if you will the experience in that team a bit like having the senior player in your under 21 squad you were always allowed one or two weren't you back in the day well that's the farthest rule this weekend but both of those cars have been taken out of competition final pit stop there peter how long will the 911 have to stay with 30 minutes on the clock it will be 98 seconds minimum pit stop time for the manti porsche so that we're trying to get this as close as possible some michelin new tires going on i can't quite see if they're going to put all four on it doesn't look like it but for a second for the second as well so the top two are right so it's fonda linda in 98 rover bmw uh coming down the dodger her now they must get the right amount of fueling they're already getting on towards 50 five zero liters for the porsche i was a bit less than that i think that's just over 50 and they're waiting and now they're rolling this is going to be tight but they might get out in the lead this could be the race right here with the number 98 fonda linda driven rover racing bmw m6 coming under the robbery circuit now and the porsche's gone manti racing is out in the lead and the crowd the knowledgeable crowd there's not a lot of them here but they have burst into spontaneous applause down at the mercedes arena and obviously they know what they're watching there they're watching the 911 go out without losing the lead with 29 and a half minutes to go extraordinary stuff kevin's teammate and michael christmas and those pair they have won they've won pretty much everything together uh they've won the world championship they've won le mans they've won spa but neither of them have ever won the nurburgring and to do it together in the 911 grello car i think for michael christensen particularly if kevin she was able to hang on to this lead michael christensen particularly remember he lost his drive in the world championship uh in the wec and this is uh this is a big big statement for the danish driver to prove that he is still absolutely at the top table of gt racing full attack mode for uh it is not klaus battler he's been replaced so they have to the driver change in that car and they put in sven muller into the 44 falcon and it will be full attack he was warming the falcon tyres up at the back with excessive amounts of wheel spin coming through turns one and two he's going to have to find around about 15 16 seconds maybe more on fonda linda for second but he's out in third position let's do our final update for you on some of the other classes the as we have a moment before it all gets even more exciting we said the stagger would have to unwind ert formulas fire concept car porsche being led leading that category and the number 320 car is in 46th position in sp 10 it's the schnitzen arm racing game [ __ ] mercedes gt4 in 25th position as the cleanup goes on for augusto farthest and the bmw junior team and meantime the fricatelli car that was involved in that scary incident the number 31 for patrick pele has ripped the front right wheel off its mountings certainly of the steering rack the steering arm has broken and the wheel's sitting at about 45 degrees it's got a puncture it's got suspension damage he'll get it back at the pit i'm sure he will but any chance of a decent result gone for that car in sp eight uh not sp 8t sp8 it's the gt time motorsport audi r8 lms the number 53 car they have got a strangle hall had a stranglehold on that category for some time sp 3t is at the andre it's andreas gilton driving that card always has been when i've been taught about the match croissant racing golf tci 36 position for that number 10 car sp4 currently being led by the bmw e25 uh in 93 25 the number 325 in 86 position in v6 is team mathols chairman the 123 60th position the five is the rent to drive familiar racing porsche cayman now i've not mentioned their name before so they've fought their way to the front 142 is their number 106 is their position and the v4 leader is somewhere off the bottom of my screen peter can you see the v4 151 bmw e90 driven by quantum that's the e9325 they're in 78th position thank you uh b2t now that's normally been um hyundai hasn't it and it's on it part of its own right okay good so it's still the hunter uh and cup five which is the new cup class for bmw c s m twos is adrenaline motorsport the 242 car in 68th position well done to all of the classes over 20 of them in this year's race peter mckay stand by joe bradley bruce jones also standing by as we welcome back to the global broadcast center peter snowy snorted for uh the last 25 minutes or so of this race probably a little bit more far for something at all looked like a mechanical issue for that car that just stalled him in the middle of the track with that battle that had been reaching back and forth between he and patrick pealey in the uh in the frigga delhi cup in in their freaking telly car 31 yeah yeah john how many times have we said during this race and others like this and qualifying this whole weekend of how something a moment can just change the whole face of the race there and augustus farthest and the m6 junior bmw junior team car there just having some kind of issue where he just slowed down unexpectedly certainly for him but so much more for patrick pillay and you could just tell he just didn't see it happening didn't get chance no disrespect to patrick and he didn't he didn't just tap it he whacked him and broke the front right suspension on that frickadely car how many times could that have happened because these cars have been driving at 160 170 180 miles an hour millimeters apart not even inches apart and one small technical issue um we could have seen that a hundred times in this race even even the shortest place you've used the phrase many a time over this of course these four days of recalibrating and one of the