24 Hours of Nürburgring EXPLAINED 

I'm looking forward to seeing the GT4 Bilstein BMW no. 150 of Jimmy Broadbent and Steve Alvarez Brown because I've been following Jimmy since he was a youtube sim racer living in a shed at the back of his mother's garden.

I just hope for 3 things this year : •The M4 gets it's 2nd major endurance race victory (we got Spa on my birthday last year!) •A hardfought podium for the Jimmy, Steve and Mischa's M4 GT4 •See the Dacia make it to the end in one piece

I just love the oddball cars, the likes of the Foxtail Manta and Dacia Logan, etc

What makes it even more special, is the fact it basically is a stand alone race, it's not connected to any championship at all, and no one needs an invite to join, usually DTM and NLS teams are regularly present, alongside many GTWC EU teams and drivers And last it comes the primary reason to watch it: THE DACIA LOGAN!

THIS is the best endurance race imo, even better than our beloved Le Mans

Good video. The only one that would've been cool if you had mentioned it would've been that the growing presence of GT3 cars is actually a bit controversial. The race is also unique because of the many small teams with modified cars in the smaller classes. Also, if you are a young engineer in Germany, it is a great place to farm contacts, even if you are just washing the car.

If motorsport had an equivalent of a battle royale the nurburgring 24h would probably be the closest thing to it.

i always look forward to this race. never know what will happen, sadly we didn't get to much racing this year

Was looking for a video like this and saw that you had just uploaded one. Thank you for this! Very helpful.

Is it actually underrated or it’s just me? Like, I don’t see a lot of people consider it prestigious, but it looks like a real challenge, maybe even more tough than 24H of Le Mans.

FYI: Don’t panic if you see emergency vehicles circulating on the track while cars are racing at full speed. This is part of the unique elements of this race mostly due to the extreme length of the track!

Nurburgring, Le Mans, Spa all within 1 month. June will be legendary ✌️

thanks for the video. in fact there is a normal timie qualifying. four of them. on thursday and friday. the qualifying races are races you have to take to compete in the event itself

Great Video, the best race all around the world🤩 But Qualifying isnt weeks before. The "Qualifyers" are the races that happened in April, but those are like test sessions. The results have nothing to do with the actual 24h Race. The "Top Qualifying" is on Friday evening, the day before 24h Race gets underway. This is a timed Qualifying where every qualified car has two laps to set a lap as fast as possible to get Pole Position😅

Thank you! I’ve been watching the N24 for a few years but have a better understanding of the different classes after watching your video. I love endurance racing and learning about the different circuits and classes. I attend the 24H of Daytona and 12H of Sebring. The Green Hell and Le Mans are in my bucket list of races to attend!

I think this race's most important class aside the GT3 (SP9) class, is the SP1 to SP3 classes, or the low displacement production-modified cars. AKA the 2 Corollas, the Logan and the Manta foxtail. This is where you ask yourself: "How in the world there's a car like the one on my garage competes against a Ferrari 296 IN THE SAME RACE?!"

Really appreciate your videos! It’s hard to come by concise, informative racing vids

Good Video, but you should've mentioned the weather aspect. In the Eifel, the region where the Nordschleife is located, weather can change extremely fast and often unpredictability. There were cases in which it rained on one part of the track while being sunny and perfect conditions on another part, which makes it almost impossible to choose the right tire. 2016 it even started to snow, so the cars went into the barrier one after another. Fog is very common as well.

Good video. I like that you cover this prestigious event. One thing. There are still qualifyings at Thursday and Friday bevor the race. The Qualirace is to lock a place for a place in the top30 qualifing. Top30 is on Friday and sets the grid. But not every top30 place was decided by the qualirace. 10 or so I think. The others can qualify for the top30 quali on Thursday and Friday. It sounds a lot more complicate than it actually is 😅 And the top30 cars will get a blue flashing lumirank so the other cars can see that a really fast car is coming :D

What makes this event so special is that this is the one race where you can rock up with a Dacia Logan or a VW Beetle built in your home garage and share a track with the best GT drivers in the world.

Looking forward for the Dacia Logan. It might be the slowest car on the grid but it has caught the eyes of a lot of people. And it's looking to make a comeback after that accident.

There's one more thing: The fan favourite cars everybody knows about. Ask someone about the Manta or recently the Dacia. Everybody knows them. They are in the lower classes usually but all of the classics have a huge fanbase because they are unique. For the bigger classes Grello is such a car.

