Past Winners Marc Lieb and Bernd Schneider are both busy in the paddock in their respective roles with Porsche Customer Racing and Mercedes AMG.
Romain Dumas has the possibility of becoming the fourth five-time winner of the race, joining Timo Bernhard, Pedro Lamy and Marcel Tiemann whilst Markus Winkelhock could join Dumas on four alongside Marc Duez, Marc Lieb, Fritz Müller and Peter Zakowski.
Volker Strycek could close to within one class win of the 1970-2018 record of 16 class wins held by Heinz-Josef Bermes if he brings the #122 Opel Manta home to an SP3 win.
There’s no shortage of drivers who are in back to back action from the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend.
The WTCR tripe header here sees Andy Priaulx in action, with Yann Ehrlacher who raced in the Road To Le Mans curtain-raiser.
Both Augusto Farfus and Nicky Catsburg will race both in the WTCR races and the main N24, and there are 26 others that are doing the back to back 24 Hour race weekends!
All eight of the drivers in the two lead Manthey Racing Porsches raced for the factory team at Le Mans including newly confirmed World GT Drivers Champions Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen who are joined by Le Mans team-mate Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber in the #911.
The #1 car sees the defending N24 Champions Richard Lietz, Fred Makowiecki, Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy combine once again.
Jeroen Bleekemolen (#5 Phoenix Audi), Dennis Olsen & Matteo Cairoli (#12 Manthey Porsche), Marcel Fassler (#14 Car Collection Audi), Renger van der Zande (#16 GetSpeed AMG), Thomas Preining (#30 Frikadelli Porsche), Romain Dumas, Matt Campbell, Sven Müller and Matthieu Jaminet (#31 Frikadelli Porsche), Darren Turner (#36 AMR Performance Vantage), Alex Brundle (#37 AMR Performance Vantage), Matthieu Vaxiviere (#39 KCMG Nissan), Jörg Bergmister (#44 Falken Porsche), Jonathan Hirschi (#55 Octane 126 Ferrari), Philipp Eng (#98 Rowe BMW), Jesse Krohn (#99 Rowe BMW), and Rahel Frey (#148 Giti Tire Audi).
Mikkel Jensen, Pierre Kaffer and Yannick Mettler took part in the Road to Le Mans and will race in the N24.
