Finn Gehrsitz has caused a stir in the motorsport scene at just 16 years of age and with only two sports car races under his belt. Now he is competing in the GT Winter Series in Schnitzelalm Racing’s BMW M240iR.

Finn Gehrsitz may only be 16, but he’s actually already an experienced racer. He has completed no less than five seasons in karting and came as far as the runner-up title in the so-called Rotax Max Challenge Germany. Finn, who comes from Steinenbronn in Swabia and is used to winning, now wants one thing above all: to move up to the sports car classes as quickly as possible and continue to cause a stir there.

Ellen Lohr as advisor, his own father as manager

“Finn is a real up-and-coming talent.” This statement comes from none other than Ellen Lohr. Ellen, the only woman ever to have won a DTM race and who spent many years in factory service at Mercedes-Benz, advises and coaches Finn. She recognised early on how he moves in the kart and took care of him. Finn is managed by his father Andreas, who pulls the right strings and tries his best to pave the way for Finn.

Finn with a double victory in his first sports car race in the Porsche Super Sports Cup

Finn was supposed to start in the French Lamera Cup, a race series with identical sports cars with a lot of power. But Corona threw a spanner in the works. As a substitute, Finn started in the Porsche Super Sports Cup on a Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport of the Mühlner Motorsport team.

And Finn managed the almost unthinkable: pole position and double victory ahead of the established competition. “There was a slight murmur in the paddock,” says father Andreas Gehrsitz.

At the GTC race, where Finn competed, he also won at the first attempt, thus underlining that his successes are absolutely no coincidence.

GT Winter Series as a stepping stone and for the C licence

In order for Finn’s career to go in the right direction, there should now be consistent entries with sports cars. So it makes sense to train as much as possible in the GT Winter Series during the winter. Finn: “My goal is clearly to drive a full season in a sports car series in 2021. In the GT Winter Series, I want to gain as much experience as possible with such a car and also experience my international C licence. Of course, I wouldn’t mind a class win or two in the process.”

His entry is the BMW M240iR from Schnitzelalm Racing. Incidentally, Finn and the team already know each other from karting days, which means that they can expect short familiarisation times.

Team Joos Sportwagentechnik is stocking up for the GT Winter Series event and will bring the Porsche 911 GT3 R to the grid that the team entered in the ADAC GT Masters in 2022.

At the Formula 1 circuit in Barcelona, Team Joos Sportwagentechnik is stocking up its line-up in the GT Winter Series. The Porsche racing team, which relocated to Vöhringen a few months ago, will also field the 911 GT3 R with which Christian Engelhart and Ayhancan Güven successfully contested the 2022 ADAC GT Masters season. The duo finished the racing year in second position in the overall standings.

The car will be driven at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona by team owner Michael Joos, who is a successful racing driver himself. At the wheel of an older GT3 Porsche, he has already scored several victories in the current GT Winter Series season. Joos won both sprint races at the season opener in Portimao and won the first sprint race in Jerez by less than 0.3 seconds after a tough duel with official Audi driver Luca Engstler.

Another 911 GT3 R for Klaus Horn

The three-time season winner will pilot the car as a soloist. “I’m really looking forward to the event in Barcelona. I want to take more wins with our ADAC GT Masters car from last year. I know that the competition will be tough, but this motivates me even more,” says the team boss and driver in personal union.

Team Joos Sportwagentechnik is also fielding another Porsche 911 GT3 R on the well-known circuit, where the fourth season in the history of the GT Winter Series comes to its crowning conclusion. Customer driver Klaus Horn, with whom Michael Joos contested the first three race weekends, will drive his older GT3 bolide from Porsche.

Luca Engstler and Dylan Yip took the first ever Audi GT3 victories for Liqui Moly Team Engstler, while Michael Fischer of 78Racing-Team was also able to claim an overall victory, as the GT Winter Series made its inaugural visit to the Circuit Ricardo Tormo.
A field of 43 took to the circuit on race day, with many of GT racing’s top teams sharing the paddock. Dustin Blattner of Porsche Racing Experience by Manthey came into the event as championship leader, thanks to his impressive efforts in the Cup 2 class for Porsche Cup machinery.

