Mixed AMR performances so far as DTM and ADAC GT4 Germany competes at the Nurburgring

It’s a mixed story coming out of the Nurburgring today so far as both the DTM Series and ADAC GT4 Germany compete there for their sixth and fourth rounds (respectively) to their seasons with three Aston Martin Racing powered crews competing within one or the other.

The headlining DTM Series ran qualifying and race one of their weekend programme with Nicki Thiim looking to recover his championship lead from Marco Engel whilst Nicolas Baert still looked for his performance window within the series.

 

Despite Thiim finally losing his double race winning success ballast, expectations were surely higher that what his P11 starting position actually delivered with Baert coming home P19 out of the starting grid of twenty-one cars.

Despite an otherwise clean start to this fifty-five-minute race, progress for the two Comtoyou Racing AMR Vantage GT3 cars was otherwise slow as getting into the top ten (mainly through attrition up ahead), Thiim would eventually come home P11 with Baert the last of the runners again in P12.

For Thiim, that is only a five points drop to Engel who also endured something of a challenging round whilst Baert’s crew again earned their place at the top with the fastest stop for a second consecutive race.

In the ADAC GT4 Germany Series meanwhile, the #4 Cosy Racing with ESM AMR Vantage GT4 of Jan Philipp Springob and Philipp Gogollok ran what could only be described as a demonstration race to secure another overall win within the series.

 

With Springob having qualified the car again upon pole, even an early safety car intervention for a car stranded within the gravel could not affect his patience in first retaining his race lead through the opening sequence of corners before extending that lead into the pit stop window.

Gogollok then picked up the mantel as he saw his race lead near double mainly thanks to those cars in second and third squabbling so much for track position that the black Vantage GT4 literally cruised off into the sunset. Whilst all the racing excitement was between those immediately behind, as they both saw each other off the track many times before coming back together to continue the action, Gogollok just have to keep the car between the white lines to secure the win.

 

For race two tomorrow, Gogollok will this time be starting the car – from pole position again. Let’s just hope that there is no mid event BoP change coming their way!!

Photo credits – ADAC / DTM / social media