BMW Wins 2025 Nurburgring 24 Hours; Indian Driver Achieves SP3T Podium Finish

BMW has won the 2025 24 Hours of Nurburgring with the #98 BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Kelvin van der Linde, Augusto Farfus, Jesse Krohn and Raffaele Marciello. This year’s race was notable not only for its dry and sunny weather — a rarity in a city where the forecast is usually wet, with a chance of fog — but for the open-endedness of the outcome. The power outage stopped racing for hours and caused teams to scramble to reconfigure strategies in a race where every second matters. In case it needed reiterating, even when it’s perfect, the Nurburgring never ceases sorting the men from the boys.

One of the most heart-stopping moments of the race came when an Aston Martin flipped after a high-speed clash with a Porsche. Thankfully, the driver escaped unhurt, but the crash sent shockwaves through the paddock as the race neared its dramatic conclusion.

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Through all the tension, Kelvin van der Linde kept his cool. His composed drive in the final stint sealed a hard-fought victory for BMW. It was a weekend when BMW fans will remember this victory for a long time.

Indian Racer Claims SP3T Podium

At the 2025 24 Hours of Nurburgring, India's Akshay Gupta also claimed a third-place finish in the SP3T class—his first Nurburgring podium. Teaming up with Junichi Umemoto, Lutz Obermann, and Dennis Leissing in the #808 AsBest Racing Cupra, Gupta battled through gearbox issues and a two-hour overnight repair to reach the finish.

The race got off to a rocky start, with early gearbox trouble dropping them from fifth to seventh. Obermann's charge brought the car to third, and Gupta pushed it into second. But a collision at Wippermann and more setbacks let the factory MINI slip past, placing them back in third.

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Gupta and Leissing held their nerve in the closing hours, nursing the wounded Cupra through 101 punishing laps.