In 2025, I also joined the NLS (Nürburgring Endurance Series) as a rookie – the next logical step after my previous three RCN races on the Nordschleife. For the very first time in a GT4, I went straight into full race action and drove my first NLS race, and that in a Porsche Cayman GT4, as used in the NLS Cup 3 class of the Porsche Endurance Trophy, in GT4 Germany, in GT4 European Series and in the Porsche Sports Cup.

During free practice on the test day before the six-hour NLS 6 race, I was able to quickly adapt to what was for me a new and more powerful car than I had ever driven before, and I was already driving at high pace and close to the car's limit - achieving quite impressive lap times. After the race, I ranked as the second-fastest Porsche Cayman GT4 Permit-B driver – behind Robert de Haan and Alessio Ghiretti, both 2025 Porsche Super Cup and Carrera Cup champions. They were obviously also working on their Permit A that weekend.

STRONG PERFORMANCEMy teammate Thorsten Lingnau (with whom I shared the car in the race) and I could have even won our class in the NLS 6 race with our performance that day. But there were two significantly more powerful cars in front of us, and since SP7 is a mixed class and NLS doesn't have its own Permit B class, we didn't achieve the result (podium) that our performance actually deserved. Measured by our pace and taking our engine power into account, we were the true winners of our class. – But regardless, the race was a fantastic experience and a lot of fun.