Here's A Summary Of The Epic 2016 Nurburgring 24H Delivered In Just A Few Minutes

This year's Nurburgring 24 Hours featured golf ball-sized hailstones, track flooding and incredible racing. This video will catch you up on all the action...

Matt Robinson

Updated: 10 Oct 2024

Perhaps the biggest talking point of the race was the hailstone-infused deluge which hit part of the track, causing multiple crashes and stranding many cars on track. The race was eventually won by the Black Falcon Mercedes-AMG GT driven by Maro Engel, Bernd Schneider, Adam Christodoulou and Manuel Metzger.

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

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3:24 Thats what you get FOR NOT USING YOUR TURN SIGNALS

Well….it was a BMW. Not using turn signals is to be expected.

Man! So much adrenaline pumping action! This was so much more dramatic than last year!
Team Ring Garage participating at the ring
Alex getting a chance to drive the Veyron Super Sports and a lap in the Chiron
Those BMW guys running the M3 littered with battle scars
The hail storm drama
Audis getting a taste of their own medicine
The crashes
Team RJN running the outdated Nismo GT-R and still finishing 11th
The drama in the last laps
and of course… the poor foxtail Manta which did so well… but retired after an engine failure. :( #Pray4Manta

That M3 was a pure beast and absolutley battle-scared. The Foxtail Manta btw had no engine failure, the clutch bell broke and they had no spare parts. Fans offered them a clutch bell but they denied it.
Audi was pretty damn slow, even though, they already won on that car last year, but it seems like didn´t work on it well since last year. BMW did fine with a brand new car. The “Jawbreaker” Walkenhorst-BMW #999 designed by JP Performance did a good performance and finished on P12, sure the #23 finished on 5th, but they didn´t have any huge problems. But you could already see, after the #18 retired, that a Mercedes would win this race.
Let´s not forget about the performance of the Bentley´s as well, finishing with both cars, one car in Top10. Sadly, again none of the SCG finished.

From what I heard the Manta was taken out of the race because the “clutch-bell” (part of the housing, I guess) was broken, and that was one of the few parts they did not have in stock.
Also, if the rules don’t change, the Manta wont be allowed to compete next year, since it’s too old then.

Are you talking about the E36 M3? Or a different one? Also how about that E34 M5 that finished in 98th ahead of a load of much newer and faster cars?

This was the most exiting race i have ever seen, i will definetly come to the ring next year.

I might be an idiot for not know this, but what’s up with the yellow headlights, blue flashing lights in the windshield and green lights on the sides?

The yellow or white headlights are to identify different classes at night. And yellow headights are said to be better in bad conditions. As for the windshield lights, I have no idea.

that Opel Calibra though :D

Was surprised to see it too XD

The Calibra is actually more and more common as a car for private teams (who have rather small budgets).
The mainstream tv/streaming-companies just don’t spend much time showing the Group 3 starters.