🇩🇪 Vincent Kolb

Vincent Kolb is a professional driver racing in national multiclass endurance championships at the Nürburgring. He competes primarily in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for Haupt Racing Team, driving Porsche 911 GT3 Cup cars in the Cup 2 class, and holds an FIA Silver grading. He has also contested the 24-hour Daytona-format 24H Series and the Nürburgring 24 Hours, the latter a major domestic endurance fixture.[1]

Over 14 seasons since 2013, Kolb has accumulated 76 starts across these three series with four wins and 25 podiums. His most consistent success has come in the Langstrecken-Serie, where his 62 starts have yielded two wins and 22 podiums; he has also taken two wins in the 24H Series from eight starts. In 2021, he won the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie SP9 Pro championship, driving an Audi R8 LMS Evo for Phoenix Racing and sharing the car with Frank Stippler. He currently sits active in the 2026 Nürburgring 24 Hours campaign with HRT Ford Racing.[2]

Kolb races regularly against a field of Silver-graded professionals in the Langstrecken-Serie, holding closely matched records against established rivals including Patrick Assenheimer, the 2019 SP9 Pro champion with 87 starts in the series, and David Pittard, who won the same title in 2020. He has occasionally finished ahead of substantially stronger drivers; he has beaten Platinum-graded Laurens Vanthoor, an IMSA GTD and WEC Hypercar champion, once, and fellow Platinum professional Nico Müller, who has raced 81 DTM rounds and 55 Formula E events, three times across their limited meetings.