New Jeff Westphal Won Pole Pose At This Year’S Nürburgring 24 Hours, He's The 1St American Inward The Race’S 45-Year History To Win Pole Pose As Well As He Did It Inward An American Car, Alongside An American-Owned Team.

Westphal raced the No. 704 Traum Motorsport SCG 003C at this year’s Nürburgring 24 Hours. The SCG 003 is American racing enthusiast Jim Glickenhaus’ sentiment of the perfect rail too street car, too the SCG 003C is its racing-only version.

This twelvemonth was the SCG 003C’s 3rd endeavor at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, too spell they didn’t finish, they sure as shooting proved that an outsider to the European racing scene tin pause inwards too hold out the fastest.

The squad apace learned that there’s nowhere they could exam that could come upward closed to simulating laps on the Nürburgring amongst the same mix of harsh bumps, hills, fast sweepers too tight corners. Replicating the ‘Ring’s over 8-minute laps anywhere else was impossible.

So, the squad had to pass a lot of fourth dimension testing too racing at the Nürburgring, Westphal estimates that he got to a greater extent than or less 450 laps at the ‘ring earlier this year’s 24-hour race, participating inwards virtually v races at that topographic point a twelvemonth amongst betwixt half-dozen to 8 hours of topographic point fourth dimension inwards each race.

Skip the starting fourth dimension eleven minutes of sitting inwards the pits. And for Pete's sake, millions of dollars of race car, too this shit video is the best they could do? What is that, a crappy quondam jail cellphone phone, Why they hell couldn't they purchase a Go Pro?





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