News 2008

The final regulations for the ADAC Zurich 24h Race 2009 are released now. Besides that you can also download the entry form. Be aware that form has to be send until the deadline at the 7th of April, 2009.  

The 37th ADAC Zurich 24h-race will take place from 21st – 24th May 2009 on the Nurburgring. All supporters and participants can now start to count down the days until the start of the eifelclassic.  

At the ADAC Zurich 24h-race, from amateur to professional, every driver and team can tell its own story. The annual book “24 Stunden Nürburgring Nordschleife 2008” realized it once again: 24 hours of emotional triumph and tragedy on 176 pages. 

The 36th ADAC Zurich 24h-race is past since several weeks now. Its pictures seem to fade. But IT will refresh those impressions: The official DVD Highlights 2008 is out now! 

The Aston Martin DBRS9 finished 150th overall at the 36th ADAC Zurich 24h-race. This meant that the Briton was the last counted car in the entire starting-grid. But there were also bright spots in a very difficult race. 

Not only Manthey Racing secured the hattrick this year at the 36th ADAC Zurich 24h-race. A team from New Zealand did this masterpiece, too.

The Live-Strip.com Racing Team was more present then ever before at the 36th ADAC Zurich 24h-race. Partytent, wednesday-parade or Adenauer Racing Day, everywhere you could meet the rarely dressed girls of Live-Strip. But also on the track they called for attention. 

The 36th ADAC Zurich 24h Race at the Nürburgring reached its denouement with a third consecutive overall victory for team boss Olaf Manthey to add to his wins in 2006 and 2007. After 148 laps (3,755.94 km) of racing, the driver line-up of Timo Bernhard / Marc Lieb / Romain Dumas / Marcel Tiemann (Germany / Germany / Switzerland / Monaco) brought... 

Five hours from the end of the race, the picture at the front of the field is unchanged. Last year’s winner Manthey Racing (car number 1) leads the way with a three-lap advantage over another Manthey Porsche (car number 23). The Frikadelli Porsche (number 121) completes the top three. 

Changeable weather conditions during the night with sporadic rainfall made life difficult for all the teams. Pulses of multi-team pit stops, with cars flooding in to change tyres, ensured brisk business in the pit lane. However, the bouts of dramatic wheel-to-wheel racing at the head of the field continued unabated, sending the main protagonists...