NXT Gen Cup ups its presence at DTM events

• Expansion to twelve exciting races in the 2024 season
• Double-headers promise a double dose of racing at the Norisring and Sachsenring

Munich. The DTM support programme will now feature even more electrifying action: the fully-electric NXT Gen Cup is realigning its race calendar and placing its faith in the attractive ADAC platform. This season, fans will be treated to four appearances of the one-make cup on the DTM support programme. They include the two double-headers at the Norisring and the Sachsenring, with four races at each event. “The unique concept of the NXT Gen Cup shows just how exciting electric motorsport is. It also offers young drivers a perfect and cost-effective route onto one of the biggest professional motorsport platforms in Europe. Our collaboration fits in perfectly with our pioneering role in motorsport, with such initiatives as climate-friendly fuels, an electric rally series and sustainable event concepts,” says ADAC Motorsport Director Thomas Voss.

The NXT Gen Cup is regarded as an innovative racing series aimed at the next generation of motorsport talent. The standard car is the LRT NXT1, which is based on the road-approved Mini Cooper SE. Armed with the 230-hp electric race car, the juniors impressed with a feast of thrilling one-make battles when the series made its debut in 2023, including at the ADAC events at the Nürburgring and Motorsport Arena Oschersleben. In 2024, the youngsters in the NXT Gen Cup will contest twelve races across four weekends on German soil. The season-opener immediately throws up the first double-header and is set to be an absolute highlight: the Norisring, the demanding street circuit in Nuremberg, hosts the first showdown from 5th to 7th July. That is followed by the second event at the Nürburgring from 16th to 18th August. The second double-header awaits the drivers from 6th to 8th September at the Sachsenring, where the drivers will again battle it out for points and trophies in four races. When the NXT Gen Cup travels to the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg for the season finale from 18th to 20th October, two races will decide which young driver will lift the champion’s trophy. The founder of the series, Frederik Lestrup, is grateful for the cooperation: “We are thrilled to be ramping up our collaboration with the ADAC and the DTM. We took our first international steps together last year, and the 2024 calendar now sees us come full circle.”

The BMW M2 Cup is not taking place this season, and consequently will not feature on the DTM support programme. The aim, towards which the organisers are already working, is for the series to return in 2025.