In 2025, I also joined the NLS (Nürburgring Endurance Series) as a rookie – the next step after my 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 in a Porsche Cayman GT4, as used in the NLS Cup 3 class of the Porsche Endurance Trophy, in GT4 Germany, and in the Porsche Sports Cup.

During free practice on the test day before the 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 space and 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, the 2025 Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup champion. They were obviously also working on their Permit A that weekend.

"MORAL VICTORY"My teammate Thorsten Lingnau (with whom I shared the car) 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 category, we didn't achieve the result (podium) that our performance actually deserved. Still – measured by our pace and taking our engine power into account – we were the true winners of our class. So we ended up like Max Verstappen four weeks later in the NLS 7 with his restricted Porsche GT4 CS. – But regardless, the race was a fantastic experience and a lot of fun.