Black Falcon GmbH & Co. KG is a German auto racing team founded in 2005 by Alexander Böhm, Marc Schramm, and Marvin Wagner. Based in Meuspath, Germany, the team primarily compete in events held at the Nürburgring and are one of the most experienced teams at the famed circuit, with several appearances at the Nürburgring 24 Hours dating back to 2007 and achieving three drivers' titles in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie.
Prior to downsizing their operations in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the team were a Mercedes-Benz factory squad, competing in major Group GT3 events and series across Europe and the Middle East with their machinery, including two top 3 overall finishes at the Spa 24 Hours, a record five overall wins at the Dubai 24 Hour, and two overall wins at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, including Mercedes-Benz's first victory at the event in 2013.
Background Black Falcon was founded in 2005 by Alexander Böhm, Marc Schramm, and Marvin Wagner in Dernbach, Westerwaldkreis, Germany. Starting out in a small workshop between 2005 and late 2006, Black Falcon competed locally in the VLN, racing modified BMW sedans with immediate success, finishing 2nd overall in their debut season. A few months later in February 2007, the team moved into a larger workshop in Kelberg near the Nürburgring.
Racing history
By 2008, Black Falcon won their first championship, securing the 2008 VLN Series drivers' title with founder Böhm and Matthias Unger with a BMW 325i. They would repeat the following year in 2009, with Böhm joined by Sean Paul Breslin and Christer Jöns, before securing a third championship two years later in 2011 with Carsten Knechtges, Manuel Metzger, and Tim Scheerbarth driving a modified BMW Z4.
Black Falcon raced outside of Germany for the first time in 2010, entering the 2010 Dubai 24 Hour in the A4 and SP2 classes. They won overall for the first time in the 2012 Dubai 24 Hour, finishing as the lead Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in what was a podium lockout for Mercedes-Benz, with Khaled Al Qubaisi, Sean Edwards, Jeroen Bleekemolen and Thomas Jäger driving the winning car. Black Falcon repeated in 2013 becoming the first team to win back-to-back since 2007. Across eleven appearances at the Dubai 24 Hour, Black Falcon secured five overall wins (2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2020), making them the most successful team at the event.
In 2013, Black Falcon achieved Mercedes-AMG's maiden win at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, with Bernd Schneider, Bleekemolen, Edwards and Nicki Thiim beating the charging BMW Z4 GT3 of Marc VDS in a rain-affected race. Black Falcon won again in 2016, as Adam Christodoulou, Maro Engel, Manuel Metzger and Schneider led a historic Mercedes 1-2-3-4 finish after Engel overtook Christian Hohenadel on the final lap. Additionally, the team finished third overall at the 24 Hours of Spa both on debut in 2011 and on its final appearance in 2019.
In 2020, Black Falcon announced that they would be scaling back their factory Group GT3 operations as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, switching their efforts towards customer racing at the Nürburgring and single-make competitions such as the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany. They were set to compete in the 2020 GT World Challenge Europe with two Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo entries prior to the announcement, but withdrew as a result. Key personnel then moved to Haupt Racing Team, newly established by long-time Black Falcon driver Hubert Haupt. Black Falcon briefly returned to GT3 racing in the final two races of the 2021 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie with a Porsche 911 GT3 R (991.2). The team did not race in GT3 sports cars again until four years later at the 2025 24 Hours of Nürburgring, where they entered a Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) in the SP 9 Pro-Am class.
In 2021, Black Falcon launched a Le Mans Prototype programme for the first time with Lance David Arnold as team manager, entering the 2021 Le Mans Cup's LMP3 class with Donar Munding and Maik Rosenberg.
