A small but perfectly formed entry of just two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered teams completes our racing itinerary for the weekend as the German Nurburgring Langstrecken Series also complete their 2026 calendar on Saturday.

Rounding off the year with another standard four-hour affair around the infamous Green Hell circuit (weather permitting off course) will this time see just the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams enter one car apiece.

 

The #36 SP9 Pro class entry of both Christian Krognes and Matteo Villagomez will again be on hand amongst the expected one hundred and eighteen strong, multi-classed entry alongside the older 16A variant from the locally based Prosport Racing stable for their regular father and son drivers Maxime and Guido Dumarey.

Joining them for the first time this season as well as within the teams Mercedes-AMG GT4 car will be their former ADAC GT4 Germany Champion Hugo Sasse.

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The two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s competing within this weekend’s seventh round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie also endured something of a hard time during Saturday’s six-hour race that left both crews leave empty handed.

The #35 Walkenhorst Motorsport crew of Christian Krognes and Dennis Fetzer had secured a P6 start to the race at the end of the earlier qualifying session but had sustained damage whilst the #37 Prosport Racing AMR of Maxime/Guido Dumarey alongside that of Marek Bochmann were still a respectable P16 on the grid with their older iteration of Vantage GT3.

 

During the early stages of the race, the #35 car suffered from that earlier damage that could not be repaired before the race which then need attention after the start. That sidelined the car for nearly half of the race and by the time the car returned to the track – they would only complete 27 of the race winners 41 completed laps not to be classified within the results.

The #37 car fared better as they would ultimately finish P5 within their Am class and just two laps off the race winning pace.

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It was a great display from the two Aston Martin Racing powered entries into today’s sixth round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie as one crew first secured an overall Pole position to the race before both crews delivered class podium finishes.

First time back at the Nurburgring Nordschleife since twenty-four hour for the NLS Series, todays entry was a typically more modest one hundred and twelve car entry for this four-hour race with both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT3 crews amongst them.

 

Competing like many across northern Europe at the moment with high ambient temperatures, it was the #35 Walkenhorst AMR of Christian Krognes who was first to deliver after he placed the car that he was to share with Mateo Villagomez and Dennis Fetzer onto the front row of the grid whilst the Maxime and Guido Dumarey alongside Marek Bochmann secured a P16 in SP9 start.

With the race starting just a few hours later, Krognes was to hold the race lead over the opening laps whilst Bochmann has elevated their track position onto the tail end of the top ten overall as the race then settled into its normal rhythm.

 

As the race progressed, the #35 crew would fall down the order to as low as fifth overall before a late charge brought them right back into the action to claim a P4 overall race finish but P3 within their own SP9 Pro class whilst the #37 Prosport Racing AMR entry did likewise within their own SP9 Am class car.

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There were only four Aston Martin Racing V12 Vantage GT3’s entered into this weekend’s second round of the SRO GT3 Revival Series from the Spa Classic in the end but three of the four put on show to claim further race silverware for their efforts.

Jonathon Mitchell and his Scott Sport prepared #007 former TRG-AMR runner was again the man to beat as he came away with the race win on track after a red flagged shortened race into the night on Saturday only for a post race BoP based time penalty dropped him down the order before taking a class win at the end of Sunday’s fifty-minute finale.

 

Race one was shaping up into an exciting clash between the #007 car and the #4 GDM Motorsport prepared car of Guido Dumarey into the evening right up until another car suffered a high speed off at Blanchemont which was first covered by a Safety Car before the race was eventually pulled at the halfway mark. Fortunately, the driver involved was later reported as being otherwise OK

The #62 former R-Motorsport AMR of Franz Wunderlich and Pascal Huteau would claim P18 overall/P5 in class whilst the solo driven #16 Britec Motorsport car of Afshin Fatemi would finish his first race within the series P20 overall/P11 in class.

 

Sundays finale was this time run earlier in the day under full sunshine around the Spa Francorchamps circuit. This time the #007 and #4 Aston Martins had been knocked off the front row in earlier qualifying so there was much to do for the four V12 powered Prodrive machines.

Numerous Safety Car interventions sadly marred the race, taking significant time off the available race clock but that was still enough time in the final minutes for Mitchell to bag another class win (albeit in third overall) with the #62 Fanta Racing AMR also claiming P6 overall/P2 in class finish.

 

Next stop for the series will be from the Le Mans Classic in early July.

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After five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 runners within the opening round to the new SRO supported GT3 Revival Series, there will be another mix of another five V12 Vantage GT3’s at this weekend’s second round to the series from the Spa Classic.

Whilst all of this is obviously great news for any lover of the old V12 Aston Martin engine, the biggest problem that we have is actually identifying which car will be presented by each team moving forward.

What we do know is that Jonathon Mitchell will be back with his #007 former Team TRG-AMR GT3 that he raced to a double P2 podium finish last time out at Paul Ricard back in early April after which he enjoyed similar racing success at the recent Donington Festival.

 

 

The #16 Britec Motorsport of Afshin Fatemi is again listed like he was for the opening round but failed to part in any of the proceedings.

After his racing duties at last weekend’s ADAC Ravenol N24 from the Nurburgring, Guido Dumarey will go back in time this weekend from his 16A variant of the Vantage GT3 that sadly impaled itself into the armco barrier in the early hours of Sunday morning after a tyre failure to that of his prior V12 model as presented by GDM Motorsport.

 

After his racing duties at last weekend’s ADAC Ravenol N24 from the Nurburgring, Guido Dumarey will go back in time this weekend from his 16A variant of the Vantage GT3 that sadly impaled itself into the armco barrier in the early hours of Sunday morning after a tyre failure to that of his prior V12 model as presented by GDM Motorsport.

