🇩🇪 Tom Schütze

Tom Schütze is a semi-professional racing in national multiclass endurance championships at the Nürburgring. His first indexed season has brought him GT4 and production-car racing in two series that share the same venue; he competes for asBest Racing in the Langstrecken-Serie and drove the winning car in the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Graded FIA Silver, he sits below the full-professional grades and represents a driver developing within the endurance field.[1]

In his debut season Schütze has taken two podiums from five starts across the two championships. He secured a win at the Nürburgring 24 Hours and a further podium in the Langstrecken-Serie, establishing an early record in a shared-car format where each driver shares the vehicle with co-drivers whose pace also determines the result. These races field a mixture of amateur and semi-professional entrants alongside graded professionals, creating a competitive but heterogeneous grid typical of national endurance racing.[2]

His podium finishes have come against established opposition; he beat Kobe Pauwels, a Silver-graded professional with extensive experience across GT World Challenge Europe and the Asian Le Mans Series, and Giuliano Alesi, a Gold-graded professional and 2021 Super Formula Lights champion who has raced in Formula 2 and Super GT.