Manthey-Porsche Celebrates Record Win in the 24 Hours of Nurburgring

Team lead by Olaf Manthey takes fourth consecutive title in a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR with 155 laps completed

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24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Kissling Motorsport
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24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Frikadelli Racing
24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Manthey Racing
24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Manthey Racing
24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Manthey Racing
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24 Hours of Nurburgring 2009 - Alpina

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catchmyshadow

what a fantastic race that was, the R8s proved to be decent challengers of the 911s and they were leading after 19hours until the tranny cracked. will be fantastic next year. seems to be a great family atmosphere, very down to earth.

May 25, 2009 11:03 am

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zdenda20

the first couple of laps, when the RSR was battling with the Ford GT were legendary, a piece of art! How come we dont see any kits from Manthey?

May 25, 2009 12:52 pm

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catchmyshadow

i think manthey is dedicated to racing and that´s pretty much it then, no huge interest in a big street legal program of the 911. the RSR (esp. the rear) looks fabulous by the way. most impressive were the race-cam pictures from the helicopter. they were just spectacular and imagine the fastest ones lapped the Ring at ~8:50 around midnite! simply insane..

May 25, 2009 1:19 pm

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tom43

Why haven´t we seen one of these ultrafast Nissan GT-Rs and Lexus LF-As in the top rankings? I think we again saw, who is the true king of the ring... Regarding Manthey: They have of course a street legal program of 911s at http://www.manthey-motors.de/

May 25, 2009 2:32 pm

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catchmyshadow

of course Porsche is still the King of the Ring. manthey just sell carbon details no kits like techart, sportec, gemballa, speedart etc and no RSR outfits etc.

May 25, 2009 2:48 pm

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Jamaicandude

Wow... you expected to see a Nissan GT-R in the top rankings when there wasn't even a GT-R in the race? Talk about a monumental stretch. The only Nissans in the race were Z cars, and those are no match for any 911, let alone GT3 RSRs. I guess it must be kinda fun being a fanboy, but try to be sensible & objective, ok? I dunno what to say about the Lexus LF-As though... what a disappointing outing. If this is indicative of it's projected real world performance & reliability, Toyota might be better off letting it gather dust in the back of the factory somewhere...

May 25, 2009 9:25 pm

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HolySteel

jamaican... you're terribly wrong. The Falken Nissan 350Z came in 11th, in front of many, many Porsche GT3. So much about being objective ;) The LF-As came in 83th or so, the IS-F was faster though. But as the LF-As had really fast qualifying laptimes,I guess there were some reliability issues. (qualifying ranks were 23 + 24 for the LF-As, and 39 for the Falken 350Z)

May 27, 2009 12:54 pm

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asmael

what happened to the nissan gtr's? dnf?

May 26, 2009 2:28 am

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mc959

And what could the GTR do??? If it want's to race it have too lose it's 4wd, and without it's 4wd it's worth nothing; see the GT2-series where it compete

May 26, 2009 6:19 am

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