things that you you don't allow for is you sit there driving around with another car it's a peer group so you're you're working with them you're waiting for other class cars to slow down be in the way yes but you go together you work as a player you help one another you look for the advantages what you don't expect is that peer group card to suddenly slow down and that's what caught patrick pilliard and it was a that was a rugby drop kick i think bruce would have been proud of that one bruce jones we've seen once again the tactical genius that is the mustachioed one olaf mantai he's pulled it out again right now got in and out for that last pit stop without losing the lead and kevin estra is 15 seconds to the good with 23 minutes to go well you don't you don't um fall into victory in this race no one gets there by mistake manti racing's done it before it's doing it all over again he often has a smile behind his moustache but it will be in front of it within 25 minutes because uh this has been a really really hard race in many ways it just was encap it was squeezed down to three and a half hour sprint today after that long long fog delay but uh olaf he understands the rules he works the pit stop super super well and his driving crew well particularly esther and christensen they have delivered the goods joe bradley has been watching and listening since the end of it's that substantive shift as we bring all five voices together in the radio show limited global broadcast center thanks big thanks by the way to tim gray's team up in london hugh and rob who've been on duty for the whole 24 hours as have our colleagues at nurburgring at tv because they had to stay around during the night just in case something happened brothers uh hang on a second i'll get you in a sec second job taikman racing the number 110 what a shame for the ktm crossbow it's come to a fifth in its class 70th overall for the spielkon racing car right at the start of the nordschleife for peter snowden yeah just very quickly there as well john i just said that not it makes much difference but patrick pelay in the number 31 i nearly said it then fricatelli porsche um he hasn't made it back he was going to live in the world but he's pulled off at the beginning of the dotting a hoe it's called i just saw it going by on a bit of uh behind a barrier there so that's not made it back not dude who made a great deal of difference but at least it's out of the way now fair point yes uh joe what i was gonna say to you is there's a slight air of frustration and disappointment from everybody i'm sure but it appears that all that sitting around watching fog early this morning has been worth it when we get to a kind of finish that we've seen and that's a proper endurance finish with strategy as much as speed playing out here you know what there's something about this race that it doesn't matter how how long the delay is we always have this finish we always have i mean how many times over the last few years have we seen this race come down to the final lap and you know what there's there is no way that you can go into a long distance race thinking about winning you've just got to think about the first thing then the next thing and just let it come to you and if anything the mantai team they're you know they've won this race six times they know how to go about their business add in the complexity of just starting with three and a half hours of racing this morning starting with effectively a clean sheet forget about what happened yesterday that just that just didn't exist it was all about the final three hours and they've they've played the driver strategy they've they've not used last kern at all and only used three of their drivers um and that was a big that was a big ass that's a big ass to leave someone out and they've done that and and it's bearing fruit at the moment bro i'm still not going to say anything john because there's still 19 minutes remaining well and you make a very valid point there mr bradley because we have seen you can't take anything for granted but look what happened to augusto farthest he's made up a position he's trying to drive away from pilar no drive no traction or whatever it was peter and his race effectively over rafaela martial has almost been involved in instant and all that sort of stuff as well and he's now battling for third place with the car ahead of him which is the number 44 schwein muller driven for the motorsport car so the last step on the board you're far from sort of here absolutely i think bruce just made a great point there as well that uh or great phrase you just use that you don't fall into winning this race and manti you don't fall into winning this race not once but six times i think that is that's probably the most uh most thought-provoking comment uh you think about this where that car is at the moment right at the front kevin ester at the wheel of that car he has been a bit of a superstar in that car he has tried a few of those what uh i think peter mac coined the phrase as well of the uh pass on the grass uh he's had a he shaved it hasn't he he hasn't quite necessarily got it on the grass but he's certainly got a he's got fairly close closer than i would have wanted to in some of those circumstances which made me take an intake of breath before he commented on it of course the team now run by the team from moist path run by nicholas mark murder olaf handed over the rings a few years ago just have a formal rule with the team porsche owning a big chunk of the team as well of course and have used the manti operation to run the works cars in gte gt le man at le mans and continue have continued to do that with the wac operations porsche gt team as it's called now that was uh core racing in the states and manti here in europe overall coming under that same banner i have no doubt that olaf will be here i