Luca Ludwig puts #26 octane126-Ferrari on 24h Nurburgring pole -combined results 27.05.2022: Forza Ferrari at the 50th ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring: Luca Ludwig put the #26 octane126-Ferrari on pole position in the top qualifying session on Friday evening and secured the Glickenhaus Trophy for the fastest driver in the "Green Hell" for the

Forza Ferrari at the 50th ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring: Luca Ludwig put the #26 octane126-Ferrari on pole position in the top qualifying session on Friday evening and secured the Glickenhaus Trophy for the fastest driver in the "Green Hell" for the first time. 

COMBINED RESULTS HERE

In 8:09.469 minutes, he was the only driver to stay under the 8:10 minute mark and thus gave his family the seventh pole position at the "Eifel Marathon". His father Klaus Ludwig is the record holder at the Ring with six poles. For Ferrari it was the second pole position after the Farnbacher team in 2011.



"Sensational! I was hoping for it. We had to rebuild the car and had a few problems yesterday. But today everything fitted. The tyre came after three corners and was then perfectly in the working window. That was an almost perfect lap," said Luca Ludwig, whose second lap of 8:10.406 minutes would also have been enough for first place on the grid.


In the end, he was 1.171 seconds ahead of Brazilian Augusto Farfus in the #99 Rowe-BMW, whose time of 8:10.640 gave the team another place on the front row of the grid after pole in 2021. "Super! We had already expected to be in the leading group, but not with such a tight field. This is an indication of how exciting the race will be. I'm very happy with qualifying," said Farfus.



Third place went to Briton Jordan Pepper in the #7 Konrad Lamborghini, fourth to Christopher Haase in the #22 Car Collection Audi. Fastest Mercedes-AMG was the #12 Bilstein-Mercedes-AMG with Luca Stolz, best Porsche the #25 Huber-Porsche with Nico Menzel.





Sheldon van der Linde, Engel, Jaminet and Cairoli secure progress


Before the final showdown, four drivers had still secured their teams' last available places in the hunt for the Glickenhaus Trophy and the best grid positions in Top Qualifying 1. Sheldon van der Linde in the #98 Rowe-BMW, Maro Engel in the #4 Getspeed-Mercedes-AMG, Matthieu Jaminet in the #27 Toksport-Porsche as well as Matteo Cairoli in the #28 Dinamic-Porsche took their places and also gave one team mate each the experience of two free laps through the "Green Hell".


 Maro Engel was thus unable to go in pursuit of his third Glickenhaus Trophy after 2016, 2019 and 2020. "On my first lap I still had yellow flags in the Hatzenbach. Then full attack - I don't know where I could have found more time. I gave it everything and luckily it was still enough." Sheldon van der Linde set the best time of the weekend so far in 8:11.039, having also previously set the fastest lap of all three qualifying sessions in 8:14.771. "My lap was quite clean, we delivered," said the South African, who had already won both DTM races at the Lausitzring the previous weekend.




Gridwalk for the fans on Friday evening


Even after the fight for pole position, the evening before the 50th 24h Nürburgring continued to be exciting for the spectators: In the Müllenbachschleife, the Falken Drift Show made the fans in the packed stands go wild, while at the same time in the pit lane, the gridwalk with a large autograph session of all teams was also very well attended.



Many other attractions on and off the track make the visit on Saturday and Sunday attractive as well: Tickets are available at the open box offices at the Nürburgring as well as at the entrances to the spectator areas at the Nordschleife.





Full programme on site, extensive live reports



After the positions for the start of the 24h Nürburgring have been taken, the race can finally get underway on Saturday at 16:00. But before the 135 participants start their spectacular fight through day and night, a full programme awaits the spectators at the Nürburgring.


There will be exciting motorsport on the track with the Touring Car Legends, the two rounds of the FIA WTCR and the BMW M Race of Legends with unforgotten world-class drivers from 50 years of BMW M. The Legends exhibition in the ring°boulevard, the Ravenol Ferris wheel in the paddock and many other offers and promotions from partners also make the visit more than worthwhile.



 Those who want to follow the action at the Ring from home are in the right place with free-TV partner NITRO, which will start a 27-hour non-stop live broadcast from 13:40. The official livestreams on YouTube (www.YouTube.com/24hNBR) and on the official event homepage (www.24h-rennen.de/live) are also continuously on air.




- ProMotion, photos Gruppe C