ADAC GT Masters is heading into another season with more than thirty cars on the grid. 31 are currently announced for the season opener, which will run this weekend at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben near Magdeburg. Aust Motorsport Audi #3 has done a bit of a scoop, getting Daniel Keilwitz and Sebastian Asch, who both are ADAC GT Masters Champions. The team will only run a single car this year, so they can put full focus on this entry. The previous seasons have been a two-car team, with one being filled…
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Precote Herberth Motorsport with two cars
Precote Herberth Motorsport will run a pair of Porsche 911 GT3 R cars in the ADAC GT Masters 2021. The Championship winning outfit from 2018 will bring their traditional #99, driven by Robert Renauer and Sven Müller. Renauer is part owner of the team, together with his twin brother Alfred, and it was Robert who won the 2018 title alongside Matthieu Jaminet. Müller has been a bit in and out of ADAC GT Masters, having previously raced for the team in 2017. Müller and Renauer raced together for most of…
Read MoreSeveral driver announcements for ADAC GT Masters
ADAC GT Masters is slowly but surely getting ready for the 2021 season. A sign of that is the team beginning to announce their drivers. The series announced a 33 car entry for the season, with a mix of new and old teams. One of the old teams has gotten a bit of a new look for 2021. KÜS Team75 Bernhard will run a brand new driver combination, in the shape of 2020 Champion Christian Engelhart alongside Thomas Preining. Engelhart won the title for SSR Performance alongside Michael Ammermüller, with…
Read More33 entered for 2021
ADAC GT Masters is very at being fully subscribed for the 2021 season, with 33 cars entered per 15 December. The big German GT series have received entries from 20 different teams, with a total of 8 different brands. It’s a huge boost for the series, that internally in Germany are fighting with DTM, who is going to jump onto the GT3 concept too in 2021. There are no entry list released, since it’s up to the teams themselves to announce their programmes, but the organizers inform that there are…
Read MoreStronger ties between ADAC and SRO
The ADAC and SRO have signed an agreement about even stronger ties between the two organizations in GT racing. That has resulted in some adjustments to the ADAC GT Masters schedule for 2021, so they avoid clashes with GT World Challenge Europe and Intercontinental GT Challenge. The race at Zandvoort has been moved to 9-11 July, while the season finale at Hockenheimring will be pushed back one week to 22-24 October. The two organizations are already working together on the BOP on the cars, since ADAC GT Masters follows the…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters changes to Lausitzring
ADAC GT Masters has issued an update to the 2020 schedule today. Zandvoort in the Netherlands should have hosted the next round in 14 days’ time, but due to COVID-19 restrictions at the Dutch circuit, the series has opted to move the race weekend to Lausitzring. It’s the second time in 2020, that the series goes to the track located between Berlin and Dresden. The advantage for that venue is that they have plenty of time in their schedule, opposite to other German tracks, that are very busy at hosting…
Read MoreGT Masters with well known venues
ADAC GT Masters has announced a 2021 schedule with well-known venues There is a risk of the seven events changing, like everything changes at the moment, but at least these 7 weekends are the primary plan. The season will start in Oschersleben on 14-16 May, with Red Bull Racing being on schedule one month later. Then it’s onto a two-month summer break, the series returns to the Nürburgring early August. 14 days later it’s Zandvoort, before Lausitzring will run one month later. The two final weekends of the year will…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters 2020 started
The ADAC GT Masters 2020 season finally got going, with the opening round being run today at the Lausitzring between Berlin and Dresden. Toksport WRT Mercedes #22 with Luca Stolz and Maro Engel had Pole Position for the Saturday race, ahead of T3-HRT Motorsport Audi #71 with Maximilian Paul and Niels Langeveld, while Team WRT Audi #32 with Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor were P3. The defending Champions from Rutronik Racing Audi #31 with Patric Niederhauser and Kelvin van der Linde started the race in 9th position. It was a…
Read More33 cars ready for season opener
The ADAC GT Masters 2020 will start off this weekend, with 33 cars entered. That is a really impressive field, considering all the difficulties regarding the COVID-19 situation around the world, with all the effects on the economy for many companies. We can refer to the entry list in this previous article, but there have been some changes, that we will highlight here. Nicolai Sylvest was called up by the MRS GT-Racing BMW #14 team earlier this week. He raced for the outfit last year, and was actually not meant…
Read MoreBrand new technology introduced in ADAC GT Masters
When the ADAC GT Masters 2020 season starts this weekend, there will be some brand new technology debuting in racing. KÜS Team75 Bernhard will enter a third Porsche 911 GT3 R this weekend, but there is a very important thing, that makes is different than the regular 911 GT3. The car will run a steer-by-wire developed by Schaeffler. There is no mechanical connection from the steering wheel and the steering rack itself, which is completely opposite of everything that is usually on the road, let alone the race tracks. It…
