Category: ADAC GT Masters

Aust Motorsport has got all the drivers signed for the upcoming ADAC GT Masters season. Frederic Vervisch and Nikolaj Rogivue were announced just over one month ago, and now the team is ready to present Remo Lips and Maximilian Hackländer in the other car. Remo Lips have been driving for the MRS GT-Racing team in their Nissan GT-R GT3 for the last few seasons. He has passed 100 starts in the ADAC GT Masters, so he is very experienced by now. On top of that, he won the Trophy Championship…

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Team Rosberg will run one of the youngest driver combinations in this years ADAC GT Masters. After a 7-year break from the series, the team has opted to return with two Lamborghini Huracan GT3 cars. Team owner Keke Rosberg had plenty of chances to sign with some big names for the team, but he has instead chosen to go for something Nordic and something central-European, with some of the fastest talents in the junior classes. Youngest driver will be Jonathan Judek at just 18 years old. He drove for the…

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HTP Motorsport has revealed their for drivers for their ADAC GT Masters 2018 season. It will be four drivers with plenty of GT experience, who will pilot the two cars, sponsored by Mann-filter, which will make them very recognizable with their green/yellow sponsor colours. One of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars will be driven by Maximilian Götz and Markus Pommer, while Maximilian Buhk and Indy Dontje will race together in the other one. Götz, Buhk and Dontje are already well-known faces at HTP and Mercedes, while Markus Pommer arrives to the…

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Porsche will be represented with 4 cars in the ADAC GT Masters 2018. The Ring Police team was the first out to announce their drivers. Jan-Erik Slooten and Lucas Luhr are racing with the newly formed team, who bought a Porsche 911 GT3 R for this upcoming season. KÜS Team75 Bernhard announced their four drivers during December and January, and other than team owner Timo Bernhard, the talents in the shape of Kevin Estre, Adrien de Leener and Klaus Bachler will be racing for the team. The fourth and final…

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GRT Grasser Racing Team is one the stalwarts of the ADAC GT Masters They will expand from two to three full season cars in the 2018 season. The green car #19 will be run by Ezequiel Perez Companc and Franck Perera. The sister car #82 will have Rolf Ineichen and Christian Engelhart behind the wheel. Orange 1 Team by GRT #63 will be piloted by the two fast Italians Andrea Caldarelli and Mirko Bortolotti, but it still has to be confirmed if they will run with an orange Lamborghini Huracan…

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Claudia Hürtgen has been associated with BMW for many years, but there will a different logo on the fire suit in the ADAC GT Masters this season. She will be driving for RWT Racing in their Corvette C7 GT3-R #13, sharing the car with Sven Barth. RWT Racing starts their fifth season in the ADAC GT Masters,and 2018 will be the second full season with the C7 model. That model won the overall Championship in 2017 with Jules Gounon at Callaway Competitoin. Sven Barth has been driving for the team…

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Montaplast by Land-Motorsport will once again enter the ADAC GT Masters with two cars. We already knew that two weeks ago, when the official entry list was revealed. While they will continue in the well known green and white Audi R8 LMS cars, they have done a big shake-up on the driver side for 2018. Christopher Mies is the only guy to return to the team for ADAC GT Masters, in which will be his third season with the team. They won the Championship together in 2015 alongside Connor De…

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The 24 seats in the 12 Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars in this year’s ADAC GT Masters are slowly filled up. The latest announcement cam from Team ISR. They will race with two Audi veterans, in the shape of Frank Stippler and Filip Salaquarda. Salaquarda and Stippler have driven together at several occasions, like in the Blancpain GT Series. ISR is an acronym for Igor Salaquarda Racing. Igor is the father of Filip, but has had prominent names like Daniel Ricciardo, Sam Bird, Sergei Sirotkin and Indy 500 winner Alexander…

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Team Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing will celebrate their 50th anniversary this year, so they are aiming at the biggest trophy of them all in the ADAC GT Masters. The team has hired Sebastian Asch and kept Luca Stolz for one of their Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars , to achieve this goal. Asch was part of the title winning crew in the team in 2015, but he went to BMW Mücke Motorsport in their Mercedes for the 2017 season. Now he returns to the team, who has its base in Niederzissen,…