Midway into the 2023 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie season, Black Falcon signed YouTubers Steve Alvarez Brown, Jimmy Broadbent, and Misha Charoudin, entering a modified BMW 330i in the VT2-R class backed by Bilstein for the final four rounds of the season. They moved to SP 8T for 2024 and 2025, driving a BMW M4 GT4 (and later the Evo model) and joined by team regular Manuel Metzger. Following two strong seasons in the series, including two Nürburgring 24 Hours appearances with a 2nd-place class finish in 2025, they progressed to the AT2 class in a Porsche 992 GT3 Cup with support from Fanatec ahead of 2026.
Race results
24 Hours of Spa YearEntrantNo.CarDriversClassLaps2011 Black Falcon35Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Kenneth Heyer Thomas Jäger Stéphane LémeretGT3 Pro5353rd3rd38 Bret Curtis Andrii Lebed Jeroen van der Heuvel Peter van der KolkGT3 Pro-Am51812th5th2012 Black Falcon18Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Jeroen Bleekemolen Cheng Congfu Bret Curtis Steve JansGT3 Pro-Am12519 Kenneth Heyer Manuel Metzger Oliver Morley Stephan RöslerGT3 Pro-Am47319th12th2013 Black Falcon18Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Adam Christodoulou Klaas Hummel Thomas Jäger Steve JansPro-Am5518th4th19 Sergey Afanasyev Francesco Castellacci Andrii Lebed Andreas SimonsenPro-Am52024th11th2014 Black Falcon18Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Saud Al Faisal Christian Bracke Vladimir Lunkin Richard MuscatPro-Am48934th16th19 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Hubert Haupt Andreas SimonsenPro28563 Yelmer Buurman Adam Christodoulou Mike ParisyPro51711th7th2015 Black Falcon18Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Maro Engel Sean Johnston Oliver Morley Bernd SchneiderPro-Am22621 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Yelmer Buurman Hubert HauptPro52012th6th29 Adam Christodoulou Andreas Simonsen Nico VerdonckPro1062016 AMG - Team Black Falcon00Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yelmer Buurman Maro Engel Bernd SchneiderPro52320th16th56 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Daniel Juncadella Oliver Morley Miguel TorilPro-Am51626th9th57 Adam Christodoulou Hubert Haupt Andreas SimonsenPro51233rd21st2017 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon4Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yelmer Buurman Adam Christodoulou Luca StolzPro5458th8th Team Black Falcon15Mercedes-AMG GT3 Jeroen Bleekemolen Dore Chaponik Scott Heckert Brett SandbergPro-Am209 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon16Mercedes-AMG GT3 Maximilian Götz Marvin Kirchhöfer Oliver Morley Miguel TorilPro-Am54012th1st Team Black Falcon18Mercedes-AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Hubert Haupt Gabriele Piana Renger van der ZandePro-Am2282018 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon4Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yelmer Buurman Maro Engel Luca StolzPro5115th5th5Mercedes-AMG GT3 Rui Águas Saud Al Faisal Kriton Lendoudis Tom Onslow-ColePro-Am49031st6th6Mercedes-AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Hubert Haupt Manuel Metzger Gabriele PianaSilver50123rd3rd2019 Mercedes-AMG Team Black Falcon4Mercedes-AMG GT3 Yelmer Buurman Maro Engel Luca StolzPro3633rd3rd6Mercedes-AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Patrick Assenheimer Hubert Haupt Gabriele PianaSilver35824th3rd
