MINI and Bulldog Racing have introduced the motive force lineup for this 12 months’s upcoming 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Among the many 4 gifted pilots is Samantha Tan, the 27-year-old Asian-Canadian racer and co-owner of the ST Racing workforce. She lately prolonged her function as BMW M Motorsport World Ambassador by way of 2026. Along with competing within the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Problem, the place she drives a BMW M4 GT3 within the GTDX class, she’ll even be piloting a John Cooper Works this weekend on the Inexperienced Hell.
With expertise within the 24H Sequence, 12H Mugello, GT World Problem America, and GT World Problem Europe, she has actually earned her place on the demanding Nürburgring endurance grid. Samantha Tan (ST) Racing claimed victories within the Pirelli World Problem and the Pirelli GT4 America sequence in 2019 and 2020, earlier than securing the general 24H Sequence championship in 2021. In 2022, ST Racing delivered the M4 GT3’s first general win on the 12H Mugello. Additional success adopted in 2023 at GTWC Highway America and the 3H Barcelona.
Greater than 130 automobiles will line up for the beginning of the 53rd Nürburgring 24 Hours, all vying for glory on the grueling 25.378-kilometre (15.769-mile) circuit. Samantha shall be joined by Markus Fischer, who clinched a category victory final 12 months within the SP-3T class with a near-production #317 MINI John Cooper Works Professional.
They’ll share driving duties with Sebastian Sauerbrei and Toby Goodman within the track-prepped sizzling hatch, which debuts a daring new search for 2025. The up to date livery was designed by BMW Group’s Designworks subsidiary in partnership with Australian attire and life-style model Deus Ex Machina. The theme right here is of a “transferring sketchbook,” and workforce members will sport matching attire from Deus’s newest assortment.
The 2025 Nürburgring 24 Hours takes place from June 19 to 22.
Supply: MINI