Race One: Engslter rules the roost

As anticipated, the GT3 and ‘catch-all’ Cup X classes were the fastest cars on circuit in Valencia.
The first of two 25-minute sprints turned into something of an exhibition for ADAC TCR Germany champion Luca Engstler, especially because some of his main competition in the GT3 class struggled in qualifying. While his family team is new to running the Audi R8 LMS GT3, Luca himself has a season of experience under his belt, which he used to claim a commanding victory from pole. The race was shortened by a red flag less than five minutes from the finish, but the German racer had already built a 36-second advantage.

Trouble for Sartingen, Petrov seals second

The red flag was brought out owing to a collision between Axel Sartingen’s Schnitzelalm Mercedes GT3 car and the #54 Rossocorsa Ferrari at Turn 8. Sartingen was second overall at the time, and fighting hard with VSR Lamborghini’s Artem Petrov, who would ultimately inherit that position and take the win in Cup X. Petrov’s performance in the Super Trofeo-spec car impressed many.
Andrzej Lewandowski rounded out the overall podium in his Cup X Lamborghini, ahead of Tom Fleming, who once again ruffled the feathers of faster cars on his way to the Cup 1 win in his FF Corse Ferrari 488 Challenge Evo.
Johannes Kapfinger (Huber Racing) took the Cup 2 victory, just tenths clear of Dustin Blattner. GT4 honours went to Gabriela Jilkova of PROSport racing, who was a step ahead of the competition in her Aston Martin, while Cup 3 honours were secured by Andreas Greiling of MS Racing.

Race Two: Fischer holds off Heyer for an overall victory

Schnitzelalm Racing worked hard to repair their GT3 Mercedes for race two, and Kenenth Heyer was no doubt relieved, as he had the opportunity to start on the front row. Jean Glorieux’s PROsport-entered GT3 Aston Martin would be just ahead of him on Pole Position.
However, as the race began, Glorieux would be swallowed by the field, and 78Racing-Team’s Michael Fischer sped into the lead in his Lamborghini Huracan GT3. As the car was entered into Cup X, it ran without restrictors, and that was most evident on the start/finish straight.
The race would end at the first corner for Dylan Yip of Team Engstler, as he ended up in the gravel. The resulting accordion effect also caused damage to both of Huber Racing’s Cup 2 Porsche entries, which also retired.

Heyer almost makes Fischer the catch of the day

When racing resumed after a Safety Car, Fischer would pull away from Gilles Stadsbader (VSR Lamborghini), who had inherited second place. Since Stadsbader’s Huracan Super Trofeo was quick in a straight line, it proved tricky to pass. Once Kenneth Heyer finally found a way by, Fischer was the better part of five seconds clear.
Over the next several laps, Heyer continued lowering the deficit. And while the gap would shrink to less than a second, he was unable to pass Fischer, who took the overall and Cup X win. Heyer would take the GT3 class win in second overall, while Darren Leung brought home his Schubert BMW M4 GT3 third overall, after a well-executed pass on Stadsbader at turn 12.
Tom Fleming topped the Cup 1 ranks again, finishing eighth overall, just ahead of Cup 2’s winner, historic racing ace Matteo Ferrer (Phoenix Racing). In GT4, Jan-Philipp Springob of CV Performance Group had a great duel with Nico Verdonck (PROSport Aston Martin), eventually winning the class by less than a second. Cup 3 Honours went to 2022 GT Winter Series champion Michael Sander and Schnitzelalm Racing.

