VLN – Season Review 2018
Posted: 06.01.2019
Source: Ferrari
Racing One tames the Green Hell
Maranello, 6 January 2019 – Stephan Kohler and Christian Kohlhaas, together with Mike Jäger, who missed a round, wrote a page of motorsport history in 2018. The German crew at the wheel of the Ferrari 458 Italia GT3 of Racing One, came third overall in the championship, but dominated the SP8 class of the VLN championship.
One track. This is a very special series consisting of nine rounds, always on the same legendary Nordschleife circuit of the Nürburgring, the so-called Green Hell. Racing One won every race in what was an unprecedented year.
Wochenspiegel Team Monschau. The two Ferrari 488 GT3s of Wochenspiegel Team Monschau also did very well. Car no. 22, in particular, with Georg Weiss, Oliver Kainz and Jochen Krumbach, came out on top five times in the Prestige class to take the title but also finished third twice, in the third and fourth round of the season. On the latter occasion, the Adenauer Rundstrecken Trophy, the Ferrari no. 11 of Leonard Weiss and Christian and Nico Menzel was second.