have no doubt it'll be somewhere near to the garage but best of wishes passing on to him anto nicholas and martin for doing such a a great job it looks like we're getting close to having a four-car battle check that three-car battle for third position sven muller leading a train at the moment to the end of the foxhole and up to adding our fourth [Music] with behind it the bfw team gets beat number seven which is not been without incident and he's showing a few battle scars on that and then jesse cron clausing in on them he's only second and a half further back in the schubert motorsport number 20 bmw m6 gt3 and i'm just going to make sure that all of those guys yes he's going to be he's on his sixth lap at the moment not sure yes he can make it to the end here without another splash of fuel but everybody ahead of him can uh we've got shields goon on next up in the number eight mercedes-benz but team gets paid he's fine to the end as well then it's marcus seafried in the 23. he'll be coming in at the end of this lap in fact did i just see that light up for him to come into the pits of the 23 machine yes i think i did so then it's uh [Music] training yeah he should be all right and dominic baumann should be off here as well in the 10k racing team amg so that's how they stand in terms of their final pit stops sven muller holding on to the third step of the podium it's not a win it's not second but you're on the podium and at the end of this race that is still an achievement even at the end of the race that has not been the usual 24-hour challenge challenges in different ways certainly still fighting the nurburgring in the nordic life of peter snowden the weather of course but also a very different field than this and i wonder how difficult it was for some of the drivers just to switch gears although at the sharp end of the field as we heard klaus backer saying earlier on it's 100 percent this anywhere so all that's happened to these guys is they've had equipment that's in somewhat better condition that absolutely i don't think but it's proven what the the nordstrom has proven again what it always does we can shorten it now to the shortest rate on on in record we think that we think it's going to be and yet it's still time all the drama we've had we've had everything but fire in the first half hour we've had race topics we've had fog we've had rain everything is all thrown in there and it's just yet again the nordstrom gibbet and it taketh away it never never ceases to amaze me confirmation from porsche motorsports at porsche races if you don't follow them fricately number 31 damaged by a collision with what they're calling here slow car on track and had to retire it was definitely slow well i'm sure patrick pillay would agree with that that description i i i would um how uh augusta farfas feels about that nick parker submits that rsl underscore studio i think this has been the worst n24 for a while actual racing at the front has been poor and unexciting crashes don't make for a good race uh okay one man's view at rsl underscore studio hashtag rsl n24 so your thoughts on that with the threat of frog and possibly even reigns still hanging over us in the last 15 minutes kevin estra his gap still just around about 15 seconds getting up to speed after his pit stop he'll come down to complete his first flying lap out of the pits in just a moment or two's time he has to pick his way through course vehicles one of the uni mogs with the arm core sections on as he came through the tier got and now under the start finish straight 12 minutes to go what do you reckon then bruce 12 minutes to go this one and one more i reckon at the end of this is it not uh yes my math goes along with that john and i wouldn't want this race to be pulled up short they've had fewer enough racing laps as it is but i think for those obviously at the front of the queue they'd like it to end asap but i i just want to say it's well worth what you did highlighting the work of martin rader and nicholas rader of course a lot of the credit always goes to olaf manti he built the team he's sort of overseas but they do the day-to-day running and they're the ones that really do need the accolade if their car goes on to win this and you're quite right this lap and the next one who knows we could have another change in the weather might even see the sun but i feel it's a little late for that i love your boys enthusiasm mr jones fantastic stuff it might be free to charge he's gonna come to an end then in that number 23 car i reckon he's in at the end of this for huber motorsport gonna come up a couple of laps short in their role of the dice uh how they played their strategy or at least how they found themselves in the last couple of three hours of this route the number 23 hoover porsche sitting in eighth at the moment is going to lose a handful of positions uh that said what have we got i think we've still got a sharp end of let me see 16 cars 17 cars maybe on the lead left maybe hitting cars actually i think the spx leader spears drive are still on the lead lap with that unconventionally steered mercedes amg the steer by wirecar in 18th position i think they're just ahead of the leaders i see when they come through so the battle for third is the one that we're concentrating on at the moment with the threatening clouds slightly slightly appearing to the far side of the circuit over the paddock area manti garage trying to look cool calm and collected if one thing that the pandemic has given us george bradley it's the ability for people to look stupid much easier because you can't see all of their facial expressions behind the masks yeah very difficult to interview when they're wearing a mask on to see what their face is doing you know yeah exactly and it's just it almost tells but um i think at this point of any race you if you're in contention and