Four AMR Vantage GT4's see out the ADAC GT4 Germany Series this weekend from the Nurburgring
With competitive motor racing in central Europe coming to an end for another season, this weekend has the ADAC GT4 Germany series running its final two races of their 2021 season from the Nurburgring with four Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4’s again within their midst.
Always running with one such car this season from the Dorr Motorsport stable, the last round of the series from Hockenheim saw them run a second Aston for the other son of the family business owned team as well as the PROsport Racing team with both of theirs.
In the PROsport Racing camp, Mike David Ortmann again pairs up with Hugo Sasse for one last meeting after their visit to Hockenheim turned sour after their own accident induced exit from race 1 followed up with a grid penalty for race 2 that took away Ortmann’s pole position because of the car’s culpability for the accident.
Unlike Hockenheim, the PROsport team will this time NOT be entering their AMR Vantage GT3 into the final two races of the ADAC GT Masters Series. Despite two consistent finishes last time out overall and in class, the team have decided that drivers Tim Heinemann and Salman Owega need more test mileage behind them before entering any further rounds.
Photo credits – ADAC GT4 / Doer / PROsport
PROsport Racing's sound return to the ADAC GT Masters Series with their AMR Vantage GT3
With the team already busy delivering a two car ADAC GT4 Germany commitment at the Hockenheim Ring, the PROsport Racing team were also busy this weekend facilitating their return to the ADAC GT Masters Series with one of their Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT3’s.
Having last raced in GT Masters during the 2019 season, the German based team finally got back to the headline GT3 series this weekend with a single car entry for their drivers Tim Heinemann and Salman Owega where both drivers celebrated points of note over the weekend.
Whilst Heinemann celebrated his twenty fourth birthday on Saturday, Owega also became the youngest racer to compete within the series at only sixteen years of age
Neither being strangers to a GT3 platform, this weekend was the first that either driver had raced the AMR chassis or had raced together with their main GT3 experience to date coming from the German GTC Series so this weekend’s debut was always going to be difficult with top names and teams all competing in the series.
What did happen though was a pair of drivers who never disgraced themselves or gave up over the weekend’s two one-hour races, too busy trying to improve the situation for themselves between sessions to return a consistent set of results from both Free Practice sessions to the races. For race one, the duo finished P19 overall – P10 in their Junior Class with a P21, P11 in class during Sunday’s finale.
After some more seat time together, the #17 PROsport Racing AMR GT3 should be in for a decent season finale at the Nurburgring in two weeks’ time.
Well done to all involved.
Photo credits – ADAC GT Masters / Team
PROsport Racing field three Aston Martins at penultimate rounds of ADAC GT Masters and ADAC GT4 Germany this weekend
The PROsport Racing team will be trebly busy this weekend at the penultimate round of the ADAC GT Masters and ADAC GT4 Germany Series as they take with them to Hockenheim both of their Aston Martin Racing V8 Vantage GT4’s AND their remaining AMR Vantage GT3.
Having swapped to the ADAC GT4 Series after their fallings out with the DTM Trophy Series a couple of months ago, Christoph Esser’s team had wanted to field both of their available GT4 platforms within the ADAC Series first time around at the Sachenring as well as their GT3 with a certain named AMR factory driver.
One thing and another later and the team were only able to field a single GT4 with driver Mike David Ortmann who teamed up with Hugo Sasse where their #18 car went on to claim a pole to flag race win first time out.
For Hockenheim, the team have found another pairing for their #16 AMR GT4 with German driver Yannick Fubrich who joins Ukrainian driver Yevgen Sokolovski, two drivers who have differing levels of racing experience but mainly within the NLS (VLN) Series that PROsport know so well.
These two AMR GT4’s of course join the full season #69 entry from the Dorr Motorsport team of Phil Dorr and Andreas Wirth who, after their two Junior Class podium finishes at the Sachsenring sees Dorr laying second in the Championship behind Mercedes driver Theo Nouet with just four races to go.
Brother Ben Dorr also joins the AMR family at this round with a replacement Vantage GT4 for lieu of his usual McLaren 570s that he will share with his co-driver Nico Hantke.
Further to that, and in return for some dogged determination from the team sees PROsport Racing return to the ADAC GT Masters Series with their AMR Vantage GT3 for the first time since their ill-fated double car audition in the series back in 2019.
This time their reigning DTM Trophy GT4 racer Tim Heinemann steps up to their GT3 platform for the first time in the headline GT3 series with Salman Owega but both drivers do have current GT3 multi-class racing experience from this season’s GTC series where both won novice titles.
All ADAC GT Masters and GT4 Germany races will be streamed live via the series social media channels.
Photo credits – ADAC GT4 Germany / PROsport / GT Masters
