Last weekend’s championship celebrations marked the official conclusion of the 2016 VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring. The most successful drivers of the season received their accolades in the Bitburger Event Center at the Nürburgring, headed by VLN winners Alexander Mies and Michael Schrey. The duo competed together in the BMW M235i Racing for all ten races of the VLN season and secured the title in the BMW M235i Racing Cup, as well as claiming overall victory. Twenty four-year-old Mies also won the VLN Junior Trophy, in a repeat of his achievement from 2013.
The VLN championship celebrations last weekend also included awards for those BMW drivers who had performed most successfully in their class. The trophy in the SP9 class went to Victor Bouveng. The Swedish driver, who had successfully taken part in the BMW Motorsport Junior programme last year, competed in the Team Walkenhorst Motorsport powered by Dunlop BMW M6 GT3 in 2016 and celebrated five podium finishes during the season. BMW drivers finished on top in a total of five VLN categories: Cup5, SP6, SP9, V4 and V5. Alongside the victorious VLN duo of Alexander Mies and Michael Schrey, the strongest class in the field was the BMW M235i Racing Cup, which is classified as the Cup5 class in the VLN and contains 19 cars.
The finale of this year’s VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring took place just a few weeks ago, but planning is already well underway for 2017. The new race calendar has been confirmed. Nine events will take place in the “Green Hell” next season. The 2017 VLN season will start on 25th March and the final race will take place on 21st October.
