🏳️ Lutz-Marc Rühl

Rühl raced as a competitive amateur in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, a national multiclass endurance championship where Cup cars and production-based racers shared the track. He drove BMW machinery for Car #270 in 2015, his only indexed season.[1]

Across six rounds that year, Rühl took two podiums and finished ninth in the championship standings. He was closely matched with fellow competitive amateur Tobias Overbeck, who would go on to win the SP 3 class title two years later. Against stronger opposition, Rühl finished ahead of professional-graded drivers Maxime Soulet, who has raced at GT World Challenge Europe level, and Christian Scherer on separate occasions.[2]

The grid mixed amateurs with semi-professional regulars, notably Dirk Groneck, a multiple class champion at the venue who consistently outpaced Rühl across their meetings. Car #270, fielded by a small operation that also ran semi-professional Gerrit Holthaus, had taken eight race wins across its history in the series.