Suspended reality

Setting up a car for the rigours of the Nürburgring 24 hours is one of motor racing’s great challenges. Suspension company, KW Automotive, worked hard to develop a five-way damper that has given teams such as Porsche and BMW set-up options that were previously unavailable on their GT3 cars.

Although the 24-hour race was shortened by rain and fog this year, car set-up was crucial for the sprint to the flag, and performed well enough on Olaf Manthey’s 25th anniversary at the ’Ring for him to take victory.

‘We just launched a new specification for the Manthey car and that will be a future GT3 damper, which will also be on the BMW M4 GT3,’ confirmed Thomas Rechenberg, head of motorsport at KW Automotive.

‘We have built from a single adjustment to a