Phoenix Racing back with Audi to VLN Endurance Series

By Tarek Ramchani

2013 will be a busy one for Phoenix Racing sportscar effort with the Audi R8 LMS ultra. The team confirmed their plans for both Blancpain Endurance Series and the FIA GT Series. Now the team will be back to their "home" series, the Nürburgring based VLN Endurance Series. Last year Phoenix Racing took two outright wins in VLN and a historical victory at the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

For the moment only one Audi R8 LMS ultra has been confirmed for the VLN season with some new faces. The Stuck brothers Ferdinand and Johannes sons of Audi legend Hans-Joachim Stuck will debut with team Phoenix. Last year they raced for Aston Martin with a Vantage V12 GT3 in ADAC GT Masters from Young Driver AMR The Stuck brothers will be joined at Nürburgring 24 Hours the by Audi and quattro GmbH regular Frank Stippler as well Michael Ammermüller.

Our friends at Berzerkdesign.de took charge of creating the car livery. The result is one of the most beautiful paint schemes ever on an Audi R8 LMS ultra.

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Berzerkdesing.de official Facebook

JB Motorsport with Audi: New year – new challenges

JB Motorsport Press Release

After a long winter and intense preparations of our car, we are ready to race now. For this year we intend to race the Swedish GT Series, two rounds in Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia and a possible guest start in the Blancpain Series at the 1000km event at the famous Nürburgring in September. Therefor we are looking for additional sponsorships at the moment, we will keep you updated considering this event.

The probable calendar will be:

Audi R8 LMS ( Swedish GT )

3 – 4 May: Knutstorp
31 May – 1 June: Mantorp
28 – 29 June: Gothenburg
17 – 18 August: Anderstorp
6 – 7 September: Knutstorp
20 – 21 September: Final round at Mantorp

Audi R8 LMS ( Blancpain Endurance Series )

22 September: Nürburgring

Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia

7 – 8 June: Solvalla
9 – 10 August: Ostersund

Photo credit: John Rourke/Adrenal Media

Artwork: '09 Audi R8 LMS of Spa 24 by Berzerkdesign.de

By Tarek Ramchani

In 2009 the Audi R8 LMS debuted in the famous Spa 24 Hours race. The car was entered by the German Phoenix Racing team in the G2 class, open for National GT cars. No GT3 class cars were allowed at the time in the Belgian endurance classic. The car did extremely well in the race and finished in an amazing third overall, way ahead of the whole FIA GT2 field and most of the top FIA GT1 competitors. A great result for the car in the hands of Marcel Fässler, Marc Basseng, Henri Moser and Alexander Margaritis. Here are nice artwork images of the #111 Audi R8 LMS by our friends at Berzerkdesign.de. They look great and almost photo realistic.

More information:
Berzerkdesign official website
Berzerkdesign official Facebook