Two back-to-back four-hour races of the NLS season saw three Aston Martin Racing powered crews take to the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit as the German endurance series ramps up until the end of its 2026 season.

The full season AMR protagonists from the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing team were again on hand as both entered their own Vantage GT3 that would both be running within the SP9 Pro-Am class for their respective trio of drivers. The Prosport Racing team would also be entering one of their remaining Vantage GT4 cars with a differing crew within each race.

 

The #35 Walkenhorst crew of Christian Krognes, Mateo Villagomez and Dennis Fetzer had already achieved podium success earlier in the season and were keen for some more whilst the father/son combination of Guido and Maxime Dumarey would in fact be joined by Adam Christodoulou, taking them out of the Am class and into the Pro-Am class.

The #175 Prosport AMR Vantage GT4 meanwhile would be running with both Robb Holland and Jacques Derenne on Saturday with Derenne and Jean-Luc Behets on Sunday.

 

 

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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Five Aston Martin Racing powered crews will convene around at the Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit this weekend for the two ADAC Ravenol N24 Qualification races around the infamous circuit.

Unsurprisingly, all five crews are from the Prosport Racing and Walkenhorst Motorsport teams with the former running their pair of older 16A iteration of platform whilst the latter run a trio of Evo versions.

At the last NLS round we only had the single Prosport entry but that was simply because the Walkenhorst team were busy in the south of France getting ready for the opening six-hour round of the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup Series.

 

That being said, one of the overall winners within the #007 Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3’s in that event will be swapping allegiances to the Walkenhorst team for these qualification races and indeed twenty-four hour itself as Nicki Thiim partners Christian Krognes with the #34 SP9 entry. They will then be joined by third man Mattai Drudi at the 24 but he is already busy this weekend at the FIA WEC opener in Italy.

The team’s second N24 entry within their #35 car will also be present around the Green Hell this weekend as drivers Mateo Villagomez, Felipe Fernandez-Laser, Dennis Fetzer and Stefan Aust team up togther for the first time.

A third team entry for team boss Henry Walknehorst, Nico Hantke, Anders Buchardt and Mex Jansen will also be involved within the teams #39 car. We don’t know about any special livery this time around after the colourful charity fundraiser example of last season.

 

The locally based Prosport Racing team will also be fielding two AMR Vantage GT3 crews this weekend although they are only down for having one within the main event in mid-May. The entry list for this weekend also list drivers within both cars so it’s all rather confusing at the moment with father and son Maxime and Guido Dumarey part of the N24 entry but with Marek Bockmann, Tobias Wahl, Maik Ronnefarth and Markus Lonnroth all in support somewhere across the two cars.

This weekend’s event will be made up of two four-hour races – one on Saturday and the other on Sunday.

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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.

 

 

 

Whilst the racing headlines may have been all about a certain young Dutchman and his Mercedes AMG GT3 team mates at first winning and then later losing the race upon a technicality, the second Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie race of the season was at least productive for the three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered crews.

With race one of the year cancelled because of unsafe racing conditions around the Nordschleife, todays four-hour affair at least had the benefit of gently warming sunny and dry track conditions as over one hundred and thirty cars took to the track again.

 

 

Whilst that Verstappen car did take overall pole position by some margin, the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport AMR Vantage SP9 Pro classed entry of Christian Krognes and Matia Drudi were still upon the second row of the rolling grid in fourth. Their sister #35 Pro-Am entered car would start P25 overall with the single Prosport Racing SP9 Am classed car two slot further back for this midday’s start.

Their persistence would be rewarded at the end as the #34 car would improve to a P4 overall after the post-race disqualification of the Verstappen car but the other two would better than with a podium position each within their respective classes.

It’s second time lucky for the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie this weekend as the German circuit hosts the second four-hour round of the NLS series with the ADAC Barbarossapreis and an expected entry list of over one hundred and thirty cars.

 

 

Last weekend’s season opener was sadly thwarted by the unwelcome arrival of snow, ice and freezing fog of the Eiffel mountain circuit that quickly put paid to any chances of racing. Testing on the Friday was run through thoroughly wet and miserable conditions before the weather got suddenly colder overnight and although cars did eventually hit the track in Qualifying on Saturday, race officials eventually deemed conditions too dangerous to continue.

