A highly eventful GT4 Germany Series weekend sees two AMR crews of the podium
Sunday, August 10, 2025
For this third round of the season, we welcomed the Eastside Motorsport team to the series with one of their Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 Evo’s to complete alongside the two older 17A iterations from the locally based Prosport Racing team and for much of the first half to the racing programme, it was the crew of the #4 ESM AMR who were leading much of the charge although not having it all their own way.
In Free Practice 1 it was the #4 car of Jan Philipp Springob and Storm Gjerdrum who lead the timing screen before the full season entrants Anton Abee and Marek Bochmann did similar with a P2 in FP2. Come Q1 on Saturday, however, these two Astons plus the #19 Prosport car of Hugo Sasse and Roman Fellner-Feldegg had locked out three of the top five starting positions with the #4 car again highest in P3.
The opening lap to the first hour long race were the usual frenetic ones customary of any decent GT4 based series with both the #4 and #19 Astons battling for the early podium-based positions as the race finally settled.
An early Full Course Yellow for debris then showed the first signs of frailty within the #19 car of Sasse as he struggled to pick up pace at the restart and slowly dropped positions going into the pit stop window. Whilst Fellner-Feldegg would get a couple of racing laps in, his demise was shown struggling to slow the car into turn one where it was soon parked behind the armco for another racing retirement.
Whilst the other two Astons did continue, the early P3 running pace of the #4 ESM car was blighted within pit lane as they lost three clear positions having to be pushed back because of the car pitting in front blocking their path but they would recover to finish ultimately P7 overall, capturing a Rookie race win for the sixteen-year-old Gjerdrum and a P9 finish for the #17 Prosport car.
Those positions would be reverse in Q2 as first the #4 ESM car suffered technical issues not to post any representative times whilst Bochmann would secure his first pole position of the year in his #17 car with its sister #19 car a distant P12.
Early drama’s in race 2 saw the #19 get involved within the usual turn one incidences and contact whilst the #17 car ran wide at turn two next time around to lose the race lead having held a decent gap across the line for the first time whilst the #4 car was already up to P18.
That charge from the #4 car however ended on just the fourth lap with (presumably) a reoccurrence of their earlier technical gremlins whilst the #19 car was also giving away positions based upon their apparent lack of race pace again.
As the pit window opened, Fellner-Feldegg was still hanging in there and Bockmann was back up to P3 after his earlier mistake and with Abee increasing that to a P2 position on his outlap.
With fifteen minutes to go, the #19 AMR was again pulled over but with broken front suspension for its second DNF of the weekend, but its sister car managed to hang on to take a P2 finish at what became the chequered flag after the race was red flagged with just under three minutes to go because of an issue with the track surface.
The Series will now move onto the Sachsenring at the end of the month.
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