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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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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All four Aston Martins succeed at final round of NLS
Prosport Racing and the Dorr Motorsport teams again represented the AMR marque with their four entries split across the SP9 Pro, SP10 and SP8T classes.
For the #17 Prosport GT3 entry, it was a step up to the full Pro class with some of their more usual drivers in Marek Bockmann and Nico Bastian this time teaming up with Adam Christodoulou where they ended their afternoon’s work third overall behind the more powerful Team Landgraf Mercedes and Manthey EMA Porsche.
Their team celebrations were bolstered with their AMR Vantage GT4 of Guido and Maxime Dumarey also claiming a class podium finish after the Belgian based drivers finished P2 within their #140 SP8T classed entry.
Their team celebrations were bolstered with their AMR Vantage GT4 of Guido and Maxime Dumarey also claiming a class podium finish after the Belgian based drivers finished P2 within their #140 SP8T classed entry.
The Dorr Motorsport team were not to be outdone however with their pair of AMR Vantage GT4 SP10 entries as full season entrants Oskar Sandberg, Aaron Wenisch and Nick Wustenhagen claimed the top step of the rostrum within that class with their #169 car whilst their sister #179 entry of Phil Dorr, Stefan Gaukler and ‘Montana’ came home close behind to claim third in class.
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Saturday, November 16, 2024 |
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Prosport Racing on final leg of potential championship winning double within ADAC GT4 Germany
Going into this weekend’s final two-hour long races sees their #1 crew of Mike David Ortmann and Hugo Sasse retaining a forty-three-point lead over the chasing pack within the overall championship whilst the team retains a more modest ten-point lead within that Championship battle.
They are joined at the circuit by the three other Aston Martin Racing Vantage GT4 powered crews from the Christophe Esser lead squad as the all-female crew of Celia Martin and Fabienne Wohlwend return within their #13 car, with Raphael Rennhofer this time joined by Marek Bochmann within the #19 car (not sure what has happened with Leon Erger) with Yevgen Sokolovskiy and Damon Surzyshyn completing the list with their Trophy classed #48 car.
Last time out at the Sachensring saw the #1 crew take two race wins over the weekend together with best drives yet from the #13 crew.
Having already claimed AMR Vantage GT3 championship success within the NLS series, further GT4 success for this multi-car – multi-series committed team would only be fitting.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2023 |
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Championship winning success for Prosport Racing at NLS finale
In Germany, there was on Saturday the running of the final Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie around the notorious Nurburgring Nordschliefe as both the Doer Motorsport entered a solo Vantage GT3 again and the Prosport Racing teams two of each platform into this final round.
Whilst the return of AMR factory driver Darren Turner to the #24 SP9 Pro class entry alongside brothers Phil and Ben Dorr did not this time result in another class podium, their ultimate P6 overall and P5 in class finish to round off their 2023 season puts them in good stead ahead of whatever they have planned for 2024.
Alongside them were the two Vantage GT3 and Vantage GT4 crews from the locally based Prosport Racing team and it was to be Championship winning success for part of the #17 crew of Maxime Dumarey, Marek Bockmann and Mike David Ortmann (in a late reconfigured driver line up between GT3 cars) as the SP9 Pr0-Am entered car came home second in class by the end of that four-hour race for Dumarey to claim that Championship win.
The race success within the team also extended out to their GT4 crew of Hugo Sasse, Celia Martin and Fabienne Wohlwend came home ended their part time NLS season with a P3 finish within their SP10 class. The team didn’t have it all their own way however as both the #37 Vantage GT3 and #176 Vantage GT4 entries failed to finish.
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Sunday, October 08, 2023 |
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Five Aston Martins to round off NLS season around the Green Hell of the Nordschleife
Hopefully this will not get lost under the tranche of Aston Martin IMSA/FIA WEC Valkyrie news that came out from both sides of the Atlantic earlier today, this weekend sees five Aston Martin Racing powered crews due to take part within the final round of the Nurburgring Langstrecken Serie.
Precisely the kind of teams also targeted within today’s news regarding the imminently expected arrival of the new Vantage GT3 and GT4 race car platforms, sees both the Doer Motorsport and Prosport Racing teams again enter both versions of the existing car for this weekend’s four-hour race.