Endurance Race: Engstler’s rookie brings it home

As the 60-minute endurance race began, Luca Engstler made his race strategy clear; take the lead by any means necessary, and run away from the pack. He achieved this exact feat from his second place starting position, passing pole-sitter Axel Sartingen around the outside into the first corner.
As had been the case in the first race, Engstler would disappear into the distance. Meanwhile, GT3 class runners such as Sartingen, Maxime Dumarey (PROSport), and Darren Leung would become entangled with Cup X Lamborghini Super Trofeo entries, which had a significant straight-line speed advantage.

Pitstop penalties hinder several

In the middle portion of the race, the order would be shuffled repeatedly as the teams made their mandatory pitstops. And, once all of the stops were made, it became clear that Kenneth Heyer of Schnitzelalm Racing would be the biggest rival to Dylan Yip, who had taken over the leading Engstler Audi.
A 30-second gap would soon shrink to less than a dozen, however, Heyer’s aspirations of a winning move were soon halted by a stop-go penalty. His team and several others were judged to have had a pitstop below the minimum time, and thus, sixth place was the final result for he and Sartingen.
This would allow Yip to cross the line victorious in just his second weekend racing a car, with the Petrov/Stadsbader VSR Lamborghini and M.Dumarey/Glorieux PROSport Aston Martin completing the podium.
The Cup 2 win would also be affected by penalties, as a drive-through for Dustin Blattner (PRE by Manthey) allowed Dieter Svepes to bring the #33 Huber Racing entry home unchallenged for he and Johannes Kapfinger.

(Over)take two for Jilkova

GT4 would see Gabriela Jilkova pass her PROSport Aston Martin stablemate Guido Dumarey twice for second place in GT4, also because of a penalty in the closing stages. CV Performance Group’s Springob and Primm were once again the class of the GT4 field, taking a comfortable win.
Tom Fleming would complete a sweep of the Cup 1 honours for FF Corse Ferrari, and a late overtake from Moritz Kranz secured victory for KKramer Racing in Cup 3.

Engstler eager to race and Blattner home early

Luca Engstler is one of just a few members of his family’s team with prior knowledge of the Audi R8 LMS GT3. And, with their two weekend GT Winter series programme complete, he reflected on the team’s progress: “I am [the experienced man]!” he said. “It’s kind of bad because I still feel I don’t have that much experience with these cars. Last year I only did a few races in ADAC and one on the Nordschleife. But, we’ve made great progress, and we are discovering more and more. We are open-minded, and there’s a great crew around us. The goal for the future is to become one of the best GT3 teams.”
He added: “I am pushing to be here again next year! It’s better to be here than at home or in the fitness centre, I want to race!”
Sadly, Dustin Blattner’s GT Winter Series campaign is also at it’s end, despite still being the championship leader: “Unfortunately I am only doing the first four events, but I hope to do the full season next year. It’s a great series to keep your skills fresh, and it’s awesome to race with the different classes, which was new to myself.”

Navarra up next

The next GT Winter series event takes place on March 4-5 at the Navarra Circuit.

Andreas Greiling is a newcomer. He came onto the trackday scene with GEDLICH Racing and immediately caught fire. Now he is about to make the leap into motorsport. The GT Winter Series will be his springboard for this.

“It’s time I fulfilled my dream of getting into motorsport. The GT Winter Series is the perfect basis for me, because I can drive several races, experience the international racing licence and gain experience at the same time,” says Greiling. The entrepreneur and car enthusiast wants to enter the Porsche Sprint Challenge and the Porsche Sports Cup as early as the 2021 season and is training for this during the GT Winter Series.

In addition to the GT Winter Series, Andreas Greiling also wants to get his teeth into the Endless Summer Trackdays. He is bringing instructor Jens Richter on board as an active companion, who already has experience in Sports Cup and ADAC GT Masters. “We want to compete together in the racing series in 2021. During the winter we will adjust to each other. And of course I want to benefit from Jen’s head start in experience and learn a thing or two,” says Greiling.

The training equipment will be his own Porsche GT3 as well as a Porsche 718 GT4, which is also used in the Porsche Sprint Challenge.

We wish him every success!

With a total of 45 cars, the GT Winter Series is making its first guest appearance in Valencia.

