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2023 ADAC GT Masters
The 2023 ADAC GT Masters is the seventeenth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing series founded by the German automobile club ADAC. Prior to the season, the ADAC had initially confirmed that the series was set to pivot to a new formula. Dubbed DTM Endurance, the championship would become a support series for the DTM and feature both GT3 and LMP3 machinery, merging with the Prototype Cup Germany. The series was also set to forbid the presence of FIA Platinum-ranked drivers. While these plans were scrapped following backlash from teams, the series would require teams to field an FIA Silver or Bronze-rated driver in each driver lineup. Calendar Entry list Results Championship standings ;Scoring system Championship points are awarded for the first fifteen positions in each race. Entries are required to complete 75% of the winning car's race distance in order to be classified and earn points. Individual drivers are required to participate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 ADAC GT4 Germany
The 2023 ADAC GT4 Germany season was the fifth season of ADAC GT4 Germany, a Sports car racing, sports car championship created and organised by the ADAC. The season started on 27 May at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben, Oschersleben and finished on 22 October at the Hockenheimring. Mike David Ortmann and Hugo Sasse became the first drivers to win multiple ADAC GT4 Germany titles and first to successfully defend an ADAC GT4 Germany title, scoring four race wins and wrapping up the championship at the penultimate race of the season. Calendar Entry list * Felix Wimmer was scheduled to drive for Wimmer Werk Motorsport but did not appear in any rounds. * Gabriela Jílková was scheduled to drive for PROsport Racing, but withdrew prior to the start of the season. * Sandro Holzem was scheduled to drive for Project 1 Motorsport, Project 1 but opted to compete in selected rounds of the 2023 ADAC GT Masters, ADAC GT Masters and 2023 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, Deutsche Tourenwagen Maste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nürburgring
The () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s, around the village and medieval castle of Nürburg in the Eifel mountains. The north loop is long and contains more than of elevation change from its lowest to highest points. Scottish racing driver Jackie Stewart nicknamed the track "the Green Hell". Originally, the track featured four configurations, namely the -long , which in turn consisted of the , and the . There was also a warm-up loop called , or , around the Pit stop, pit area. Between 1982 and 1983, the start–finish area was demolished to create a new , which is now used for all major and international racing events. However, the shortened is still in use for racing, testing and public access. Prior to World War II, the Nürburgring hosted 13 editions of the German Gra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arjun Maini
Arjun Maini (born 10 December 1997) is an Indian professional racing driver, currently competing in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, and in the GT World Challenge Europe for Haupt Racing Team. He is currently a Ford Performance#Factory drivers, Ford Factory driver. He was the winner of Force India's 'One in a Billion' driver hunt in 2011. Early life Maini comes from a family of racers. His brother Kush Maini, Kush is also a racer competing in the FIA Formula 2 Championship with Invicta Virtuosi Racing, and his father, Gautam, raced in the National Racing Championship in the late 1990s, at the Formula Maruti, Formula India Single Seater Maruti Engine. The teenager first fell in love with motorsport when his father gave him an electric car. Maini received his first go-kart, an 80cc Comer Kart at the age of 5. Maini's uncle Chetan Maini is an Indian business magnate best known for building India's first electric car, REVAi, REVA, and as the Founder of Reva Electric Car Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Răzvan Umbrărescu
Răzvan Petru Umbrărescu (born 30 June 1993) is a Romanian racing driver who is currently competing in the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship with Akkodis ASP Team. Career Umbrărescu started his car racing career in 2016 by competing some races of the Renault Clio Cup for the Certainty Racing Team. In 2017 he joined the German RN Vision STS team to compete in the GT4 European Series Northern Cup with Gabriele Piana and Hendrik Still as his teammates. He took four class victories and became vice-champion in the Pro-Am classification. In 2018 he remained with the team to contest the GT4 European Series with Piana as his teammate again. He took his first overall win in the series at the Misano World Circuit. The pair of Piana and Umbrărescu finished the season as seventh in the Silver Cup. That year he also joined Leipert Motorsport to compete in a few selected races of the 24H GT Series and Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe. At the 24 Hours of Portimão he took second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralf Aron
Ralf Aron (born 21 March 1998) is an Estonian racing driver, who currently competes in the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship driving for Lone Star Racing. He previously competed in the 2024 GT World Challenge Asia driving for Climax Racing. Career Aron has competed in the Italian F4 Championship, ADAC Formula 4 and European Formula 3 championships for Prema Powerteam and Hitech GP. He is now a team manager at Prema, but continues to race sporadically – winning the Palanga 1000 GT race three times and also raced in the Porsche Sprint Challenge NEZ. Sports car racing In 2023, Aron returned to full-time racing for the first time since 2018. Aron pivoted to GT3 racing, signing with Mercedes-AMG to become part of their factory Junior driver lineup. In line with his factory duties, Aron competed with customer teams Theeba Motorsport and Haupt Racing Team in the GT World Challenge Europe and ADAC GT Masters respectively. Karting record Karting career summary Racing record Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes-AMG GT