I just love the 24h Nürburgring. It's unpedictable is just unlike anything else. I watched my first race in 2020 (I am certain we all know what happened then). I was prepared to make it through the night, instead I had comfortable 7 hours sleep and still had time left to have breakfast before we got back to racing again. We got the most magical race track on this planet (sorry Circuit de Sathe) and even when watching it on TV you can just feel the festival athmosphere... it's truely unlike anything else, we all know it. And that's why we love it!

Great video.

awesome video as always👍

Both ROWE BMWs could be favorites of the overall win, they driver line up of both cars are insane! the best what BMW M Motosport has to offer! I hope that Lello wins his first major title with BMW :)

I first saw the Nurburgring 24 Hours on TV, or at least highlight coverage, back in 2001 and I’ve been a fan ever since. And as cool as it is to see such a variety of production cars battle it out on The Green Hell, part of me really wants to see what an LMP3 can do. The Ligier JSP3 and the Nurburgring 24h layout is my favorite car and track combo in Project CARS 2. Ever gone flat-out from the exit of Hocheichen, through Flugplatz and Schwedenkreuz to Aremberg? Or from Bergwerk all the way to the Steilstrecke hairpin? You can in an LMP3! And though I’ve only done it virtually, I can tell you it’s a blast!

Nice, thank you. Hope you will get an opportunity to report onside this event one day.

Perfect. Just what i needed before watching my first nurburgring

Thanks much as the qualifying for Nuburgring is a bit different and certainly didn't know there was that many drivers

Nice video. Always fun to have more GT racing to watch.

one of the last racetrak from golden era of racing.

Minor correction: The Nürburgring 24 hours has its own layout that combines the Nordschleife with the full GP circuit (minus Mercedes arena and with endurance chicane). For comparison, NLS uses the sprint layout with Mercedes arena for the GP circuit section.

Manthey's redemption this year.

1 hour till race, amazing timing for recomendation

i am from germany and espacaly looking for the smaler classes and cars like the fan favourite dacia logan

Jonah I personally like the 24h of nurburgring because it is not part of any championship unlike other big races like the indy 500 or the 1000 km of bathurst among others. Obviously the main objective is still to win races but it usually happens that in certain occasions they prioritize more the championship to try to win it at the end of the year. And that is what in my opinion makes the 24h of nurburgring different no points on the line no championships sonarios just a pure 24 hours battle for the top steep of the poduim and nothing else

Are you planning on making a video on the Detroit GP next weekend, as well as the Mid Ohio race the following weekend for the pilot challenge? Very interested in both

Thanks for this video! I always wanted to know about the 24H of Nürburgring but I never get to see any video talking about about the qualy system. But I want to know Where Can I watch it?

One of my favourite endurance races ever. Will be cheering for Bilstein Mercedes and our home hero from India Arjun Maini

I was wondering what happened to my comment I left earlier? Either way, I'll be rooting for Glickenhaus in the race. Even though they won't be going for overall victory, I still wish them best of luck.

Valentino Rossi got me into Endurance racing and ive been having a good time discovering it.

Don't forget to mention the Eifel-weather, which can deliver very much rain and snow even in summer.

evertyhing is great about this 24h race exept the coverage. Cant get into it for some reason. Ill try again this year tho.

Yes... it was the 7.15 hours of Nurb this year..

I honestly thought rally was the craziest thing in the world until i heard about this event. Im a rookie at sim racing but would love to have a go at this race one day on sim. It would be one hell of a challenge. Max Verstappen is an absolute animal for doing the iracing 24H Nür and then participating in an F1 race just minutes after his run. I wish i loved just eating as much as that guy loves racing. 😅

Now that is some spicy meatball WHAT A RACE

Could you please do an episode explaining what are the regulations and the design specification of the GT3 class?

I think its a little bit sad that you skimmed over the lower classes, yes the GT3s are beyond amazing to watch, but the reason why i find this race so cool is all the other cars you can see. Some of them can be quite outlandish, like the Dacia Logan, or the new VW Beetle. Its also a really nice race because it isn't part of any major championship (other than the ICGTC, which doesn't really count tbh). It just allows for all the cars to be driven to the absolute limit by driver lineups that are often just unheard of.

Great video but you made one mistake. The qualifying races you mentioned do not determine pole position. On the day before the race there will be a qualifying session where the top cars get two laps each. The qualifying races are just a chance for the teams to qualify for this so called Top Qualifying. During this week there will be a number of qualifying sessions where the teams get another chance to qualify for the Top Qualifying. You made it sound like pole position has already been determined, which is not the case. That will happen this friday.

Its really pity that only 1 Ferrari drives this year in the 24h Nürburgring

Are all cars from the same class balanced (performance-wise)?