At the fourth stop on the race calendar of the 2022/2023 GT Winter Series season, the racing series enters new territory, with GEDLICH Racing’s championship making its first guest appearance in Valencia.

Blattner arrives as championship leader

Manthey Racing driver Dustin Blattner continues to lead the overall championship, although Blattner, who competes under a US licence, was unable to score any points in the first round in Jerez due to an accident. The Cup 2 driver has an 11.09-point lead over Simon Connor Primm, who is competing in the CV Performance Group Mercedes-AMG GT4. Due to the five strike results that each driver has in the GT Winter Series, Blattner nevertheless travels to Valencia as a big championship favourite. On the world-famous MotoGP circuit, the Porsche driver can take another big step towards the championship. Jens Richter and Andreas Greiling, who dominate the Cup 3 class in their Porsche Cayman, are in third place in the championship.

Schnitzelalm Racing dominated in Jerez

A week ago, the third event in the current GT Winter Series season took place in Jerez. Schnitzelalm Racing dominated the race weekend in the south of Spain with their Mercedes-AMG GT3. GT3 debutant Colin Caresani was able to win the second sprint race before taking a superior victory in the Endurance race together with AMG ace Kenneth Heyer.

Premieres in the GT3 field

A BMW M4 GT3 will compete in the GT Winter Series for the first time in Valencia. The DTM championship team Schubert Motorsport will bring the car to the start. Darren Leung will pilot the Bavarian sports car on the Spanish circuit. In addition, PROsport Racing will enter a GT3 Aston Martin in the GT Winter Series for the first time. Maxime Dumarey and Jean Glorieux, who already know the Vantage from the Nürburgring-Nordschleife, will pilot the popular British car.
Schnitzelalm Racing driver Kenneth Heyer gets a new teammate at his side. Gentleman driver Axel Sartingen will pilot the winning car from Estoril and Jerez together with the AMG veteran. The driver duo of Thomas Angerer’s team thus also reflects the spirit of the racing series, in which gentleman drivers and established drivers compete together and are supported and coached by professional racing drivers. Audi driver Luca Engstler will also compete in the family team again in Valencia. After missing his debut victory in Jerez by less than 0.3 seconds, the youngster now wants to make up for it. He shares the Engstler team’s Audi with To Yip Wang from Malaysia.

Porsche 911 GT3 Cup forms largest class

The class of the current Porsche Carrera Cup models has been delivering tough motorsport so far this season, but with fair means. Manthey Racing, the team of championship leader Dustin Blattner, will once again travel to the fourth race weekend with a large contingent. The legendary team from Meuspath will bring the two debutants Kevan Millstein and Nathan Schweigart to the start. Together with Blattner and Tareq Mansour, the team will thus field four cars. Before the event in Valencia, one should not underestimate the two Kapfinger brothers, Johannes and Michael, who have improved a lot during the season and have been able to put Blattner under more and more pressure. Most recently in Jerez, the Kapfingers even managed to take two class victories, although Michael – in contrast to the Manthey drivers and his brother – starts with a 991.2 generation car and not a 992.

GT4 class delivers spectacular motorsport

In Jerez, the GT4 category thrilled with duels that were fought bumper to bumper. The numerous fans on the grounds of the GP circuit cheered the duels in the “small” GT class. High voltage is promised again for the event in Valencia. After Simon Connor Primm and his co-driver Jan Philipp Springob had to endure a difficult weekend recently, they want to strike back at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. But the competition will not make it easy for the runners-up in the overall standings. PROsport Racing, for example, will be fielding three well-equipped Aston Martin Vantage GT4s. In addition, Schnitzelalm Racing and Overdrive Racing are two other strong teams with established GT4 drivers and hungry young drivers in the popular category.

