Mercedes-AMG Team RAVENOL charges into the Green Hell

Mercedes-AMG Team RAVENOL charges into the Green Hell

A newcomer with a winner’s DNA:

Endurance racing on the legendary Nordschleife is gaining another prominent team. Under the ‘Mercedes-AMG Team RAVENOL’ banner, a project combining long-term commitment and top-notch performance is launched for the 2026 season and beyond. As part of a multi-year cooperation, the team will enter a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in a total of six races in the ADAC RAVENOL Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie (NLS) and in the legendary ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring. The operational activities will be handled by the renowned Mercedes-AMG Performance Team Winward Racing.

The project underlines the high sporting ambitions of all parties involved. With its status as an official Performance Team, the outfit enjoys support from Affalterbach. A special detail adorns the vehicle livery, which is based on the look of Maro Engel's Mercedes-AMG GT3 in DTM: the team will enter the race with starting number 80. This is a tribute to the 80th anniversary of RAVENOL (founded in 1946). Visually, the power and agility of the vehicle is underlined by the symbol of the cheetah – the fastest land animal in the world is the inspiration for performance on the race track.

For RAVENOL, this commitment is a clear statement of its dedication to motorsport, its partnership with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport and the Nürburgring. After more than a third of the entire field in last year’s 24-hour race already relied on lubricants from Werther, the company is now taking its presence to a new level.

Martin Huning (Director RAVENOL Motorsport): "I am very much looking forward to the new motorsport programme with Mercedes-AMG Motorsport and the Winward team. We have a long-standing and trusting partnership with both companies. We also feel very much at home at the Nürburgring, whether it is through the RAVENOL Media Centre or the RAVENOL S after the start/finish straight. Added to this are the title partnerships with the ADAC RAVENOL Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and the ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring."

Christoph Sagemüller (Head of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport): "Working with RAVENOL to run a Mercedes-AMG GT3 on the Nürburgring Nordschleife is exemplary of what we stand for at Mercedes-AMG Motorsport: long-term partnerships, the highest level of technical expertise and uncompromising performance. We have a long-standing and trusting partnership with RAVENOL, which is now also visible on the biggest stage of endurance racing at the Nürburgring together with our Performance Team Winward Racing."

About RAVENOL

RAVENOL is an internationally operating brand of Ravensberger Schmierstoffvertrieb GmbH from Werther, Germany, specialising in the development, manufacture and distribution of high-quality lubricants. With a comprehensive range of engine and gear oils, hydraulic fluids and speciality products, RAVENOL supplies products to well over 100 countries worldwide. The company uses the extreme conditions of motorsport, particularly the Nürburgring Nordschleife and GT racing as a mobile test laboratory to demonstrate the consistently high performance of its products and to incorporate the results directly into series development.