The 9th VLN round of 2016 held at Nürburgring this Saturday, will be the first race where Falken Motorsports will enter two GT3 cars. A new BMW M6 GT3 will join the familiar tried-and-tested Porsche 911 GT3 R from the team’s stable.r

“For Falken, the event will be a test under racetrack conditions”, explains Markus Bögner, Managing Director Falken Tyre Europe, and adds, “We are delighted to be fielding a further racing-car from a German premium marque in this round of the VLN. This will expand our scope for action in advancing our tyre development.”

The wheel of the 585-hp V8 coupe will be taken by Falken driver Alexandre Imperatori and BMW works driver Philipp Eng. The Porsche, which came in third in the last race, will be driven by Wolf Henzler and his Porsche works colleague Frédéric Makowiecki.

Falken is now the second stalwart VLN Porsche team to use a BMW M6 this season, after Frikadelli Racing ran one earlier this year as a one off.

The M6 will not run the full Falken livery in the race (as seen above), but will carry Falken vinyls.

While Falken has testes its tyres on various GT3 cars, this is the first time they have raced a GT3 car which isn’t a Porsche. Falken in the past though, has raced other cars, including a Nissan Skyline and 350Z in the early 2000s.

The DMV 250-Mile Race starts at 12 noon on Saturday 8 October 2016.