Excited and ready to go, Matias Henkola is closing in on his Total 24 Hours of Spa debut. On the back of a VLN podium finish, the Finnish driver from Porvoo returns behind the wheel of the Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 to take on the Ardennes classic and make a bid for Pro-Am victory. […]
Collecting trophies
After an action-packed enthralling race, the Car Collection Motorsport Audi R8 LMS of Dimitri Parhofer, Max Edelhoff, Horst Felbermayr Jr. and Toni Forné took victory in the first-ever Hankook 12 hours of Imola, the latest addition to the 24H Series. With their victory the quartet became the first Am line-up in the history of the […]
Christian Krognes: “I’ve always wanted to race these guys”
Never meet your idols, they say, they turn out to be just like you and me. Christian Krognes didn’t take the advice to heart. He wanted to meet the guys he used to watch on tv and measure himself against them. The Norwegian who only now in his career is beginning to venture out beyond […]
Stef Dusseldorp: “It’s never simple at the Nürburgring”
Stef Dusseldorp knows all too well what this win means to Falken Motorsports, the team that has been searching for its maiden Nordschleife victory since 1999. Before the race, the BMW works driver felt today of all days could be when they write history. Four hours on and that’s just what they do as Dusseldorp […]
Liam Talbot: “Aiming for Le Mans in 2019”
Gold Coast-based Australian GT competitor Liam Talbot is not your regular racing driver. The 35-year-old only began chasing his motorsport career full-time five years ago. Although he has less experience than most sportscar and GT drivers, there is no doubting his skill level or natural ability to steer a car. Talbot started out his career […]
Matias Henkola: “The last hour was a thriller!”
The fourth round of the VLN championship at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife saw Matias Henkola return to the podium. After a tense finale battling for second, the number 100 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M6 GT3 racer took third place. Hellbent on avenging the missed opportunity at the 24 Hours of the Nürburgring, Henkola and co-drivers Christian Krognes and […]
The long wait, Pt.II
Determined and unopposed Falken Motorsports took its very first VLN win. Jörg Müller and Stef Dusseldorp tore the race apart with their unrelenting pace in the first two hours, leaving the Manthey Porsche and Walkenhorst BMW to fight it out until the end for second. Photos by Miguel Bosch, Julian Schmidt and JP Wagner. ” […]
The long wait
It was a victory that had been 18 years in the making. For almost two decades the Falken Motorsports crew tried and tried again to claim the win in VLN. Coming so close so often, running with the top dogs but always ending up playing support to the eventual winner. Seasons in the Eifel came […]