while i'm on the subject of contention i i just can't drag myself away from feeling really sorry for the number four mercedes and it's not just because our good friend adam christodoulou was in that car um that that couple seven second lead on the current leader at the restart seven seconds in a blink of an eye um and my heart goes out also to the 98 uh bmw uh and the uh the number sorry the number one bmw i should say um who was also very very strong uh going into this restart all right there was a little bit of a hit up with the carrying forward the pit stop uh from the re into the restart but uh john back with the track this looks like it's a yeah a real battery pass the third position out of the third rafael marcelo goes around the outside heading up through flute blast this side by side porsche to the inside as they come to chris that hooks the mercedes on the inside of our burger right-hander gets up on the curb just a little bit and goes through the battle for third has changed with eight and a half minutes to go down through the foxhole what a spin muller got to fight with mueller not appealing by apologies bullet who is fighting back as he charges down the hill of the foxhole he's not letting that bwt sponsored car get away that started snowy we're back coming through fluke platz and the double left then right 100 john and i would say that sven muller is not done yet and don't forget what we've seen throughout this race the few hours we've had a bit those porsches have got the most incredible drag off of the cars down the dottinger house so let's have a look at that when he catches up or sits behind the mercedes down the dotting however and i wouldn't be at all surprised if there's a a re-change of that position uh and this is for third place remember yeah it's not even for race league why shouldn't be back in the third place though quite rightly that well we've seen it here in the past uh going on to the last lap we've had things changing the four mortars by your concept car which is leading a t which is thomas von lewis of men are schmoodle the rock star thomas kiefer and charles kaufman has been hit with a 68 second penalty check that a 134 second penalty whilst it is the number 13 that's been given the 68 second penalty the number 13 being the dodge viper in the same class so the at cars getting we might get to see the the a win for the mustang there i'll let peter look to pimak have a have a look at that kevin estra out in front 911 and the number 911 as well through the caricciola carousel dealing with traffic six call it seven minutes to go he'll have another lap to do at the end of this one peter mckay this has been your first experience of watching the nurburgring uh adsc total 24 hours in full metal and being a part of the team um this year sometimes you know don't necessarily meet your heroes the nurburgring nordschleife a hero circuit for most people has this one lived up to its billing uh it has in spades um really has okay we've missed out the uh the hours through the night and the uh associated waffle that i'm sure we would have got involved in but uh this is just motor racing at its absolute best and it is an honor and a privilege to be part of the broadcast team to describe and uh explain these these pictures and this incredible sport that we're seeing i don't know how you couldn't be entertained by this i mean that side-by-side there between the falcon car the 44 of sven muller and the seven of rafaeli martiello absolutely incredible motor racing um just just to touch on the at class that's the uh porsche cayman of ford motors bio-concept car that has been brought in for penalty as or sorry it'd be applied with the penalty and as will the viper the car that smooth the rockstar is in uh is in leading that class at the moment and quite convincingly so right okay thank you well we've had a couple of three passes around the outside at schraden christ one of the most four formidable uh corners anywhere in the world super quick going up to it you were a head up to it over the top of a growl and even at this late stage still getting contact with the 58 was that yes it was that was bill cameron peter bonk and arnold class and oh my goodness that's a seven car yeah sp7 smallish class this year uh unceremoniously moved out of the way at the end of tiergarten so with five minutes to go on the clock across the rsl across the rsl network of audio and video video channels kevin estra is a couple of corners away from heading on to the last lap of the heavily weather interrupted 2021 total edc nurburgring 24 hours there'll be about 14 minutes and 10 seconds or so on the clock and now he starts his last lap [Applause] huge amount of penalties coming through that i'll let the guys check through to make sure there's nobody involved in one of the big fights the gap then going on to the last lap 18.11 pit stop times lots of pit stop time penalties right through the fields [Music] and they will be applied at the end of the race a smattering of as esther went through the mercedes-benz arena for his final night final time and peter mckay any major penalties at the sharp end of the field there that have just come through in that tranche no none from sp9 class fighting for the overall win so much of them in the other classes if there's any more i will keep you posted but hopefully as we head on to this last lap would be really a pity to see anything like that uh taking away from all these guys at the front what a show they have given us and we've got cars from all manufacturers of bmw and we've still got the battle for third peter coming through traffic number two audi in there is a lap down in seventh position but the bwt amg on the uh on the grand prix circuit at the moment and that is the rover racing m6 but right in the wheel tracks this battle for third it's the number seven and that is