Blancpain Endurance Series Round 5: Nurburgring 1,000 Kilometers (season finale)

In the final race of the 2015 Blancpain Endurance Series, the Nurburgring 1,000 kilometers, Von Ryan Racing, scored their second win of the year, having also won the second race of the season at Silverstone, with their #58 McLaren 650S shared by Rob Bell, Kevin Estre, and Shane van Gisbergen.  Pro Am saw a class win for the Swiss Emil Frey Racing Jaguar team, with Freddy Barth, Lorenz Frey, and Gabriele Gardel, winning.

In the Am class, just like in Pro Am, there was a fifth different winner on the season.  That was the #16 AKKA ASP Ferrari 458 GT3 driven by the French duo of Fabien Barthez, and Anthony Pons.

Overall/Pro: #58 Bell/Estre/van Gisbergen     McLaren 650S
             Pro Am: #14 Barth/Frey/Gardel         Emil Frey G3 Jaguar XK
             Am: #16 Barthez/Pons                        Ferrari 458 GT3

Here's how the championships in each class came out.  Nissan, and their drivers Wolfgang Reip, Katsumasa Chiyo, and Alex Buncombe, ended up winning the championship in Pro Cup, by three points over the factory Bentley of Steven Kane, Andy Meyrick, and Guy Smith, and the Bentley Boys, despite their consistency, never won a race all year.  In Pro Am, it was the AF Corse Ferrari of Brit Duncan Cameron and Irishman Matt Griffin, handily winning the crown over their rivals from Kessel Racing, by 25 points (in another Ferrari)... Michael Broniszewski of Poland, Italy's Alessandro Bonacini, and Michael Lyons, of Britain.

The closest championship fight, was in the Am class, with the Team Parker Racing Audi R8 of Ian Loggie and Julian Westwood, taking the championship, by a single point, over Attempto Racing and their Porsche 997 shared by Germans Jurgan Haring, and Frank Schmickler, along with Greek driver Dimitrios Konstantinou.

Pro Champions: #35 Reip/Chiyo/Buncombe     Nissan GT Academy Team RJN Nissan Nismo GT-R GT3

Pro Am Champions: #51 Cameron/Griffin        AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia

Am Champions: #24 Loggie/Westwood            Team Parker Racing Audi R8

That's a wrap of the 2015 Blancpain Endurance Series season.  How will 2016 shape up?  Stay tuned, to find out.  The same races will be on the schedule, starting at Monza in April.  The only difference, next year's season closer at the Nurburgring, will be a more traditional, three hour race.  See you, for more action in 2016.  So long, for now.