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Leh Keen Joins Farnbacher Racing For VLN At Nurburgring
Leh Keen continues on his stretch of endurance races in 2013 by adding the VLN Endurance Racing Championship at Nürburgring to his schedule. The four hour race at the famed "Ring" will run this weekend, Saturday, March 23.
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Keenhas a busy 2013 of racing. The 2009 and 2011 GRAND-AM GT Champion is also running in the Brumos Porsche in GRAND-AM as well as making select appearances in the Team West Alex Job Racing Ferrari in the American Le Mans Series. This will be his second-time racing at theNürburgring.
"This is actually my second time doing the Ring," Keen said. "I ran with Farnbacher Racing in 2010 and we finished second overall in a Ferrari 430 GT car. It was the ultimate experience. I was just as much of a highlight as finishing second in the GT class at Le Mans that year. As for the track, it's absolutely like nothing else in the world. This race is for me to get up to date with the car and the track"
Keen is a student of the 12.9-mile track.
"It was very difficult to learn the track back in 2010, but I went back there in 2012 and drove tourist laps in my rental car. I still remembered the track pretty well. The Ring is kind of like riding a bike. You don't forget."
Farnbacher Racing is well tuned to the famous German track.
"In 2010 we finished second and then in 2011 the team qualified on the pole with their new Ferrari 458. Farnbacher Racing is one of the best teams in Europe as Horst (Farnbacher) is an amazing engineer and team owner. He always has fast cars and knows that a quick comfortable car around the Ring is the best car you can have. He used to be a factory race car driver so he understands what's going on in the car very well."
For team Horst Farnbacher, Keen is a welcome addition to the car.
"I am very happy to be back this year at the Nürburgring with a brand new 2013 Porsche GT3R," Farnbacher said. "With Leh we have one of the best Porsche sports car drivers on board our team and we should have a successful program ahead of us. He has already successfully competed with us in 2010 where we finished second overall. Our main focus now is to get Leh in the new car and get him used to the new Porsche and its characteristics. Leh will be a great help, in order to develop the car in the two, four-hour VLN races before we attack the 24 hours."
Joining Keen will be Christina Nielsen. The young talented female Danish race car driver has competed with Farnbacher Racing in the Porsche Carrera Cup, and has also driven two races in VLN.
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