• Lionspeed GP to race on home soil as Endurance Cup visits Nürburgring
• Team returns to site of first GTWC Europe podium finish
• Gabriel Rindone, Patrick Kolb and Ricardo Feller looking to end Endurance Cup season on a high

Lionspeed GP will kick off the final phase of the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS Endurance Cup season with a race taking on home territory. The penultimate round of the campaign will be held at Germany’s Nürburgring, which was also the site of the team’s breakthrough maiden Bronze Cup podium last year.

The legendary Eifel circuit has been a regular fixture on the GTWC Europe for more than a decade, with a 61-car field set to contest this weekend’s three-hour race. This includes a Bronze Cup field of no fewer than 17 cars, which features Lionspeed GP’s No. 80 Porsche 911 GT3 R. Familiar faces Gabriel Rindone, Patrick Kolb and Ricardo Feller once again team up to form the driver lineup for the event.

The Nürburgring race is the first Endurance Cup round since the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa in July, where Lionspeed put in a strong performance that went frustratingly unrewarded as Rindone, Kolb, Feller and Riccardo Pera finished fourth in the Bronze Cup after a collision with a backmarker late in the race.

The team will be looking to pick up strong results to close out the Endurance Cup season, venturing to the Nürburgring in the knowledge that the circuit has been a happy hunting ground in the past. Last year, Lionspeed celebrated a double success at the Nürburg venue. In the Nürburgring 24, it took the SP9 Pro-Am class victory on the longer, Nordschleife layout. Even more relevant for this weekend was the breakthrough result in the GTWC Europe round last July, where the team came home to capture its maiden championship podium by finishing second.

Feller, who is in the midst of his first season as a Porsche-contracted driver, will also be looking to further boost his own solid record at the Nürburgring. The Swiss racer, who won the Nürburgring 24 in 2024, has also enjoyed notable success on the shorter Grand Prix Strecke. This includes two Silver Cup wins as well as an ADAC GT Masters victory in 2021 that helped him win that year’s championship title. Most recently, he took a podium finish in DTM at the circuit just a handful of weeks ago, repeating a similar feat from 2022.

Thanks to their strong performance at the 24H Spa, Rindone, Kolb and Feller have climbed to seventh in the Bronze Cup standings in the Endurance Cup. With two three-hour races remaining on the calendar, the team will look to finish the campaign in a strong fashion with the goal to replicate or beat last year’s success.

As has become common practice with Endurance Cup rounds, the Nürburgring event is effectively a two-day affair. Although Thursday and Friday both offer testing opportunities, all of the official track sessions are held on Saturday and Sunday. Free Practice and Pre-Qualifying both take place on Saturday, with the three-stage qualifying session scheduled for Sunday morning. The three-hour race then kicks off on Sunday afternoon at 15:00. All official sessions will be broadcast live on the GT World YouTube channel.