Nordschleife Tourist 2025 accessible without Nürburgring 2025 DLC – is this intended?

Hi everyone,

First of all, I would like to apologize if this is not the appropriate place to make this inquiry; I have tried to find an answer by searching for all possible information, but I haven't found anything.

I noticed something unusual in Automobilista 2 and I'd like to check whether anyone else is experiencing the same behaviour, or whether this is actually intended.

I own the base game of Automobilista 2 and the following DLCs:

• Brazilian Racing Legends
• Formula HiTech

I do not own the Nürburgring 2025 DLC.

However, I can select and actually drive Nordschleife Tourist 2025

There is also no red DLC star next to this layout in the track selection screen.

I have checked my Steam account and the Nürburgring 2025 DLC is definitely not licensed.

For example, Steam's console returns:

] licenses_for_app 3895690

No active license found for appID 3895690.
AppID 3895690 is Automobilista 2 - Nürburgring 2025.

My AMS2 license is:
] licenses_for_app 1066890
License packageID 484246:
- State : Active (flags 0x200) -
- Apps : 1066890, 1338040, (2 in total)
- Depots : 1066891, 1338041, (2 in total)

The Nürburgring 2025 DLC is also not listed under Steam → AMS2 → Properties → DLC. Only Brazilian Racing Legends and Formula HiTech are shown there.

According to Reiza's information regarding the 1.6.9 release, Nordschleife Tourist was added as part of the Nürburgring 2025 DLC, and the subsequent 1.6.9.2 changes indicated that Touristenfahrten access would become restricted to owners of the relevant DLC.

So I'm wondering:

Is Nordschleife Tourist 2025 supposed to be accessible to owners of the base game without the Nürburgring 2025 DLC, or is this a bug/unintended unlock?

As far as I've been able to check, I cannot access other DLC content that I don't own. This seems to be limited specifically to Nordschleife Tourist 2025.

I'd appreciate it if someone could confirm whether they see the same behaviour with a base-game-only account.

Thanks!