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H2R is back! … home

After a winter break that felt like an eternity, the fan’s favorite #157 is back for the 2026 RCN-GLP season aiming to top the rankings in the Advanced class

While no racing took place since October, the team stayed busy all winter long with intense preparation for the upcoming season. H2R drivers kept improving their strategic thinking and driving abilities in the treacherous Mabutts Valley of ‘RV There Yet?’, but also kept a focus on track time with a trip to Zandvoort, although they later reported that they were bored due to the limited amount of corners per lap.

2025 was concluded with the happiest addition to the H2R team headcount, and no, this time it isn’t a BMW, but rather a Driver #1.1 !

Well actually, there was also another BMW added to Driver #1’s collection, but that’s not the point.

All these exciting events bring us to 2026.

Having survived a winter in Berlin, the mighty E46 316i decided to behave like a true race car and demanded its budget reflect that status. Gladly and thanks to the generosity of H2R’s sponsor, Therapy Lift, the car was restored to its 2025 glory, although it may have appeared that critical components had failed and had to be compensated by driver talent all along.

Locked and loaded, the team headed to the first event of the season, GLP #1 Bergischer Schmied. After a couple of practice laps in Touristenfahrten and wrapping up the last transponder and electronics setup on the car, the drivers enjoyed a light meal in Adenau’s Pinocchio pizzeria.

Fate struck the team and the entire paddock the following morning, as snow started to fall heavily during driver’s briefing. Despite waiting for conditions to improve the race was eventually called off due to the risk of avalanche, leaving all drivers disappointed but even more eager to return in April with hopes of better conditions!

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Did you know ?

H2R also stands for “Holiday 2 the Ring” !

During some well deserved time off between exhausting RC-GLP weekends the H2R team drivers took their <private trackcars/ex-daily drivers, although the E91 is further along the track-car transformation than the E90> to the Nordschleife to experience the most terrifying thing that the iconic track has to offer: Touristenfahrten.

Ironically taking place at the same time as a daily commute, this melting-pot of performance cars and beat-up rolling coffins was the perfect place to practice driving on the North Loop in what could one day be H2R’s official racing car, the mighty E90 325i. [send money here to see it happen]

Navigating through the variety of cars and the even higher variety of driver skills was not the key challenge on the first visit of the week (second visit for driver #1 who took it on himself to go the day before to make sure all 157 corners were still there).
Driving on a wet track with 100hp more than the #157 316i was the key challenge here! Using their experience and hours of iRacing practice to find dry patches of tarmac on the counter-intuitive wet line and only occasionally “YOLO”-ing a few corners, both drivers made it out unscathed to witness the night fall onto the Eifel region.

The following day was back to boring sunny conditions, and somehow 5 times more cars on track, as if most drivers were scared to get their semi-slicks wet!
This second day still delivered valuable lessons, it quickly became obvious that the E46 316i is the weapon of choice for RCN-GLP due to its ability to match minimum lap times almost perfectly, requiring only a handful of seconds at a standstill to meet the series time requirements. On the other hand the mighty E91 325i driven by driver #1 would need to be fitted with a bed to at least offer the option of taking a nap during the 5 minutes it would have to stay stationary each lap.

All in all an enjoyable set of Touristenfahrten sessions, lots of learning for both drivers and a chance to drive the interesting part of the track before our last RCN-GLP event at… The Nürburgring Grand Prix track. Enjoy the pictures!

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RCN-GLP 1 – Venntrophy – Photo report car #157

After a weekend rich in emotions and sharing the track with passionate drivers, stewards and media staff we are delighted to share a couple of highlights with these beautiful sights of car #157, a.k.a “The Precious”

Start of the Nordschleife section at Sabine Schmitz Kurve – credits to https://gallery.r-c-n.com/profile.php?uid=16

Friday 28/03/2025 test drive on Touristenfahrten session

And of course the full RCN-GLP onboard video is available on Youtube