No.632 'YouTuber' Porsche quickest in Q3 as class poles decided for N24

Credit: Luna Maas

Class pole positions

AT2: No.632 Black Falcon Porsche Cup - 26th overall

BMW: No.898 Walkenhorst Motorsport BMW M2 Racing - 107th overall

BMW 325i: No.100 Pistorious BMW 325i - 100th overall

BMW M240i: No.195 Adrenalin Motorsport BMW M240i - 93rd overall

Cup 2: No.918 Mulhner Motorsports Porsche Cup 2 - 28th overall

Cup 3: No.962 W&S Motorsport Porsche 718 Cayman - 58th overall

SP 10: No.888 Hofor Racing BMW M4 GT4 - 49th overall

SP 2T: No.109 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR Yaris - 94th overall

SP 3: No.277 Ravenol Motorsport 318ti (E36) - 160th overall

SP 3T: No.10 Max Kruse Racing VW Golf GTi - 99th overall

SP 4: No.152 Oepen Motors BMW 325 CI - 159th overall

SP 4T: No.50 Max Kruse Racing VW Golf GTi - 53rd overall

SP 7: No.91 Reiter Engineering Porsche 911 GT3 Cup - 50th overall

SP 8T: No.59 Dörr Motorsport McLaren Artura Trophy Evo - 77th overall

TCR: No.830 Hyundai Motorsport Elantra N TCR - 45th overall

V5: No.444 Adrenalin Motorsport Porsche Cayman - 119th overall

V6: No.448 Overtake Racing Porsche Cayman S - 97th overall

VT2 Front: No.480 Dupre Motorsport Audi S3 - 113th overall

VT2 Hecke: No.500 Adrenalin Motorsport BMW 330i - 111th overall

Finally after six and a half hours worth of qualifying across Thursday and Friday morning, some pole positions would be decided for the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Not the overall pole though, that was to be saved for Top Qualifying 3.

This session was for all of the cars that were not eligible for Top Qualifying 1, so all cars except the cars in the SP9, AT1, SP-X and SP-Pro classes. Everyone else would have a final 65 minute session to improve on their times from Q1 and Q2 yesterday, to put themselves in the best position for the race tomorrow.

With no SP9 or SP-X cars in this session, it was a nice way to spotlight all of the many other classes that compete in this race.

Top of all the cars circulating in this session early on was Manuel Metzger in the No.632 AT2 Porsche Cup car. That car notable for being driven by YouTubers Jimmy Broadbent, Steve Brown (SuperGT) and Misha Charoudin.

Their main competitor in class was about 15 seconds slower, but that No.320 Porsche Cup car slowed right down on the Döttinger and had to pull into the service road on the straight. The No.524 SRS Toyota Supra in VT2 Hecke was also slow at the same time, further down the straight.

The No.899 W&S Motorsport BMW M2 Racing car in the BMW class had a very scary moment at the Flugplatz. The car went wide and off into the outside barrier of the very high speed corner, colliding side on and almost flipping onto it's side. The car then came to a rest on the opposite side of the road.

Around the halfway point of the session, the Nordschlife's climate struck again. The rain started falling in parts, so improvements were practically made impossible.

No more improvements were made even as the rain eased off, the track was simply too wet for it. So the session finished as it was, with all the class poles decided.