ADAC GT Masters has confirmed their final TBA on the 2020 schedule. And it’s not a surprise, that it was Hockenheim. It was rather surprising that it wasn’t on the initial schedule issued in September. The race weekend will run from 18-20 September, and will have the ADAC GT Masters, which continues with GT3 cars, joined by ADAC GT4 Germany, ADAC TCR Germany, ADAC Formula 4 and Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland on the time table. The entry for the 2020 series has started this week with 28 full season spots,…
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Bortolotti and Niederhauser hired by Audi
Audi Sport has announced their GT works driver for the 2020 season. There were just ten drivers in the programme in 2019, but that has been extended to twelve. Mirko Bortolotti and Patric Niederhauser are the new employees to race in the Audi R8 GT3 Evo cars all over the world. Niederhauser has been racing Audi cars on/off since 2017 in things like the ADAC GT Masters, but now he is directly under contract with Audi Sport. He won the 2019 ADAC GT Masters title with Kelvin van der Linde…
Read MoreADAC ready for 2020
ADAC has announced the majority of it’s 2020 schedule 6 of the 7 rounds are exactly the same as in 2019, for ADAC GT Masters, and in almost the same order. The majority of th races will run on the same weekends as this year. The season starts once again in Oschersleben at the end of April, before the series visits Most and Red Bull Ring prior to the summer break. After two months of holiday due to the Olympic Games and the European Football Championships, Nürburgring and Zandvoort will…
Read MoreThe winner at Nürburgring disqualified
Sometimes it takes a long time to get to the end point. That is certainly the case in ADAC GT Masters, where the race result from Nürburgring race two back in August, has changed. The winner, Orange1 by GRT Grasser Lamborghini #82 with Rolf Ineichen and Franck Perera, has been disqualified due to a wrong dimension of the air restrictor on their car. That elevates KÜS Team75 Bernhard #17 with Timo Bernhard and Klaus Bachler to the first place, ahead of Kelvin van der Linde and Patric Niederhauser in the…
Read MoreMRS pulls a rabbit out of a hat
Molitor Racing Systems, or in short MRS GT-Racing, has pulled a rabbit out of a hat. The team has just announced their two drivers for the ADAC GT Masters 2019, only two days before the season starts. Jens Klingmann will continue at the German team in their BMW M6 GT3, which is the only representative from the German brand in the series. Klingmann is a BMW works driver, so he is a natural choice for the seat. Hi co-driver will be young Danish driver Nicolai Sylvest, who switches from Team…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters field ready for the opening round – updated
The ADAC GT Masters have their entry ready for the 2019 season. As we have previously reported, 31 cars will run this season, with a good mix of 7 different manufacturers. One of the last teams to announce their drivers is Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing. They have put a Dutch driver in each of their cars – Kelvin Snoeks will share his car with Mick Wishofer, while Jeroen Bleekemolen will be teammates with Jimmy Eriksson. Mick Wishofer has raced in ADAC Formula 4 for the last two seasons,…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters with 31 cars
ADAC GT Masters has got 31 entries for the 2019 season. There is a good mix of new and old faces, with a total of 8 different manufacturers. Audi will be the most popular choice with a total of 13 cars, run by Aust Motorsport, HCB-Rutronik Racing, EFP Car Collection by TECE, BWT Mücke Motorsport, Montaplast by Land-Motorsport, Team ISR plus T3 Motorsport. Mercedes will have five cars by Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing, Schütz Motorsport and Mann-Filter Team HTP, while Porsche keeps their four cars from last season…
Read MoreMore announcements from ADAC GT Masters
The ADAC GT Masters teams are finalizing their 2019 line ups bit by bit. The EFP Car Collection by TECE returns to the series again in 2019. The team with the tongue twister name, will once again enter two Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars, which has now been upgraded to the 2019 Evo versions. Pierre Kaffer and Elia Erhart will share one of the cars. Those two were already teammates in 2018, where they managed to surprise everybody by winning the Sunday race at Sachsenring. They only managed to finish…
Read MoreLambo and Ferrari drivers announced
The entries for the ADAC GT Masters 2019 are coming in with a steady flow these days. GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini and HB Racing Ferrari have also announced their drivers. The GRT team will once again bring three cars. Mirko Bortolotti, Marco Mapelli, Franck Perera, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen will all return, while Michele Beretta will be the new face in the team. Beretta has been selected for the junior programme at Lamborghini, so they have opted to put him in one of their best teams, in of…
Read MoreCorvette and Mercedes drivers announced
Callaway Competition Corvette and MANN-FILTER Team HTP Mercedes have announced their drivers for the upcoming 2019 season in ADAC GT Masters. There are changes to three of the four seats in the two cars. Marvin Kirchhöfer will stay in the Callaway Competition Corvette #77, while he will be joined by Markus Pommer. Pommer was actually driving for HTP in 2018, but had a few seasons in an Audi at Aust Motorsport prior to that. Kirchhöfer has a history at HTP too, but that was back in the 2017 season. MANN-FILTER…
Read MoreBWT Mücke Motorsport upgrades
BWT Mücke Motorsport are doing upgrades ahead of the ADAC GT Masters 2019 season. There is a smaller update on the driver line-up, but primarily on the three cars, that the team enters. All their Audi R8 LMS cars will have the brand new Evo kit from Audi Sport, so the cars will have a bit more performance, and a bit better cooling on warm days. Just like last season, the team will run two pink BWT cars and a single orange kfzteile24 car. The orange #24 will be driven…
Read MorePROsport Performance completes outfit
PROsport Performance has found their final two drivers for the ADAC GT Masters 2019 attack. That will be two brand new drivers in the series, who have neither driven ADAC GT Masters nor an Aston Martin Vantage GT3. Hugo de Sadeleer arrives at the team with two seasons at United Autosports in the European Le Mans Series in his baggage, where he raced LMP cars, which included the 24 Hours of Le Mans. He raced in single-seaters like Formula BMW and Formula Renault prior, before he switched over to the…
Read MoreADAC GT Masters announcements catch-up
The ADAC GT Masters teams are slowly but surely starting to announce their programmes for the 2019 season. We already knew back in December, that KÜS Team75 Bernhard would be back, and earlier we have had Audi confirm a lot of cars. HCB-Rutronik Racing will enter two Audi R8 LMS cars, where one of them will be piloted by Carrie Schreiner and Dennis Marschall. Schreiner has raced ADAC Formula 4 in the past, but went on to compete in things like Lamborghini Super Trofeo. She already started to work with…
Read MoreGetSpeed Performance confirms Mercedes AMG Customer Program for 2019. J2-Racing move up to GT3 class.
