The Nürburgring 24 Hours just got radder with the HWA Evo.R

That's pretty cool 

Dang, that goes pretty hard.

I’m less enamored with the Ring 24 after they told the Twingo it wasn’t cool enough to run. I actually thought it would be a good GRM story because it was truly grassroots. 

https://www.rauhracing.com/post/statement-on-our-24h-nurburgring-entry

"it's totally stupid" - the BMW team principal

Keith Tanner said:

I’m less enamored with the Ring 24 after they told the Twingo it wasn’t cool enough to run. I actually thought it would be a good GRM story because it was truly grassroots. 

https://www.rauhracing.com/post/statement-on-our-24h-nurburgring-entry

Thanks for bringing this into the discussion. It definitely is the embodiment of GRM. 

Keith Tanner said:

I’m less enamored with the Ring 24 after they told the Twingo it wasn’t cool enough to run. I actually thought it would be a good GRM story because it was truly grassroots. 

https://www.rauhracing.com/post/statement-on-our-24h-nurburgring-entry

Oh this is horsepoop. "Not what the N24 wants to attract." Because the organizers know it'll be the fan favorite. I bet if Zak Brown wanted to enter a Twingo, they'd be okay with it. 

I wonder why they’re pushing into SP-X instead of SP-4?

Keith Tanner said:

I’m less enamored with the Ring 24 after they told the Twingo it wasn’t cool enough to run. I actually thought it would be a good GRM story because it was truly grassroots. 

https://www.rauhracing.com/post/statement-on-our-24h-nurburgring-entry

I wouldn’t be surprised if the N24 organizers are being more restrictive of entries after the Dacia Logan got plastered by a GT4 Cayman in 22(?):

https://www.reddit.com/r/wec/comments/13ohk8w/more_images_of_the_totalled_logan/

edit after reading statement:    
I can see how they’re tweaked about getting initial approval; then having it revoked. I’m not on FB any more, so I dunno how things are playing on Dale’s BtG site, and if there’s more behind the scenes info. But, again, I can see how the Logan crash… even though their initial ask was well after you’d think that change would happen… would be influencing this.

There may also be a general “shift upwards” happening across motorsports right now? (re: ClubSpec Cayman, PIR data sale, private tracks being built, etc?)

In reply to Keith Tanner :

The process of getting a car ready to race seems quite arcane and opaque in Germany there.  I read a couple of their posts and there are references to inspections before they even start building the car!

In reply to sleepyhead the buffalo :

The Dacia also got smoked this past year as well...