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This year’s Nurburgring 24-hour race is coming up fast and this weekend, the teams that have already signed up for it will be racing to establish the starting positions on the grid. The six-hour qualifying race is set to take place this Sunday and BMW announced it will be fielding no less than seven M6 GT3 cars in the 49th edition of the Eifel Marathon. That’s right, seven M6 GT3 cars will be racing this weekend for a good position on the starting grid of the race that’s bound to take place between 5 and 6 June.
ROWE Racing will have two cars in the event, cars number 1 (formerly #99) and number 98. The #1 car will be driven by Nick Catsburg, Nick Yelloly as well as John Edwards and Phillip Eng. The former two were among the driver line-up that won the race back in 2020, the 20th title for BMW in this historic race. Driving the other ROWE Racing car will be BMW works drivers Connor De Phillippi, Martin Tomczyk, Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann.
The Nurburgring Endurance Series is carrying on despite the Coronavirus situation. The season’s opener was cancelled due to serious amounts of snow being present on the famous track but now things have toned down and the series can continue. The third race just took place this past weekend and BMW did rather well, with its ageing M6 GT3 race car. The number 99 car, entered by ROWE Racing into the competition, crossed the finish line fifth after four hours of racing.
The drivers, Nick Catsburg, John Edwards and Nick Yelloly, did a terrific job at keeping the competition at bay. Another BMW M6 GT3 run by ROWE Racing came in sixth, just behind the number 99 car. This time, it was Connor De Phillippi, Martin Tomczyk and Marco Wittmann who were behind the wheel of the number 98 car. Last, but not least, a third BMW M6 GT3 managed to post the fastest lap time of the race.