The NLS family is in for a great day of racing on Saturday, 23 April 2022, with interesting constellations and new top teams. 160 named racing cars make up a top-class field of participants in the 53rd Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy. At the third NLS race, everything that is highly popular with the fans will be at the start: from the popular Dacia Logan to the wacky SCG004c of the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and from RCN champion Dario Stanco to the reigning DTM champion Maximilian Götz. Of course, stars like cult rapper Smudo and YouTuber Felix van der Laden will not be missing either.

 
So there's a lot on offer when the racing cars set off on the four-hour distance through the Green Hell at 12 noon on Saturday. If that's not enough for you, you can experience hands-on motorsport at the Nürburgring Endurance Series: Tickets are available for a family-friendly 18 euros per person (children up to 14 years free) at www.vln.de/tickets. This not only takes you to the open grandstands at the Grand Prix circuit and the exclusive spectator areas Brünnchen and Pflanzgarten, but also to the paddock, the pit lane and the starting grid. A visit to the ring°werk, the motorsport experience museum at the Nürburgring, is also included in the ticket price.

Underdog meets visionary
It is the incredible diversity that makes the Nürburgring Endurance Series so appealing. 'Doom', Michael and Yannik Lachmayer start with their Dacia Logan in the SP3 class against strong competition. The opponents rely on Toyota GT86 and Renault Clio. At the other end of the performance scale, the retro-futuristic SCG004c from Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus shines. Initiated by automotive enthusiast James Glickenhaus from the USA, the small-series sports car clearly borrows from the Italian sports car classics of the late sixties. The SCG004c is piloted by Thomas Mutsch, Felipe Fernández Laser and Franck Mailleux.
On the driver's side, RCN champion Dario Stanco represents the typical amateur sportsman. With his Seat Leon, he won the RCN performance test on the Nürburgring Nordschleife last year. Together with his two brothers Armando and Luca, he is now entering the Seat in the NLS for the first time. Dario Stanco has gained experience in the Nordschleife championship in the past three years with TMG GT86. Opposite him is Maximilian Götz, who became the first GT3 champion in the "new" DTM last year. The 36-year-old will contest the Adenauer Rundstreckentrophy in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed together with Adam Christodoulou and Maro Engel. The trio is one of the strongest crews in the field and can have a say in the victory.

New top teams at the start of NLS3
For the first time this year, the British racing team TF Sport is taking part in the NLS. Marco Sørensen, David Pittard and Maxime Martin want to build on their victory in NLS8 last year with the Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Toksport WRT is making its debut in the NLS. The abbreviation WRT stands for World Rally Team. Nevertheless, the team based in Quiddelbach, not far from the Nürburgring, was also successful with Mercedes-AMG on the circuit in the past. Now they are switching to Porsche. Julien Andlauer, Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet - all experienced Nordschleife specialists - will pilot the Porsche 911 GT3 R at the premiere. For the first time this year, Octane 126 with the Ferrari 488 GT3 and ROWE RACING with two BMW M4 GT3 will do the honours in the Nürburgring Endurance Series. The GT3 class thus has a provisional total of 25 cars, which will almost certainly fight it out for victory.

Interesting constellations in the SP8T and SP-X classes
In the SP8T class, two BMW M4 GT4 Concepts are on the entry list. Entered by BMW M Motorsport and driven by Stef Dusseldorp and Jörg Weidinger in the #51 and Philipp Eng and Erik Johansson in the #54, the model designation G82 is the indicator that this is the successor to the BMW M4 GT4, which has been successful for years not only in the NLS but also in GT4 series worldwide. At the start in the SP-X are the two KTM X-Bow GT2s from True Racing. And the driver line-ups make one sit up and take notice: Ferdinand and Johannes Stuck alternate with Markus Palttala and Christian Menzel, the sister car is driven by Reinhard Kofler, Mads Siljehaug, Maximilian Hofer and Tim Heinemann.