Dubai 24 Hour YearEntrantNo.CarDriversClassLaps2010 Team Black Falcon88BMW Z4 Coupe Si (E89) Alexander Böhm Marc Colell Andrii Lebed Kai Riebetz Oleg VolinA449431st1st111BMW M3 (E92) Sean Patrick Breslin Sean Paul Breslin Alexander Böhm Christer Jöns Vimal MehtaSP256012th1st2011 Black Falcon7Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Sean Paul Breslin Kenneth Heyer Thomas Jäger Jan SeyffarthA65903rd3rd8 Bret Curtis David Horn Tim Pappas Ralf SchallA652524th12th2012 Abu Dhabi by Black Falcon3Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Sean Edwards Jeroen Bleekemolen Thomas JägerA66281st1st Black Falcon Team TMD Friction23BMW M3 GT4 (E92) Steve Jans Manuel Metzger Michael Pflüger Christian Raubach Christian von RieffSP354918th2nd2013 Team Abu Dhabi by Black Falcon1Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Sean Edwards Jeroen Bleekemolen Thomas JägerA6-Pro6001st1st2 Sergey Afanasyev Khaled Al Qubaisi Steve Jans Simon Knap Andreas SimonsenA6-Pro5807th7th Black Falcon Team TMD Friction44Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (997) Patrick Huisman Burkard Kaiser Christian Raubach Erwin Stückle Christian von Rieff99750328th5th2014 Team Abu Dhabi by Black Falcon1Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Bernd Schneider Andreas SimonsenA6-Pro43149th13th Black Falcon2 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Adam Christodoulou Hubert HauptA6-Pro5973rd3rd44Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (997) Arturo Devigus Anders Fjordbach Willi Friedrichs Burkard Kaiser Vladimir Lunkin99757414th2nd156Porsche 911 Carrera (991) Philip Dries Gerwin Schuring Christian von Rieff Helmut WeberA551127th2nd2015 Black Falcon2Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Yelmer Buurman Hubert Haupt Oliver WebbA6-Pro6041st1st Abu Dhabi Racing Black Falcon3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Bernd Schneider Andreas SimonsenA6-Pro88 Black Falcon25Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991) Burkard Kaiser Manuel Metzger Christian Raubach Gerwin Schuring99758010th2nd26 Saud Al Faisal Anders Fjordbach Keita Sawa Andreas Weishaupt9975809th1st2016 Abu Dhabi Racing Black Falcon2Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Indy Dontje Maro Engel Hubert HauptA6-Pro163 Black Falcon3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Michal Broniszewski Yelmer Buurman Hubert Haupt Bernd SchneiderA6-Pro15416 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Adam Christodoulou Frankie Montecalvo Oliver Morley Oliver WebbA6-Pro5832nd2nd Black Falcon Team TMD Friction60Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991) Klaus Bachler Burkard Kaiser Stanislav Minsky Sören Spreng Mark Wallenwein99155017th5th61 Saud Al Faisal Saeed Al Mouri Anders Fjordbach Manuel Metzger Gerwin Schuring99155914th3rd2017 Black Falcon2Mercedes-AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Patrick Assenheimer Jeroen Bleekemolen Manuel MetzgerA6-Pro3973 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Michał Broniszewski Yelmer Buurman Maro Engel Hubert HauptA6-Pro5753rd3rd Black Falcon Team TMD Friction68Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (991) Saud Al Faisal Saeed Al Mouri Anders Fjordbach Alexander Toril99155511th1st69 Bondar Alesayi Burkard Kaiser Sören Spreng Miguel Toril99153823rd5th243Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport (981) Mustafa Mehmet Kaya Fidel Leib Gabriele Piana Aurel SchoellerSP3-GT42452018 Black Falcon2Mercedes-AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Yelmer Buurman Hubert Haupt Gabriele PianaA6-Pro6061st1st3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Manuel Metzger Luca StolzA6-Pro5027 Rui Águas Saud Al Faisal Saeed Al Mouri Kriton LendoudisA6-Am49957th11th Black Falcon Team TMD Friction264Mercedes-AMG GT R SP-X Antares Au Jonathan Hui Kevin Tse Frank YuGT454831st3rd2019 Black Falcon2Mercedes-AMG GT3 Abdulaziz Al Faisal Saud Al Faisal Yelmer Buurman Adam Christodoulou Hubert HauptA6-Pro57915th7th3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Jeroen Bleekemolen Ben Keating Manuel Metzger Luca StolzA6-Pro3802020 Black Falcon4Mercedes-AMG GT3 Khaled Al Qubaisi Ben Barker Jeroen Bleekemolen Hubert Haupt Manuel MetzgerGT3-Pro1681st1st
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