Defending champions Christopher Mies and Tim Zimmermann celebrated their first win of the season in the ADAC GT Masters.
The Audi drivers won the turbulent tenth race of the year at the Lausitzring ahead of Albert Costa Balboa/Jack Aitken (Spain/Great Britain) in the Lamborghini and front runner Raffaele Marciello (Monte Carlo), who finished third with his new teammate Daniel Juncadella (Spain) in the Mercedes became.
“It was so deserved, we had a lot of bad luck this year,” said Dusseldorf Mies on “nitro”. The two will not be able to intervene in the fight for the championship, as they are too far behind in the overall standings.
Marciello, meanwhile, took the next step towards the title. He leads with 135 points ahead of the Porsche drivers Christian Engelhart/Ayhancan Güven (Starnberg/Turkey), who have 125 points and won on Saturday. Third are Costa Balboa/Aitken with 108 points.
There are still stops at the Sachsenring (September 23rd to 25th) and in Hockenheim (October 21st to 23rd) until the end of the season. In the ADAC GT Masters, two drivers each share a racing car, and there is a time window during the race in which the driver change must take place.