ADAC GT Masters: Full speed ahead to the season

Full speed ahead to the season

Spectacular new super sports car, a record starting field, exciting rider combinations with former Formula 1 - and DTM drivers, sports car aces and young hotheads: The ADAC GT Masters at full throttle and turn in the 2012 season once again up a gear.

At the start of the season "league of super sports car" of 30 March to 1 April at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben promises a field with more than 40 sports cars from 13 different brands, a motor sport spectacle which has no equal. Together with the ADAC Masters Weekend as a motor sports platform, the ADAC ​​GT Masters Championship rings so the racing season 2012 in Germany.

Debut for McLaren, Camaro and Nissan - comeback from Aston Martin
The focus at the start of the season not only ex-formula, a vice-world champion and DTM driver Heinz-Harald Frentzen (44, Neuss), the defending champion Alexandros Margaritis (27, Cologne) and Dino Lunardi (33 F), or ex-champion Christian Abbot (44, Kempten), who dares to break from racing after two years of his comeback, but also the debut of four super sports car. One of them is the new McLaren MP4-12C, where the teams bring Gemballa Racing and Molitor Racing Formula 1 flair in the ADAC GT Masters. In a total of three copies of the British attack flounder Luca Ludwig (23, Bonn), son of touring car legend Klaus Ludwig and Sascha Bert (36, Darmstadt) at. The sons of another racing legend, 2012 at the start. Ferdinand (20) and Johannes Stuck (25, both A), sons of Hans-Joachim "Strietzel" Stuck and reigning FIA GT Championship Vice-Champions, change to a new Aston Martin V12 Vantage Young Driver. Want to make a splash, the new Chevrolet Camaro the team Yaco Racing powered by Jochen Schweizer and Schulze motor sport, bringing the Nissan GT-R is the first Japanese GT3 cars in the ADAC GT Masters. Besides the four new sports car, the other reading in the ADAC GT Masters represented brands such as "Who's Who" of the automotive industry with Audi, BMW, BMW ALPINA, Corvette, Ferrari, Ford GT, Lamborghini, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, the ADAC GT Masters with a unique brand diversity trump.

Margaritis champion moves to Mercedes-Benz
The Newcomer of the 2012 season, however, must contend with this year against a total of five former or reigning champions. The champion of the 2011 season, Alexandros Margaritis and Dino Lunardi go their separate ways in 2012. Lunardi remains true to ALPINA and BMW ALPINA B6 starts in on the side of the Belgian racing hope Maxime Martin (25). Margaritis moves to Mercedes-Benz and starts again for the brand, with the German-Greek was already in the DTM. New teammate Margaritis at the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG the NICE LIVING Polar White HEICO team is Lance David Arnold (25, Duisburg). With a new team-mates will also draw Albert von Thurn und Taxis (28, Regensburg), champion of the 2010 season, after his second title. The young nobleman divides a Lamborghini Gallardo by Reiter Engineering with the Slovaks Stefan Rosina (24).

Comeback of former champion Christian Abt in the Audi R8
After two years as team manager and it draws on the pit wall, Christian Abt, the champion of the 2009 season, back behind the wheel. The former DTM driver will know it and start again in the Audi R8 Prosperia uhc speed together with Carsten Tilke (28, Munich), son of racetrack architect Hermann Tilke. The Audi of Prosperia uhc speed you have to fight for the title with the invoice, for the second R8 of the Franks, the young team hopes to start Christopher Mies (22, Holy House) and Christer Joens (24, Ingelheim). To want podiums in his second season in the ADAC GT Masters fight, Heinz Harald Frentzen. The Formula 1 World Championship runner in the 1997 Callaway Corvette with Andreas Wirth (27, Heidelberg), a teammate on his side of the line has already crossed the FIA ​​GT Championship four times a winner. The Group is led by Porsche Carrera Cup champion Nick Tandy (27 GB), who shares a 911 GT3 by Geyer & Weinig EDV-Consulting com pany / contactor motor sports with Christian Engelhart (25, Kösching).

Amateur ranking promises exciting motor sport
Exciting duels also promises the amateur championship. The current amateur champion Marc A. Hayek (41, CH) will defend his title along with Peter Kox (48, NL), the champion of the 2010 season, in a cavalry attack Lamborghini Gallardo. Its toughest opponent in the last year, amateur runner Swen Dolenc (44, Maulbronn) has been upgraded and is in the FACH AUTO TECH-911 together with the Porsche ace Martin Ragginger (23 A) at the start. And also the two-time amateur champion Toni Seiler (54 CH) wants to get involved in a Callaway Corvette again used to name the amateurs.

In a field with more than 40 super sports cars and spectacular new additions and exciting team and driver combinations is for sure: High Voltage is the ADAC GT Masters guarantees 2012th
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