We already reported last Saturday, January 26th 2019, about this potential plan. It now has been officially confirmed by GetSpeed Performance, that they will be changing from Porsche to a Mercedes AMG Customer Program for 2019, racing with AMG GT3 and GT4 cars in the VLN Endurance Championship and in the Nürburgring 24 Hours. GetSpeed Performance yet will also expand their activities into other series. They will deploy up to 10 AMG GT GT3 and GT4 in total, and in addition to VLN and N24h, participate with two AMG GT4…
Read MoreRecently retired Schnitzer BMW Team principal Charly Lamm dies suddenly at the age of 63
Only two months after his retirement as team principal of the Schnitzer BMW Team – right after the Macau Grand Prix which Augusto Farfus won for Schnitzer in a BMW M6 GT3 – Charly (Karl) Lamm has died rather suddenly at the age of 63 years on Thursday January 24th, 2019, after a very short but severe illness. Photo: BMW Motorsport This news today has put a large part of the motorsport world in shock and sadness. Team Schnitzer, BMW Motorsport, drivers, fans, and even BMW’s competitors, issued statements on…
Read MoreKÜS Team75 Bernhard mixing up
KÜS Team75 Bernhard has mixed up their driver line-up for the 2019 ADAC GT Masters. Team owner Timo Bernhard will be back in #17, but will have Klaus Bachler as teammate. Bachler drove in the other car during the just finished season. Adrien De Leener gets to stay in #18, while he will be joined by Porsche super star Matteo Cairoli. Cairoli has lately driven in the ELMS and FIA WEC, but will have to dig out the aggressive sprint race driving style out again. But he has more or…
Read MoreBMW ready with their 2019 programme
BMW celebrated all their achievements throughout 2018 yesterday evening in Munich, and announced their 2019 programmes as well. The team confirmed six cars from the DTM 2019, where a brand new 4 cylinder turbo engine with a bit over 600 bhp will be used. That gives a significantly different sound, than what we are used to from the DTM cars, but with a minimum of noise cancelling, there will still be plenty of sound. The team has opted to continue with Philipp Eng, Timo Glock, Marco Wittmann, Joel Eriksson and…
Read MoreAston Martin to run in the ADAC GT Masters
Aston Martin will be represented in the ADAC GT Masters 2019. PROsport Performance plans to run to brand new Aston Martin Vantage GT3 cars, with the homologation procedure currently underway, ahead of the 2019 season. There are no new about the drivers just yet, but the plan is to run two Aston Martin Racing works drivers in one of the two cars. PROsport Performance has their base close to the Nürburgring in Germany, not far away from the AMR Performance Centre, which is located right next to the iconic track.…
Read MoreADAC 2019 schedule ready
The ADAC has announced the schedule for the ADAC GT Masters plus ADAC Formula 4 for the upcoming season. The season will once again start in Oschersleben i April, before Most (only GT), Red Bull Ring, Zandvoort, Nürburgring, Hockenheim, while the season finale will be run at Sachsenring in September. So the ADAC has learned from the calendar confusion ahead of the 2018 season. There were talks about Lausitzring, which ended up becoming Most, while the ADAC F4 ended up having three weekends with the ADAC GT Masters, 3 weekends…
Read MoreDramatic season finale at Hockenheim
It was a dramatic season finale in ADAC GT Masters, that was run at Hockenheim. MANN-FILTER Team HTP Mercedes #47 had taken Pole Position ahead of EFP by TECE Audi #12, GRT Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini #82, and Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi #28. The championship leader Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche #99 would start the race back from P10, while yesterday’s winner as well as P2 in the championship, Callaway Competition Corvette #1 was all the way back in 27th position. They had a lot of cars to overtake before going back…
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