🇩🇪 Marco Knappmeier

Marco Knappmeier is a club-level driver racing in national multiclass endurance championships at the Nürburgring. He competes in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where he has driven modified production-based race cars and touring cars across multiple classes since 2010, and more recently in the Nürburgring 24 Hours, where he races TCR touring cars. His record spans five starts over sixteen years of indexed racing.[1]

Knappmeier took a podium finish in the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours, his most recent outing; that round is still in progress and more races remain on the calendar. His four starts in the Langstrecken-Serie between 2010 and 2023 produced no podium finishes. In endurance racing, where a crewed car carries the finishing position of all its drivers, his current podium came as part of a shared effort in the TCR class at the Nürburgring 24 Hours.[2]

He races most regularly against Jürgen Nett, a semi-professional with over eighty Langstrecken-Serie starts, and typically finishes behind him. Knappmeier has beaten entry-level professionals in individual races, including Marcel Hoppe, a two-time Langstrecken-Serie champion, and Lutz Obermann, a Bronze-graded professional, though these remain single results across fields that mix amateurs with graded professionals on the same track.