Final races this weekend at Hockenheim for the DTM and ADAC GT4 Germany Series
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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Wednesday, October 01, 2025 |
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Another mixed bag for the three Aston Martin runners in ADAC GT4 Germany
Fortunately missing much of the rain that blighted the headlining DTM Series on Saturday, it was the #4 Eastside Motorsport AMR Vantage GT4 Evo of Jan Philipp Springob who took pole position for race one whilst the two Prosport Racing AMR entries of Roman Fellner-Feldegg was P7 in his #19 car whilst the #17 car of last time out pole setter Marek Bockmann was P10.
Springob held and maintained the lead through the opening laps and immediate Safety Car period to be able to hand the car over to co-driver Storm Gjerdrum with a to second lead. Initially extending that race lead to nearly six seconds, the young Norwegian was eventually caught and passed with just minutes to go to eventually finish third on track.
A post-race penalty for the #4 car for repeated contact with another on the final lap saw the #4 eventually be placed in fifth with the #17 car of Hugo Sasse in P10 and Anton Abee P18 in the #19 car.
Race two on Sunday went much the same was but this time had the #19 upon pole position and the #4 car a little further back in fourth and the #17 car in twelfth.
With Sasse holding the lead and Gjerdrum having to run very wide at times to maintain position, the #17 car of Abee was getting a lot of unwanted attention from other cars within the midst of the pack which saw cars make contact with the green Aston Martin.
Sasse soon lost the race lead and was down to fourth just ahead of the pit stop window as the #4 and #17 cars pitted early but the ESM’s day would again end early (like at the Nurburgring last time out) as technical issues brought their car to a standstill.
For the Prosport Racing contingent, race two also unfortunately fizzled out into another disappointing finish with the #19 eventually finishing P12 and the sister car P15.
Next stop will be the Red Bull Ring in mid-September.
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Sunday, August 24, 2025 |
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Three Aston Martin Vantage GT4s for teh ADAC GT4 Germanys visit to the Sachsenring this weekend
Like the Nurburgring, we again welcome back the three Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s crews from both the Prosport Racing and Eastside Motorsport teams after one car from each team visited the podium at the end of one race last time out.
The #17 Prosport Racing AMR of Marek Bockmann and Anton Abee struggled in race one on Saturday but came back to convert their pole position for race two on Sunday into a P2 finish for their efforts whilst the hardship of their opposite #19 crew of Hugo Sasse and Roman Fellner-Feldegg sadly continued with further DNF’s in both races after further car related issues.
The big surprise came from the #4 Cosy Racing with ESM AMR Vantage GT4 Evo crew of Jan Philipp Springob and Storm Gjerdrum after the young Norwegian (Gjerdrum) claimed a second row start for race 1 first time out in the series before converting that to an overall P7 finish but a Rookie win for Gjerdrum. That early run of success was sadly blighted by technical troubles of their own on Sunday which saw them unable to post a qualifying time and ultimately unable to complete the race.
Technical issues hopefully sorted by all concerned, the Sachsenring is a firm favourite of the Prosport Racing team, so fingers crossed for all three crews.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2025 |
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A highly eventful GT4 Germany Series weekend sees two AMR crews of the podium
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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Sunday, August 10, 2025 |
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Three Vantage GT4 crews this time as the GT4 Germany Series moves onto the Nurburgring
This is firstly the two Prosport Racing full season entries of both Marek Bockmann/Anton Abee aboard their #17 car and Hugo Sasse/Roman Fellner-Feldegg in their #19 car but this time they will be joined by the returning Eastside Motorsport team and their #4 Vantage GT4 Evo for drivers Jan Philipp Springob and Storm Gjerdrum.
Not seen since the end of last season (apart from a few private track days) when the ESM team ran both Jan Marschalkowski and Phillip Gogollok, it is hoped that the team will feature within the series for its closing four rounds.
Last time out in the series at the Norisring back in early July, that saw the #17 car fail to finish within either race, despite a P2 qualifying position in race one whilst their sister car had just a lowly P13 finish in race one before failing to finish themselves in the second.
Those results see the faster #19 crew fall further adrift from the so far pace setting Mercedes AMG GT4 crew ahead of each of the two, one-hour races available again this window over the weekend as the series again supports the DTM Series.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2025 |
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Prosport Racing back for only the second round of GT4 Germany this weekend
After nearly a five-week break since their opening round of the season from Oschersleben, the GT4 Germany Series is back in town this weekend ahead of its next two, hour long races around the Norisring.
The provisional entry list for this weekend again shows the two Prosport Racing Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s amongst its twenty-one-car entry with Anton Paul Abee and Marek Bockmann again within the #17 alongside the #19 car of Hugo Sasse and Roman Fellner-Feldegg.
Last time out didn’t get off to a great start for the #17 crew as Abee was sidelined for the opening race of the season with illness before being able to make a return to the car for the second round where they managed a credible P6 overall finish.
The #19 of former series champion Sasse and AMR GT4 newcomer Fellner-Feldegg ran better to claim both pole position for race one before finishing P3 overall in the race to back that up again in race two with a P2 finish in that.
Despite these results, they still trail the leading #11 Mercedes AMG GT4 crew by fourteen points after they claimed race wins within both races.
Track action for this series will begin on Friday with two Free Practice sessions before moving into Qualifying 1 on Saturday morning for the first race later in the day before a repeat of the same process on Sunday.