much marciello and mueller fighting it out again as they have been for such a long time in the last couple of hours so rafael marchiello battling with the number 44 it's the best better placed of the two falcon cars sven muller highly thought of a porsche and nicole muller it is for audi sport team car collection in seventh position who's behind them on the road and getting a grandstand view of that battle time will expire in two minutes time but of course we finish the lap that everybody is on and the one-eyed bwt team gets beat rafael martial driven car goes on to the nord schleifer for the final time in third position yeah and that predicted what i predicted the the porsche there will not getting that drag on the uh get speed mercedes i thought he might just glean on the dottinger so it looks like that's a settle for the moment it's got one last chance to do he said final lap kevin astra it is it's leading uh the in the manti porsche the rover racing van der linde driven m6 uh so one wouldn't swans onto the m6 out there at the moment is in second place much yellow in the get speed mercedes with the uh with the mullet right behind in the motorsports uh porsche 911 uh they're still opening united we said the number two car there's a lap down the uh other mudder audi sport car collection car is a lap out yeah just uh in seventh position as you see so i was wrong when i thought there was that many cars on the lead lap my apologies faster slap of the race in sp9 812.804 and i think bruce jones that's the fastest that we saw all week that was put in by the schubert motorsport m6 faster even than the shootout although in fairness the second part uh top qualified tq2 was running very wet conditions yeah no fabulous fabulous lap and the fact that these laps uh this morning were put in in the fog just again just proves how drivers are cut from different cloth to the average person in the street but the track was dry yes visibility wasn't brilliant but don't forget when they were doing that this morning after i forgot what time we actually got going it ended about 11 o'clock was the fact that um they're running nose to tail and you know very easy to make a mistake while in that company but set really quick lap times that schubert car in fact had enjoyed a tiny bit of clear air and that's really really how they pulled it out but uh yeah a fabulous pace in the early hours of the morning i think we waited for the restart for sorry bruce we waited for the restart there for you to return from the dog walk didn't we yeah that was what that was what was uh was driving it bruce it's nice to have friends in high places it's like god in bruce's case who can control the weather at the front of the field mercifully i'm sure but kevin estra and possibly even more for his teammates to manti racing mateo karoli michael christensen at last kern hasn't been in the car for the mandatory two laps so he won't qualify as as being a winner but a clear track in front of hester at the moment i i just love john that with uh with an 18 sorry 16.7 second deficit and anything could happen still for the second place man sheldon vanderlinder from kevin estrada he's still putting in the fastest sector times he can he's still driving the wheels off that rope with renting bmw m6 uh because he's only got 15 seconds to catch up but hey something might happen five cup five cars in the top 20 put their fastest lap of the race in last time around uh if you if you put on your race uh team managers hatch your bradley would you be going bad that everybody's finding peace right now or would you just be saying well you know crews didn't finish it it is where it is i'm sure these guys aren't cruising and you wouldn't be telling your driver to cruise because anything can happen and you've got to keep pushing and pushing right until you see that checking flag because the gaps aren't that great are they all it takes is a slip up you've got to still be you know positive and decisive through the traffic because if you can slip up at this this track is so narrow it's we've seen cars having to drive on the grass and there's only been two cars wide and you've just got to be very careful but you can't you just can't lose that concentration you can't lose that floor you've got to keep pushing pushing and pushing when you see the checkered flag that's when you can relax corey marvin saying on rsl underscore studio uh it may have been the shortest nurburgring 24 hours in history but it's been tremendously entertaining cup three by the way he's nose to teal for the win so we'll keep a look on that the three or nine machine in that category has just set its best lap of the race one of those cars that are pushing on that's the moon the motorsports came in and they are absolutely together so keep an eye for those all that mantai as predicted is in the area of the mantai racing pit wall as kevin estrit has turned now for home and he's into the kleiner carousel [Music] by no means can he kick out the clutch and cruise to home at the moment but the marshals know what they're watching blue flags waving as they have been for such a long time kevin's wife and young child in one of the pit boxes i noticed earlier on it was all a bit much for extra junior sound asleep the sound of racing cars could be such a wonderful thing for youngsters as peter snowden alongside me knows very well from taking um a very small baby some 15 years ago to lamont and her getting her best sleep ever but first five months old on her first proper sleep group i think it was 10 hours at le mans brilliant white noise describes it now at 15. son tommy in the gallery watching kevin estra bring the porsche 911 gt3r of mantai racing through well it's been an odd one it's been historic for being the shortest number of laps and shortest time under green at the total idiocy nurburgring 24 hours for 20 