A class win taken away at scrutineering, and a podium lost in the barriers at the Nurburgring

Two things happened to the women in the Nürburgring double header that are worth putting next to each other. One team crossed the line first in its class and did not get to keep it. One driver was running second in hers with the end of the race in sight, and watched the car go into the barriers with somebody else at the wheel. We were at the circuit for both days, and neither of those results made the headlines.

Girls Only crossed the line first in AT2, and the car did not pass scrutineering

The Girls Only entry, run by Giti Tire Motorsport by WS Racing, took the AT2 class win in Saturday’s race with Janina Schall, Fabienne Wohlwend and Chloe Chong sharing the car. It lasted as long as the technical inspection afterwards.

According to the reporting of Racers Behind the Helmet, which followed the female entries across both days, the car was disqualified because aerodynamic flicks were missing from the front end. The team has not commented publicly on it, and we have not seen a statement from the organisers, so treat the reason as reported rather than confirmed.

What is not in doubt is the result on the road. An all female crew was quickest in its class over four hours of the Nordschleife, and that part does not get undone by a scrutineering sheet.

Carrie Schreiner was second in class when the Audi went into the barriers

Schreiner spent the weekend in the number 18 Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II of équipe vitesse, in the AT1 class. On Saturday the car was running second in class and inside the overall top twenty when it ended against the barriers in the closing stages, with her co-driver Alexander Kroker at the wheel.

That is the Nordschleife. Four hours of work, three drivers, and it goes away in the part of the lap nobody is filming. The team’s own account of the weekend is straightforward about it and thanks her for the three races she drove for them this season.

Sunday paid part of it back

The same car took third in AT1 on Sunday, in conditions that were considerably worse. Schreiner started the race and had a run of close fighting in the opening phase before rain arrived and the team switched to wet tyres.

Third in class in a mixed conditions race on that circuit is a proper result. It is also the kind that disappears from the reports, because on Sunday the story everybody wrote was about the overall win.

Koyama, Bochen, Thomas, and a longer list than people assume

The names run well beyond the two headline stories. Miki Koyama took second in the SP10 class on Saturday in the Toyota GT4 and was fifth on Sunday. Viktoria Bochen finished third in the BMW 325i Cup in her first race of the season. Katja Thomas won the V3 class, which came with the caveat that she was the only entry in it. Flavia Pellegrino Fernandes was fifth in VT2 on Saturday in the Golf and retired in Sunday’s rain.

On Sunday, Siri Hökfelt took fourth in the number 652 BMW and Elena Egger fourth in the number 502. Hökfelt summed up the afternoon better than a results sheet can: “The race was chaotic with half the track dry and the other half full wet, very difficult to find a good rhythm.”

Half the track dry and half of it soaked

That description is the whole of Sunday. The Nordschleife is more than twenty kilometres long and it runs through a range of hills, which means it can be raining at one end and dry at the other for an entire race. Nobody gets a tyre choice that is right everywhere.

Standing at the fence, you can see the consequence in the way cars arrive at a corner: one driver braking early because the last sector was wet, the next one carrying speed because their part of the lap had dried. The gaps between classes stop meaning very much, and finishing matters more than usual.

Our observation: the interesting number is how long this list has become

Five years ago a piece like this would have been about one woman, and it would have been framed as an exception. This one has ten names in it, across GT3, GT4, a Porsche Cup car, a BMW 325i, a Golf and a V3 entry, in the same two races.

That is the part worth noticing. None of them were there as a story. They were there because they were entered, in the classes they normally race in, and the reason we can write about a lost class win and a lost podium is that there were enough of them for those things to happen at all.

NLS10 on 10 October closes the season

One race remains in the 2026 Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, on 10 October. It is the last chance in this championship for the class positions above to become something more permanent, and the last chance for Girls Only to get an AT2 win that stays on the sheet.

Our reports from both days of the double header are here: NLS8 and NLS9. Earlier in this series we looked at the generation coming through.