FF Corse returns to Cup 1 class

Returning to the Cup 1 class of the Challenge Ferrari in Valencia is the British FF Corse squad, which put in a strong performance at Estoril. James Owen and Tom Fleming will drive the team’s two cars. The Brits will meet German touring car legend Franz Engstler, who will share his car with Alexander Nußbaumer. Engstler took an immediate class win on his debut in Jerez.

Exotic cars in Cup X

For the event in Valencia, the starting field in the Cup X class is growing. With Vincenzo Sospieri Racing and GT3 Poland, two teams are fielding their one-make cup cars from the European Lamborghini Super Trofeo in the GT Winter Series and are starting with top-class driver line-ups. The one-make cup teams will meet other Lamborghinis, an Audi R8 LMS GT3 evo II entered by Konrad Motorsport and one of the spectacular KTM X-BOW GT2. Schnitzelalm Racing will also be fielding a 981-generation Porsche Cayman GT4 to replace the second Mercedes-AMG GT4 that crashed in Jerez.

Famous circuit

Opened in 1999, the Circuit Ricardo Tormo is one of the most famous race tracks in Spain. Since its opening, the MotoGP has been an annual guest on the 4.005-kilometre-long track, which is characterised by a long start-finish straight and an angular infield. Another special feature is that the track is driven anti-clockwise. But the circuit is also no stranger to GT racing. For example, the legendary FIA GT Championship was held here after the turn of the millennium, and the current GT World Challenge Europe will also be held here.

Perfect weather conditions await the participants at the fourth race weekend of the GT Winter Series. Bright sunshine and temperatures around 20°C are forecast for the event days – the perfect conditions for exciting motorsport in Cheste, a suburb of the Spanish metropolis Valencia. The main grandstand will be open for the fans and with the weather forecast, a lively attendance is expected.

Watch the races via stream

The GT Winter Series will broadcast the three races via livestream. Interested fans can tune in to the livestream on Sunday from 11:30 a.m. via YouTube or on the GT Winter Series website and follow the three scoring races. Lukas Gajewski and Adam Weller will accompany the livestream. The race day will be opened by a two-part qualifying session before the drivers can get to know the track in extensive practice sessions.

“We are very pleased that we will be able to broadcast the races via stream for the first time this season,” says GTWS project manager Robin Selbach.

Kurt Ecke is an intimate connoisseur of the 911 and at the same time a successful team owner. Whether it’s 24-hour races, Porsche Carrera Cup, Sports Cup or entries in the Youngtimers – Ecke brings successful cars to the starting line, preferably Porsche.

“We have been regulars at Endless Summer for the past 5 years, so again this season. Entries in the GT Winter Series are also on our agenda. Since my team and my drivers do racing primarily for fun, fair treatment and optimal track conditions are important to us. Both are perfect at GEDLICH Racing, so we’re always happy to come back,” says Kurt Ecke.

Experienced drivers will be competing. Pablo Briones and Klaus Horn have already driven their Porsches together in several racing series in Germany, Andreas Sczepansky is one of the leading drivers in the amateur classification of the Porsche Carrera Cup. At the GT Winter Series, the drivers now want to train for the summer.

Interested fans can follow the GT Winter Series and Formula Winter Series rounds from Valencia via livestream.

Fans of the GT Winter Series and the Formula Winter Series will be able to follow a total of five races from Valencia via livestream. The racing series will broadcast all the races live via YouTube on 19 February. The broadcast will begin at 11:30.

Lukas Gajewski will be the presenter and will welcome exciting interview guests at his microphone. As commentator, Adam Weller from Great Britain, who is known for the ADAC GT Masters and the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, among other things, will follow the races.

Exciting background reports

Between the races, there will be exciting features about the background of the championships. There will also be interesting interviews and presentations of series partners.

Livestream times:

11:30 – Start broadcast
12:10 – GT Winter Series Race 1
12:55 – Formula Winter Series Race 1
14:25 – GT Winter Series Race 2
15:50 – Formula Winter Series Race 2
16:45 – GT Winter Series Endurance Race

Livestream link:

https://www.youtube.com/live/smol-N9H3ag

The still young but continuously expanding team Laptime Performance from near Munich will be competing in the GT Winter Series with two of their race cars.

