ADAC Motorsport are ready with their GT Masters and F4 calendars for 2017.
The calendar will have a very familiar look to the 2016 calendar with the exact same venues, just a bit of shuffling.
On 6 of the 7 weekends we will have all three series racing together. Only the Zandvoort race will be stand-alone for GT Masters, whereas Formula 4 have two weekends racing at Oschersleben.
The Zandvoort date is a date clash with FIA WEC at the Nürburgring on the same weekend, which might cause some problems for some teams.
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Both series will be shown live on Sport1 in Germany, and most likely on live streaming via ADAC-Motorsport.de as well.
ADAC GT Masters has no major rule changes, but Formula 4 does have a quite significant one. For the 2016 season there were talks of more than 45 cars entering the series. Therefore the series decided to split the qualifying and do a qualifying race due to a maximum limit of 35 cars on some of the circuits that the series visited. However it turned out that there were rarely more than 35-37 starting drivers for the weekends anyway, and only a few cars had to be sent home, with unhappy drivers at the expense. Now everybody is allowed to participate for the whole weekend included the 3 races – subjected to meeting qualification minimum time of course.
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The calendar is as follows (subject to change):
28/04/17 – 30/04/17 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben
19/05/17 – 21/05/17 Motorsport Festival Lausitzring (together with the DTM)
09/06/17 – 11/06/17 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, Austria
07/07/17 – 09/07/17 Motorsport Arena Oschersleben (Formula 4 only)
14/07/17 – 16/07/17 Circuit Park Zandvoort, Netherlands (GT Masters only)
04/08/17 – 06/08/17 Nürburgring
15/09/17 – 17/09/17 Sachsenring
22/09/17 – 24/09/17 Hockenheimring
