VLN endurance championship Nürburgring
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 VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring 2019
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| Vehicle type | Touring Cars and Gran Turismos |
| Country or region | Germany |
| First season | 1977 |
| Official website | www.vln.de |
The VLN long-distance championship Nürburgring is a popular sport racing series and has been held on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife since 1977 , but until 2000 under the name long-distance cup . Drivers of a wide variety of vehicles - from standard cars to thoroughbred racing vehicles - compete against each other in different classes. The races last four or six hours and take place on the Nordschleife in connection with the sprint route (short connection) of the Grand Prix course. On average, there are more than 175 vehicles at the start of a race, which are usually driven by several drivers who take turns at the wheel. In 2010 and 2011, selected VLN events also counted towards the German GT Championship for GT3 vehicles .
organizer
| Club | run | distance |
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| ADAC-Westphalia eV | ADAC Westfalenfahrt | 4 hours |
| Renngemeinschaft Düren eV DMV | DMV 4-hour race | 4 hours |
| AC Altkreis Schwelm eV in ADAC | ADAC ACAS H&R Cup | 4 hours |
| MSC Adenau eV in the ADAC | Adenauer ADAC Simfy Trophy | 4 hours |
| Dortmund MC eV in the ADAC | ADAC Reinoldus endurance race | 4 hours |
| Rheydter Club for Motorsport eV DMV | RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen | 4 hours |
| MSC Ruhr-Blitz Bochum eV in the ADAC | Opel 6h ADAC Ruhr-Pokal race | 6 hours |
| MSC Sinzig eV in the ADAC | ADAC Barbarossapreis | 4 hours |
| AC Monheim eV DMV | ROWE DMV 250 mile race | 4 hours |
| MSC Münster eV DMV | DMV Münsterland Cup ("Ham Race") | 4 hours |
The term VLN means organizer association long-distance championship Nürburgring . The clubs of the organizing community are announcing the “VLN endurance championship Nürburgring” in automobile sport. 39 seasons were held up to 2015.
The Nürburgring endurance championship calls itself the most successful popular sports series in Europe. In fact, a kind of export is already taking place, because after the 24-hour race in Dubai , a 24-hour race was also held once in 2006 in Bahrain . The MSC Ruhr-Blitz Bochum was in charge.
The 24-hour race on the Nürburgring organized by ADAC Nordrhein is not currently part of the Nürburgring endurance championship, but the organizers are cooperating.
Naming
These clubs organize the series of long-distance races for touring cars on the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, known for many years as the “Veedol Langstreckenpokal” . The V in VLN used to be associated with long-term sponsors Valvoline and later Veedol , before the tire manufacturer BFGoodrich gave its name from 2001 to 2009 . In addition, in 2001 the series was awarded championship status by the German Motor Sport Association . The series was henceforth called "BFGoodrich Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring" (BFGLM), from 2010 onwards "VLN Langstreckenmeisterschaft Nürburgring".
Racing format
A racing lap is 24.358 km long and consists of the sprint track with Mercedes-Arena and motorcycle chicane of the Grand Prix course and the Nordschleife. The time distances are different: up to 2016, a total of ten races were held, after AC Monheim's withdrawal from the organizing community, the number has been reduced to nine, eight of which last over four hours, during the traditional season highlight, the 6h ADAC Ruhr-Pokal- Race that lasts six hours.
For historical reasons, some races have names that have hardly anything to do with the actual race distance, such as the 250-mile race. In some cases, the 4-hour race was only scheduled for the shortest period of 3.5 hours, which is now rarely used in favor of an almost uniform length of four hours. Exceptions are events in which a guest series has a short race between training and the race, and of course the 6-hour race that has been held since 1993.
Most fans watch the races on the Nordschleife. To get to certain sections of the route, you sometimes have to hike a few meters. Because several sections of the route, including “Schwedenkreuz”, “Adenauer Forst”, “Karussell” and “Wippermann”, are sometimes a few hundred meters away from the next main road. Easy to reach and always well attended, however, are z. B. "Breidscheid", "Brünnchen" and "Pflanzgarten". No entrance fee has to be paid for the entire Nordschleife. Tickets at the price of 18 euros (as of 2019) are only required for the paddock and the open grandstands on the Grand Prix circuit of the Nürburgring.
