Scirocco GT24 tops class in Nurburgring 24 hours
The 3 units of Volkswagen Scirocco GT24 race cars that participated in the recent Nurburgring 24 hours race managed to clinch the 11th, 15th, and 32nd place, not too bad for a vehicle that was developed, built and tested in two and a half months.
In the 2.0 liter turbocharged engine class, the three cars also claimed the first, second and fifth position, with the leading team comprised of Hans-Joachim Stuck, Jimmy Johansson, Florian Gruber and Thomas Mutsch. The second place car was piloted by Carlos Sainz, Giniel de Villiers, Dieter Depping, and Hans-Joachim Stock again.
Under the hood is a 325 PS version of the Volkswagen Group’s 2.0 liter TFSI engine, mated to a 6-speed DSG gearbox.
May 28, 2008 @ 12:33 am
car torturing photo, haha!!
May 28, 2008 @ 1:07 am
sweet scirocco!
May 28, 2008 @ 6:37 am
Thats wat Im talking about!…Give them a few more months…
May 28, 2008 @ 6:56 am
Wow, a racing car. The side mirror look like taken from a Waja instead.
May 28, 2008 @ 7:57 am
Stuck driving both cars?!, damn…respect. Driving one car is tough enough, double stinting 2 cars is crazy.
May 28, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
You would even be more amazed at the list of the winners. They are there with 911s and 997s. WITH Carlos Sainz losing a few minutes for running the yellow flag. But then again, were there any production teams in the race other than VW? Note also Porsche and VW is from the same holding company now. Now that’s total domination!
In 47th place is an Opel Manta. Which is the second placed manufacturer below BMW in the 24Hr series. Ironic, since the Germans would wish the Manta would be a forgotten favourite vehicle for transportation of hairdressers.
May 28, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
isnt toyota lexus with thier LFA somewhere down in the pack. the sciroccos were truly impressive though. will be on sale soon so can see how it really is
May 28, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
i like dis car’s design
May 28, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
VW was in Class SP3T and car 118 is at the top of its class with 138 laps. Lexus LF-A was in SP8 ending up at number 7 in its class with 106laps. So the vedub lapped around the LF-A 32 times!!!!!
The Opel Manta did 126 laps. It’s no 4 in its class of SP3. What a joke.
May 28, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
Hey wanna see the Lexus beater?
http://adac.24h-rennen.de/en/race-2008/teams/team-database/team.html?tx_stinno24hteamdb_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=4214&cHash=60bdb4d199
May 28, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
impressive, very impressive.
a few more months, and Sirocco tops rallying competitions.
and a few more months, Sirocco takes over the world, becomes self aware.