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Back at the Nürburgring 🇩🇪 for an endurance race after two sprints in Misano and Magny-Cours !

Timetable for this week-end at the Green Hell :
FRIDAY
11:45 — Paid Test

SATURDAY
10:50 — Free Practice 1
16:15 — Free Practice 2

SUNDAY
09:45 — Qualifying sessions
15:00 — 3 Hours of Nürburgring 🏁

Back to the Green Hell!🌳⛅

The 4th Endurance round of the GT World Challenge Europe season is calling, and after a summer break, our two Porsche 911 GT3 R are ready to get back to racing and fight at the front!

#2 - PRO : Alessio Picariello, Dorian Boccolacci & Morris Schuring
#10 - GOLD : Robin Knutsson, Gilles Magnus & Nico Menzel

Three hours of racing. One goal: fight for the podium. Let’s get this one, guys! 🦁

New face in the Porsche #10! 🇩🇪

We’re pleased to welcome Nico Menzel for the Nürburgring Endurance round of the GT World Challenge Europe, taking place 28–30 August 2026.

Due to a calendar clash with the GT World Challenge Asia event in Japan, Alessandro Ghiretti will unfortunately miss this round. We wish him the best of luck for his race in Japan!

Nico will step into the Porsche #10 alongside Robin Knutsson and Gilles Magnus in the Gold Cup. With his experience at the Nürburgring, we’re confident he’ll be a great addition to the line-up, and we hope to see the trio fighting for the podium in the 3-hour endurance race on Sunday at 3:00 PM.

The Porsche #2 Pro line-up remains unchanged, with Dorian Boccolacci, Alessio Picariello and Morris Schuring continuing their campaign together.

A new challenge, a familiar track and a strong line-up: we’re ready to go!

Welcome to the family, Nico! 🦁

Pit stop sprint mode 🛞✅

Driven by passion 🦁🔥

Faces behind performance 🦁🔥

That's a wrap on our Magny-Cours weekend. 🇫🇷

Sunday didn't go quite as planned. Both our cars were caught in traffic during their qualifying hot laps, leaving us further down the grid than expected and making Race 2 an uphill battle from the very start.

Our Porsche #2 found itself right in the middle of fierce Pro-class fights but Alessio Picariello and Dorian Boccolacci delivered some great racing to finish P12. Our #10 suffered a small mistake at the start before serving a penalty during the race, limiting Robin Knutsson and Gilles Magnus to P24 overall and P5 in Gold Cup.

A Sunday to forget, but an amazing Saturday in the books ! We'll remember the incredible fights on track, Dorian Boccolacci and Alessio Picariello's fantastic comeback in Race 1, and above all, Robin and Gilles' brilliant Gold Cup victory on Saturday night! 🏆

Next stop: the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup returns in less than a month. See you at the Nürburgring for three hours of racing! 👊

P1 in Gold !!! 🏆🥳

Finally our #10 gets a win in their class, so great to see this amazing duo, Robin Knutsson & Gilles Magnus , on the first step of the podium, and in P8 overall.
So happy as well for our #2 that fought to the end and gained 13 places in a Sprint race ! Mega job from Alessio Clemente Picariello & BOCCO 🦍👑 and our pit stop crew. Finishing in P9, some room to improve tomorrow and get a podium too 🤩

See you tomorrow for (hopefully) another podium day in the GT World Challenge Europe 🤞

GOLD CUP POLE POSITION! 🥇🔥

A stunning qualifying performance from Gilles Magnus puts our #10 Porsche 911 GT3 R on top of the Gold Cup standings and secures Gold P1 on the grid for tonight’s race. Starting from the P12 on the official grid, Robin Knutsson will take the second half of the race !

A more challenging session for Alessio Picariello in the #2 Porsche 911 GT3 R, who will start from P22 after a difficult qualifying run. His team mate, Dorian Boccolacci, will bring it to the finish line.

Now it’s time to go racing under the lights. 🌙
🏁 Race start: 21:05

Storms couldn't stop us yesterday ! ⛈️

A challenging Free Practice day at Magny-Cours saw the GT World Challenge Europe field face changing conditions.

FP1 brought several challenges as the team worked through its programme, before FP2 was interrupted by a heavy thunderstorm that forced the session to finish earlier than planned.

Even with limited track time, our #10 Porsche 911 GT3 R driven by Robin Knutsson and Gilles Magnus set the fastest Gold Cup lap of the session (and P4 overall). On the other side of the garage, Dorian Boccolacci and Alessio Picariello kept pushing forward with the #2 Porsche 911 GT3 R.

Today's schedule is one you don't want to miss:
⏱️ Qualifying 1 – 14:55
🌙 Race start – 21:05

Let's get ready for an exciting Saturday here in Magny-Cours !