Breaking the mould to what they have done up until now sees the locally based Prosport Racing team enter not one but two Vantage GT3 entries alongside their two Vantage GT4 crews alongside the solo Vantage GT3 entry from the Doer team.
The #24 Doer SP9 Pro class entry again sees brothers Ben and Phil Dorr return alongside that of AMR factory driver Darren Turner within their black menacingly looking car. Since swapping from the ADAC GT4 Germany Series to the NLS full time, the #24 car has enjoyed recent success in the series over recent events with both Turner or Nicki Thiim showing the youngsters the way.
They join another AMR Vantage GT3 Pro entry from the Prosport Racing team as Mike David Ortmann partners Nico Bastian within their #37 car as well as they usual #17 Pro-Am entry this time shared by Maxime Dumarey and Marek Bockmann.
On top of these we also have two Prosport Racing Vantage GT4’s, both competing within the SP10 class with the entry listing Hugo Sasse joining their female ADAC GT4 Germany crew of Fabienne Wohlwend and Celia Martin aboard the #175 whilst the #176 car will be driven by team regulars Guido Dumarey and Yevgen Sokolovskiy.
Hopefully, these guys will complete the season with some more silverware.
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Wednesday, October 04, 2023 |
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Success in Germany for two AMR powered teams in two differing series
For the Doer Motorsport team, it was the simple case of two six-hour long Nurburgring Langstrechen Serie events around the infamous Nordschleife with their driver line up of brothers Ben and Phil Dorr alongside that of Nicki Thiim aboard their #24 AMR Vantage GT3 whilst for the Prosport Racing team – it was to be a double car effort within the same NLS 6 and NLS 7 events plus a four-car effort in the latest round of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series.
Whilst they were doing that, the Prosport Racing’s #17 Vantage GT3 crew of Maxime Dumarey, Christoph Breuer and Marek Bockmann sadly failed to finish Saturdays race thanks to a last lap puncture but did take an SP9 Pro-Am class win to make up for it on Sunday. That would be in addition to there #176 SP10 entry of Guido Dumarey, Rudi Adams and Michael Hess completing a near double with a P3 and P4 finish in class in their Vantage GT4.
Not to be left out of the podium fun, some of their teammates competing within the fifth round of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series from the Sachensring also had something to cheer as the #1 crew of Mike David Ortmann and Hugo Sasse claimed their first double race win of the season to healthily increase their championship lead going into the final round of the season at the Hockenheimring at the end of October.
Their three further crews also competing all managed to finish both hour-long races at the weekend with the #19 crew of Leon Erger and Raphael Rennhofer finishing P11 in race 1 and P16 in race 2 alongside Fabienne Wohlwend/Celia Martin and Yevgen Sokolovskiy/Damian Surzyshyn who would finish P18/P12 and P22/P19 respectively.
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For the Doer team, things started well on Saturday with an overall P2 (P1 in class) Qualifying run ahead of the weekends opening six-hour race where they converted that from row start into a P4 overall result however, things would get better for them on Sunday as their then P8 start would transpire into a P3 overall finish.
Whilst they were doing that, the Prosport Racing’s #17 Vantage GT3 crew of Maxime Dumarey, Christoph Breuer and Marek Bockmann sadly failed to finish Saturdays race thanks to a last lap puncture but did take an SP9 Pro-Am class win to make up for it on Sunday. That would be in addition to there #176 SP10 entry of Guido Dumarey, Rudi Adams and Michael Hess completing a near double with a P3 and P4 finish in class in their Vantage GT4.
Not to be left out of the podium fun, some of their teammates competing within the fifth round of the ADAC GT4 Germany Series from the Sachensring also had something to cheer as the #1 crew of Mike David Ortmann and Hugo Sasse claimed their first double race win of the season to healthily increase their championship lead going into the final round of the season at the Hockenheimring at the end of October.
Their three further crews also competing all managed to finish both hour-long races at the weekend with the #19 crew of Leon Erger and Raphael Rennhofer finishing P11 in race 1 and P16 in race 2 alongside Fabienne Wohlwend/Celia Martin and Yevgen Sokolovskiy/Damian Surzyshyn who would finish P18/P12 and P22/P19 respectively.
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Monday, September 11, 2023 |
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