Earl Bamber heads to the 24 Hours of Nurburgring this weekend and will share the cockpit of a Manthey-Racing Porsche 911 GT3 R with Kévin Estre (France), Romain Dumas (France) and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium). Last weekend Bamber and Vanthoor won the fourth round of the 2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship in the GTLM Class driving a Porsche 911 RSR at the Mid-Ohio Sportscar Course.
Porsche will be represented by a large fleet of vehicles at the race. 43 Porsche 911 and Porsche Cayman race cars will tackle Germany’s biggest automobile race on the 24.38-kilometre combination of the Grand Prix circuit and the Nürburgring-Nordschleife on 12-13 May. In the strongest SP9 class, eight Porsche 911 GT3 R will chase overall victory.
Kiwi race driver Wayne Moore will compete for the 24th time. Moore will again join fellow Kiwi Michael Eden and Dane Niels Borum (who owns their BMW 3.5 litre 335 E92) to complete some unfinished business after last year crashing in the first qualifying session, affecting their competitiveness in the proceeding race.
Moore first learned of this annual event from German Florian Schmidt when they rallied together in New Zealand in the late 1980s. An invite from Schmidt saw Moore join him in 1994 in a Suzuki Swift. Since then he has competed in a number of factory-supported drives and now competes as a privateer.
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