Third and fourth place for Mercedes-AMG at the Nürburgring 24-hour race

• AMG GT3 #4 of Mercedes-AMG Team BILSTEIN secures third place
• Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed finishes fourth, just behind its fellow Mercedes-AMG team
• Second place in the Pro-Am classification for Mercedes-AMG GT3 #6
• Mercedes-AMG GT2 #46 and #222 convince in their 24-hour debut

Respectable 235,000 spectators and excellent conditions throughout the event provided an ideal situation for a spectacular 51st running of the ADAC TotalEnergies 24h-Rennen at the Nürburgring in the past four days. 135 cars across 20 classes and drivers from 36 different countries also delivered an attractive and varied field of participants. With a total of 162 laps, this year’s marathon in the Eifel goes down in history as the fastest to date. The endurance racing classic at the 25.378 kilometres long traditional track, marked by numerous incidents, didn’t bring the desired victory for Mercedes-AMG, but still ended in a successful way. In the fastest 24-hour race, the three customer sport teams were able to celebrate third place, a fourth place and success in the SP9 Pro-Am and SP-X classes.

Three Mercedes-AMG GT3s on course for the podium at the beginning of the night
Following fastest times in two qualifying and the record lap by Raffaele Marciello (SUI) in Top Qualifying, the Mercedes-AMG Performance Teams had justified hopes of scoring the overall win. In the race, held exactly ten years after the maiden win by Mercedes-AMG in the event, the Mercedes-AMG GT3s initially stayed in the front-running group. The #2 and #3 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed cars and the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team BILSTEIN entry were among the first five for a long time. At times, the Mercedes-AMG drivers staged a thrilling three-way battle for the podium slots.
After the retirement of the #3 Art Car with a special livery for this event at the Nordschleife during the night, two cars from Affalterbach were still on course for the podium. While the two leaders were able to pull a slight gap, the #2 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed and the #4 Mercedes-AMG Team BILSTEIN cars were involved in a long duel for the final podium slot. Philip Ellis (SUI), Raffaele Marciello and Luca Stolz (GER) had the upper hand with the #4 car and eventually finished in a respectable third place. It is the third consecutive podium result for Mercedes-AMG in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring. Edoardo Mortara (SUI), who was nominated as the fourth driver just prior to the event, was withdrawn during the race to allow maximum driving time for the Performance Drivers Marciello and Stolz during the final stages of the race. Last year’s runners-up Adam Christodoulou (GBR), Maximilian Götz and Fabian Schiller (both GER) followed in fourth place.

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