An NLS round is compact compared with world-championship endurance racing: each event is built around a single long race rather than a multi-day meeting.
Most races last four hours, run flat-out, with one round each season stretching to six hours. Crews are deliberately small — a car may be shared by just one to three drivers, and in the four-hour races a single driver is allowed to go the full distance solo, which few endurance series permit.
A standard round is run largely in a single day: qualifying in the morning sets the grid, then the race follows in the afternoon. Because a hundred-plus cars of very different speeds share the 24-kilometre GP-and-Nordschleife lap, reading traffic — knowing when to attack and when to yield to a much faster or slower class — is a core skill.
Two rounds double as the official ADAC 24h Qualifiers, the warm-up races teams use to ready cars and drivers for the Nürburgring 24 Hours. For how results turn into championship points, see how NLS scoring works.