Category: ADAC GT Masters

Hockenheim showed its best side, when this season’s penultimate race of ADAC GT Masters was run under clear blue sky and bone-dry asphalt. The starting grid for the race on Saturday was with the Championship leader Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche #99 on Pole Position, ahead of Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi #28, Callaway Competition Corvette #1, and MANN-FILTER Team HTP Mercedes #47. Mikkel Jensen and Timo Scheider would start from tenth position in BMW Team Schnitzer #42, while Nicolai Sylvest and Kim Luis Schramm in Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing…

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KÜS Team75 Bernhard #17 has been disqualified from the ADAC GT Masters race 1 at the Sachsenring. That was announced by the DMSB today. The team raced under appeal, when the scrutineers found some tape on the rear wing of their Porsche 911 GT3 R, which closed a gap between some of the elements, making it more aerodynamic. That tape wasn’t a part of the homologation of the car, and therefore not allowed to be on the car. Both cars from the Bernhard team and the Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche…

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In the second day at Sachsenring in ADAC GT Masters, there was another Porsche on Pole Position. This time it was nothing out of ordinary, with KÜS Team75 Bernhard #18 with Klaus Bachler and Adrien de Leener on Pole, ahead of MANN-FILTER Team HTP Mercedes #47 with Maximilian Götz and Markus Pommer, followed by their sister car #48 with Maximilian Buhk and Indy Dontje. The start got aborted like the race yesterday, so the drivers got an extra warm-up lap. It went wrong at Turn 1, where there were a…

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The upcoming weekend will be incredibly busy for all the sportscar drivers around the world. The WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will race with GTLM and GTD in the USA at Virginia International Raceway. The FIA World Endurance Champoionship and European Le Mans Series will be at Silverstone in Great Britain. VLN will race in Germany at the Nürburgring, and last but not least, the ADAC GT Masters will race at Zandvoort in The Netherlands. That will make all the drivers extremely busy, and naturally hard to be in more than one…

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The weekend’s second race in ADAC GT Masters at Nürburgring saw a completely different team on Pole Position. It was Team ISR #33 with Frank Stippler that snatched Pole for Audi, ahead of another Audi in the form of BWT Mücke Motorsport #24, while MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes #47 sneaked in ahead of BWT Mücke Motorsport Audi #25. The championship leader Callaway Competition Corvette #1 would start from P10, since the car was nowhere near as fast as it was in the last race. BMW Team Schnitzer #42 with…

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The ADAC GT Masters drivers were back on the track after two months of summer vacation. And perhaps the long break was the reason of the many incidents and penalties in the Saturday’s race, but we’ll never know. Nicolai Sylvest took Pole Position for Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing Mercedes #20, ahead of MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes #48 and Zakspeeds #21. Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi #28 stopped the Mercedes dominance – before another HTP #47 on P5. Callaway Competition Corvette #1, the championship leader, started all the way…

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Callaway Competition Corvette #1 had taken Pole Position for the second day in ADAC GT Masters at Red Bull Ring. The local HB Racing Ferrari #7 secured second place, ahead of Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche #99, EFP by TECE Audi #12, MANN-FILTER Team HTP Mercedes #47, and MRS GT-Racing BMW #14. Six different brands in top 6. Mikkel Jensen and Timo Scheider would start from P13 in BMW Team Schnitzer #42, while Nicolai Sylvest and Kim Luis Schramm were all the way down on P25 in Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil…

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The year’s fifth round of the ADAC GT Masters was run under nice blue sky at the Red Bull Ring in the Austrian mountain. Callaway Competition Corvette #1 with Marvin Kirchhöfer had qualified in Pole Position, ahead of BMW Team Schnitzer #42 with Mikkel Jensen behind the wheel, while Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Audi #28 with Sheldon van der Linde made it into three different brands in top three. BMW Team Schnitzer #43 was the first “repeater” on the grid, before HB Racing Ferrari #7, Precote Herberth Motorsport Porsche #99, and…

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The sun was out once again for the 4th round of the ADAC GT Masters, which was run on the Czech race track Most. Maximilian Götz in the MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport #47 had taken Pole Position ahead of Daniel Keilwitz in the Callaway Competition Corvette #1 and Clemens Schmid in the AutoArenA Motorsport Mercedes #84. There were troubles again in Turn 1, where KÜS Team75 Bernhard #17 driven by Kevin Estre was turned around by one of the EFP by TECE Audi cars. Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing…