21. estra caroli christensen manti and porsche what a formidable team that is and it's the win for the local team from moist path they'll be able to drive that car back down the highway and put it away after it's gone through post race tech tonight and you think they won't do that i guarantee you that car is going back down the highway coming through to setting position rover racing the number 98 their defending champion car didn't get the look today didn't they particularly at the restart but the number 98 canada philippe the north american martin tomczyk sheldon fondo linda brings it home with marco fitment the fourth driver in that car and the series emg team get speed coming through in third position by just four seconds at the end holding on rafaeli martial making the move late in the race to confirm third position for the amg gt3 number seven that he shares with maxi goats daniel yunkadaya and fabian schiller let the celebrations begin olaf mantai in the middle of immediate scrum and whilst he may not have bruce jones here formal rule with the team anymore it's still his name across the door and there's still a lot of experience down through the years that's come from the man with the mustache from moist buff exactly the moustache may have been hidden as was the smile behind his mask of course in these days but that's a seventh win in the nerf gun 24 hour for the mantai racing team the miraculous the martin raider they will get all the applause in the pit garage for making that happen and that believe it or not was the 30th porsche win not the most successful mark across the 49 runnings of the nurburgring 24 hour that's still bmw with 20 but they're notching them back up great win there as you said eight seconds at the end uh getting news of a penalty that will affect the front of the field the fault of motorsport number 33 getting a 92 second red flag related penalty and oh my goodness how close were there that's going to that's going to drop them i think a position wait for that to be confirmed on the timing screen now the beautiful tradition of the cars coming round the shortcut uh into park furby at the back and they're all sitting there and by the time we've de-rigged the global broadcast center they're all just sitting there paul truswell always like to nip down and just have a look at them and see what they were seeing see what the scars were seeing and what stories they were telling look down on them from the mezzanine level that we work out of at the nurburgring node schleifer amazing victory peter mckay there's some names in that car and there's some names who are taking their first victory here [Music] indeed yeah but would you believe that that's kevin ester's first win at the nurburgring 24 hour um only four vln wins but he is regarded already as one of the true greats of this circuit and of global gt ratings uh for good measure i've had the immense privilege of interviewing both kevin estra and michael christensen and they're both absolute gentlemen they're a credit to the manufacturer they work for and themselves as well and i couldn't be happier for them and for the manti team who continue to add to their unprecedented tally of nurburgring 24-hour wins and what i want to do is give a big shout to lars kerm because although his name won't go on the trophy because he didn't drive believe me he's a huge part of the success of that car and of manti racing in all that they do in the automotive world chris jones uh we say that it's never over until it's over here there was a last lap change of position in the top six there was and i actually thought it was going to be um jesse crone getting past the 44 falcon motorsport porsche but the 44 falcon car held on to place and in fact crone was passed by another muller it was audi sports team car collection had its problems early in the race but came back through and uh it was so super close it was a tenth of a two tenths of a second between uh the 44 falcon car that took fourth and the number two audi that took fifth and then uh just a second on the nose back to crowd in sixth place and julgunya less than a second down in seventh so it really did concertina that battle and marcelo did well to get to the front of it and pull away very well rehearsed and well organized ceremony at the end the rover racing bmw already in the victory circle or in the top three part fermi area coming from the linda out being congratulated by his teammates while we've got a moment or two george bradley the cars are coming across the line and i think we've just about got everybody finished can you quickly run down some of the class winners please because i always feel bad if we've got to cut away and we never get to do that is i just lost joe bradley there for a moment gives us a chance to see the emotion and talk about the emotion from kevin estra who has left from the top of the mantai porsche his first victory in this german and global classic as his teammates climb the fences to get to him they'll be on the podium in a moment or two's time let's go to some of the class results then george bradley uh didn't hear you before but i think you've got the class results up now let's try again john let's spread the love yeah we tend to ignore the classes uh understandably so after such a great battle at the front of the field so um sbx was the next class down they were in 16th spot overall and that was the space drive racing mercedes car 25. uh 21st overall was card number one one four that's the cup x class winner that was the true racing ktm crossbow 27th overall was our sp 10 class winner that's the schnitzel racing mercedes gt4 car 34 27th 28th just behind them was the spft winner the black forklift mercedes gt4 34th overall was the number 10. that's the sp3t class winner the max cruise race in golf gti tcr the tcr class winner was just behind him in 35th spot