Fun fact: the Chrysler Viper was so dominant the Germans decided to give it a 1 hour penalty It would go on to win This is also not the only incident of unfairly banning or penalizing non German cars.

A truly unique factor in the 24 and all of the NLS League series races are the slow zone ( yellow flag and Code 60, standing for 60 kilometer speed limit) and intervention vehicle procedures in the races. With the enormous size of the fields and the length of the track, there are numerous instances of cars stalling or breaking down, wrecking or moving slowly due to things such as suspension failures or punctures. Barrier repairs are needed often also ( and LOL, unlike WEC and F1, barrier repairs do NOT red flag a race). There may be several Code 60 zones simultaneously over the 15 mile track and after the opening couple of laps, it may be a rare time when a driver gets more than three full green flag laps at any time. There also intervention vehicles such as tow trucks, equipment vehicles and even medical vehicles on the track running in full green flag areas which I don't understand how can be allowed, but I guess the NLS knows what they are doing. I have seen in car cameras of GT3s going 150 MPH plus past a moving intervention vehicle on the road.

How many cars are in total? Bcs if there are 20 classes, wouldnt that mean there are a few cars per class bcs of car capacity?

Hold on. Is it just me, or Jonah is forgot to mention that its now part of the broader world GT series Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC)?

Can you do a qualifying video becuaee its super hard to understand the format

Forgot mention its 8 hours only

No Opel Manta/Astra TCR this year?😢

I think this yea, Kevin Estre and the #911 Grello Porsche Manthey Racing are hungry for a win. Kevin especially. Last year the team struggled with their left rear deg and punctures, so this year, they'll be out for blood.

Are the Vanthoors brothers in the same car? Dont want a repeat of thhe race ending crash.

24h spa vid next!!!

i don't understand something, what is the difference between nurburgring (track) and the nordschleife (layout)

Guys, can you tell me where can I watch the 24 hours of nurburgring?

where is the part about the fog?

0:58: As will probably seen as the video goes on, in addition to the difficulties of the circuit itself, the amount of traffic (there could be 160 cars starting the race) and the enormous disparity in speeds ( in car cameras of the top GT3 show the frightening amount of closing speeds to slower classes such as touring cars) makes it a more challenging test of the cars and drivers than the 24 Hours of LeMans.

Above all, I've watched F1 and WEC and first time in nur 24. I wonder if the class SP1~SP8 or V classes are actually used, and I think the classification is too much detailed unnecessarily. Can't they just simplify it?

Nice vedeo even for a German guy like me

fun fact....Toyota GR started unofficially in that race.....

Why didnt you mention the Legendary Dacia Logan

can u explain how quali works

where i can see the N24? RU-vid?

I wish all endurance races to be 12h or 24h.

Why are prototypes not allowed to race. Is it cause they just too fast for track

couple hours of red flags 😅

You forgot the Opel Manta

Honestly, you could tell a bit more detailed stuff and leave some of irrelevancies like manufacturer lists out. Like explaining the very confusing pit stop rules would in my opinion fit into an ”explanation” video

Nurburgring 24h basically more grassroot team friendly, cheaper, and more democratic than le mans. Plus its more brutal.

170 corners? I drive the Nordschleife a lot, but seem to miss about 100 corners?

what SP is a GT2 car or is there none of those racing

whats there to explain? its the greatest thing invented by mankind

How is there a overall winner? Aren't they just winning their own class ?

Just a doubt, aren't GT2 class faster than GT3?

