The Nürburgring 24 hour race is not only the ultimate highlight of German motorsport for more than 200,000 fans who flock to the Eifel marathon each year – it also rates very highly amongst Porsche factory drivers. Five of the eleven works pilots compete for various teams on 24th May. A total of 34 Porsche race cars line up on the grid. With this, Porsche is again the most popular car make at Germany’s greatest motorsport event.

The 2008 24 hour race on the Nürburgring has ended with a triple victory for Porsche. The Manthey Racing team won the 36th edition of the long distance classic for the third time in succession. With a one-lap advantage the Porsche works drivers Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb together with Marcel Tiemann beat 215 competitors with their Porsche 911 GT3 RSR.

The second-placed 911 GT3-MR was run by Manthey Racing piloted by Armin Hahne, Christian Haarmann, Jochen Krumbach and Pierre Kaffer. On third was the Porsche 911 GT3 of Klaus Abbelen, Sabine Schmitz, Dr. Edgar Althoff and Kenneth Heyer.

That success marks the ninth win for a Porsche at the Nürburgring 24 hour race