24H Series: Red Camel Racing Audi R8 narrowly missed the podium at Mugello

By Johan Laubscher

The 24H Series hosted the 12H Italy-Mugello this weekend. One Audi R8 team took part in the event.

The one Audi team was that of Red Camel Racing, a regular 24H Series entrant, who entered their Audi R8 V8. It is one of the two privately built Creventic Audi R8 V8 race cars, which are also known as “CR-8”. Their #51 entry was driven by Ivo Breukers, Robert Nearn and Henk Thijssen. They were entered in the SP3 class of the 24H Series.

The Red Camel Racing squad qualified sixteenth overall, taking third in class. The race itself was split into two segments held on Friday and Saturday. The split was due to the noise regulations prohibiting the entire twelve hour race period. 

By the end of the first three hour segment the Red Camel Racing squad was holding fourth in class, twentieth overall. The final nine hours restarted on Sunday and Red Camel Racing came very close to finishing on the SP3 class podium. 

The team suffered an oil leak and lost over thirty minutes in the pits, dropping them back to fourth, after having run as high as second in class. They lost out on the podium by a mere 1 minute 19 seconds, despite loosing over half an hour in the pits. Ultimately they finished sixteenth overall and fourth in class.

LMS Engineering had originally also entered one of their two Audi TT RS cars, but they withdrew their entry before the event.

The next round of the 24H Series will be the 12H Zandvoort from 30-31 May 2014.

Photo credit: 24H Series

24H Series: Two Audis entered for the 12H Italy-Mugello

By Johan Laubscher

The 24H Series will be hosting the 12H Italy-Mugello from 14 - 15 March 2014. Two Audi teams have so far committed entries for the event.

The first team is LMS Engineering, who has entered their VLN SP3T class Audi TT RS (2.0 five cylinder conversion). Their #62 TT RS will be driven by Christian Krognes, C. Tiger, Roland Botor and Georg Niederberger.

The second Audi team is that of Red Camel Racing, a regular 24H Series entrant, who has entered their Audi R8 V8. It is one of the two privately built Creventic Audi R8 V8 race cars, which are also known as “CR-8”. Their #51 entry will be driven by Ivo Breukers and Henk Thijssen (drivers currently listed).

Both of the Audis will be running in the SP3 class of the 24H Series.

The entry list can be seen HERE. 

Photo credit: 
QuattroWorld.com [Roger Mecking]
12H Italy

Dubai 24 Hours: Class podium for Red Camel Racing Audi R8 V8

By Johan Laubscher

The 24 Hours of Dubai was held this weekend. One Audi was on the entry list and competed in the ninth edition of the event. 

The Audi was entered by Red Camel Racing, a regular entrant in the 24H Series. It is one of the two privately built Creventic Audi R8 V8 race cars, which are also known as “CR-8”. These Audis were built by Creventic and the first one debuted at the 2008 24 Hours of Dubai. Red Camel Racing later acquired one of the cars and has been competing with it for a number of years.

The #150 Red Camel - Jordans.nl entry was driven by Yusif Bassil, Jonathan Venter, Keith Kassulke and Maurice Faber. The Audi R8 was entered in the SP3 class, which is intended for GT4 equivalent cars.

They showed good pace during practice and qualified forty-fifth overall on the grid, second in the SP3 class. 

It was a long hard race, but the Red Camel Audi entry ran well within SP3 and also moved forward through the field. By the end of the 2014 24 Hours of Dubai the #150 Audi squad came trough to finish twenty-sixth overall, taking third position in the SP3 class.

The 24 Hours of Dubai weekend results can be seen HERE.

The 24H Series will now be heading to Italy for the first running of the 12 Hours of Italy, hosted at Mugello. So far Red Camel Racing and their Audi R8 V8 is the only Audi entry on the entry list for the event in March.

Photo credit: 24H Series

Red Camel Audi R8 at Hungary 12 Hour

By Tarek Ramchani

After two great endurance events, the Dubai 24 Hour and the Bathurst 12 Hour races, the next 24H Series event is the Hungary 12 Hour race in Budapest. 

A single Audi car is so far listed on the provisional entry list. An Audi R8 from the Dutch team, Red Camel-Jordans.nl. The car is not a factory built Audi R8 LMS from quattro GmbH. This R8 racer from Holland was privately built by Creventic, and named the CR-8. Two of these cars have been built and competeting since 2008. The car will be in the SP2 class. The driver line-up will be announced later.

An Audi won the event overall back in 2010. The victory came with an Audi R8 LMS from the Austrian based team, Lechner Racing. The 2013 Hungary 12 Hour race is set for April 6th. We wish the best of luck to Red Camel Racing and their R8 effort.

Photo credit and more information:
24H Series official website