• From karting and DTM to the Nordschleife: looking forward to the new challenge
• Straight, open to dialogue, customer-oriented: regulations do not only apply to the racing drivers
• NES season opener on 22 and 23 March on the Nordschleife and the Grand Prix circuit with free access

Everyone listens to his command: Andreas Schwarz. The 53-year-old takes the position of the race director in the new Nürburgring Endurance Series, NES for short. Andreas Schwarz comes in with the experience from almost 600 car races and over 3,000 kart races for the new challenge on the Nordschleife. “It’s an exciting task that I’m really looking forward to, but I also have a certain amount of respect for it,” says Schwarz. “Basically, it’s a normal car race, but with lots of participants, on a long race track and with a large team for track safety.” The Nürburgring Endurance Series will get the Nürburgring season underway on 22/23 March with the first of five events, with free admission.

For the race director, one thing is clear: “The regulations don’t just apply to the participants, they also apply to us in race control.” It is therefore also important to the experienced official that his job is not a one-way affair. “You can talk to me. And I can also reverse a penalty.” Andreas Schwarz is not only seen as open to dialogue, but also as straightforward and customer-oriented. “I want an open dialogue with the participants. I want them to understand what they can and can’t do. My goal is a trusting relationship with transparent and equal treatment.”

With the best possible team work to optimum safety

Cooperation with the entire track safety team is just as important to the entrepreneur from the Stuttgart region. “Every single person matters, every marshal around the race track and every single member in race control. Only with the best possible teamwork we can ensure optimum safety for everyone involved. And that is exactly what counts when we can look back on an accident-free event with satisfied participants after the race,” explains Andreas Schwarz, who prioritises the start and yellow flags when it comes to safety.

As the preferred candidate to race director of the new NES

Andreas Schwarz has been involved in motorsport for almost 30 years, from track marshal to the starting grid and pit lane to head of track safety and on to race director and steward, also at international level. For over 16 years, he was race director of the Kart Masters, a duty in which the race director is challenged like in hardly any other form of motorsport. At the Norisring in Nuremberg and in Hockenheim, the Swabian also worked as a race director on the DTM stage for many years. The motorsport official has also helped to set up several new racing series and supported them over the years. Above all, however, it is his enormous wealth of experience and his open, customer-oriented attitude that made him the preferred candidate for the organisers of the Nürburgring Endurance Series.

The countdown is running. On 22/23 March, the Nürburgring Endurance Series opens the season on the traditional race track in the Eifel. Over the course of twelve hours on Friday and Saturday morning, participants will prepare for the 2024 season with thoroughbred racing cars as well as improved and production-based touring cars in the “Green Hell”, on the legendary Nordschleife, with two qualifying sessions and two 90-minute races being held on the Grand Prix circuit from midday on Saturday. NES is offering visitors the chance to get to know the series for free, as all open spectator areas and grandstands are accessible without admission, parking is free and the ring°werk motorsport experience museum can also be visited free of charge.