ADAC GT Masters

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A win, a pole position and 41 championship points - Christian Engelhart almost achieved the impossible with teammate Ayhancan Güven at the ADAC Masters finale in Hockenheim.

Moritz Nöding,

Moritz Nöding spends much of his time at international race tracks. He is working as Press Officer for motorsports at ZF and is in charge of internal and external motorsport communications for the company.

The duo from Joos Sportwagentechnik clinched the runner-up championship with a terrific race weekend. Every day at the race track offered a highlight - just as Christian Engelhart had promised before the race weekend. Once again, the Porsche driver underlined that the greater the challenge, the more the ambition, experience and GT3 routine of the Starnberg driver become apparent.

ADAC GT Masters: Engelhart takes race win and vice-championship

At Hockenheim, he and his equally strong teammate Ayhancan Güven clinched victory in Saturday's race. The duo thus already secured 25 championship points together with the team from Joos Sportwagentechnik. Sensationally, Christian's teammate Ayhancan Güven took pole position on Sunday. This earned the Porsche duo a further three points. Both GT3 pros scored another 13 points for their fourth place in Sunday's race. With these 41 points, the Porsche duo closed the gap to their only remaining rival in the championship standings to a minimum of 15 points - a gap that could not have been closed even with another victory on Sunday.

"Without a doubt, we are absolutely satisfied with our vice title. Before the weekend, we had a gap to the new champion that could not realistically be closed. Nevertheless, we came very close again with our victory, pole position and a strong Sunday race." Christian Engelhart

The tension was just as palpable in Christian as it was in Ayhancan. But the experienced Porsche driver from Starnberg radiated calmness to his teammate with his sovereignty - who was allowed to start from the front of the field for the first time in his GT Masters career.

Accordingly, the final race weekend of the ADAC GT Masters season was exciting throughout - and a success for Christian and his team, rewarded with the runner-up title and supplemented by a small side note from 2019: back then, Christian was also runner-up and took the title a year later.

"I can only thank everyone involved in the team, as well as my teammate Ayhancan, and of course Porsche, as well as my partners, sponsors and of course my family extraordinarily. The result we have achieved makes me very proud - and grateful! Of course, I also congratulate the new champion Raffaele Marciello and his team from Landgraf Motorsport. It was an intense fight throughout the season, fair and challenging. I look forward to next season!"

Christian Engelhart