Over 120 cars are entered for both rounds of this weekend’s Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie double-header, which will feature a four-hour race on both Saturday and Sunday.
Saturday’s NLS8, the 65th ADAC Reinoldus-Langstreckenrennen, has 136 entries, whilst 121 cars are set to contest NLS9, the 66th ADAC ACAS Cup, the following day.
For NLS8, 22 cars are entered into the top SP9 category, with seven of them in SP9 Pro.
Mercedes-AMG Team Ravenol, winner of the most recent NLS round, will field its #80 Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO for Fabian Schiller and Jay Mo Härtling, with a further Pro AMG coming from KCMG for Naoya Gamou and Kamui Kobayashi.
Schnabl Engineering has entered both of its Porsche 911 GT3 Rs (992.2), with Nico Menzel and Flynt Schuring set to share its Dunlop-branded #17 entry, with the #44 Falken machine being piloted by Tim Heinemann and Morris Schuring.
The Pro field is completed by the #54 Dinamic GT Porsche of Loek Hartog and Michael Christensen, the #64 HRT Ford Racing Mustang GT3 Evo of Vincent Kolb and Frank Stippler, and the #77 Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3 Evo of Jens Klingmann, Jordan Pepper and Ugo de Wilde.
Schubert Motorsport can wrap up the SP9 Pro teams’ title this weekend, with its #77 BMW currently 63 points clear of the #80 Mercedes-AMG.
Eight cars will run in SP9 Pro-Am, and seven in SP9 Am.
The SP9 Pro-Am field includes a pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo IIs making their first start of 2026, from Team-RaceIng and Car Collection Motorsport respectively.
The #14 Team-RaceIng Audi will be driven by Leonidas Karavasili, Samuel Harrison and Miika pant, whilst Florian Spengler, Nico Hantke and Christer Jöns will pilot the #22 Car Collection Motorsport entry.
Peter Schmidt, Car Collection Motorsport team principal, said: “The Audi remains an extremely competitive car for us, one with which we have a great deal of experience on the Nordschleife, and we would like to add another project on the Nürburgring Nordschleife to our racing programme next year.
“We are currently working to ensure that next year – alongside our Porsche programmes – we can complete the full season on the Nordschleife with an Audi. What makes this particularly attractive is that the car is one of the most cost-effective GT3 cars, yet remains one of the fastest cars on the Nordschleife.”
Four further GT3 cars, all of them Audis, will compete in the AT1 class for cars powered by alternative fuels.
Elsewhere, 13 Autosport IMSA GTD teammates Orey Fidani and Lars Kern will race the #181 Manthey Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS in SP10, as Fidani works towards his Permit A license.
2025 British GT GT4 runner-up Ravi Ramyead will drive the #661 BMW M240i Racing Cup, and three-time iRacing world champion Joshua Rogers, who has already won five races in Porsche Sprint Challenge Great Britain in his first year of ‘real-world’ racing, is listed against SRS Team Sorg Rennsport’s #899 BMW M2 Racing.
For NLS9, a smaller 20-car SP9 grid features six cars in Pro and seven each in Pro-Am and Am, with four AT1 entries once again joining.
Notably, the #80 Mercedes-AMG is absent, whilst the #47 KCMG Mercedes-AMG will feature an alternative line-up of Nirei Fukuzumi and Sho Tsuboi, and Loris Cabirou will join the #54 Porsche crew.
Fidani and Kern will swap to SP-Pro, racing the #13 Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 RS CS M, and three GT World Challenge Europe regulars will work towards their Permit A. Ignacio Montenegro and Antoine Doquin will drive the #653 Adrenalin Motorsport Team Mainhattan Wheels BMW M240i Racing Cup, with Robin Knutsson running in the #970 BSL Racing Team Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS.
NLS8 will take place on Saturday 12th September, with NLS9 following on Sunday 13th September. Both four-hour races will begin at 12:00 CEST.
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