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"Lambo-Racing finishes 2nd in its class
Untermerzbach, 19.06.2006 —— The top motorsport event of the year started with a shock for the Lambo-Racing team in the first practice session on Friday morning.

After only one timed lap the practice session for drivers Stephan Rösler, Andreas Kitzerow, Georg Silbermayr and Florian Scholze was over – the Lamborghini Gallardo GTR had to re-turn to the pit on a tow-hook probably due to damage to the connecting rod bearing.

Despite a spare engine that was flown in by helicopter the team stayed without any timed lap in the second practice session. “We wanted to make use of every chance to save time so that at least in the second practice session we would be able to perform a functional test af-ter the engine change. Unfortunately that didn’t quite work out”, explained a slightly disap-pointed Stephan Rösler.

Such the 24-hour race on Saturday started with problems in the first lap already. “The oil pressure light signalled a defect and we didn’t want to risk anything after the shock of the previous day”, said Andreas Kitzerow. After a repair brake the Lamborghini rejoined the race as the last of 220 cars with four laps behind.

An exciting catch-up race led the Lamborghini Gallardo GTR right across the entire scoring list. Highly concentrated the drivers pushed the Lamborghini, which ran without any troubles at all, reliably and without incidents through the night. Two hours before the end of the race however there seemed to be something wrong with the front axle drive shaft which made the team tremble until the very end.


During the 24-hour race, Stephan Rösler, Andreas Kitzerow, Georg Silbermayr and Florian Scholze jumped more than 200 positions to an excellent 20th place in the overall classifica-tion and finished in second place in class SP8 with Lambo-Racing leaving prominent teams of its class behind. “We are happy and proud to have beaten, as a private team, the works teams of Aston Martin and Maserati with our Gallardo GTR that had been perfectly prepared by Lingmann Motorsport,” so Stephan Rösler and Andreas Kitzerow in unison.

With this success Lambo-Racing is the very first team in the history of the 24h-hour race that has successfully run a Lamborghini Gallardo."