29.06.2026
Superb championship battles to resume at penultimate event of the 2026 Season. Three down, two to go, and what a race meeting the Michelin 24H SERIES European Series has in store just one week from now when the championship makes a very welcome return to Germany for the maiden Michelin 12H NÜRBURGRING.
• Business end of 2026 season arrives with penultimate race just one week away• New Michelin 12H NÜRBURGRING marks fourth event of star five round series• Red-hot GT3 championship led by GetSpeed Team PCX Racing Mercedes-AMG • Class battles all set to deliver equally competitive and unpredictable action• Watch everything LIVE on YouTube next weekend at Creventic Motorsports TV
With the outright standings in GT3 finely poised and the majority of the various class battles also red-hot, round four of the five race season – across 3/4/5 July at Nürburgring Grand Prix Circuit – will almost certainly have a vital role to play in the outcome of this year’s spectacular championship.Driver line-ups are mostly confirmed for the 30 car entry and with next weekend marking the first ever visit of the Creventic organised series to the Rhineland-Palatinate track, the form book can be thrown out of the window with so many unknowns. Will the two-part 12-hour race deliver a fourth different winning team and manufacturer of the season?Aiming to stay atop the overall GT3 standings as well as the GT3 PRO-AM championship will be Nürburgring-based Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO squad GetSpeed Team PCX Racing. The No.28 car will be raced next weekend by the trio of Benjamin Paque, Jordan Boisson, Patrick Charlaix and Mikhaël Grenier.HOFOR Racing claimed a magnificent outright win and also GT3-AM class victory in the Michelin 12H PAUL RICARD and has therefore moved to within just six points of fellow Mercedes squad GetSpeed. After missing the previous round, Chantal Prinz returns to team-up with husband Alexander Prinz and also her father Michael Kroll, along with mainstay Torsten Kratz.Three other Mercedes-AMGs will be on the round four grid with GetSpeed’s second car, the Team JR286 entry, featuring Patrick Liddy, Tanner Harvey, Jonathan Hirshberg and Steve Jans. Malaysia’s Viper Niza Racing has confirmed its regular trio of Melvin Moh, Douglas Khoo and Dominic Ang.
Third in the overall GT3 standings. Ajith RedAnt Racing, will be determined to continue their very consistent season in the same vein with regular quartet Kobe de Breucker, brothers Yannick and Ayrton Redant and global entertainment icon, Tamil actor Ajith Kumar.Tied for second in GT3 with HOFOR Racing is the lead Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II of Sainteloc Junior Team, winners of the season-opening Michelin 12H MUGELLO. Pierre Kaffer, Michael Doppelmayr, Elia Erhart, Stephane Tribaudini and Ernst Inderbitzin will race the car at the Nürburgring,Audi squad Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport has so far named Vasily Vladykin and Paul Scheushner, while Juta Racing’s Audi R8 will be shared by Lutz Obermann, most familiar for his racing in the TCE-TCX class, Andres Latorre, Leonardas Dirzys and an unconfirmed fourth driver. HAAS RT’s father and son Peter and Nicolas Guelinckx will race an as-yet un-named car.Four more manufacturers will be part of the rich GT3 tapestry, with Proton Competition’s Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) EVO to be raced by last season’s Drivers’ Champion Manuel Lauck, Constantin Dressler, Jörg Dreisow and Joel Sturm. New team Up2Race will debut with a similar Porsche which will be driven by Oleksiy Kikireshko, Tim Heinemann and Fabio Grosse.Two ‘Prancing Horses’ will be on the grid, Era Motorsport’s latest edition Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO of Dwight Merriman, Oliver Bryant, Ryan Dalziel and Jake Hill, and the Ferrari 296 GT3 of Pellin Racing who have named Lisa Clark, Kyle Marcelli, Jeff Westphal Massimo Perrina.Bolstering the incredible flavour of GT3 will be the E2P Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 EVO raced by Pablo Burguera, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos, plus ARC Bratislava’s Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO piloted by brothers Matej and Adam Konopka alongside their father Miroslav and Zdeno Mikulasko.
Battle royal expected in hugely competitive 992 classWith only two races still to go in this year’s campaign, there really is everything to play for in the always entertaining 992 class. Following the first two rounds of the season Mühlner Motorsport were leading comfortably after winning at Mugello and also Spa-Francorchamps, and its No.921 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992 I) will feature Conrad Tox Leveau, Martin Rump and Joshua Bednarski. Last time out in France though, chief challengers Red Camel-Jordans.nl took an overdue victory and so have closed to within 16 points. At the Nürburgring, the No.909 Porsche will be raced by the usual quartet of Fabian Danz, brothers Luc and Rik Breukers and their father Ivo.Seblajoux Racing’s two cars are just outside the 992 top three, the No.888 will be driven by Sebastien Lajoux himself, Stephane Perrin, Anthony Vince and Louis Perrot, while the line-up for the No.910 features Lionel Amrouche and Enzo Joulié. In the 992-AM class, the No.888 could very well take the series lead.Reigning champions in 992, RPM Racing, have confirmed Tracy Krohn, Niclas Jönsson and Philip Hamprecht, Chazel Technologie Course’s No.920 car will be raced by Jean-Paul Dominici, Antoni de Barn and Jean-Mathieu Leandri and the Van Berlo Motorsport by CP Motorsport entry is set to comprise Marcel van Berlo, his son Glenn and Bart van Helden.Fresh from their 992-AM class win at Circuit Paul Ricard, Steven Gambrell, Igor Sorokin and Jonathan Kearney will aim high in round four for HRT Performance, and the MM Racing car of the Meurrens brothers, Mick, Tom and Steve, will make its second appearance of the season. Mühlner is also set to compete with a second car, No.904, with Rolando Saca and Silvain Pastoris so-far confirmed.
Michelin 24H SERIES European Series welcomes a new team to the GTX class, KEO Racing, which will field a Ligier JS2 RS piloted by Adrian Kunzle and Kevin Madsen. In the GT4 class, Bonk Motorsport makes its first outing of the season with Michael Bonk, Martin Kroll and Claudia Hürtgen sharing its BMW M4 GT4 EVO (G82). With a week to go, three cars are expected in TCE-TCX with Germany's asBest Racing. The team's No.102 SEAT Leon Cup Racer has a slim four point lead in the standings and Pia Ohlsson will be joined by Michael Neuhauser. asBest has listed Silas Passos, Alexandre Dante and Cesar Fonseca to drive its Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS (982), while the line-up of the squad's Cupra TCR DSG is yet to be confirmed.
Following the CR Track Days at the Nürburgring on Wednesday, 1 July, and Thursday, 2 July, free practice will get underway on Friday, 3 July, prior to qualifying – starting at 15.25 local time with three sessions for the 992, GTX, GT4 and TCE-TCX classes. Following those will be three sessions for the GT3 contenders, beginning at 16.35.The opening six hours of the race will start at 12.00 local time on Saturday, 4 July, with the second part of the encounter launching at midday on Sunday, 5 July. Live coverage of qualifying and racing will be streamed at Creventic Motorsports TV on YouTube, and supporting race action will come from Creventic’s Prototype Cup Europe and Radical Cup Europe.
Words - Marc Orme , Images - Nico Mombaerts
