Overview
- Dörr presented a McLaren 720S GT3 Evo in a 1995 Michael Schumacher Benetton livery for the Nürburgring 24 Hours, with race suits to be auctioned for the Keep Fighting Foundation and support from Bitburger.
- The Nürburgring 24h lineup now pairs Timo Glock with Timo Scheider, Ben Dörr and McLaren factory driver Marvin Kirchhöfer, who replaces Volker Strycek.
- Engineers altered the car’s suspension geometry by flipping a control‑arm bracket within a ±5 mm allowance to improve steering feel at the limit and help the tyres warm up faster.
- The team reprogrammed the anti‑lock braking software and moved from Alcon to TM Performance brakes under a DTM special‑homologation that permits limited deviations from the base GT3 spec.
- Glock enters the DTM opener after staff changes and thin testing, including a new race engineer in Gerd Kusstatscher and a technical failure that caused an early retirement at the 24h Qualifiers, leaving durability as the key unknown.