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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] |
Meuspath
Meuspath is a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Local business Meuspath is the home of wige Solutions gmbh, who provide official timing data for motorsports events such as the 24 Hours Nürburgring 4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is a square number, the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. Evolution of the H .... References Ahrweiler (district) {{Ahrweiler-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nürburgring 24 Hours
The Nürburgring 24 Hours is a 24-hour annual touring car racing, touring car and Grand tourer, GT Endurance racing (motorsport), endurance racing event that takes place on a combination of the Nordschleife ("North Loop") and the GP-Strecke ("Grand Prix track") circuits of the Nürburgring in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Held since 1970, the over lap length allows more than 200 cars and over 700 drivers to participate. Starting in 2024, the event has been officially named ADAC RAVENOL 24h Nürburgring for sponsorship reasons. Furthermore, the 2024 season of the race was included in the Intercontinental GT Challenge calendar. Overview Officially called "ADAC 24h Rennen Nürburgring" in German ('ADAC 24 hour Race Nürburgring'), it was introduced in 1970 by the ADAC as an official race, unlike the earlier endurance contests that covered 12, 24 (in 1961 and 1967), 36, 84 and even 96 hours, like the Marathon de la Route. This substitute for the Liège-Rome-Liège and Liège-Sofia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ford Mustang GT3
The Ford Mustang GT3 is a racing car designed and developed by Ford Performance and Multimatic Motorsports according to GT3 regulations. In 2022 it was announced that the Ford Mustang GT3 is in development. The car is the race variant of the seventh-generation edition of the Ford Mustang. It was unveiled as part of the 100th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 9, 2023. Its first race was the 2024 24 Hours of Daytona. It competes in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the FIA WEC as well as other major GT series such as the GT World Challenge. The German racing team Proton Competition has been confirmed as the first customer team to run the Ford Mustang GT3. Powertrain The Ford Mustang GT3 car is powered by a 5.4-litre naturally aspirated Ford Coyote-based V8 which was developed by Ford Performance and their long-term partner in the World Rally Championship M-Sport. For better weight distribution they moved the 6-speed Xtrac racing transaxle with ESA shift to the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2025 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters is the thirty-ninth season of the premier German touring car championship, as well as the twenty-sixth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It is the fifth season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations, and the third under ADAC's promotion. Teams and drivers All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Driver and team changes * Aston Martin returned to DTM for the first time since 2019, as Belgian team Comtoyou Racing made its debut with a pair of Belgian rookies: former Audi factory driver Gilles Magnus and Nicolas Baert, the son of team owner Jean-Michel Baert. * Schubert Motorsport scaled back to two entries, as 2022 champion Sheldon van der Linde left the series to focus on his LMDh duties. * Emil Frey Racing expanded its entry to three cars, promoting Ben Green (racing driver), Ben Green from its GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup set-up. * Ford Performance, Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Gounon
Jules Jean-Louis Gounon (born 31 December 1994 in Aubenas) is an Andorran-based French people, French professional racing driver. He is best known for his victories in the Spa 24 Hours, 24 Hours of Spa in 2017 24 Hours of Spa, 2017 and 2022 24 Hours of Spa, 2022, and the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour, 2020, 2022 Bathurst 12 Hour, 2022 and 2023 Bathurst 12 Hour, 2023. Career 1994-2015: Youth in karting, single-seaters and Porsche Carrera Cup Gounon started karting in 2010 at the age of 15. He was crowned Rotax National French Champion in 2011. In the year after, he clinched the X30 world title. He was promoted to Formula racing, single-seaters, joining the French F4 Championship for the 2013 French F4 Championship, 2013 season and finished second with six wins. He competed one year in Formula Renault, Formula Renault 2.0, but failed to impress as he "could not get on well with the team". As his career seemed to be in a deadlock after a difficult 2014 season, with him b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2024 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the thirty-eighth season of the premier German touring car championship and also the twenty-fifth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It's the fourth season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations, and