Final races this weekend at Hockenheim for the DTM and ADAC GT4 Germany Series
Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Whilst it has been an eight-round double header undertaking for the mostly twenty-four strong GT3 powered grid of the DTM Series, the numbers of participants within the supporting GT4 Germany Series has fluctuated a bit over their five previous rounds but this final weekend will again see both Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3’s within DTM and the Eastside Motorsport and pair of Prosport Racing Vantage GT4’s with the ADAC series.
For the #7 and #8 Comtoyou Racing entries of Gilles Magnus and Nicolas Baert, the introduction into the ultra-competitive nature of the DTM Series has been a very steep learning curve for both the drivers and team as they stepped up to the series for the first time this year onto top of all their other racing commitments this season.
Whilst the year certainly did not start off well for either car, more recent performances (and indeed the series releasing the Vantage GT3 a bit more in terms of available Balance of Performance) has seen more encouraging signs that has lead the team to already commitment to the series for next season.
A P3 qualifying performance from Magnus ahead of race one at the Red Bull Ring last time and another earlier on at the Nurburgring togther with a P7 result in the second race of that round have been the team’s best results to date, so doing better than that at Hockenheim will be a true driving force to finish the year upon something of a high.
Within the ADAC GT4 Germany Series, it’s been something of a disappointing season for the two full season Prosport Racing entries of Anton Abee and Marek Bockmann aboard their #17 car and former series champion Hugo Sasse alongside Roman Fellner-Feldegg in their #19 car as consistency certainly departed them this season.
Still as equally competitive as the series always has been, the two older 16A variants of the Aston Martin have struggled against new machinery from other OEM’s, something that was quickly highlighted with the return mid-season of the Eastside Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 Evo of Jan Philipp Springob and Storm Gjerdrum.
Still as equally competitive as the series always has been, the two older 16A variants of the Aston Martin have struggled against new machinery from other OEM’s, something that was quickly highlighted with the return mid-season of the Eastside Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 Evo of Jan Philipp Springob and Storm Gjerdrum.
Their #4 car quickly impressed at their series introduction at the Nurburgring where they qualified for their first race in third and finished sixth whilst both Prosport crews have also enjoyed pole positions (like the #4 crew went on to have) both have only gone on to only follow that up in later races/rounds with more lowly finishes.
With nothing more than pride to race for for the Prosport crews (and the ESM crew still be listed as a non-points scoring guest entry), the pressure will be off around the fast and furious Hockenheimring this weekend for their final two, hour long races.
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