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The gruelling 24 Hours of Nurburgring is always a tense and exciting race, and the 2017 edition was no exception.
Having just pitted for a final set of fresh slicks, the leading no.9 R8 LMS and chasing no.98 M6 were caught out by the sudden, vindictive change in the conditions, and lost time rapidly. Behind them, the fourth-place M6 GT3 lost control in its efforts to get back to the pits and lost its rear bumper in an Armco interface. Meanwhile, the crestfallen Land team who’d had victory snatched from their grasp an hour earlier saw their stars align.
Their car was already in the pits for attention to a loose fuel cap. Someone who was presumably very, very hungover right now made the call to switch onto full wets for the final charge to the line, and hope the rain didn’t dry up the moment their car came down off its jacks. It didn’t, and the revitalised, reinvigorated R8 suddenly had the bit between its teeth again. It was the fastest machine on the circuit by miles. And it promptly took the lead right when it mattered – as its rivals pitted for wets and the final of the 24 hours elapsed. After 158 laps of Green Hell drama, Audi and BMW shared the podium.