overall and that was the number 830 the hyundai motorsport uh elantra uh cup three was the next one that's 37th overall car 305 and that's the gtech competition porsche cayman 39th overall was car 80. that's the sp7 class winner and that was the huber motorsport porsche gt3 cup um sp it is 48 overall car 53 that's the ge tired uh tire motorsport audi r8 uh v2t was the uh saw the 159 tick in that class win 53rd overall for the fk performance bmw v6 was in 57th overall car 132 that's the team matteo porsche kiermann 60th overall was sp 4t class winner that's the porsche cayman in 60th did i say that 66 overall car 242 that's the cup five winner and that's the adrenaline motorsport bmw m2 not many classes left v4 75th overall car one five one that's the bmw a90 bmw m24i class was won by adrenaline motorsport and our very own david drinkwater from the uk in that car 76th overall 78th overall car 120 winner in the sp3 class the toyota kazoo toyota corolla v3t class was in 87th overall with cart 168 that's the team matal porsche 718 cameron sp4 was a bmw three two five car three two five happily numbered in 89th overall and then sp six was 91st overall car 81 that's the whole for racing bmw m3 sp2 t was the hyundai motorsport i i-20 in 97 spot overall that car 165 105th overall saw the v5 class winner that's called 142 the rent to drive familiar porsche kiermann and the final class winner down in 120th spot overall uh car 350 that's the black falcon team porsche gt3 cup joe bradley with that run down 8.8 seconds the margin of victory at the end with kevin estrada just uh lifting off a little bit i think towards the end to bring that cahor assured on that final lap before we get to the podium ceremonies a couple of people to say thank you to our colleagues at nurburgring tv i've done a brilliant job again this week with everything that the eyeball can throw at them in terms of the weather particularly from thursday onwards michael nicole rennie the whole team have been brilliant and particular thanks to our camera operators here at the nurburgring who have been out in all that weather as well and but up throughout the night we were still getting pictures just in case there was a change of heart from what was going on magnificent stuff from all of those on the technical side and up in london at our main control room under tim grit we had hugh and rob curry was pitching in for the elms over the weekend as well and again had to be up and covering the whole 24 hours regardless of what was going on on the track they are the unsung heroes behind the microphone and plugging things in to make sure that we get to the world also like to say particular thanks of course to our responsible adult eve hewitt who put all this together and to yourselves watching listening contributing via the hashtag and rsl underscore studio it makes it a shared experience which what endurance racing is all about a different nurburgring 24 hours for 2021 but a nurburgring 24 hours for the 49th running that was absolutely deserving of the kind of challenge that people say that it is but we're going to be back to do it again next year into under rather different circumstances and maybe it's time to get a full ratio again in 2022 [Applause] so peter we're waiting for the victors to be uh to be awarded the spoils you've raised here you know what the feeling's like at the the end of of one of these races uh for some it'll be despair for some it will be absolute unbridled joy particularly for the guys that have would have put somewhere in the middle for some of those teams that we've mentioned there all the class winners will be absolutely delighted character building john that's probably the best phrase for this circuit it's uh we've seen everything in the albeit the shortened version uh this time uh but it's uh we've seen everything up i think perhaps what what characterizes it for me perhaps is the very last lap there by uh sheldon van der linde in the rover racing bmw m6 for second place he set the fastest lap of the race for that car on his last lap yes you're quite right kevin after did slow down from a an 8 24 was his loss up so that reduced the gap down from 16 to 8 odd seconds but sheldon mandelinda there tenacity right through to the end as i think our colleague peter maxwell i think that was the phrase he used for us but just that never say die never going to give up and uh his father's lap of the race just just at the end there quite extraordinary john the extra family out with uh young thomas there and kevin going to see his family uh getting that high five from the wee man with the number 9 11 hat on the youngster great emotion from everybody down on the manti side of things marvelous stuff from then and it i still can't quite believe bruce jones that this is kevin ester and everything that he's done this is kevin ester's first win at this race it made me double check my notes frankly because you just think back you the cameo roles come to mind he's always overtaking someone here he's mighty in the last couple of years and yet this is it this is his first but you know what i don't think he's going to be the last no certainly absolutely sorry john what he really proved in the early stages of the race was when everyone else was running nose to tail he was doing that but he was overtaking them and that is a very special skill on the nordschleife good for the team good for track position but just for the psyche as well i love the fact that in a few moments time there'll be champagne sprayed on the podium the mechanics of mantai have already got the beer out uh and are drinking and spring in equal measure a local brew actually bit burger from uh just down the road uh from the nurburgring there's a few good breweries uh and brewery towns around the eiffel region uh bitter ein bit is the slogan for those guys please may i have a bit burger