The best-placed Porsche will tackle this year’s Nürburgring 24-hour race on Saturday at 4 pm from the second grid spot. Works driver Laurens Vanthoor clocked a lap time of 8:11.398 minutes in the top qualifying 2. Five of the six 911 GT3 R advanced into the decisive individual time trial. With 44 Porsche-based racing cars, the Stuttgart sports car manufacturer has the largest contingent in the 127-strong field. Porsche is determined to clinch its 14th outright win at the 52nd running of the endurance race in Germany’s Eifel region.
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00:00We're here at Nürburgring, the GP paddock, and this is obviously Nürburgring 24 a week.
00:13Quite a big event, I would say, probably one of the home events of Porsche.
00:17Today we're just preparing the car, and then later on we will have the third qualifying
00:22session, and in the evening we will go out for the Superpole.
00:45It is super special, I think, for most of the drivers.
00:47It can be very, very difficult, and we saw it today with a very tricky condition.
00:51It's good because it gives us the opportunity to try our tyres, but yeah, so far so good.
00:55Quite some mixed conditions over the course of the weekend so far.
00:57The car's feeling quite okay, and obviously preparations for our top 20 qualifying this
01:01afternoon.
01:21So, this was a nice quality, dry conditions.
01:28First ten cars are so close right now, so it seems that the competition is definitely
01:32there.
01:32We're looking forward to the race.
01:33The car was quite amazing to drive, to be honest.
01:36My heart rate was 190, so it's a stressful job to do this on this track, but we came
01:42with P2, starting on the front row.
01:44We're here for the Condé France race.
01:45We're starting up front.
01:47The weather's going to be all over the place tomorrow, probably, so it's only the start
01:51of a long, long day.