A four-hour double header around the Nurburgring Nordschleife is the beckoning call for well over one hundred multi-classed crews this weekend as the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie ramps up the temperature towards the end of its 2026 season.

Rounds eight and nine of the season will witness one hundred and thirty-six crews take to the track on for Saturday’s four-hour race whilst a more modest in comparison one hundred and twenty- one cars and crews will do likewise for Sunday’s four-hour race.

 

Within that number we do welcome back the ‘mostly’ full season entries from both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing Aston Martin Racing powered teams as well as an AMR Vantage GT4 powered crew for the first time in a while.

The #35 Walkenhorst SP9 Pro-Am entry of Christian Krognes, Mateo Villagomez and Dennis Fetzer are back together again looking to avenge their DNF last time out within the six-hour NLS 7 event after they had secured both overall pole position and a P3 finish in class at the round before that.

 

Within the #37 Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT3 entry, it will again be the father and son pairing of Maxime and Guido Dumarey after they also struggled in NLS 7 but also secured a P3 finish within their SP9 Am class before that.

The only change to the norm this weekend is the inclusion of the #175 Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT4 entry for the first time since the 24Hrs which will run a split crew across the weekend. For Saturday it will be both Robb Holland and Jacques Derenne whilst on Sunday it will be Derenne and Jean-Luc Behets – competing within the SP10 class on both dates.

Photo credits – Teams / Eric Metzner

 

 

 

 

 

After three more Qualifying sessions around the Nurburgring Nordschleife, the starting grid ahead of tomorrow’s start of the 2026 ADAC Ravenol N24 has finally been determined.

Despite running higher up the order in earlier sessions, the best that any of the four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 and one Vantage GT4 powered runners was just outside of the top ten within the combined total grid of one hundred and sixty-one cars.

 

With the three Walkenhorst Motorsport and one Prosport Racing crews already having faced some very challenging but very typical track conditions, it was unsurprisingly the #34 Walkenhorst car of Mattia Drudi, Nicki Thiim, Christian Krognes and Felipe Fernandez Laser who will be started farthest forward after they secured a P11 start at the end of today’s earlier top 12 Q3 session.

The sister #35 Walkenhorst AMR of Mateo Villagomez, Dennis Fetzer, Stafan Aust and a double dutying Laser were next quickest as they finished the qualifying process with a P23 with the third and final Walkenhorst entry of Henry Walkenhorst, Anders Buchardt, Nico Hantke and Mex Jansen P32 overall.

 

The #39 Am classed Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT3 of Guido Dumarey, Tobias Wahl, Markus Lonnroth and Christian Konnerth P43 overall.

There is a further AMR Vantage crew competing at the event this weekend, this time within the SP10 class as the Dorr Motorsport team manage of their cars for their client crew of Peter Sander, Heiko Hahn, Roland Waschkau and Philippe Charlaix within their #169 car. They will start 106th overall.

 

Whilst the racing will always be good, the weather over the Eiffel circuit remains the biggest threat with low cloud cover as well as low temperatures expected to exacerbate the expected rain over both Saturday and Sunday.

The race will be waved off at 15:00hrs local on Saturday.

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It’s time to gear ourselves up ahead of the first of the three major twenty-four-hour racing events in Europe as the ADAC Ravenol N24 looks to get going this week featuring another incredible entry list of one hundred and sixty-one mixed class GT and tin-top racers this weekend around the infamous Nurburgring Nordschleife.

 

Again featuring itself as the second round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge as a ‘side show’ to the racing event in itself, we will be looking to the front of the grid – within the SP9 class to be specific where we will be welcoming four Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered crews to its midst.

 

Like many of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie events before it, all four AMR powered entries will be from both the Prosport Racing and Walkenhorst Motorsport teams as they enter their older and newer examples of the Vantage platform within the class.

Those crews are confirmed as follows:-

#34 Walkenhorst Motorsport AMR Vantage GT3 Evo – Nicki Thiim/Chirstian Krognes/ Matia Drudi/Felipe Fernandez Laser

#35 Walkenhorst Motorsport Vantage GT3 Evo – Mateo Villagomez/Felipe Fernandez Laser/Dennis Fetner/Stefan Aust

 

 

 

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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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.

Photo credit – Eric Metzner

 

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

It was a job well done by the four Aston Martin Racing powered teams over the course of the two back-to-back Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie races at the weekend that saw five class podium finishes between them.

Running as rounds seven and eight of the ten round 2025 season, the one hundred plus strong multi-classed entry saw Vantage GT3’s and GT4’s entered by both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams.

The qualification sessions for this weekend’s ADAC Ravenol 24H Nurburgring from the Nurburgring Nordschleife are now over after its earlier delay and it’s been a great showing from the four Aston Martin Raving Vantage GT3 crews competing within the top-flight SP9 Pro classes.

With the Walkenhorst Motorsport team putting up three of those entries and the locally based Prosport Racing team the fourth, all have qualified their cars comfortably within the top twenty ahead of tomorrow’s wave off.

One hundred and nine mixed class cars and crews will line up at the Nurburgring Nordschleife for this weekend’s N24 Qualifiers with six Aston Martin Racing powered GT3 or GT4 crews amongst them.

Just four weeks splits this weekend before the main event of the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring where both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams will represent the AMR brand with their respective GT3 and GT4 entries.

Many of these drivers have already been involved with the full season NLS Series entries for either team but this weekend’s two, four-hour races over both Saturday and Sunday will see many of these teams run a split driver line up for their full season NLS obligations as well as a change in class for one such crew this weekend. Expected crews within the N24 itself will differ again with possibly up to five drivers per entry.

Today’s published entry list sees the Walkenhorst team enter three GT3 cars within the SP9 class as well a one Vantage GT4 within the SP10 class whilst the locally based Prosport Racing team field two such Vantage GT4’s within that class.

#30 Walkenhorst AMR Vantage GT3 (SP9) – Henry Walkenhorst / Jorgg Breuer

#34 Walkenhorst AMR Vantage GT3 (SP9) – Christian Krognes / David Pittard

#35 Walkenhorst AMR Vantage GT3 (SP9) – Oliver Soderstrom / Chrisitian Bollrath

#37 Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT3 (SP9) – Steven Palette / Marek Bockmann / Nico Bastian

#74 Walkenhorst AMR Vantage GT4 (SP10) – Aris Balanian / Joshua Hansen

#175 Prosport Racing AMR Vantage GT4 (SP10) – Yannik Himmels / Michel Albers / Jorg Viebahn



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Saturday’s fourth round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie saw five Aston Martin Racin crews take to the infamous Nordschleife for another four-hour race as either part of their full season effort or in practice for other 24-hour races coming up in the calendar.

This time around, it was two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s plus a Vantage GT4 from the Walkenhorst Motorsport team whilst the locally based Prosport Racing team entered the SP10 and SP8T Vantage GT4’s.

 

The Nurburgring-Nordschleife did its usual ‘thing’ yesterday with the penultimate running of the 2024 Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie (nee VLN Series) around the infamous circuit.

Featuring within the one hundred and twenty odd multi-classed entries for Saturday’s four-hour affair were again five Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 or (mainly) GT4 powered crews from the locally based Prosport Racing and Dorr Motorsport stables.

 

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.