but different from where i came from where it was phil power feds only bradley amongst anybody listening will know well over my head they're completely over my head roughly translated it means uh barkeep would you mind providing me with four of your very best pints of federation ill if it's not too much trouble filth our fit yeah you're a lot older than me though i don't remember that i'm a lot younger than you a lot younger than you you know that to be true boys boys stop come on oh fantastic anyway kevin ester john can you remember i don't know how many years ago it was but didn't he put a mclaren on paul here yeah was that 2014 or something yeah that was that was around 1810 in the shootout he completely blew us away with that lap and it was uh i mean we we knew of kevin ester but i don't think we realized just how good he was and you know what next year we're not going to have a talking piece to talk about next year because usually we talk about how unfair this race has been to kevin estrada and you know how how ridiculous it is he hasn't won it but he's gonna spoil that one now hasn't he's gone and won it i'll tell you what there's some happy people on that podium you know sometimes you see a podium where someone feels like they've been robbed but the third place crew are taking their selfies they're smiling patrick assange nico excuse me um maxie good standing junkatella raphael martiello and fabian schiller they're having a good time already three different german manufacturers in the top three with audi missing out there porsche bmw mercedes audi and fifth though chris harza the rest of the audi sport team car collection and they're in fifth position saying that john kevin esther a pole position here for manta in 2018 and 2019 how's it taken until now to win it yeah just shows what the circuit can do doesn't it don't it's you know uh little naught for daniel calvitz uh bruce and the the rest of wtm powered by phoenix first non uh german car in 13th position and i think just off the lead lap for those guys but for the early part of the race they were they were putting decent speed up in that ferrari 488 gt3 as in uh in fairness was uh the uh the other car the other ferrari uh as well out there yeah two the two of the two of the three ferraris really were going well we've seen them show great pace in the rounds of the nurburgring lang striking series but so many of the race stories almost got lost in the fog because people were guessing getting their tire choices wrong last night losing a lot of ground trying to make it up again then we had the stoppage but one day don't forget we did have a ferrari finishing second as um not that long ago here but it does seem a very long way off from victory it just seems german property year in year out but when you've got porsche you've got audi you've got bmw up there juking out the front with mercedes it's almost always going to be one of their cars unless someone blink brings a real real blinder to this yeah looks like we're ready for the podium ceremonies top three cars separated by 55 zero seconds and for mercedes team get speed in third position then the number seven crew maxi goats daniel young cadella rafaela martial fabian schiller in second place representing bmw for the number 98 crew rover racing part of the philippi martin tomczyk sheldon fondo linda and marco fitment and the winners again manti and the 9 11. what a record that team has got here whoever is running the shore they still rule the roost at the nurburgring matteo cavalli michael christensen kevin estra last curd 59 laps completed 100 away from a distance record and actually setting the fewest laps ever and the fewest amount of green flag minutes but they win there's no asterisk they are the winners of the 2021 total ndse nurburgring 24 hours [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] so well you know what there's very few people up and down that pit lane who will have to take any issue at all with that victory the most local of local teams to the nurburgring mantai racing literally from down the road that's a very popular victory the trophies are held a lot for the get speed mercedes team in third position the photographers get their shots that you'll see on the internet in a few moments time and in the weeklies to come the other racing winners last year and their 98 car having to make two with second position here but make no mistake when you come to the nurburgring if you've got the letters on your porsche you know that it's been engineered within an inch of its lake to respect the unique characteristics of the world's toughest racing challenge and mr mantei racing with their porsche 911 gt3 r win the 2021 edition [Music] brilliant stuff by all of the teams there will be partying late into the night i remember how hard bmw partied last year and ran well into the darkness hour it will be no different tonight and there'll be celebrations within that panic yes there's work to be done there's packing up to be done there's trucks to be loaded but for winners in class and those for whom perhaps it was just enough to get to the end there's something being achieved here very special this weekend at the nurburgring and there'll be emotion right throughout this part of the eiffel mountains this evening it's been a pleasure being a part of it thanks to all of you and our technical stuff for george bradley bruce jones peter mckay peter snowden for hugh rob tim and kerry in london and of course the nurburgring tv crew without whom we cannot do our job responsibility and john hanged up that was the 49th running of the nurburgring thanks for being with us bye-bye guys

Channel: ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring

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Length: 629min 11sec (37751 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 07 2021