Simon Eibl from Laptime Performance explains: “Laptime Performance was founded in 2013. In the beginning, we focused mainly on suspension technology and track tools, but soon customer demand led us into racing – initially we raced in the RCN. The expansion continued and we now run four different types of cars from BMW to Porsche to KTM.”

In the GT Winter Series, the team will be competing with two vehicles: the blazingly fast and super-light KTM X-BOW GT4 and a Porsche 991 Cup Mk1. “This is great preparation for us,” says Eibl, “because both vehicles will be competing in different racing series in 2021. In the GTWS, we want to prepare ourselves optimally and the drivers should start the German season well trained. With both vehicles, we want to be among the front runners in the respective class.”

The Jerez circuit was already one of the highlights of the GTWS in the previous season. The demanding “old-style” track demanded everything from the drivers and caused many a surprise. This was to continue this year. The fact that the field of the winter series, with 47 starters, has not only become bigger, but also more high-class, was very obvious and not only evident from the illustrious names.

Qualifying to measure and astonishing performance density

In the morning’s two-part qualifying Michael Joos in the 991 GT3-R won by a blink of an eye ahead of Luca Engstler in the Audi R8 GT3, who had been instructed by the team to assimilate the car and tyres to the best of his ability – after all, the youngster wants to reach the top, so it doesn’t hurt to train optimally during the winter.

Kenneth Heyer in the Schnitzelalm AMG GT3 was disappointing at first, but his 15th place on the grid turned out to be a transponder error, which should give him a lot of work for the race. In part two of the qualifying, his team-mate Colin Caresani showed what the Goodyear-powered Schnitzelalm car was capable of – he drove to a superior pole in his first GT3 race, beating the established ex-Formula 1 driver Markus Winkelhock by a smooth 0.8 sec.

Cup classes can almost keep up, GT4 hotly contested

Characteristic for Jerez seemed to be that cars of the Cup-Porsche or Challenge-Ferrari classes were able to keep up with the overall leaders. Lisowski and Svepes on their 992 Cup cars, who finished immediately behind Joos and Engstler in Q1, were striking!

In the GT4 category, the PROsport Racing team, new to Jerez, was initially the measure of all things. Charles Clark drove the British car (Aston Martin Vantage GT4) to pole in his class and was also to cause a sensation later in the races.

Sprints with spice and a rookie winner

The first of the two 25-minute heats was dominated by the duel at the top, as Engstler chased Joos the whole race and finished less than three tenths behind winner Joos – there was real steam in the boiler! Heyer, who had to start from the midfield, milled his way through the field with impressive precision and finished third.

In the Cups, what had been foreshadowed in the Qualy continued. The Kapfingers” drove their Huber Porsche 911s to first and second place in the Cup 2 class, leaving many larger cars behind and keeping within sight of the overall leaders.

Ex-DTM legend Franz Engstler in his Ferrari 488 Challenge did it in a similarly commanding manner, winning Cup 1.

Drama around Blattner

Manthey driver Dustin Blattner travelled to Andalusia as championship leader. He coped excellently with the Jerez track, but in race 1 he fell victim to Igor Klaja, who spun off and came to a halt on the track, whereupon Blattner was unable to avoid a collision at the front left. Without further ado, Blattner had another Cup-992 pushed out of the Manthey truck and asked race control for a start from the back of the Cup field instead of the pole he had actually achieved. Race control granted the request, Blattner caught up and won Cup 2 in the second sprint with P5 overall. That’s what you call sovereign. The next races will show whether Blattner can save the championship lead until the final, because as is well known, the GTWS allows five strike results from individual races over the course of the season.