Franz Wunderlich and (maybe) Pascal Huteau will be back with their #62 former R-Motorsport AMR Vantage GT3 that also raced in the south of France first time out with just Wunderlich behind the wheel. He was also at Spa Francorchamps two weeks ago as he peddled is former TF Sport AMR Vantage GTE in the FIA WEC support race there.

Rounding off the indicated five car entry is that of the #82 ERA Motorsport entry for Christian Abrecht and Kyle Tilley. This one we really don’t know about other than it could be a platform recently sold by the RoFGO Collection a few months ago, but we will have to wait and see.

 

All being well, there should be two forty-minute races over the course of the race weekend for the forty-six car entry.

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Another steady performance from the locally based Prosport Racing team as both of their Aston Martin Racing powered entries came safely home at the end of today’s third round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie.

Running just a week ahead of the N24 Qualifier double header weekend, the #37 AMR Vantage GT3 entry of father and Son, Maxine and Guido Dumarey were joined by Swedish racer Markus Lonnroth were they were able to complete todays four-hour race third within their SP9 Am class.

The sister #175 AMR Vantage GT4 car of Gustav Bard and Patrick Skoog also di enough to be classified as P6 within their SP10 Am class albeit two laps down to their class winners.

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With the Walkenhorst Motorsport team presently busy with their GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup racing duties this weekend, it comes as no real surprise that the Prosport Racing team will be the sole Aston Martin Racing powered representative within this weekend’s NLS event.

This weekend will see the third round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie being run around the infamous Nurburgring Nordschliefe with another four-hour race that will lead into the N24 Qualifying double header the on weekend after.

 

 

 

The Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie becomes the first traditional European based race series to get its 2026 programme underway this weekend with its first of ten rounds around the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife between now and mid-October.

Compared to previous seasons within the NLS Series, all Aston Martin Racing powered participation moves to the front of their traditional diverse and expansive grids will all three AMR powered entries competing within the SP9 class.

Over the winter, the usual participants from the Prosport Racing team have seen them realign to another platform leaving just there older iteration of Vantage GT3 to compete with the two Walkenhorst Motorsport and their newer Evo’d cars.

 

A disappointed end to the 2025 Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie it appears for the locally based Prosport Racing team yesterday as neither of its two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews saw the chequered flag.

Round ten of the season, yesterday’s race was another four-hour affair for the #140 and #175 cars from the team, each racing within the enhanced GT4 SP8T class with their respective crews of Maxime and Guido Dunarey and Benjamin Hites, Jorg Viebahn and Michel Albers.

Only last week were German based Prosport Racing hinting at a two cars Aston Martin Racing powered driver line up for this year’s Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie but todays sees them go one step further.

Running both a Vantage GT4 and Vantage GT8R again within the Nordschleife based series sees the Christoph Esser lead team confirm both Guido Dumarey and fellow Belgian Alexander Hommerson compete within the SP8T classed GT8R whilst the SP10 classed GT4 will be driven by Jorg Viebahn and Yannik Himmels.

 

It was a triumphant end to the 2024 Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie for the four Aston Martin Racing powered crews at the end of the final four-hour round of the series this afternoon.

Prosport Racing and the Dorr Motorsport teams again represented the AMR marque with their four entries split across the SP9 Pro, SP10 and SP8T classes.

 

A very healthy seven Aston Martin Racing powered entries help to make up the hundred plus entries ahead of this weekend’s NLS (Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie) double header opener around the infamous Nordschleife.

Locally based Prosport Racing head that assault with both the GT3 and GT4 classes as they welcome back familiar faces amongst other, as do the Doer Motorsport team within both group sets too – just in smaller numbers and with variations per Saturday and Sunday events.

 

It was a championship winning kind of weekend as tow Aston Martin Racing powered teams finally laid their hands upon the ultimate prize that they had been chasing all season making another win apiece for the Vantage GT3 and GT4 platform.

In Germany, there was on Saturday the running of the final Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie around the notorious Nurburgring Nordschliefe as both the Doer Motorsport entered a solo Vantage GT3 again and the Prosport Racing teams two of each platform into this final round.

Hopefully this will not get lost under the tranche of Aston Martin IMSA/FIA WEC Valkyrie news that came out from both sides of the Atlantic earlier today, this weekend sees five Aston Martin Racing powered crews due to take part within the final round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie.

Precisely the kind of teams also targeted within today’s news regarding the imminently expected arrival of the new Vantage GT3 and GT4 race car platforms, sees both the Doer Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams again enter both versions of the existing car for this weekend’s four-hour race.

 

It was a fantastic achievement from the two Aston Martin Racing powered teams competing within two separate series in Germany at the weekend as both delivered on podium success despite one stretching themselves across both series and the other across consecutive six-hour races.

 

Three Aston Martin Racing powered crews figure on today’s provisional entry lists for this weekend’s double header of NLS rounds around the notorious Nurburgring Nordschleife.

Usually kept apart from one another, this weekend’s double header will comprise of an individual six-hour round over each of Saturday and Sunday and goes to make up the Red Bull 12hr Nurburgring event.

 

Saturday was a good day for the three Aston Martin Racing powered crews who competed within the latest round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie.

This time running with two AMR Vantage GT3 and Vantage GT4 powered crews within the series SP9 and SP10 classes respectively, all such teams firstly completed their six-hour undertaking around infamous Green Hell, but with both GT3 crews finishing upon the podium.