Congratulations to the BMW Team
ROWE Racing and BMW Motorsport for the overall victory

The KW motorsports partners ROWE Racing and BMW Motorsport won the 48th ADAC TOTAL 24h Race Nürburgring 2020. The suspension manufacturer KW automotive is happy about ten class victories and the success of its customers in the world's toughest endurance race.

ROWE Racing won the 48th ADAC TOTAL 24h race Nürburgring in a heart-stopping final. With an advantage of 15.452 seconds after 85 laps in extremely difficult weather conditions, Dutchman Nick Catsburg drove the Rowe Racing BMW M6 GT3 (number 99), equipped with KW Competition racing sport dampers, across the finish line first.

"Congratulations to ROWE Racing and BMW Motorsport and many thanks for the confidence in our Solid Piston Technology", says KW CEO Jürgen Wohlfarth. "We are delighted that we were able to contribute to this success for our partners."

Various automobile manufacturers such as BMW, Mercedes, Opel, Porsche, and others rely on the latest developments of the owner-operated suspension manufacturer in their official factory customer Motorsports programs. The KW racing suspensions are manufactured as homologated series development for numerous GT3, GT4, TCR, and Cup vehicles or as individual applications.

This solid piston technology enables direct damping at very small strokes and compared to other systems, ensures cavitation-free performance at low gas pressure. We are already using our solid piston dampers for more and more applications and are consistently adapting this racing technology to our road developments, such as the new KW coilover suspension kit Variant 5.

It was the first time in ten years that a BMW won the ADAC TOTAL 24h Race Nürburgring. KW automotive, the suspension manufacturer, congratulates its motorsports customer Rowe Racing and BMW Motorsport on this great achievement. 50 years after the first edition of the endurance classic, the ROWE Racing BMW M6 GT3 with number 99, equipped with 4-way adjustable KW Competition shock absorbers, crossed the finish line first after an impressive catch-up race on Sunday.

The dramatic overtaking maneuvers, continuous rain, overall victory candidates dropped out, race aborted after more than nine hours and a restart in the early Sunday morning hours dominated the headlines. There were hardly any more adverse circumstances in the history of the endurance classic than in 2020. Even under difficult conditions on the Nordschleife, the 4-way adjustable KW Competition racing shocks with their solid piston technology were a great match.

In the dramatic final phase, Nick Catsburg, who shared the cockpit with Alexander Sims and Nick Yelloly, drove the BMW M6 GT3 to the finish with a 15.452-second lead over the second-placed Audi. The BMW Team Schnitzer with drivers Augusto Farfus, Jens Klingmann, Martin Tomczyk, and Sheldon van der Linde in the M6 GT3 with number 42 came third.

It is the first overall victory in the endurance classic in the Eifel region for Rowe Racing, founded in 2010 by the mineral oil manufacturer Rowe. The second Rowe Racing BMW M6 GT3 with start number 98 crossed the finish line in fourth place with Marco Wittmann, Tom Blomqvist, and Philipp Eng.

The best Porsche was Frikadelli Racing with the Porsche 911 GT3 R with start number 30 and the driver's Lars Kern, Mathieu Jaminet, Maxime Martin, and Lance David Arnold in seventh place overall.

Out of the total of 44 race cars with KW Competition racing suspensions, the BMW M6 GT3 from Walkenhorst Motorsport (starting number 101, driver quartet Christian Krognes, David Pittard, Mikkel Jensen, Jordan Pepper), the Porsche 911 GT3 R from KCMG (starting number 18 with Earl Bamber, Timo Bernhard, Jörg Bergmeister and Dennis Olsen), the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SP-X prototype racing car (start number 704, driver Thomas Mutsch, Franck Mallleux, Felipe Fernandez Laser, Richard Westbrook), Huber Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 R (start number 25, Lorenzo Rocco di Torrepadula, Patrick Kolb, Marco Holzer, Nico Menzel) into the top 20.

An impressive record of success at the Nürburgring Nordschleife

Besides the overall victory, KW Motorsport customers celebrate a total of ten class victories at the 48th ADAC TOTAL 24h Race Nürburgring 2020. After the Zakspeed victory in 2002 and the Manthey Porsche successes in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2018, the overall victory for ROWE Racing is the eighth overall victory for KW automotive.

ADAC TOTAL 24h Race Nürburgring 2020 KW Competition Class Victories:

In addition to 5-way, 4-way, 3-way, and 2-way adjustable dampers or with a fixed pre-configured damper setup, KW automotive puts together interesting packages that offer tuning and development services on the KW 7-post vehicle dynamic rig as well as on-site service on the track by its engineers and technicians. Many private teams have also been relying on the racing dampers and suspensions of the owner-managed company for years.