2015 ADAC GT Masters
The 2015 ADAC GT Masters season was the ninth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC. The season started on 25 April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and ended on 4 October at Hockenheim after eight double-header meetings.[1] René Rast and Kelvin van der Linde entered the season as the defending Drivers' Champions. Prosperia C. Abt Racing entered the season as the defending Teams' Champion.
The series changed tyre supplier from Yokohama to Pirelli.[2]
Entry list
Team | Car | No. | Driver | Rounds |
---|---|---|---|---|
C. Abt Racing[3] | Audi R8 LMS ultra[3] | 1 | Kelvin van der Linde[3] | All |
Stefan Wackerbauer[3] | ||||
2 | Jordan Pepper[3] | All | ||
Nicki Thiim[3] | ||||
3 | Christer Jöns[3] | All | ||
Andreas Weishaupt[4] | ||||
Bentley Team HTP[5] | Bentley Continental GT3[5] | 7 | Luca Stolz[5][6] | All |
Jeroen Bleekemolen[6] | 1–4 | |||
Vincent Abril | 5 | |||
Maximilian Buhk | 6 | |||
Tom Dillmann | 7–8 | |||
8 | Fabian Hamprecht[5] | All | ||
Clemens Schmid[5] | ||||
Šenkýř Motorsport[7] | BMW Z4 GT3[7] | 12 | Lennart Marioneck[8] | 1–6, 8 |
Jakub Knoll[7] | 1–2, 4–5 | |||
Samuel Sladecka | 3 | |||
Markus Palttala | 6 | |||
Michael Joos[9] | 8 | |||
RWT Racing Team[10] | Corvette Z06.R GT3[10] | 13 | Sven Barth[11] | 1–5, 7–8 |
Remo Lips[11] | ||||
Lambda Performance | Ford GT GT3 | 14 | Frank Kechele | 8 |
Nico Verdonck | ||||
YACO Racing[12] | Audi R8 LMS ultra[12] | 16 | Rahel Frey[13] | All |
Philip Geipel[13] | ||||
BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert[14] | BMW Z4 GT3[14] | 19 | Claudia Hürtgen[11] | All |
Jesse Krohn[11] | 1 | |||
Uwe Alzen | 2–7 | |||
Niklas Mackschin | 8 | |||
80 | Dominik Baumann[11] | All | ||
Jens Klingmann[11] | 1–7 | |||
Bruno Spengler[15] | 8 | |||
Team Zakspeed[16] | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3[16] | 21 | Sebastian Asch[11] | All |
Luca Ludwig[16] | ||||
MRS GT-Racing[17] | Nissan GT-R GT3[17] | 22 | Dominic Jöst[11] | All |
Florian Scholze[11] | ||||
23 | Marc Gassner[11] | All | ||
Florian Strauss[18] | ||||
kfzteile24 MS Racing[19] | Audi R8 LMS ultra[19] | 24 | Marc Basseng[11] | All |
Florian Stoll[11] | ||||
100 | Daniel Dobitsch[11] | All | ||
Edward Sandström[11] | ||||
Reiter Engineering[11] | Chevrolet Camaro GT3[11] | 25 | Oliver Gavin[11] | 1 |
Tomáš Enge[11] | ||||
Lamborghini Gallardo R-EX[20] | Tomáš Enge[11] | 2, 6–7 | ||
David Russell[20] | 2–3 | |||
Steve Owen | 3 | |||
Albert von Thurn und Taxis | 6 | |||
Jaap van Lagen[21] | 7 | |||
88 | Nick Catsburg[21] | 7 | ||
Albert von Thurn und Taxis | ||||
Car Collection Motorsport | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 33 | Alexander Mattschull[22] | 5 |
Renger van der Zande[22] | ||||
GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport[14] | Porsche 911 GT3 R[14] | 36 | Klaus Bachler[11] | All |
Christian Engelhart[11] | 1, 8 | |||
Philipp Eng | 2 | |||
Martin Ragginger | 3–7 | |||
HP Racing[14] | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3[14] | 42 | Harald Proczyk[11] | All |
Andreas Simonsen[11] | 1–2, 4, 6 | |||
Bernd Schneider | 3, 5, 7–8 | |||
Grasser Racing Team[20] | Lamborghini Huracán GT3[20] | 63 | Mirko Bortolotti[20] | 2 |
Adrian Zaugg[20] | ||||
Callaway Competition[23] | Corvette Z06.R GT3[23] | 66 | Daniel Keilwitz[11] | All |
Andreas Wirth[11] | ||||
69 | Patrick Assenheimer[11] | All | ||
Diego Alessi[11] | 1–7 | |||
Andreas Simonsen | 8 | |||
Tonino Team Herberth[14] | Porsche 911 GT3 R[14] | 99 | René Bourdeaux | 3 |
Alfred Renauer | ||||
Rowe Racing | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | Nico Bastian[22] | 5 | |
Stef Dusseldorp[22] |
Race calendar and results
The eight-event calendar for the 2015 season was announced on 21 November 2014.[1]
Championship standings
- Scoring system
Championship points were awarded for the first ten positions in each race. Entries were required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers were required to participate for a minimum of 25 minutes in order to earn championship points in any race.
Position | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Points | 25 | 18 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 |
Drivers' championship
|
Bold – Pole |
- Notes
- 1 – Albert von Thurn und Taxis was a guest driver at Zandvoort and therefore ineligible to score championship points.
Teams' championship
|
Bold – Pole |
References
- ^ a b "ADAC GT Masters 2015 auf fünf Grand-Prix-Strecken". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 21 November 2014. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
- ^ "ADAC GT Masters test new Pirelli tyres". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 20 March 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g "In Brief". Audi Motorsport. Audi. 26 January 2015. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ "C.Abt Racing driver squad now complete". Endurance-info.com. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e "High-powered coupé: Bentley in ADAC GT Masters". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Bentley Team HTP with debut in ADAC GT Masters". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 23 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
- ^ a b c "GT Masters Newcomers in a BMW: Senkyr Motorsport". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 4 March 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Driver line-up for Senkyr Motorsport now complete". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 16 April 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ "Senkyr adds new driver for Hockenheim". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
- ^ a b "RWT Racing will line up in Corvette in 2015". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 26 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa "Electric atmosphere in the north". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 20 April 2015. Archived from the original on 10 December 2015. Retrieved 21 April 2015.
- ^ a b "YACO Racing to stick with Audi for 2015". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Rahel Frey continues with Audi in ADAC GT Masters". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 11 March 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "2015 ADAC GT Masters with new features". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
- ^ "BMW calls up DTM star Bruno Spengler for ADAC GT Masters finale". Autosport.com. September 28, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2015.
- ^ a b c "Luca Ludwig: "We are a force to be reckoned with"". Endurance-info.com. 2 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-07-17. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
- ^ a b "MRS-GT Racing bring Nissan GT-R back". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 16 February 2015. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
- ^ "Florian Strauss: From car rental rep to GT pro". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 17 March 2015. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
- ^ a b "ADAC GT Masters Saison 2015". ms-racing.info (in German). 15 February 2015. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f "ADAC GT Masters: Novel features at Red Bull Ring". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 1 June 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
- ^ a b "Hometown boys attack in Zandvoort". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 15 September 2015. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ^ a b c d "CarCollection and ROWE Racing at Nürburgring". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 11 August 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ a b "Callaway aim to build on Corvette track record". ADAC GT Masters. ADAC. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
External links
- Official website