His visibly moved driver colleague Christopher Mies (33/Düsseldorf): “This first win of the season for Tim and I was long overdue. Our car has been running fantastic for the last few weeks, but we couldn’t implement that. We finally got our reward,” said the current German GT Champion.
With 21,500 spectators, there was a new attendance record at an ADAC GT Masters event at the Lausitzring.
Mies and Zimmermann claim 50th victory for Audi in the ADAC GT Masters.
After that, the race calmed down and the drama for Schubert Motorsport took its course. After all drivers had completed the mandatory pit stop between the 25th and 35th minute, starting driver Nicky Catsburg was still on track and received a 49-second penalty for doing so. That was the chance for Tim Zimmermann in the Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II #1. The 25-year-old took the lead, which he defended to the finish and celebrated his first win in the ADAC GT Masters.
The combination of Jack Aitken (26/GB) and Albert Costa Balboa (32/E) in the #63 Emil Frey Racing Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo was rewarded for a consistently strong performance with second place and moved up to third place in the overall standings.
Behind him, his fiercest rivals, the driver duo Christian Engelhart (35, GER) and Ayhancan Güven (24, GER), finished fourth in the Porsche 911 GT3 R #91 from the Joos Sportwagentechnik team.
ADAC GT Masters Lausitzring
Result race 2
1. Carpenter / Mies
2. Costa Balboa / Aitken
3. Marciello / Juncadella
4. Engelhart / Guven
5. Paul / Mapelli
6. Schramm / Marshal
7. Niederhauser / Engstler
8. Service / Marshalkovsky
9. Krutten / Green
10. Schiller / Gounon
Standings after 10 of 14 races
1. Raffaele Marciello 136 points
2.Christian Engelhart 126
2. Ayhancan Guven 126
3. Albert Costa Balboa 111
3. Jack Aitken 111
4. Jules Gounon 99
4. Fabian Schiller 99
5. Niklas Krutten 91
5. Ben Green 91
