24h Nürburgring 2018
Audi R8 LMS #3 (Audi Sport Team Phoenix), Christopher Haase/Nico Müller/Frank Stippler/Frédéric Vervisch
Eventful evening for Audi at the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Shortly after 21:00 hrs the Audi R8 LMS #8 of Audi Sport Team WRT had an accident. Dries Vanthoor had to avoid a slow competitor. He touched a third car and had a puncture. Afterwards the Belgian clipped the grass and lost control of his car. A little later Mike Rockenfeller suffered damage to the left-rear suspension of his Audi R8 LMS #24 of Audi Sport Team BWT after contact with another car and had to stop for repairs. He returned to the track after 13.5 minutes. After eight hours of racing two Audi R8 LMS are in the top ten: car #3 of Christopher Haase, Nico Müller, Frank Stippler and Frédéric Vervisch (Audi Sport Team Phoenix) is in P5, closely followed by the R8 LMS #1 of Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde, Christopher Mies and René Rast in P6. The Audi R8 LMS GT4 #41 of Phoenix Racing is leading in class S8. In the TCR class the Audi RS 3 LMS #175 of Prosport-Performance is in the lead.