Race Highlights
IGTC Points
The dramas of the penalty-affected final result at the 2025 Nürburgring 24 Hours didn’t only impact the race result, it also has an impact on the Intercontinental GT Challenge points tally.
The win for the #98 ROWE Racing BMW M4 GT3 Evo saw BMW’s only top class entry triumph, the 21st overall win at the N24 for BMW and BMW’s fourth straight IGTC triumph and second of the season after Bathurst in February.
It was a first IGTC win though for the M4 GT3 in Evo spec.
Whilst Porsche missed out on victory, it did collect second and third place IGTC manufacturers’ points courtesy of Dinamic, which climbed up the order throughout Sunday’s running.
Amongst those that the #54 Porsche overhauled were the two luckless Mercedes AMGs from GetSpeed, both of which fell victim to issues. The #14 car retired with a drivetrain problem in the early hours before the #17 suffered front left suspension damage that prevented it from continuing competitively. Nevertheless, it still completed enough distance to score sixth place manufacturers’ points with a final lap at the end, and restarted to make that lap in fine form!
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Instead, it was the #11 Pro-Am car entered by SR Motorsport by Schnitzelalm that collected the bulk of Affalterbach’s points. 13th overall represented a remarkable turnaround for Kenneth Heyer, Jay Härtling, Jannes Fittje and Christopher Brück whose car had to be recovered on a flatbed after shedding a wheel just before the early red flag period, the red flag likely saving the team’s race.
Its cause was aided by the sole Ferrari retiring with three-and-a-half hours to go after the #45 car, which had led before the Red Flag, was eliminated in a late race accident. It did though score fifth in IGTC’s manufacturer result after covering more than 70% of the winner’s laps.
In the drivers standings Kelvin van de Line and Augusto Farfus sit on a maximum 50 points ahead of Raffaelle Marciello (who finished second at Bathurst) on 43.
Ayunchen Güven is third on 26, the sole non-BMW pilot in the top 6 with Jesse Krohn and Sheldon van de Line both on 25.
In the Manufacturers standings BMW lead with 68 points from Mercedes AMG and Porsche both on 45. Ferrari is on 28.
License Losing
No fewer than eight drivers who took part in the Nürburgring 24 Hours either had their adventures curtailed with action to withdraw their racing license and/ or Ring Permit.
Three drivers reached, or exceeded the maximum number of penalty points during the event and immediately lost their license:
- Nathanel Berthon (#776 TCR Goroyan RT by Sharky Racing – Audi RS3 LMS) reached maximum penalty points
- Bjorn Griesemann (#718 AT2 Manthey Racing Team eFuel Griesemann – Porsche 718 Cayman) reached max penalty points
- Jan Jaap van Roon (#927 Cup2 Max Kruse racing Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) exceeded max penalty points
Five further drivers had their permits withdrawn after major Code 60 zone infractions. This included two drivers from the same (#904) car!:
- Kai Riemer (#904 Cup2 Mühlner Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup)- 7 x code 60 speed infractions in one single hour
- Michael Schmidt (#320 AT2 Four Motors Bioconcept-Car Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) – 169 km/h in a code 60
- Nils Schwent (#70 SP7 BLACK FALCON Team ZIMMERMANN Porsche 718 Cayman) – 137 km/h in a code 60
- Fabine Wohlwend (#146 AT3 GITI TIRE MOTORSPORT BY WS RACING BMW M4 GT4) – 148 km/h in a code 60
- Antal Zsigo (#904 Cup2 Mühlner Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) – 210 km/h in a code 60