the second under ADAC's promotion. Teams and drivers All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. Driver and team changes * Maximilian Paul returned to the series with a privately entered Lamborghini, having last competed as a replacement driver at GRT Grasser Racing Team. * GRT Grasser Racing Team entered a completely new line-up, fielding a pair of cars for Christian Engelhart, who drove for them in the 2023 2023 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, season finale, and Luca Engstler, who switched from Engstler Motorsport. * SSR Performance scaled down to two cars. Alessio Deledda left the team to compete in 2024 International GT Open, International GT Open with Oregon Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2023 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the thirty-seventh season of the premier German motor racing championship and also the twenty-fourth season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It was the third season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations, and the first season with ADAC as the promoter after ITR ceased operations at the end of the previous year. Teams and drivers All teams competed with tyres supplied by Pirelli. On 22 February all participating teams were announced. Race calendar Results and standings Season summary Scoring system Points were awarded to the top fifteen classified finishers as follows: Additionally, the top three placed drivers in qualifying also received points: Drivers' championship Teams' championship Manufacturers' championship Only points scored by the top three drivers of a manufacturer in races count for the manufacturers' championship. Notes References ... [...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] |
Luca Stolz
Luca Stolz (born 29 July 1995) is a German racing driver who currently competes in the ADAC GT Masters and GT World Challenge Europe. Career Stolz began his racing career in 2007, competing in the Cadet class of the Belgian Karting Championship. He raced in karts until 2010, before moving into single-seaters in 2011. He made his debut in the 2011 ADAC Formel Masters, driving for URD Rennsport. In his maiden season of formula competition, Stolz finished 12th in the championship. The following season, he moved to the German Formula Three Championship, initially competing in the Trophy class for HS Engineering, before stepping up to the overall championship beginning at TT Circuit Assen. For 2013, Stolz began competing in sports car racing, joining Land Motorsport for the 2013 Porsche Carrera Cup Germany season. He made his GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup debut the following season, driving alongside Lucas Wolf (racing driver), Lucas Wolf for HTP Motorsport. Despite only compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
The 2022 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was the thirty-sixth season of the premier German motor racing championship and also the twenty-third season under the moniker of Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters since the series' resumption in 2000. It was the second season of the DTM to be run under Group GT3 regulations. Sheldon van der Linde won his first DTM championship driving a BMW M4#Motorsport, BMW M4 GT3 for Schubert Motorsport and Schubert Motorsport won the Teams' Championship. Teams and drivers All teams competed with tyres supplied by Michelin. Team changes * GT World Challenge Europe regulars Attempto Racing joined the DTM full-time, running a single Audi R8 LMS Evo II car. * Rowe Racing, which ran two BMW M6 GT3 cars full-time in 2021, left the DTM in order to concentrate on endurance racing (motorsport), endurance racing. * Schubert Motorsport joined the series full-time by fielding two BMW M4 GT3 cars. Walkenhorst Motorsport also fielded two BMW M4 GT3 cars full-time in 202 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Abril
Vincent Abril (born March 1, 1995, in Alès, France) is a French- Monégasque race car driver based in Monaco. He was the 2015 Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup champion. Racing career In 2011, Abril raced in the SEAT León Supercopa France series for Team Speedcar. In a season with six top-tens, he finished 15th in the point standings. In 2012, Abril returned to the SEAT León Supercopa France series. He started the season with a 2nd place finish at Lédenon followed by a 6th place finish at the same track the following day. After not finishing in 2 of the next 4 races, Abril won his first race in the series at Circuit de Nevers Magny-Cours. In September, Abril finished 2nd and 3rd at Circuito de Navarra. In October, after finishing 3rd in the first race at Circuit Paul Ricard, Abril got his second win of the season at the season finale, which led to a 4th place finish in the points standings. For 2013, Abril moved to the French GT Championship series, driving an Audi R8 L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo
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-Clas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
