ADAC GT Masters and GT4 Germany round off the year at Hockenheim
Sunday, October 20, 2024
The final round of the ADAC GT Masters Series finished this weekend at the Hockenheimring certainly at lot better than the season had started for them for at least one half of the Walkenhorst Motorsport entry.
Rounding off this weekend sixth and final double header of the season it was again the pair of Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT3’s from the Walkenhorst stable who represented the British marque within the seventeen strong entry.
Mike David Ortmann and Denis Bulatov again paired within the #34 car whilst Chandler Hull and Nico Hantke again paired the team’s #35 Pro-Am entry, and it was that pairing who rounded off this final race weekend best with a final pair of P2 class finishes at the end of each of Saturday and Sunday’s hour-long races.
Unfortunately, too little too late for this pairing as both crews finished the year within the mid table of the overall results.
Unfortunately, too little too late for this pairing as both crews finished the year within the mid table of the overall results.
It was something of a similar thread from within the supporting ADAC GT4 Masters Series which also concluded this weekend but with another AMR Vantage GT4 pairing to add to the season long #55 Zakspeed with ESM Motorsport entry.
The other half of the then reigning ADAC GT4 Germany Championship crew in Hugo Sasse (other half was Mike David-Ortmann) paired up again with his former GT4 European Series co-driver in Raphael Rennhofer and that caused something of a stir between the outgoing 17A variant of the Vantage GT4 of the #1 Prosport Racing entry and the new 2024 #55 Zakspeed entry.
Whilst the #55 crew have apparently been ‘plagued’ with technical issues (particularly with braking) within their new car, the #1 crew were able to arrive and drive to two front row starts over this weekend (Pole position on Sunday) and convert both in podium finishes whilst the Zakspeed crew could offer no higher than P8 over the weekend.
Neither sets of results impacting much upon the remaining championship battles as Zakspeed drivers Philipp Gogollok and Jan Marschalkowski finished the year tenth overall and ninth within the Team’s Championship.
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