24 Hour Races 2027
Europe’s three biggest twice-around-the-clock races now have 2027 dates, and they fall inside five weeks of each other. Le Mans, Spa and the Nürburgring sit between the end of May and the end of June, which is the part of the year when anyone who works in endurance racing does not go on holiday.
The 2027 dates
| Race | Date | Circuit |
|---|---|---|
| ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring | 27-30 May 2027 | Nürburgring, Germany |
| 24 Hours of Le Mans | 9-13 June 2027 | Circuit de la Sarthe, France |
| CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa | 24-27 June 2027 | Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium |
Le Mans runs its 95th edition
The Automobile Club de l’Ouest has set the 95th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans for 9 to 13 June 2027, with the race itself the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship season. The five-day window covers scrutineering in the town, practice and qualifying, and the race weekend.
Spa moves to the end of June
The CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa takes place on 24-27 June 2027. It is round four of the GT World Challenge Europe season and the centrepiece of the Endurance Cup, and it is billed by its organisers as the biggest GT3 race in the world.
The Nürburgring goes first, and keeps its build-up
The ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring is set for 27 to 30 May 2027, opening the run of three. ADAC Nordrhein had intended to build a new 24h Nürburgring Series around the race from next season, five events on the combined Grand Prix and Nordschleife layout. On 11 September the organiser postponed that series by a year, to 2028, after talks with the NLS, the teams’ association ILN and the DMSB.
The individual events around the main race still run. The 24h Nürburgring Prologue is set for 2 to 4 April 2027 and the 24h Qualifiers, two four-hour races, for 30 April to 2 May, four weeks before the 24 Hours itself.
The full build-up, from the test days to the race, is on our 24h Nürburgring 2027 page.
Five weeks that decide a lot of seasons
Both of the championships that feed these grids have published their 2027 dates: the GT World Challenge Europe calendar and the NLS calendar. From 27 May to 27 June a driver could, in theory, contest all three. Plenty will try. The Nürburgring and Spa fields overlap heavily on GT3 machinery and on the drivers who make a living in it, and Le Mans sits between them with a different set of cars and the same set of mechanics under pressure. For teams running in more than one of the three, the middle of 2027 is the part of the calendar that gets planned first and argued about last.
The full 2027 schedules: WEC 2027 calendar, NLS 2027 calendar and GT World Challenge Europe 2027 calendar.