After the red-flag-debut in Silverstone, GNC Race Team scaled the podium at the racetrack of Spa with a 3rd place in GTP class and 4th overall. After a distance of 1.000 km and 5h 05 minutes, Thomas Nolden finished the #42 Sauber Mercedes C9 3 laps behind the dominating #11 OATAS Team.

Starting driver Sven Colin Preukschat qualified the car at 8th position. The starting section was of course the more thrilling part in the race. #42 take casualty in lap 3, as the Mazda Team in Car 104 hit the Mercedes in the back. Read more »

The next race for the GNC Race Team will be the 1000 km (or 114 laps) of Spa-Francorchamps, which will be held today Saturday, September 13.

It will be the second race for the team in the oatas.net Endurance Series. We are happy, that Sven Colin Preukschat could fix his technical problems with his PC. He will line up again with Thomas Nolden in the #42 Sauber Mercedes C9.

The team expects nearly a 6 hours race, but the track of Spa-Francorchamps is even in dry conditions very tricky. Read more »

The race was nearly over the half of distance, when a big crash of the race deletes every standings. The race control decides to wave the red flag and to count the race with the standings as it was near before the crash.

At this point, the GNC Race Team was at 11th position. In the start scenes, the #42 was in some heavy trouble. More than 2 technical defects dropped the Mercedes out of the Top 10 with more than 5 laps down. Sven Colin Preukschat, the starting driver, reached a good 7th starting position in the qualifing, but his technical equipment set the driver to the end of the field. Read more »

The GNC Race Team announced today, that they will start at the 6h of Silverstone at Saturday, August 16, organised by oatas.net.
The team will drive the #42 Sauber Mercedes C9, the same car, which starts already at the SSCA 12h of Watkins Glen 2006. Sven Colin Preukschat and Thomas Nolden will be the driver at this with pressure expected event.

Start time is at 18.00 h european time.

Live coverage is scheduled via NRTV broadcast, live leaderboard and live commentary by teamspeak. Please go to www.oatas.net LIVE! Race Cast Section to watch GNC Race Team live at Silverstone!

After the team was not starting at the endurance race of VR last year, Thomas Nolden decided to started a one-man-show at the 12h of Aston. The 12h were no easygoing, but due to the slow and good-natured race cars, Thomas survived the race in a humanoid condition.

In the qualification Thomas set the #42 LFS XFR into the midfield and has some fights just in the beginning of the race with some drivers of the lower LFR class. Thomas was keeping a cool head and continued the race constantly, without mistakes and also fast. 

But there comes another problem: The pit stops were extremly short, so there were no time for a much needed bio-break. We don´t know how Thomas managed that, but he continued the race and finished on a very good 17th place of 41 starters.  Read more »

The race at the Norisring (Nurnberg) was the last event of the German Road Racing League from the KOM Championship. Jan Oeser decided to start this race with the GNC Race Team. The rules were, that every driver drive the same car - so Oeser starts with the #110 Mazda 787B.

The practice already shows a exciting duell between Oeser and Kay Muehle. Third in field, Roland Rauch were 0.3 seconds behind the duo. But Rauch was the fastest one in the qualification in front of Muehle and Oeser. Read more »

Klaus Immer and Thomas Nolden had an easy shootout, to start at the 6h of Sebring. Just before the green flag raised, the big problems comes up: The race server nearly crashed and several drivers were kicked out of the race even though the race admins reset the server for the start.

Klaus was racing the first stint and had some action with some drivers. In one lap it was a bit to much, Klaus spins and lost his rear spoiler. After the pit stop he was on 16th position and was due to several accidents in front of him back at position 13, just 26 seconds behind Hubert Ebner and Wolfgang Kronthaler (Flying Tires). Read more »

The race debut for the GNC Race Team was the SSCA 12 h of Watkins Glen, driving the GTP Mod for NR2003. After some tests Sven Colin Preukschat, Jan Oeser, Marius Lederer and Thomas Nolden decided to drive the #42 Sauber Mercedes C9. Although the team got several problems during the long race, the drivers could stay the car always in the top20.

After numerous crashes and some driver swapping mistakes, the team could finish in 11th position from 37 startes. The GNC Race Team was very happy to see the finish line at such a good position, but also many failures from other teams helped them to climb higher and higher.

Curious: After Jan finished the race, he drove backwards back to the finishline and get blackflagged. Luckily the penalty did not dropped him down in a position.