As it happened for the final qualifying session before the 2026 N24.

HWA Engineering will be entering this weekends Nürburgring 24 Hours with not one, not two, but three HWA EVO R's.

Saugmotoren Motorsport and WIS Racing Team powered by Koopman are each taking a 2013 edition of the BMW Z4 GT3 to the Nürburgring Nordschlife this weekend. And it isn't just for a test or a demo run, they're taking on the world's best GT3 racers in the 13 year old machinery.

A total of 161 cars will take on the Nürburgring Nordschlife next month for the 2026 edition of the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

Ferrari narrowly beat BMW to pole position at the Nurburgring 24h Qualifiers for Race 2.

66-year old Juha Miettinen has sadly passed away in a NLS crash.

Race one of the NLS 24h Qualifiers has been ''suspended until further notice'' by the race officials due to a horrific seven car pile-up early on.

The 24h Qualifiers are the fourth and fifth rounds of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS), the first double header of the year. This time the 24h layout will be used, so the AMG Arena will be skipped and cars will take a hard left immediately turn one, then complete the remainder of the Grand Prix circuit rather than use the usual Sprintstrecke version.

By pitting early in the opening stint, Schubert Motorsport's gamble paid off and the No.77 BMW crossed the line first after four hours of extremely hard fought GT3 racing on the Nürburgring.

Marco Wittmann is leading the third round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) at the two hour mark, having pit early with the No.77 Schubert Motorsport BMW to offset their strategy.

Pittard's No.47 KCMG Mercedes stayed fastest, the Japanese driver will share the pole sitting car with Jesse Krohn, Edoardo Liberati and Kamui Kobayashi. The No.77 Schubert motorsport BMW of Marco Wittmann, Phillip Eng and Robin Frijns will take the second spot on the front row, from the No.33 KKrämer Racing Audi.

The 57th running of the Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy will take place this weekend with 139 cars split across 23 different classes. The class with the most attention is SP9, where regulated GT3 cars race with some of sportscar's finest drivers. The class is split into Pro, Pro-Am and Am depending on the driver's ratings.

Although he was not planning on it, the cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Grands Prix has allowed Verstappen to race in the two Nürburgring 24h Qualifying events on the 18th and 19th April with Lucas Auer.

Max Verstappen, Jules Gounon and Daniel Juncadella crossed the line to win NLS 2 in dominant fashion earlier today, but they have been disqualified this evening, having used more tyres than permitted.

The No.3 Winward Verstappen.com Mercedes driven by Max Verstappen, Daniel Juncadella and Jules Gounon has dominated NLS 3, finishing over a minute ahead of the No.99 ROWE BMW and the No.44 Falken Porsche in second and third.

The No.3 Verstappen.com Mercedes went to the top of the timing board, as Daniel Juncadella set a lap time in the low eight minutes. Verstappen jumped in the car after his teammate, but his run was disrupted when a code 60 came out to clear a crashed Porsche Cayman.

Max Verstappen will race at the Nürburgring this weekend.

The opening round of the NLS takes place this Saturday.

The No.911 will be piloted by two of its regulars: Kévin Estre and Ayhancan Güven. Neither driver needs any introduction, Estre has won the Nürburgring 24h once in the past, and nearly repeated it with Güven last year, but a penalty was added to their finishing time which dropped the car to second.