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The third round of the ADAC GT Masters was run at the Czech race track Most, not far from the German/Czech border. Jeffrey Schmidt had qualified the pink BWT Mücke Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3 #26 on Pole Position, ahead of Marvin Kirchhöfer in the Callaway Competition Corvette C7 GT3 #1, and Christopher Zöchling in the MRS GT-Racing BMW M6 GT3 #14. In fourth place we had Markus Pommer in the MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes AMG GT3 #47. These four cars were less than 0,1 of a second from…

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While the opening round of the ADAC GT Masters was run in sunshine, the Sunday race was run under a thick cloud cover at the Oschersleben track. Lamborghini had taken Pole Position with the GRT Grasser Racing Team #82 ahead ORANGE1 by GRT Grasser #63 and Phoenix Racing Audi #6. That was a bit of a revenge for GRT Grasser Racing Team, who had got all three cars disqualified in the Saturday race, losing a podium position. Just like in the Saturday race, there was a further formation lap. That…

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The ADAC GT Masters season started today at Oschersleben near Magdeburg, where 35 cars were entered for the opening round. Phoenix Racing only just started in ADAC GT Masters, but that didn’t keep them from taking Pole Position with car #5, driven by Max Hofer and Philp Ellis. ORANGE1 by GRT Grasser Lamborghini #63 with Mirko Bortolotti and Andreas Caldarelli was the second fastest car, ahead of BMW Team Schnitzer #42 with Timo Scheider and Mikkel Jensen. The cars got an extra formation lap, since there was too much space…

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Nicolai Sylvest is finally ready for his third season in the ADAC GT Masters. The 20 year-old racing driver has been working hard on securing sponsors to be able to drive ones again in the German GT series. He was invited for the official test day for all the teams at Oschersleben two weeks ago, where Team Zakspeed wanted to him to test the car. He has been racing for Zakspeed for the previous two years as well. The test went beyond expectations, and Sylvest actually ended up posting the…

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BWT Mücke Motorsport are ready for the ADAC GT Masters 2018 with three identical cars. The team has traditionally been a Mercedes team, but two Audi R8 LMS cars sneaked into the workshop in 2017 for their ADAC GT Masters season and selected VLN rounds. The Mercedes-AMG GT3 has been pushed aside this year, and instead the team has opted to run a third Audi. Stefen Mücke will share one of the cars with Jeffrey Schmidt, who drove for Montaplast by Land Motorsport last year. There will be some races,…

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Schubert Motorsport has been synonymous with BMW Motorsport through the past many seasons, but that is not how it’s going to be in the ADAC GT Masters 2018. Schubert Motorsport has made a deal with Honda about running their Honda NSX GT3 car. They will run under the Honda Team Schubert Motorsport banner. Swiss Giorgio Maggi and German Christopher Dreyspring will be the two drivers. Both drivers already have experience from sportscar racing. 20 year-old Maggi won the CN category in the Asian Le Mans Series in 2015/16, followed up…

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BMW Team Schnitzer will double their entry in the ADAC GT Masters. They will enter two BMW M6 GT3 cars with a very interesting driver line-up. German Timo Scheider will share the first car with Dane Mikkel Jensen, while the other car will be driven by fellow German Dennis Marschall and Swede Victor Bouveng. Timo Scheider arrived at BMW in 2017, where he participated with the GT3 car at Nürburgring plus various other outings. Mikkel Jensen was chosen as BMW Junior Driver in 2017. He raced at several VLN rounds…

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Callaway Competition will enter with two new drivers, when the ADAC GT Masters season starts in three weeks’ time. But there will be a very well know face driving the car during most of the season too. But how is that possible, you might ask. Well, Marvin Kirchhöfer is new driver to the team, and will be driving the blue Corvette C7 GT3-R throughout the full season. Daniel Keilwitz will be racing with Kirchhöfer in five out of the seven events, while Frank Kechele will replace Keilwitz at the Oschersleben…

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Russian Ivan Lukashevich will be the fourth and final driver at Phoenix Racing in the upcoming ADAC GT Masters season. The 26 year-old will be paired up with Oscar Tunjo in the blue Phoenix Racing Audi R8 LMS GT3 with number 6 on the door. Lukashevich started in karting when he was young. He entered the brand new GP3 series back in 2010, and has since then done various touring car and GT racing, with some of them being run back in Russia. So that makes it clear that Phoenix…

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AutoArena Motorsport will enter the ADAC GT Masters this season. The team will compete with a Mercedes-AMG GT3, receiving support from HTP Motorsport, who races two cars themselves. Clemens Schmid and Patrick Assenheimer will be the two drivers, racing with car #84. Clemens Schmid has raced in the Porsche Carrera Cup Deutschland through many season. But he has had a taste of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, before he participated in the ADAC GT Masters in 2015 for Bentley Team HTP. He raced in the Blancpain GT in 2016 and 2017…

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