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
#39 Walkenhorst Motorsport Vantage GT3 Evo – Henry Walkenhorst/Anders Buchardt/Nico Hantke/Mex Jansen
The events Qualification races are already in the bag from a few weeks ago when the NLS racing community also lost another one of their own when Juha Miettinen sadly passed away following a multi-car accident during the Saturday’s four-hour race.
Track action will begin on Thursday with five and a half hours of track time over two sessions before moving into Friday and the pinnacle of the race qualifying process in the afternoon.
After an hour long warm up session in the morning, the 2026 24hour race will be waved off at 15:00hours local.
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