The MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport team enjoys a successful ADAC GT Masters season half-time: in the first race at the Nürburgring, Maximilian Buhk and Indy Dontje came out on top with the #48 Mercedes-AMG GT3 and thus secured the team’s second win of the season. During the scorching weekend in the Eifel, Maximilian Götz and Markus Pommer scored a pair of podium finishes with the sister car: third place in the race on Saturday and second place in the race on Sunday. With these results, the duo has now also moved up to second place in the ADAC GT Masters drivers’ standings.

Race 1: first and third place for the MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport #48 and #47
Race 2: second place for the MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport #47

The race got underway with a turbulent start during which Sylvest initially lost the lead. A five second’s time penalty for the leading car then brought the Dane back on top with Indy Dontje behind the wheel of the #48 car following closely in his slipstream. The driver changes from Dontje to Maximilian Buhk and from Sylvest to Kim Luis Schramm shortly thereafter resulted into a temporary change in the lead. In a thrilling final part, Buhk put the race leader under increasing pressure and eventually overtook his fellow AMG driver. With a margin of almost six seconds, the German then safely brought first place home and thus secured the team’s second victory of the season. Schramm, in turn, had bad luck: on his way to completing the 1-2 for Mercedes-AMG, he had to retire following a collision in which he was innocently punted into the gravel trap. As a result of the post-race time penalty for the erstwhile second-placed Audi, Maximilian Götz and Markus Pommer with the #48 MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport car still made it onto the podium as they were classified third. Sebastian Asch and Luca Stolz ended up third in the junior classification with the #21 Mercedes-AMG GT3 of the Zakspeed BKK Mobil Oil Racing team. In total, three Mercedes-AMG GT3s made it into the top five.

Qualified third, Maximilian Götz and Markus Pommer had the best grid position of the Mercedes-AMG GT3 drivers for the race on Sunday. The duo with the #47 MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport entry were steadily on course for a podium finish throughout the entertaining sprint race. Just before the end of the 60 minutes’ duration, final driver Pommer then came to the fore with the decisive move. On the main straight going into the final lap, he overtook the second-placed car and maintained his position until the end. As a result, Götz and Pommer are now also in second place of the ADAC GT Masters drivers’ standings.