Bulldog Racing and Mini John Cooper Works took second place in the SP3T class at the 24 -hour Nürburgring 2024 and continued a consistent results in the Langurance Classic. After a class victory in 2023 and a second place in 2022, the team again reached the podium in one of the most competitive categories of the event.
In the course of the 24-hour race, the Mini John Cooper Works completed 111 rounds and over 2,700 kilometers on the Nürburgring north loop. The driver’s list – Samantha Tan (Canada), Toby Goodman (Great Britain), Sebastian Sauerbri (Germany) and Markus Fischer (Austria) – provided constant and composed performance.
The race was temporarily discontinued on Saturday afternoon after a power failure in the paddock, which led to a red flag time of a little more than two hours. As soon as the race was resumed at 7.45 p.m. local time, the team led more than 60 places in the overall classification until the end of the race.
Fischer recorded the fastest round of the car, a 10:02, and narrowly improved his best time compared to last year. For Tan and Goodman, the event in 2024 was their debut in the Nürburgring 24 hours. The winners of the SP3T class of the 2025 hours of Nürburgring were the #312 team from Wewer, Karch and Rönnefarth in a BMW M2 race.
The Mini John Cooper Works also contained a custom exterior painting in collaboration with Deus Ex Machina, although the focus remained on the race performance that developed before a record amount of 280,000 spectators.
