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Prototype Cup Germany

sports car racing series based in Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ116008337 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Prototype Cup Germany was a sports car racing series based in Germany, organized by ADAC and Creventic between 2022 and 2025.

History

The inaugural season of the Prototype Cup Germany was announced on December 22, 2021, with four race weekends confirmed at Spa-Francorchamps, Nürburgring, Lausitzring and Hockenheimring. The series folded after the 2025 season, after the organizers could not reach an agreement with ACO about the continuation of the V8-powered cars.

Format

The race weekend consisted of two, 55-minute sprint races with a mandatory pit stop.

Classes

The series was open to LMP3 prototypes with CN cars also eligible to enter, running on Michelin tires.

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The public source identifies “Prototype Cup Germany” as sports car racing series based in Germany. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Prototype, Germany and sports.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2025, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Prototype, Germany and sports providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Prototype Cup Germany” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.