Quinn Top 10 Finish At The Ring

[PHaT MR30]

At the end of an epic battle in front of a huge crowd of 235,000 spectators, the record winners of the past three years also prevailed in the 37th edition of the ADAC Zurich 24h Race: Timo Bernhard, Marc Lieb, Romain Dumas and Marcel Tiemann won the race with their Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 RSR on the Nürburgring Nordschleife. With 155th laps completed in the ‘Green Hell’, they crossed the finish line as winners, followed by Christian Abt, Jean-Francois Hemroulle, Pierre Kaffer and Lucas Luhr who finished runner-up, with their Abt Sportsline Audi R8 LMS. In a hard fought race, Team Principal Olaf Manthey celebrated his fourth consecutive win, thus adding another triumph to his unique streak of success. At the same time, Marcel Tiemann even celebrated his fifth Nürburgring 24h Race win and now is the most successful driver in the history of the classic endurance-racing event. Furthermore, the Manthey-Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S raced by Emmanuel Collard, Wolf Henzler, Richard Lietz and Dirk Werner also made it to the podium by finishing third.

“That’s just fantastic,” beamed Marcel Tiemann when the race at the Nürburgring was over. “Manthey Racing and I have made history, today. My fifth win! I just can’t believe it. It means even more to me than my maiden Nürburgring 24h Race triumph. And it’s another corner stone for me to have made it to the top position in the 24h-race record book.” Team Principal Olaf Manthey returned the compliments of his most successful driver. “I’m extremely proud of my drivers. I can’t imagine a better line-up for the 24h race than Timo, Marc, Romain and Marcel.” At the same time, Manthey and Tieman also showed their opponents respect: “A compliment to Audi for the great performance,” said Tiemann and his Team Principal added: “Prior to the race I had serious doubts if we would be able to defy the Audis. The more I’m delighted now about the fact that we succeeded in doing so and experienced such a successful race.”

Pos. Nr. Marke Runde Zeit

1 1 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR 155 24:05:01.412

2 97 Abt Audi R8 LMS 154 24:01:50.529

3 2 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S 152 24:08:27.446

4 18 Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 150 24:02:07.807

5 99 Audi R8 LMS 149 24:01:50.600

6 3 Porsche 997 149 24:04:25.218

7 4 Porsche 911 GT3 149 24:04:57.411

8 123 Porsche 997 Cup S 148 24:04:38.565

9 29 Porsche 997 RSR 146 24:04:24.477 T. Quinn, K. Quinn, C. Baird, G. Denyer

10 69 BMW Z4-M Coupe 145 24:04:39.707

11 28 Nissan Z 33 144 24:00:50.057

12 98 Audi R8 LMS 144 24:01:50.519

13 24 Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 143 24:03:08.434

14 122 Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 143 24:08:29

[Marlin]

Good on the boys Been a good month for Quinny!

[sav man]

good effort, quinn is having a good year.

any pics or vids?

[evil_weevil]

Go the aussies!!

[PHaT MR30]

good effort, quinn is having a good year.

any pics or vids?

Watched a fair bit of the live coverage on the web, didn't see his car once. It was a Manthey Racing Porsche and Audi R8 affair as far as they were concerned!

German commentary wasn't very helpful, but I did catch them talking briefly about the Commodore from Australia, which I don't think was having much luck as they DNF.

There was English commentary on radiolemans.com, but it was always a different event they were covering when i had that on.

Full Results Here http://adac.24h-rennen.de/Result-Database....Hash=f6a7d1bb2f

[Rhys9]

Was a good effort by Quinn's, Baird and Denyer!

Pitty Mal Rose, Peter and Tony didn't finish again!!

Rhys

[Kel]

Pitty Mal Rose, Peter and Tony didn't finish again!!

Rhys

Sounds like the guys had a bit of bad luck, including being hit from behind, losing a wheel and then doing a clutch

I think they actually made it back onto the track for the last lap so were still classified as finishers (not confirmed - my german translation skills are not so good!).

Quinn is on fire though!

[grandmasterb]

Kudos to Quinn and the team, they must be stoked with the result

[Rhys9]

Sounds like the guys had a bit of bad luck, including being hit from behind, losing a wheel and then doing a clutch

I think they actually made it back onto the track for the last lap so were still classified as finishers (not confirmed - my german translation skills are not so good!).

Quinn is on fire though!

Really?? Can anyone confirm if they did get back out for the last lap??

Rhys

[LostInTheWoods]

HA, what a life, targas, more targas, the ring! Epic!

[32TAXI]

Good to see Grant Denyer back on track!

[Targa Tom]

Anyone that has spoken to Quinny for more than 5 seconds would question his success. Nice guys after all are meant to finish last!!!

I actually made a point of not spraying him with champagne in Hobart.... after watching his "ran off the black stuff and got on the green stuff comment all those years ago, puts him in my - bloody good blokes I have met - box.

Good luck to him... he deserves the success. And the best thing is - it wont change him one bit.

TT984