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Wednesday, July 02, 2025 |
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Aston Martins go two by two in both DTM and GT4 Germany at Oschersleben
Starting off at the higher level sees the Belgian based Comtoyou Racing team finally make their anticipated start within the DTM Series with their two AMR Vantage GT3 Evo’s for both Gilles Magnus and Nicolas Baert.
Diversifying out from their usual European based GT series this season will see the team embark upon an eight-round season across circuits in Germany, Austria and Holland. Featuring twenty-four cars for this opening round, the solo driven cars will compete within a one-hour race over both Saturday and Sunday.
The competition within the series will again be very tough.
Supporting this series will again be the ADAC GT4 Germany Series who themselves kick off their six-round season from Oschersleben with again, two Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4’s from the Prosport Racing team.
This sees the Christoph Esser lead team run a double programme this weekend with the NLS2 event from the Nurburgring with the former champion Hugo Sasse into the equation.
Again running a pair of the older but very successful 17A variants of the Vantage, Sasse will pair with Roman Fellner-Feldegg as they did for the final round of the GT4 Winter Series at Barcelona earlier this year with former team GT3 racer Marek Bockmann pair up with relative GT4 newcomer Anton Abee.
They too will race an hour-long pit stop punctuated race over both Saturday and Sunday.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2025 |
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Back to the ADAC GT4 Germany Series for a Prosport Racing two car effort
This news sees former and multiple GT4 Germany Series champion Hugo Sasse back behind the wheel of one of Christoph Esser’s older 17A variant of the Vantage GT4 alongside that of Roman Fellner-Feldegg.
The second car sees one of the team’s more regular Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie racers Marek Bockmann swap the team’s Vantage GT3 in favour of the GT4 to pair up with Anton Abee within the sister car.
Both Fellner-Feldegg and Abee have already seen racing action together after the team entered a Vantage GT4 for them within the final round of the GT4 Winter Series from Barcelona at the beginning of March.
Both Fellner-Feldegg and Abee have already seen racing action together after the team entered a Vantage GT4 for them within the final round of the GT4 Winter Series from Barcelona at the beginning of March.
This news comes alongside their three car AMR entry within the NLS as previously confirmed.
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Tuesday, April 08, 2025 |
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Three Aston Martins see out the finale of the GT4 Winter Series in Spain
The GT4 Winter Series came to an end at an at times, very inclement Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona as three Aston Martins helped swell the usual grid to an impressive twenty-seven car entry for this three-race finale.
Whilst the #39 Racing Spirit of Leman AMR Vantage GT4 Evo of Baudouin Detout and Max Hewitt would be on hand again to see out their season within the series, the #700 Mucke Motorsport AMR of Thilo Goos was sadly not there after a heavy off at the last round in Motorland Aragon last weekend.
That loss was however more than made up as both the Prosport Racing and Araujo Competicao team each entered one AMR apiece as the German based team fielded an older 17A spec Vantage for their young German whilst the Araujo team entered one of the new Vantage GT4 Evo’s that they would run within the Iberian Supercars Series.
Saturday’s opening sprint was at least run on a dry track after heavy rainfall during the earlier testing and Qualifying programme with the American Hewitt leading the AMR way in sixth ahead of the #17 Prosport car of Roman Fellner-Feldegg in Pro whilst the #007 Araujo car was further back P4 in Pro-Am. Despite one Safety Car intervention halfway through the thirty-minute opener, the #39 car of Hewitt would finish P6 overall with the #17 car of Feldegg just behind in P7 and the #007 Araujo P14 overall/P4 in class.
Sunday morning second sprint race for the team’s other driver was however back to a wet track for which all three Astons would start further back with the #39 Racing Spirit of Leman car of Detout again the highest AMR in P12 with the #007 Araujo of Goncalo Araujo in P14 and Anton Abee P19 in the #17 Prosport car.
Starting the race with rain falling heavily, it wasn’t long before the Safety Car was called back out as Detout first spun around after possible contact before looping it around by himself next time around as his car became beached in the gravel trap. That passed the AMR mantel to Araujo in tenth overall and P3 in class for the remaining ten minutes.
By the end, those places had reversed with Abee claiming top honours P12 overall/P6 in Pro whilst the #17 car finished P15 overall/P6 in class with the #39 listed ten laps down to the leaders.
That left the final one-hour pit stop punctuated race to round off the season again but at least the rains had now passed, and the track had dried again as Detout headed Abee and Pereira P9, P12 and P16 respectively on the grid.
Another calling for the Safety Car halted the battles at the front the allow for the recovery of two stranded cars on track before going back to green only for the #17 Prosport car to make multiple contact with the #38 Porsche, pushing it into the gravel and bringing out the Safety Car again.
Despite earlier reports of rain falling at parts of the circuit, the race continued under otherwise dry conditions for the teams second driver to see out the last twenty minutes or so of the season. The season finally ended for the #39 as they held onto another P7 in class finish in P13 overall but with the #007 Araujo finishing just ahead on track P12 overall/P5 in class with the Prosport team seeing out their one and only event in the series at the tail end of the grid.
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Despite earlier reports of rain falling at parts of the circuit, the race continued under otherwise dry conditions for the teams second driver to see out the last twenty minutes or so of the season. The season finally ended for the #39 as they held onto another P7 in class finish in P13 overall but with the #007 Araujo finishing just ahead on track P12 overall/P5 in class with the Prosport team seeing out their one and only event in the series at the tail end of the grid.
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Sunday, March 09, 2025 |
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