Scoring system
The championship scoring system takes into account the number of starters in the respective scoring class. In the 2009 season there were 33 vehicle classes, divided into four vehicle types, which are called "divisions". The more vehicles there are at the start in a class, the more points the winners and places can win. That is why it is not the strongest car that wins the championship automatically at the end of the season, but rather the car that was able to place in the front most frequently in the class with the most starters.
Almost ten points are calculated for the class winner and almost no points for the last placed. Those who are eliminated do not receive any points. The formula is points = 10 * (starter +0.5 - placement) / starter , it is rounded to two places. A single vehicle thus scores 5.00 points, with two starters 7.5 and 2.5 points are awarded, with five it is 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1 point. If there are ten cars in the class, the winner receives 9.5 points, and if there are twenty it is 9.75. If there are a hundred vehicles in one class, the winner receives 9.95 points.
A race is generally considered a race as soon as it has started. If all nine runs take place, there will be two discarded results in the championship ranking, so the best seven of the nine runs will be counted. On the other hand, if a race is canceled (which can occur especially at the first and last event of the year due to weather conditions), there is only one result that is deleted. The reasonably priced, near-series classes under two liters of displacement are almost always the champions, as most points are awarded there due to the high number of participants, and a second place out of 18 starters earns as many points as a win out of six starters.
master
statistics
Driver with the most overall wins
| space | driver | Victories |
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| 1 | Olaf Manthey | 30th |
| 2 | Jürgen Alzen | 29 |
| Ulrich Richter | 28 | |
| 4th | Marc Basseng | 26th |
| Arno Klasen | 26th | |
| 6th | Edgar Dören | 24 |
| 7th | Peter Zakowski | 22nd |
| 8th | Hans-Jürgen Tiemann | 21st |
| 9 | Marcel Tiemann | 19th |
| 10 | Marc Lieb | 13 |
| Uwe Alzen | 13 | |
| Frank Stippler | 13 | |
| 13 | Otto Altenbach | 12 |
| Jürgen Oppermann | 12 | |
| 15th | Jürgen Lässig | 11 |
| 16 | Timo Bernhard | 10 |
| Lucas Luhr | 10 | |
| Dieter Gartmann | 10 | |
| 18th | Christian Mamerow | 9 |
| Lance David Arnold | 9 | |
| Axel fields | 9 | |
| Volker Strycek | 9 |
Overall victories of the designers
| Victories | constructor |
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| 215 |
 Porsche
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| 54 |
Mercedes
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| 40 |
BMW
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| 25th |
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| 22nd |
Audi
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| 18th |
Opel
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| 17th |
Chrysler
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| 5 |
 Alfa Romeo
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| 3 |
 V8Star Jaguar
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| 2 |
Ferrari
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| 1 |
 Lexus
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Master of the constructors
| Victories | constructor | year |
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| 16 |
BMW
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1978,1994,1995,1998,2002,2004-2006,2008-2011,2014,2016-2019 |
| 9 |
Opel
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1983,1990,1991,1993,1996,1997,2001,2003,2007 |
| 5 |
Volkswagen
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1982,1984,1985,1989,2012 |
| 2 |
 Renault
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2013,2015 |
| 1 |
Simca
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1977 |
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Audi
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1979 | |
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Autobianchi
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1980 | |
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Fiat
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1981 | |
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ford
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1986 | |
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Peugeot
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1987 | |
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Mercedes
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1988 | |
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Citroën
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1992 | |
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Chrysler
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1999 | |
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Suzuki
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2000 |
literature
- Jörg Hildebrand, Erich Kahnt, Luki Scheuer, organizer group Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring: 25 years in the green hell: The big book about the Langstreckenpokal Nürburgring. The drivers, the cars, the fans . Hackethal, 2001, ISBN 3-00-007028-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Nürburgring - VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 16, 2017 ; Retrieved April 18, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Experience VLN live. In: vln.de. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Statistics: Overall victories. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- ↑ All VLN champions at a glance. In: vln.de. Retrieved October 13, 2019 .
- Nürburgring endurance championship: All champions at a glance , official homepage, accessed on March 29, 2014.
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