ADAC GT Masters: Christian Abt defended the ADAC GT Masters championship lead with Team ABT Sportsline’s Audi R8 LMS, although Abt and team mate Jan Seyffarth retired due to a puncture in the first of the two races supporting the 1000 kilometer race at the Nürburgring. With the heaviest car in the entire starter field Abt and Seyffarth clinched a notable second place in the second race on Sunday. With their third place the day before, Frank Kechele and Kuba Giermaziak (ARGO Racing) presented the Audi R8 LMS with yet another podium result.Team Kolles narrowly misses podium finishLMS: At the 1000 kilometer race at the Nürburgring the privateer team Kolles scored its best result to date in the European based Le Mans Series (LMS) with fourth place overall. After a faultless race Andy Meyrick, Narain Karthikeyan and Charles Zwolsman finished fourth in their Audi R10 TDI behind the three Aston Martin "factory" cars. After almost six hours of racing only 14.5 seconds separated them from a podium finish. The second Audi R10 TDI retired at the start of the second hour due to an accident when lapping a GT car.Results and point scoresNürburgring (D), 22 August, ADAC GT Masters round 91 Wirth/Klingmann (BMW Alpina) 29 laps in 1h 00m 04.748s2 Hennerici/Ludwig (Corvette) + 14.784s 3 Kechele/Giermaziak (Audi R8 LMS) + 16.401s4 Hohenadel/Seiler (Corvette) + 16.865s5 Bergmeister/Schmickler (Porsche) + 46.379s6 Haase/Moser (Audi R8 LMS) + 50.643s7 Armindo/Campanico (Audi R8 LMS) + 55.433s8 Terting/Gruber (Audi R8 LMS) + 58.819s... 18 Yamamoto/Binder (Audi R8 LMS) - 8 lapsNürburgring (D), 23 August, GT Masters round 101 Hennerici/Ludwig (Corvette) 29 laps in 1h 00m 08.358s2 Abt/Seyffarth (Audi R8 LMS) + 12.178s3 Bergmeister/Schmickler (Porsche) + 18.408s4 Hohenadel/Seiler (Corvette) + 26.088s5 Armindo/Campanico (Audi R8 LMS) + 26.993s6 Haase/Moser (Audi R8 LMS) + 28.049s 7 Terting/Gruber (Audi R8 LMS) + 40.174s... 9 Mies/Outzen (Audi R8 LMS) + 55.415s 18 Yamamoto/Binder (Audi R8 LMS) - 2 laps21 Kechele/Giermaziak (Audi R8 LMS) - 8 laps
Positions after 10 of 14 rounds: 1 Abt, 56 points; 2 Seyffarth, 54; 3 Hennerici/Ludwig, 51; 4 Hohenadel/Seiler, 44; 5 Armindo/Campanico, 43; 6 Moser, 42; 8 Outzen, 34; 9 Giermaziak/Kechele, 23; 10 Haase, 18; 13 Mies, 10; 16 Terting/Gruber, 3; 17 Williams, 2; 18 Yamamoto/Mayer, 1.Next race: Sachsenring (D), 19 September Nürburgrig (D), 23 August, Le Mans Series (LMS) round 41 Charouz/Enge/Mücke (Lola-Aston Martin) 195 laps in 5h 57m 26.595s2 Primat/Turner (Lola-Aston Martin) + 1m 04.856s3 Buncombe/Hall/Ramos (Lola-Aston Martin) - 2 laps4 Karthikeyan/Meyrick/Zwolsman (Audi R10 TDI) - 2 laps5 Ragues/Mailleux (Courage-Oreca-Judd) - 5 laps
Positions after 4 of 5 rounds: 1 Charouz/Enge/Mücke, 32 points; 2 Boullion/Tinseau, 26; 3 Primat/Turner, 16; 4 Ramos, 14; 5 Senna and Mailleux/Ramos, 12; ... 9 Meyrick/Zwolsman, 9; 10 Karthikeyan, 8; 16 Albers/Bakkerud/Mondini, 2.Next race: Silverstone (GB), 13 SeptemberComing up next weekRound 6 of the BFGoodrich Endurance Championship at the Nürburgring (Saturday).
