Black Falcon's #16 car with drivers Oliver Morley, Maximilian Götz, Marvin Kirchhöfer and Miguel Toril take the PRO-AM category victory in the 24 hours of Spa 2017.
Like every season, the Blancpain Endurance Series celebrates its most important event in the Belgian racetrack of Spa Francorchamps; the historic 24 hours of Spa have completed this year its edition number 69, with no less than 61 GT3 on track.
Continuing with the program of the rest of the season, Black Falcon arrived at Spa, among others, with the car #16 driven this time by Götz and Kirchhöfer joining the full season drivers Morley and Toril.
With the qualifying practice on Thursday, the competition was starting and for various reasons - the intense traffic as the main one- Black Falcon could only qualify the car #16 in P39 overall, far from the real performance of the team.
For the start of the race, Maxi Götz took the wheel of the Mercedes AMG GT GT3. Thanks to a great team strategy, by the end of the second hour of the race, the car #16 already hovered TOP3 of the PRO-AM category. It would not be until 9 pm on Saturday when Miguel Toril would get into the car to perform the first night stint. In that precise timing, due to the rhythm imposed by all the drivers and once again to the strategic performance, Toril would be placed in first position PRO-AM and even entered in the TOP10 overall.
From that moment on, Toril and his teammates would no longer leave the PRO-AM first place and their work would focus on maintaining a steady pace and a faultless driving that would finally allow them to cross Spa finish line on Sunday afternoon as the PRO-AM category winners -with only one lap of advantage over the second classified- and 12th overall.
Miguel Toril: "I can not believe we got it. Winning at Spa has been a dream for a long time and seeing me today on top of the podium seemed unreal to me. We managed the race perfectly without errors of any kind and knowing how to interpret at all times what we had to do. The most critical moment was at dawn when it started to rain and I was driving with slick tires. This victory has been possible thanks to my teammates, the whole team Black Falcon and Mercedes AMG doing a job without errors and performing at the level that Spa requires. From my side, I know I've done my best. I thank everyone for the support we have received: fans, friends, family! This victory is for all of them too!"