The provisional NLS10 entry list: 118 cars and 19 GT3s for the season finale

Update, 8 October: the VLN has published a second provisional entry list. The two Max Kruse Racing Volkswagens move from the AT 3 class into SP3T, and Moritz Terhar is added to the number 446 Porsche Cayman. The total stays at 118 cars. The Dacia is not entered, and Ollis Garage Racing has confirmed it will be back in 2027.

The provisional entry list for the 2. NLS Sportwarte-Trophy is out, and 118 cars are entered for the tenth and final round of the Nürburgring Endurance Series on Saturday 10 October. That is 18 fewer than the 136 that were entered for NLS8. Nineteen of them are GT3s in SP9, five of those in the full-professional PRO category, and both crews still in the championship fight are on the list. RNT-Motorsports is at the Nürburgring for the finale. Below is the entry list in full, with SP9 broken out by category first and every other class collapsed underneath.

Falken arrives as the last winner, with a new name beside Heinemann

The number 44 Falken Motorsports Porsche won NLS9 on 13 September, a race that started dry and ended wet. Tim Heinemann and Morris Schuring beat the number 17 Dunlop Motorsport Porsche by 38.813 seconds, after Falken took a fifth pit stop with 15 minutes left and went back out on intermediates as the track got wet again. Our NLS9 race report has the full story.

For the finale the number 44 is entered for Tim Heinemann and Sven Müller. Schuring is not on the provisional list. Müller is also listed in the number 17 Dunlop Porsche alongside Nico Menzel, which is something the final list should clear up.

Five pro crews head a 19-car GT3 entry

Both title crews are entered

The championship is not decided in SP9. The number 650 Adrenalin Motorsport Team Mainhattan Wheels BMW M240i of Sven Markert, Edoardo Bugane and Yannick Fübrich leads on 94 points in the provisional standings after NLS9, four ahead of Alexander Fielenbach and Oskar Sandberg in the number 953 Smyrlis Racing Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 CS on 90. Both cars are on the list, the M240i in a ten-car class and the Cayman in a CUP3 field of 18. The VLN lists those standings as subject to the drop result, so the gap can still change before Saturday. Our title preview goes through what each crew needs.

No Bock Norris this time

One car that will be missed is not on the list. The number 300 Ollis Garage Racing Dacia Logan, the car with more people around it in the NLS9 paddock than most of the GT3s, is not entered for the finale. At NLS9 it started 104th on a grid of 109 and saw the flag in 89th. Read our NLS9 visit to the Ollis Garage Racing awning. The team has since confirmed it will not race on Saturday. In a message to RNT-Motorsports, Ollis Garage Racing wrote: “Nein wir sind nicht wie auch kommuniziert über sämtlichen Kanälen bei NLS 10 vertreten! Erst 2027 wieder, Budget verbraucht ;-)” In English: the Dacia is not at NLS10, as the team has said on all its channels, and it will be back in 2027 because this season’s budget has been used up.

Qualifying at 08:30, the race at noon

Saturday’s timetable, from the VLN’s timetable version 1 of 6 October. All times are local (CEST).

• 08:30 to 10:00: qualifying
• 10:30 to 11:30: pit walk and grid walk for spectators
• 12:00: start of the four-hour race
• 16:00: finish and podium
• Around 17:30: awards ceremony

Tickets and the rest of the weekend are in our schedule and tickets guide. On Saturday we follow the race in the RNT live blog, with results pages after qualifying and after the race.

Our hunch

Falken won the last race and is entered again, but with a different co-driver for Heinemann, and Schubert returns with Jordan Pepper and Tim Tramnitz after crashing out of NLS9 on lap seven. Our hunch is that the overall win goes to whoever reads the Eifel weather best, the way it did a month ago, and that the title stays a duel between the M240i and the Cayman until the last hour.

Falken won NLS9 in the rain. Who do you think will win on Saturday? Tell us in the comments.