🏳️ Stefan Schmickler

Stefan Schmickler is an entry-level professional racing in a national multiclass endurance series. He competes in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, where multiple classes of production-based and purpose-built race cars share the track in single events. Schmickler races primarily for Schmickler Performance powered by Ravenol in the Cup 2 class, driving Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars, and occasionally in Cup 3 and SP 6 machinery. His rating of 3,573 places him among competitive drivers at the entry-level professional tier who regularly contest national-level racing.[1]

Schmickler has completed 11 indexed seasons in the series since 2014, with 59 starts yielding four wins and twenty podium finishes. He remains active in 2026, where he holds sixth place in the championship standings through seven completed rounds and has taken one podium finish so far. His four wins have come across a career spanning over a decade of consistent entry-level competition.[2]

His regular opponents in the series include Heiko Eichenberg, a FIA Bronze-graded entry-level professional who has won four championships in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and typically finishes ahead of Schmickler, and Leonard Oehme, a Silver-graded entry-level professional with whom he is closely matched in head-to-head racing. Schmickler's career record also includes isolated finishes ahead of much stronger drivers competing in occasional Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie appearances, among them a generational talent in Formula 1 and an established professional with multiple international championship titles in prototype and GT racing.