Third in the overall GT3 standings. Ajith RedAnt Racing, will be determined to continue their very consistent season in the same vein with regular quartet Kobe de Breucker, brothers Yannick and Ayrton Redant and global entertainment icon, Tamil actor Ajith Kumar.
Tied for second in GT3 with HOFOR Racing is the lead Audi R8 LMS GT3 EVO II of Sainteloc Junior Team, winners of the season-opening Michelin 12H MUGELLO. Pierre Kaffer, Michael Doppelmayr, Elia Erhart, Stephane Tribaudini and Ernst Inderbitzin will race the car at the Nürburgring,
Audi squad Continental Racing by Simpson Motorsport has so far named Vasily Vladykin and Paul Scheushner, while Juta Racing’s Audi R8 will be shared by Lutz Obermann, most familiar for his racing in the TCE-TCX class, Andres Latorre, Leonardas Dirzys and an unconfirmed fourth driver. HAAS RT’s father and son Peter and Nicolas Guelinckx will race an as-yet un-named car.
Four more manufacturers will be part of the rich GT3 tapestry, with Proton Competition’s Porsche 911 GT3 R (992) EVO to be raced by last season’s Drivers’ Champion Manuel Lauck, Constantin Dressler, Jörg Dreisow and Joel Sturm. New team Up2Race will debut with a similar Porsche which will be driven by Oleksiy Kikireshko, Tim Heinemann and Fabio Grosse.
Two ‘Prancing Horses’ will be on the grid, Era Motorsport’s latest edition Ferrari 296 GT3 EVO of Dwight Merriman, Oliver Bryant, Ryan Dalziel and Jake Hill, and the Ferrari 296 GT3 of Pellin Racing who have named Lisa Clark, Kyle Marcelli, Jeff Westphal Massimo Perrina.
Bolstering the incredible flavour of GT3 will be the E2P Racing Aston Martin Vantage AMR GT3 EVO raced by Pablo Burguera, Antonio Sainero and Oliver Campos, plus ARC Bratislava’s Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO piloted by brothers Matej and Adam Konopka alongside their father Miroslav and Zdeno Mikulasko.