Audi scored its first overall victory at the Nurburgring 24 Hours as the Phoenix Racing #3 Audi R8 LMS ultra of Marc Basseng, Christopher Haase, Franck Stippler and Markus Winkelhock took the victory ahead of the #26 Audi R8 LMS of Christian Mamerow, Christian Abt, Michael Ammermuller and Armin Hahne.

The victory was the 12th for Michelin at the “Green Hell” since 1998.

“This is a historical event. Audi has never won the Nürburgring 24 Hours before. We’ve finally done it. This is the biggest victory for customer racing. We are very happy,” said Romolo Liebchen, head of Audi Sport customer racing.

A massive field of 193 entries, including cars from eight different manufacturers in the top GT3 class, took on the fabled 15.77-mile Nordschleife circuit.
—Herve contributed to this report.