Rookie Caresani outdistances all – Schnitzelalm nevertheless with mixed feelings

Dutchman Colin Caresani, who has so far attracted positive attention in BMW classes as well as GT4, proved to be the fastest man of the weekend in Jerez. There was no match for him in his sprint, as he brought the Schnitzelalm-AMG GT3 home 13 seconds ahead of the field. Team owner Thomas Angerer desperately needed this refreshment as he had to cope with an accident of his driver Joel Mesch in GT4.

Italians strong in Spain

By the way, the Italian Samuele Butarelli managed a real brilliant performance. Driving a Ferrari 488, he not only won the Challenge class in the second sprint, but also advanced to P3 in the overall standings – amazing! This not only pleased the Rossocorsa team, but also the many spectators who came to watch from the grandstands at 21 degrees Celsius.

GT4 bumpers need new paint

Once again, the 14-car GT4 class came up trumps. The two new teams, Mücke Motorsport and PROsport Racing, gave it to each other according to the principle of “tough but fair” and exchanged a lot of bumper paint in a fair way – both obviously had fun, which was also perceived by the race organizers, who let them have their way. In the end, Mücke with Rodrigo Almeida came out on top, just ahead of PROsport with Charles Clark.

In the “Cayman” class, which are actually GT4 cars on paper but compete in their own classification, it was once again Swiss Cup Porsche champion Andreas Greiling and his co Jens Richter who won the class. It seems hard to grow a herb against these two.

One hour Endurance – the best pairing stung

In the Endurance it was impressively shown that it is rarely a single driver who makes the race. Only when both are similarly fast does a victory jump out. This was not only noticeable with the overall winners Caresani and Heyer, but also in the classes.

The Mücke drivers Rodrigo Almeida and Josef Knopp, for example, were able to storm their AMG GT4 to class victory in the afternoon sun of Andalusia, beating Denning/Clark in the Aston Martin. Overall, the usually winning CV Performance team struggled in Jerez, as Simon Colin Primm and Philipp Springbob were always “good at it” but rarely capable of winning. In the end, however, they could live well with a P3 podium.

In the Cup Porsches, by the way, the Kapfinger brothers Johannes and Michael shared a second driver, namely Porsche specialist Dieter Svepes. Since he provided the second driver on both cars and could not split up, both had to drive on different strategies. The reward for their efforts was P3 and P5 overall! Only the top-fit American Dustin Blattner was able to get through the 60 minutes on his own and without any mistakes.

Valencia already this week Back to Back – full field and livestream at the start!

The next race in Valencia will already take place next weekend. “We are totally happy to race on another F1-homologated track already at such short notice,” said Robin Selbach, one of the GTWS-inventors. “We have more applications for registration than grid slots there too, because the FIA protocol limits Valencia to 47 cars.”

Whether Valencia has as many surprises in store as Jerez and whether there might already be a preliminary championship decision there can be followed live, because the race Sunday will be streamed extensively and accompanied by the well-known commentators Lukas Gajewski and Adam Weller.

The Italian and Nurburgring based Team GDL-Racing just announced to be at the start with at least three Cup-Porsche 991. Founded in 2001 by Gianluca de Lorenzi and his father Luigi, the team brings established drivers with them.

“We want to train in winter and prepare ourselves optimally for the summer season of international motorsport, for this the GT Winter Series is ideal”, says team boss Gianluca de Lorenzi, in short GDL. The team otherwise competes in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italia, the Porsche Carrera Cup Suisse and other series.

The drivers are well known. Max Donzelli, Roberto Rayneri, Mario Cordoni and Max Montagnese are considered established motorsport greats and have a lot of experience with their sports cars. Robin Selbach, Project Manager of the GT Winter Series, is delighted: “It’s great that the Cup class is so well received. This improves the GT Winter Series class and makes it even more attractive for all Porsche drivers”.

Rental sports car at the start

Besides the proven Cup-Porsche, GDL-Racing also brings along a BMW M2 Competition, which inclined pilots can rent. Especially as preparation for track and racing the modified road vehicle is perfectly suitable.

More info: Gianluca de Lorenzi · info@gdlracing.net · http://www.gdlracing.net