B6 first Win at ADAC Masters at Nurburgring

B10BRW · Post by **B10BRW** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:59 pm

Alpina's GT3 B6 won it's first race today at the ADAC Masters at the Nurburgring

Hopefully first of many.

alpina46 · Post by **alpina46** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 11:02 pm

ALPB1033 · Post by **ALPB1033** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 4:18 am

I do manage to find some photo from this web site www.adac-gt-masters.de (all together 6/7 including the podium celebration with Andreas) and the press release but in German. What a pity and have to wait for a few days from the official Alpina web site.
The TV coverage will be shown on DSF on 29th Aug. at 13:15 European time.
Just as I said in May in Silverstone Alpina will finish in podium this year but this week result is more than I expected.

Race 2 starts this morning at 10-11am. Hopefully another win is on the card as the car won't be suffered any weight penalty as it is 1350kg which is the heaviest among the whole field.

olli · Post by **olli** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:58 am

Andreas Wirth, one of the drivers, is the guy who did the B6 taxi rides at Rockingham

Post by **neil** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:09 am

Superb !

1st car 33 ALPINA BMW-Alpina B6 GT3 29 1:00:04.748 148.777 2:00.268 6
Jens Klingmann (GER) 153.767
Andreas Wirth

2 17 Callaway Competition Corvette Z06.R GT3 29 1:00:19.532 +14.784secs 148.169 2:01.104 16
Luca Ludwig (GER) 14.784 152.705

Fingers crossed for todays race

Post by **neil** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:19 am

Qualifying results:

1st Qualifying Session
1st 33 ALPINA BMW-Alpina B6 GT3 7 1:58.481 156.086
Jens Klingmann (GER)
Andreas Wirth (GER)

2nd Qualifying Session
7th 33 ALPINA BMW-Alpina B6 GT3 8 1:59.917 00.711 154.217
Andreas Wirth (GER)
Jens Klingmann (GER)

They were also first in the free training

1st 33 ALPINA BMW-Alpina B6 GT3 20 2:01.077 152.739
Jens Klingmann (GER)
Andreas Wirth (GER)

It also looks like they lead the race from start to finish: Lap Positions

ALPB1033 · Post by **ALPB1033** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:30 pm

Oh damn it! They didn't finish the second race. The car only last 3 laps and retired. There might be an accident involved and it started on grip 6/7 I think. Wait until next week to see the whole TV footage what happened.

Post by **neil** » Sun Aug 23, 2009 2:31 pm

Disappointing result in the second race - the ALPINA appears to have stopped after lap 3 - not sure what happened.

Post by **neil** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:26 pm

Added the results to the racing part of the site...

http://www.theALPINAregister.com/adac/2009/nurburgring

Still waiting to hear what the problem was in the second race.

Post by **neil** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:59 pm

Here's the race debrief from ALPINA (of race 1)

ALPINA's Race debrief from the 2009 ADAC GT Masters at Nurburgring, Germany

Post by **neil** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 5:45 pm

Hi Guys

meant to post this but clean forgot it turns out there was an issue with the engine that put an end to race 2.

Nothing serious I believe the engine itself wasn't damaged - just enough to put them out of the race

Petrolhead · Post by **Petrolhead** » Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:10 pm

Shame about that in race 2, brilliant result in the first race though! Fantastic.

Piquet · Post by **Piquet** » Thu Sep 10, 2009 11:28 pm

Going to see them at Potimao in Portugal this weekend, hopefully get some good pics (if they are there!)

Lets hope they can score win number 2

PK