Read More33 cars and 8 marques in ADAC GT Masters
ADAC GT Masters is ready with an almost full grid for the 2020 season. Considering the COVID-19 situation, it’s very well done to have 33 cars on a 34 maximum grid for this years championship. It will once again be a very good mix of various brands, with Bentley returning to the series, after a few years away. T3 Motorsport will campain one of the British cars, alongside their Audi R8 LMS from past years. Audi is the brand with the most cars entered – 14 out of the 33…
Read MoreOpening round confirmed and final pushed back
The ADAC GT Masters have confirmed their opening round for the 2020 season. The date will still be on 31 July and 1 August, but the event will be at the Lausitzring between Berlin and Dresden. ADAC GT Masters last visited the circuit in 2017. When the updated schedule was announced one and a half months ago, it was also that date, but with the choice of either Most in the Czech Republic or Lausitzring. The series has chosen to stay in Germany due to the uncertainty about possible travel…
Read MorePorsche team pulling out the big guns
When the ADAC GT Masters 2020 season gets going, there will be a new full season team on the grid. The SSR Performance team enters as Porsche 911 GT3 R, and it’s certainly not Mr Nobody behind that effort. The team will have technical support from Manthey-Racing, which is owned by Porsche. They are the team running the VLN and the FIA WEC programs for the brand, so you don’t find a Porsche team with more experience than Manthey. They have chosen to put the three times Porsche Mobil 1…
Read MoreA lot of new at Land-Motorsport
Land-Motorsport has their two cars for the upcoming ADAC GT Masters season, with several news items from the team. There have been quite significant changes during the winter. It’s become somewhat of a habit of calling them Montaplast by Land-Motorsport in ADAC GT Masters, VLN, N24 and IMSA, but the title sponsor is no longer part of the team, so now it’s just known as Land-Motorsport. There are changes to the driver line-up. Christopher Mies and Max Hofer continue from their 2019 lineup, but the pair will be split up…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters et al. with new schedule
ADAC GT Masters and their support series have had to reissue their 2020 schedule due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The season will still contain 7 race weekends, but instead of being run over five months, it will all happen in just under three months. The new start to the season will be in the Czech Republic at Most – or potentially Lausitzring if there are limitations to the entry to the country, before Nürburgring, Zandvoort, Hockenheim and Sachsenring stick to their previously announced dates. Red Bull Ring has moved their…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters postpone and moves around
There is hardly any race series in the world that isn’t affected by the COVID-19 virus. ADAC GT Masters is the most recent one to be hit, and it resulted in the opening race planned for the end of April in Oschersleben being postponed until October. It changes the event from being the opening round to being the final round of the 2020 series. Oschersleben was scheduled to host the collective test early April, but that has been cancelled and won’t be replaced. There is still no decision on Round…
Read MoreLambo, Audi and BMW news
The driver announcements for the ADAC GT Masters 2020 keep coming in at a high rate. GRT Grasser Racing Team has announced Clemens Schmid as the teammate to Niels Langrange in the green Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo #19. Schmid has previously raced in the ADAC GT Masters, but most recently did so in a Mercedes. He is a bit of a multi-brand talent, having raced Porsche, Bentley and Audi in the past too, but this will be his first time in a Lambo. Aust Motorsport returns with two Audi R8…
Read MoreGT Masters driver announcements en masse
The ADAC GT Masters teams are slowly starting to announce their 2020 drivers. With two months left until the season opener, we already have a lot of names set in stone. The defending champions from HCB-Rutronik Racing Audi will return with their championship pair Patric Niederhauser and Kelvin van der Linde. Both drivers in the team’s second car has also been renewed, with Dennis Marschall and Carrie Schreiner getting their second season for the team. They finished the season off with a podium at the Hockenheim weekend. Their goal is…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters oversubscribed
ADAC GT Masters already has all spots taken for the 2020 season. It’s just two weeks since the entry for the 2020 season opened, and the organizers have chosen to close the entry today, having already received 39 entries. Only 34 cars are allowed by the rules, so there will have to be a bit of picking and choosing to be done. No complete entry list has been announced, but the series itself has revealed that WRT, Toksport and SSR Performance are new full-season teams. On top of that, we…
Read MorePorsche retirements and new hires etc
Porsche held their annual season-ending party in Stuttgart, where the 2019 season was closed down, and looking forward to 2020. When you say Porsche – at least for the last twenty years – you often think about Jörg Bergmeister and Timo Bernhard. These two will go into retirement now, but will still be present at Porsche, becoming brand ambassadors. Bergmeister will be helping out on new road car development, while Bernhard will continue running his own KÜS Team75 Bernhard team in ADAC GT Masters. 43-year-old Bergmeister and 38-year-old Bernhard have…
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