Germany will be the venue of three significant race series this weekend as both the DTM and ADAC GT Masters Series pair up again at the Lausitzring whilst the NLS Series get back underway after their annual break for the ADAC Ravenol N24 event just a few weeks.
Whilst the total entry numbers may be now considered modest compared to others, there will of course be at least one Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3 powered crew within each as the Comtoyou Racing team again fields all three entries at the Lausitzring, it’s both the Walkenhorst Motorsport and Prosport Racing team doing the honours around the Nurburgring Nordschleife.
It’s the third round of the year for both the DTM and GT Masters runners and all three Comtoyou Racing AMR crews will be looking for more after a poor showing last time out around the coastal circuit of Zandvoort in the Netherlands.
Running solo as usual, the #007 car of Nicki Thiim and the #008 car of Nicolas Baert struggled to keep within the top ten at the end of both races (for Thiim) whilst Baert was again the last of those still running out of their twenty-car entry. It was a similar tail within the GT Masters Series for the #39 Vantage GT3 of Jamie Day and Baudouin Detout whose best result at Zandvoort was a P8 out of their entry of just fifteen cars.
Whilst the entry remains constant for DTM, the other series has seen a two car drop in numbers for this weekend.
Rounding things off in Germany will be the running of the sixth round of the 2026 Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie which sees about one hundred and ten cars listed ahead of Saturday’s four-hour race.
Now that the main event has now passed, we will just see the #35 Walkenhorst Motorsport SP9 Pro-Am entry of Mateo Villagomez, Christian Krognes and Dennis Fetzer alongside the #37 Prosport Racing SP9 Am class entry for father and son, Guido and Maxime Dumarey. Both crews will be looking to make amends to their DNF finishes at the twenty four hour race back in mid-May.
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