Like last weekend, we welcome the same three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 runners and riders again from both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams although the #37 Prosport entry does now include a third driver within their father and son crew.

 

 

Team favourite Marek Bockmann joins Maxime and Guido Dumarey within their SP9 Am classed entry whilst the two Walkenhorst entries remain the same with Christian Krognes and Mattia Drudi pairing within their #34 Pro classed entry with Matteo Villagomez, Dennis Fetzer and Felipe Fernandez Laser sharing their #35 Pro-Am entry.

All being well, testing will continue today with Qualifying then held early on Saturday morning before the start of this four-hour race from midday.

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Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other ideas this weekend as the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie attempted to host its opening round to the season around the always challenging Nurburgring Nordschliefe.

Over one hundred and thirty cars were at least able to get some practice laps in during the heavy rain affected test day on Friday before all expected to arrive at the circuit this morning for both the qualifying sessions and the opening four-hour race.

 

However, by then there had been an overnight blanketing of snow and ice around the local area further compounded by a lingering fog – metrological conditions that can even blight the workings of the of the Eiffel mountains circuit over the course of the annual 24 hour in June.

Despite getting the cars back out on track in the latter afternoon, track and ambient temperatures were deemed still too low for allow for safe racing around the fifteen-mile circuit, so NLS 1 was cancelled.

 

At least we will only have to wait until next weekend for NLS2 to be attempted!

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Another one hundred and ten multi-classed cars will line up upon the grid for Saturday’s penultimate round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie with four Aston Martin Racing powered entries again within their midst.

Similar to last time out, this weekend’s four-hour race will again see the #34 Walkenhorst Motorsport Aston Martin Vantage GT3 of Matteo Villagomez, Christian Krognes and Anders Buchardt after their SP9 Pro-Am podium successes last time out where the crew secured both a class win and then a class second at the NLS 7 and NLS 8 double header weekend two weeks ago.

 

Forty GT3 cars and crews will be lining up for this weekend’s concluding round of the SRO GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup Series from Valencia with one Aston Martin Racing powered crew leading their way in class.

After previous rounds from Brands Hatch, Zandvoort, Misano and most recently from Magny-Cours, the #21 Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3 crew of Jamie Day and Kobe Pauwels enjoy a slender six points lead within their silver class championship going into this battle thanks to their double podium finish and pole position double in France last time out.

 

The Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie also started off this weekend from almost where it left off last season with another busy and action-packed round at the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife circuit.

This time a four-hour affair for the ADAC Westfalenfahrt NLS1race, one hundred and eighteen cars and crews participated over the whole multitude of GT to tin top classes available with three more notable Aston Martin Racing powered entries amongst them.

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.

 

Whilst the FIA WEC tick off their first of a two-day Prologue test today in Qatar, more images and news has been released over the course of the week regarding multiple Aston Martin Racing race programs for various teams around the world.

With the Heart of Racing already busy in Qatar with the first appearance of their fully homologated Aston Martin Valkyrie Hypercars and one Vantage LMGT3, the team has also been busy back home at the Apex Motor Club in Arizona testing with both the AMR Vantage GT3 and Vantage GT4 that they will run within this seasons GT World Challenge America and GT4 America Series.

 

Although the entry list suggests five, we believe there to be up to four Aston Martin Racing Vantage powered crews featuring within this weekend’s final round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Series from the Nurburgring Nordschleife.

Another four-hour round, this weekend will of course be strictly dependent upon there being raceable track conditions around the historical circuit after even rounds within the summer months have been hampered with things like lingering fog.

 

Just over one hundred and twenty mixed class racing cars will reconvene at the Nurburgring Nordschliefe on Saturday for the latest round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie after the previous round of the season there just over two months ago.

This weekend’s penultimate round of the NLS Series will be a four-hour affair will feature five Aston Martin Racing powered crews amongst the grid with crews again from both the Prosport Racing and Dorr Motorsport teams.

 

Three weeks after the unfortunate weather affected and shortened version of the ADAC Ravenol 24H Nurburgring, the next round of the Nordschleife Langstrecken Serie is now upon us from the infamous German circuit with another healthy line up of Aston Martin Racing powered entries.

Preparing for this Saturdays four hour and third round of the NLS series sees up to seven Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 and GT4 powered crews hope for some summer seasonal weather around the historic Nordschleife circuit after torrential rain and then fog blighted the 24H event earlier this month.