I know this isn’t related to the N24, but let me just lay in front of you my WEC grid and calendar fantasy daydream delusion… Imagine a Hypercar grid for 2025 featuring: 2 Porsche Penske 963’s 2 Toyota Gazoo GR010’s 2 Scuderia Ferrari 499P’s 2 TE Peugeot 9x8’s 2 WRT BMW M Hybrid V8’s 2 Alpine A424’s 2 Hertz Team Jota 963’s Now let’s get hypothetical… 2 (Whelen Engineering/Action Express?) Cadillac V-Series.R’s (both in red) 2 (D’Station?) Honda Badged ARX-06’s 2 Lamborghini SC63’s (Iron Lynx & Dames?) 2 💚 of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie’s (Not just 1 like planned) 2 Customer Ferrari 499P’s (AF Corse & Richard Mille?) 2 Proton Competition 963’s (F.A.T. & Rothmans or Pink Pig since tobacco nono?) Now let’s get DELUSIONAL🤯… 2 Isotta Fraschini Tipo6-C’s (Why not) 2 (Andretti?) Cadillac V-Series.R’s (because more to thundering V8’s, yellow and blue?) 2 Glickenhaus SCG 007 Evo’s (Pyramid scheme sponsor or Jim Glickenhaus wins the lottery and can upgrade those beauties to have a proper hybrid system) 2 Vanwall Vandervell 680 Evo’s (honestly same thing as Glickenhaus pls… Someone hook Floyd up with like a hundred mil🙏) 2 McLaren LMDh/LMH’s (Speedtail or better yet the Solus GT?) - i’ve gone insane but i wouldn’t put it past Zak Brown (imagine an F1 + Indy formed driver lineup for Le Mans) Now let’s get UNHINGED👽… 2 Audi LMDh/LMH’s (Totally not happening because of their F1 venture) - UNLESS… 2 Mercedes AMG LMDh/LMH’s (AMG One?) - they’re looking cooked in F1 rn so why not Finally, let’s be perfectly reasonable… 1 Overhauled Dacia Logan Hypercar Entry That’s a 40 car Hypercar field, Most tracks couldn’t even accommodate that many cars across both Hypercar and LMGT3, not to mention LMP2 if it were to make a return. So let’s get hypothetical again and imagine that each of these tracks had the resources to expand the pit and grid infrastructure to form this lovely calendar and grid of like 40 Hypercars, say like 30-50 LMGT3’s, and on a good day maybe like 25-40 LMP2’s: Round 1 - Qatar 1812km - 1.5x Points Round 2 - 8h of Bahrain - 1.5x Points Round 3 - 6h of COTA - 1x Points Round 4 - 1000m of Sebring - 1.5x Points Round 5 - 6h of São Paulo - 1x Points Round 6 - 6h of Portimão - 1x Points Round 7 - 6h of Silverstone - 1x Points Round 8 - 6h of Spa - 1x Points Round 9 - 24h of Le Mans - 2x Points -Summer Break- Round 10 - 6h of Paul Ricard - 1x Points Round 11 - 6h of Barcelona - 1x Points Round 12 - 6h of Monza - 1x Points Round 13 - 6h of Nürburgring - 1x Points Round 14 - 8h of Kylami - 1.5x Points Round 15 - 6h of Shanghai - 1x Points Round 16 - 6h of Sepang Round 17 - 6h of Fuji - 1x Points I know 17 races for WEC is absurd so here’s even more… Honorable Mentions/Would be sick but never happening: 12h of Bathurst - 1.5x Points 24h of Nürburgring Nordshleife - 2x Points 12h of Daytona - 1.5x Points 12h of IMS - 1.5x Points 6h of Spielberg/RedBullRing - 1x Points 12h of Hockenheim - 1.5x Points 6h of India (Buddh) - 1x Points 6h of Suzuka - 1x Points 6x of Korea (KIC) - 1x Points 8h of Macau 😈 - 1.5x Points 6h of Laguna Seca (home track bias) - 1x Points Top Gear Test Track 2002km - Give Clarkson a beer every 100km and at the end hold up your fingers, however many he counts is the points multiplier.🍻🍻🍺🍺 Alternative: However many beers he can down in the duration of the Pole lap is the points multiplier, personally I think the 1st option provides more fun and potential for a championship swing. Thanks for entertaining my dream/unhinged WEC season, have a lovely day.🫰🫶🙏

Challenge: Take a shot every time the word's 24 hours is said... and if you don't want to count.. 29. The word's 24 hours is said 29... 7 in the first minute...

Porsche always and forever!!

Why are the GT3 cars the ones battling for overall victory? Shouldn't GT2 be faster than GT3?

While I think this race is amazing I find it hard to watch on TV, compared to like LeMan or Daytona

Hi

No mention of the weather? With the 'Ring being so large, the weather at the pits can be entirely different to other parts of the track. No mention of "Slow Zones" and the lack of Safety Cars? No mention of the "Ring License" process? Hell, no mention of the Legend that is THE FOXTAIL MANTA!?!?! (flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, flap, etc, and so on...)

People speaking about RU-vidr 😂

The first half of the script sounds it was AI generated and read.

abd then we have audi winning this time hahah germany got it again

A little thing of improvement, you repeat a lot of things, making it sound like an AI generated video. I genuinely can’t tell if it is.

Red flag 💩

Sherer Audi R8 will win 24h Nürburgring 2024... trust me ----> Like it it happened

You're wrong in the first sentence Nürnberg and the Nürburgring are nearly 400Km away from each other.

Who’s here while it’s interrupted from fog 🥲