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When the ADAC GT Masters 2018 has their first race weekend, in the middle of April, it will be with a huge field. With 37 entries, it will be the highest entry since 2012, for the successful German series for GT3 cars. A total of 8 different brands will be fighting against each other. Other than Audi, Mercedes, Corvette, Lamborghini, Porsche and BMW, all keeping on going like in 2017, Ferrari is back, as previously mentioned here. The brand new thing in ADAC GT Masters will be Honda, who enters…

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There will at least two more new teams entering the upcoming ADAC GT Masters season, starting in April. Team RING POLICE will enter a Porsche 911 GT3 R, with Lucas Luhr and Jan-Erik Slooten driving. Jean Pierre Kraemer is part owner of the team, together with Slooten. That name might not ring a bell for people outside Germany, but he has a car programme on German television. The final name of the team will be announced in the near future. Lucas Luhr has done almost everything within GT and sportscar…

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Aust Motorsport has their first two drivers ready for the ADAC GT Masters 2018. Frederic Vervisch will pair up with Nikolaj Rogivue in an Audi R8 LMS GT3. 21 year old Rogivue has had two seasons at Team Zakspeed, where he shared an Mercedes AMG with Nicolai Sylvest. But now the Swedish-Swiss driver is looking for a new challenge in the Audi team. Vervisch is the most experienced with his 31 years of age in that particular car. The Belgium won the ATS Formula 3 Championship in 2008 and the…

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Phoenix Racing is announcing their ADAC GT Masters 2018 line-up bit by bit. Oscar Tunjo was announced between Christmas and New Year as the first of four driver, and Brit Philip Ellis was announced today as the second of their total of four drivers. Ellis has two seasons of the Audi Sport TT Cup in his baggage, winning the 2017 title with a big margin, after taking 5 wins and a total of 11 podiums in 13 races. Philip Ellis was a part of the winning Phoenix Racing team at…

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Klaus Bachler and Adrien de Leener will also be driving a Porsche 911 GT3 R in the ADAC GT Masters this year. Bachler will, however, be stepping through a different door this season, since he will be sharing the #18 entered by the KÜS Team75 Bernhard. De Leener was a full season driver of the #18 during 2017, where he raced with Christopher Friedrich. The team, which is owned by triple Le Mans winner Timo Bernhard, has chosen to upgrade to Klaus Bachler for this upcoming season. Bachler has one…

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After three seasons of running with up to two Nissan GT-R GT3 cars, the MRS GT-Racing will run two brand new BMW cars in the upcoming ADAC GT Masters season. The plans to run two of the brand new updated BMW M6 GT3 models, with the first test drives bring held in Spain in February. The team from Lonsee between Stuttgart and Munich is used to handle a lot of different types of cars. They have their 25 year anniversary in 2018, and has been a part of the DTM,…

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The prancing horse returns to the ADAC GT Masters in 2018. HB Racing has just announced that they will enter at least one, but hopefully two Ferrari 488 GT3 cars in the coming season. The team will work closely together with Rinaldi Racing, who has great experience in the Italian brand. Rinaldi Racing were the ones who were behind the two-car effort for Scuderia Corsa at last year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, among many other things, as well as travelling the world and running or supporting other GT3 teams.…

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The GRT Grasser Racing Team will enter two cars again, when the ADAC GT Masters 2018 Championship starts in april. The Austrian team will once again show up with two Lamborghini Huracan GT3 cars, and the driver line-up remains unchanged. Mirko Bortolotti and Ezequiel Perez Companc will share car #19, while Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen will team up in the #63. The team won 3 victories during the 2017 season, which was all raced home in the Sunday races. They didn’t have much luck in the Saturday races however,…

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KÜS Team75 Bernhard will enter the 2018 ADAC GT Masters with a new driver line-up. That was announced by tonight during the annual celebrations called Night of Champions. Team boss Timo Bernhard will jump into the driving seat of car #17 himself and will be joined by Kevin Estre. Both will drive the brand new Porsche 911 GT3R, which has been launched by Porsche for GT3 series all over the world. They participated with two cars in the championship during the 2017 season, but so far there are no news…

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