The Mercedes-AMG GT is a series of 2-door sports cars produced by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-AMG. The car was introduced on 9 September 2014 and was officially unveiled to the public in October 2014 at the Paris Motor Show. While not directly replacing the SLS AMG (competing in a different segment), it is the second sports car developed entirely in-house by Mercedes-AMG. The Mercedes-AMG GT went on sale in two variants (GT and GT S) in March 2015, while a GT3 racing variant of the car was introduced in 2015. A high performance variant called the GT R was introduced in 2016. A GT4 racing variant, targeted at semi-professional drivers and based on the GT R variant, was introduced in 2017. In 2021, a new variant called the AMG GT Black Series was released. All variants are assembled at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. The first-generation AMG GT in October 2021. That same month, Mercedes-Benz announced the new Mercedes-AMG R232 SL-Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haupt Racing Team
The Haupt Racing Team (short: HRT) is a German auto racing team founded in 2020 by Hubert Haupt. It currently functions as the official Ford Performance Team in Europe. HRT competes in DTM, ADAC GT Masters, GT World Challenge Europe and NLS. Over the last couple of years, HRT has accumulated lots of success including a DTM Driver's Championship, an ADAC GT Masters title and titles in the GTWC Europe. History The Haupt Racing Team was founded in 2020 by German racing driver and entrepreneur Hubert Haupt. Having its race equipment located in Meuspath, near the Nürburgring, HRT focused on racing in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie and the Nürburgring 24 Hours. Also, HRT took part in the GT World Challenge Europe. From its founding, HRT acted as a Mercedes-AMG Performance Team until it switched to Ford in 2025. HRT made its competitive debut on 27 June 2020, finishing on the podium in P2 having started on pole in the opening round of the NLS. The following round, HRT ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Styria
Styria ( ; ; ; ) is an Austrian Federal states of Austria, state in the southeast of the country. With an area of approximately , Styria is Austria's second largest state, after Lower Austria. It is bordered to the south by Slovenia, and clockwise, from the southwest, by the other Austrian states of Carinthia, Salzburg (federal state), Salzburg, Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Burgenland. The state's capital is Graz, the second largest city in Austria after only Vienna. Name The March of Styria derived its name from the original seat of its ruling Otakars, Otakar dynasty: Steyr, in today's Upper Austria, which in turn derives its name from the namesake river of Steyr, stemming from the Celtic Stiria. In the native German the area is still called "Steiermark", while in English the Latin name "Styria" is used. Until the late 19th century however, the German name "Steyer", a slightly modernized spelling of Steyr, was also common. The ancient link between the city of Steyr and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spielberg, Styria
Spielberg (formerly: Spielberg bei Knittelfeld) is a city located in the Bezirk Murtal (district), Murtal in Styria, Austria. General The city of Spielberg, with a population of about 5,000 inhabitants, is located north of the Mur River, Mur in the east of Aichfeld, between the cities of Zeltweg and Knittelfeld. The urban area of Knittelfeld has grown together with part of the urban area of Spielberg. From 1986 to 2009 Spielberg was a Marktgemeinde (market town). On 1 October 2009 it became a “Stadtgemeinde” (city). Within the city limits, there are both urban and rural areas. Structure The city is made up of 9 Katastralgemeinden (cadastral communities). Pausendorf is the biggest Katastralgemeinde, with 1500 inhabitants. The Katastralgemeinde Spielberg is only a small part of the city, but it gives its name to the entire city. * Einhörn * Laing * Lind * Maßweg * Pausendorf * Sachendorf * Schönberg * Spielberg * Weyern Politics The SPÖ has been the dominant posit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Bull Ring
The Red Bull Ring is a motorsport race track in Spielberg, Austria, Spielberg, Styria, Austria. The race circuit was founded as Österreichring (translation: Austrian Circuit) and hosted the Austrian Grand Prix for 18 consecutive years, from to . It was later shortened, rebuilt and renamed the A1-Ring (A Eins-Ring), and it hosted the Austrian Grand Prix again from to . When Formula One outgrew the circuit, a plan was drawn up to extend the layout. Parts of the circuit, including the pits and main grandstand, were demolished, but construction work was stopped and the circuit remained unusable for several years before it was purchased by Red Bull's Dietrich Mateschitz and rebuilt. Renamed the Red Bull Ring the track was reopened on 15 May 2011 and subsequently hosted a round of the 2011 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters season, 2011 DTM season [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and its largest city is Leipzig. Saxony is the List of German states by area, tenth largest of Germany's sixteen states, with an area of , and the List of German states by population, sixth most populous, with more than 4 million inhabitants. The term Saxony (other), Saxony has been in use for more than a millennium. It was used for the medieval Duchy of Saxony, the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empire, the Kingdom of Saxony, and twice for a republic. The first Free State of Saxony was established in 1918 as a constituent state of the Weimar Republic. After World War II, it was under Soviet occupation before it became part of communist East Germany and was abolished by the government in 1952. Following German reunificat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hohenstein-Ernstthal
Hohenstein-Ernstthal () is a town in the Zwickau rural district, Saxony, Germany. The towns of Hohenstein and Ernstthal were united in 1898, and the town is either known by its hyphenated form, or simply called Hohenstein. The town grew in the 15th century after silver mines were established nearby. Ernstthal was named in honor of August Ernst von Schoenburg. Physicist Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert and inventor Christoph Gottlieb Schröter were born in Hohenstein. The writer Karl May was born in Ernstthal. The house of his birth is a museum. Furthermore, Hohenstein-Ernstthal is especially famous for the Sachsenring racing circuit. History In the 15th century, the town of Hohenstein was established after silver was found and mined there. The name is said to be derived from the phrase ″uff dem hohen Stein″ (on the high rock), that the first settlers used when they saw the Pfaffenberg mountain. In 1680 some people from Hohenstein moved to the forest near the town to escape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
