4.11.11 Successful finale for Wolfgang Kaufmann

At the last round of the endurance championship on the Nürburgring Nordschleife, Kremer Racing and Wolfgang Kaufmann managed a positive end to their season. The 36th DMV Münsterlandpokal saw Kaufmann again driving a Porsche of Cologne's Kremer Racing Team.

Sporting number 62 in homage to the E&M Kremer GmbH's founding year 1962, the car was entered in the SP7 class.

Based on the Porsche 997 GT3 Cup, Kremer Racing has developed the Kremer Porsche 997 GT3 KR. With this improved car, the team was able to reach 3rd place in a strongly contested class. Raceday in the Eifel started with a successful qualifying session. Kremer team driver Wolfgang Kaufmann turned a lap of 8.29.134, the fastest time in his class. "More would have been possible", the man from Westwood said after the session, "on my last, even faster lap, I didn't have enough fuel left and the engine cut out on the Döttinger Höhe."

Painted in the Kremer colors, the Porsche 997 GT3 KR and his drivers Kaufmann, Adam Osieka from Bonn and Aachen's Dieter Schornstein were always within striking distance to the class leader.

Unfortunately, a loose shifter cable fastener caused an unplanned, 12 minute pit halt. In spite of the experienced pit crew's good effort, the defect brought the the team a deficit of over a lap on the leader. With a fastest race lap of 8.34.673, they eventually finished the event in 18th place overall, and 7th in class. After the race, Kaufmann looked back with mixed feelings: "A podium finish is certainly a wonderful end to the season. Still, we are thinking "what might have been". The class winner's fastest lap was slower than ours by about ten seconds."

And Wolfgang Kaufmann gave special thanks to his team: "Porsche Kremer Racing has again demonstrated the potential of a team that in 2012 will celebrate its 50th anniversary. My thanks for their efforts go to our chief engineer Uwe Sauer and his crew, and to Eberhard Baunach, the owner of Kremer Racing."