Schedule 2024: NES signs contract with Nürburgring

A milestone for the new Nürburgring Endurance Series of the Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD): the schedule for the inaugural NES season 2024 has been finalised! From March to November, the Nürburgring has made five event dates available for four Friday/Saturday events and one so-called 'double-header' from Friday to Sunday. The underlying contract between Nürburgring 1927 GmbH & Co. KG and Nürburgring Endurance Serie GmbH was signed on Friday, 26 January.

The five event dates are nicely spread out over the entire season at the iconic racetrack in the Eifel: the new racing series gets underway on 22/23 March with the next race dates in in two-month intervals on 3/4 May and 5/6 July. The new NES will have its first major highlight during the weekend from 13 to 15 September. On 8/9 November, the NES event serves as the season finale on the equally popular and legendary Nordschleife.

• NES 1 : 22-23 march
• NES 2 : 3-4 may
• NES 3 : 5-6 july
• NES 4 : 13-15 september
• NES 5 : 8-9 november

The Nürburgring Endurance Series kicks off its season with a warm-up on 22 and 23 March. On these days, the 24.358 kilometres long Nürburgring configuration of the Nordschleife and the sprint circuit is available on Friday and Saturday morning for the teams for extensive test, set-up and race taxi runs. Three races on the sprint circuit, one for each of the car divisions, including a mandatory pit stop, follow on Saturday afternoon. In the new NES, production cars, improved production cars and pure race cars are each combined in a division. “With this warm-up event, not only do we give all the teams a lot of track time, but also the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the NES with new regulations and new staff,” NES managing director Ralph-Gerald Schlüter explains. “In the three races of the new divisions, teams and we can acquire valuable experience, also concerning safety aspects, related to the performance classes."

"It was only on 6 January that we got the green light. A week ago we were able to present the key aspects of the NES to almost 90 representatives from teams, industry and sponsors during the kick-off meeting, on Monday we were finally able to submit the regulations to the Deutscher Motor Sport Bund and today we are presenting the schedule - the NES is going from strength to strength," says Lutz Leif Linden, secretary general of the AvD, Germany's most traditional automobile club, summarising the decisive steps of the past three weeks and announces: "We at the AvD continue to push so that teams, drivers, fans and all interested parties can experience an exciting inaugural season of the NES. "