Victory for the Honda Civic in the Nürburgring 24 hours

The Honda Civic Type R FK7 scored its most important victory in an endurance race; at the Nürburgring the car shared by Markus Oestreich, Dominik Fugel, Tiago Monteiro and Cedrik Totz won the TCR class in the ADAC 24-h Rennen.
The Civic, run by the Markus Fugel Autosport under the banner Castrol Honda Racing was classified 39^th overall (out of 155 starters) and completed 138 laps of the Nordschleife, two more than the Hyundai Veloster N of Marc Basseng, Manuel Lauck, Nico Verdonck and Moritz Oestreich (Markus’ son) that finished in second position.
Third, 33 laps behind the winners, came the second of the Hyundai Motorsport N cars run by Target Competition, the i30 N of Harald Proczyk, Peter Terting, Andreas Gülden and Lauck that Terting had placed on pole position of the category with a lap of 9:55.163.
The two Hyundai cars set the pace in the early stages, but the Veloster lost 15 minutes in the pits to fix some electrical bugs, while at the end of the fifth hour the i30 N crashed after a contact with a GT car and limped back to the pits where it stayed five hours for repairs.
The Honda inherited the lead and kept it until the halfway point when the recovering Veloster retook command and pulled away.
After 18 hours, the Veloster had built a two-lap advantage, raising to the 40^th position overall, but then it was stopped again by a technical issue that dropped it to third in the class, four laps behind the leading Honda. In the final part of the race the Hyundai recovered two laps, but had to settle in second place behind the Civic that proved reliable and consistent.

Results
1. Castrol Honda Racing, Honda Civic FK7 (Ma. Ostreich/Totz/Fugel/Monteiro), 138 laps
2. Hyundai Motorsport, Hyundai Veloster N (Basseng/Verdonck/Lauck/Mo. Ostreich), 2 laps
3. Hyundai Motorsport, Hyundai i30 N (Proczyk/Lauck/Terting/Gülden), 33 laps