Manthey at Nürburgring NLS3
Manthey entered the Nürburgring NLS3 round with qualifying at 8:30 a.m. and the race scheduled for noon today — the session was livestreamed for fans. For gearheads this is a live testbed: NLS3 is where endurance setups and track development get real‑time validation, and Manthey’s program often signals parts and setup trends for buyers. The schedule and livestream details were posted on social. (x.com)
Manthey’s bright yellow “Grello” Porsche 911 GT3 R showed up at Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie round three on Saturday, April 11, with qualifying set for 8:30 a.m. Central European Time and the four-hour race at noon. Manthey streamed the day live on its own channel instead of treating this like a closed team test. (youtube.com) That tells you what Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie is: a ten-race endurance championship run on the combined Nürburgring Grand Prix circuit and Nordschleife, the giant loop through the Eifel forest that teams use as a stress test for cars, brakes, tires, and drivers. The 2026 calendar lists NLS3 as the 57th Adenauer ADAC Rundstrecken-Trophy, one of the series’ standard four-hour rounds. (nuerburgring-langstrecken-serie.de) The Nordschleife matters because it is long, bumpy, and crowded in a way most circuits are not. The series says the field averages about 170 race cars, ranging from near-production touring cars to full GT3 machines, all sharing the same lap. (nuerburgring-langstrecken-serie.de) Manthey matters here because it is not just another entrant renting a garage for the weekend. The company is based in Meuspath next to the Nürburgring, has more than 350 employees, and Porsche owns 51 percent of it, so what runs under the Manthey name usually reflects factory-level priorities. (youtube.com) For NLS3, Manthey put Ayhancan Güven and Matt Campbell in the No. 911 Porsche 911 GT3 R. The same stream description said the company was also giving the Porsche 911 GT3 Cup Manthey, car No. 992, its race debut together with the Griesemann Group. (youtube.com) That second car is the part road-car buyers and club racers watch closely. Manthey’s business is split across Racing, Road Cars, Experience, and Race Cars, so a Nürburgring weekend can double as a live proving ground for hardware and setup ideas that later show up in customer parts catalogs and track-day packages. (youtube.com) The event itself was not a tiny local club meet. GT Report said 139 cars were set to start NLS3, with GT3 entries, a returning BMW Z4 GT3, debuting HWA EVO.R cars, and full Porsche Cup classes all packed into the same Saturday program. (gt-report.com) Manthey’s stream also tied the race to the Porsche Endurance Trophy Nürburgring, a one-make series that it said brought a record 38-car field for this round. That means the company was not just chasing an overall result with Grello; it was sitting in the middle of one of the biggest Porsche customer-racing gatherings at the track on the same day. (youtube.com) So NLS3 is where the Nürburgring does two jobs at once. Fans get a free live race, and teams like Manthey get four hours on the hardest mainstream endurance circuit in Germany to see which ideas survive contact with traffic, curbs, weather, and 20-plus kilometers of asphalt. (youtube.com)
