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Gary Paffett
DTM COMEBACK OF DOUBLE CHAMPION NOT POSSIBLE IN THE 2021 SEASON
Gary Paffett will no longer compete for Mercedes-AMG Team Mücke Motorsport in the 2021 DTM season. Travel restrictions and the Corona pandemic make a comeback for the two-time DTM champion impossible. Instead, AMG driver Maximilian Buhk, driving the #18 Mercedes-AMG GT3, which is equipped with the Space Drive digital steering system and has no mechanical … Continue reading
PAFFETT START IN THE DTM POSTPONED
Gary Paffett will not be able to start at the third DTM weekend in Zolder as planned. The two-time DTM champion lives in Great Britain and thus in a “red” classified Corona risk country and cannot enter Belgium without a ten-day quarantine. For various reasons, however, this is not possible for Gary Paffett. The Mercedes-AMG … Continue reading
MAXIMILIAN BUHK REPLACES GARY PAFFET AT MUCKE MOTORSPORT IN AT MONZA
Mücke Motorsport will not be fielding DTM champion Gary Paffett in the Space Drive cockpit at the DTM season opener in Monza. He will be replaced at the high-speed circuit in Monza next weekend and at the second race at the Lausitzring from 23 to 25 July by Maximilian Buhk, who was already behind the … Continue reading
PRO-AM VICTORY FOR STRAKKA RACING AT KYALAMI 9 HOURS
For the second consecutive race, Strakka Racing took the spoils in the Pro-Am class as Christina Nielsen, Dominik Baumann and Adrian Henry D’Silva were victorious in their #43 Mercedes-AMG GT3 at the Kyalami 9H. In the final race of the 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge and Strakka’s last outing for the year, there was disappointment for … Continue reading
PODIUM JOY FOR STRAKKA RACING AT THE 24 HOURS OF SPA
Twelve months after securing its first 24 Hours of Spa podium finish with its Pro-Am entry, Strakka Racing repeated the feat in remarkable fashion at the 2019 edition of the race, in an event that many drivers stated was held in the toughest conditions of their careers. The squad also recorded its first ever Super … Continue reading
STRAKKA RACING CONFIRMS LINE-UP FOR INTERCONTINENTAL GT CHALLENGE
Strakka Racing is pleased to confirm that it will be entering two Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars in the remaining Intercontinental GT Challenge races in 2019 as a performance team of Mercedes-AMG. Later this month the British squad will take on the California 8 Hours at Laguna Seca before the calendar moves on to the Spa 24 … Continue reading
POSITIVE START TO MERCEDES-AMG PARTNERSHIP FOR CRAFT-BAMBOO RACING DESPITE RETIREMENT AT THE BATHURST 12 HOUR
Craft-Bamboo Racing began its new partnership with Mercedes-AMG by delivering a solid performance at the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour. As a one-off collaboration, Craft-Bamboo Racing and Black Falcon joined forces to tackle this gruelling endurance race. Named Mercedes-AMG Team Craft-Bamboo Black Falcon, the two teams combined its efforts by integrating the team managers, engineers and … Continue reading
CRAFT-BAMBOO RACING AND BLACK FALCON TEAM UP BATHURST 12 HOUR AS MERCEDES-AMG TEAM CRAFT-BAMBOO BLACK FALCON
Black Falcon and Craft-Bamboo Racing are proud to announce a one-off joint partnership for the 2019 Bathurst 12 Hour, which will include a single Mercedes-AMG GT3 entry with an all-star Mercedes-AMG factory line-up consisting of Maro Engel (DEU) and Luca Stolz (DEU) alongside 2018 DTM champion Gary Paffett (GBR). It is a strategic decision to … Continue reading
LAST TEST SESSION BEFORE HOMOLOGATION OF THE NEW MERCEDES-AMG C 63 DTM
The clock is now ticking towards the homologation of the DTM cars for the 2017 season on 1st March. First, though, the Mercedes-AMG DTM Team were preoccupied with the opening test session of the new year this week (21st – 23rd February). It also constituted the last opportunity for trialling before the end of the … Continue reading
THREE QUESTIONS FOR GARY PAFFETT
Gary, last weekend’s event – Motorsport meets Sindelfingen – was a first. How did you like it? And what was your personal highlight? Gary Paffett: It was a fantastic event, and it was great fun putting on such a great show for all the hard-working colleagues at the plant and their families. It was also … Continue reading
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