The 2014 ADAC GT Masters season was the eighth season of the ADAC GT Masters, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded by the German automobile club ADAC. The season started on 26 April at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben and ended on 5 October at Hockenheim after eight double-header meetings.[1]
The drivers' championship was won by Prosperia C. Abt Racing pairing René Rast and Kelvin van der Linde, finishing 26 points of their nearest rival, Jaap van Lagen of GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport. A further four points behind in third place was Callaway Competition's Daniel Keilwitz, the defending series champion. Keilwitz won the most races during the season with six victories; winning four with Andreas Wirth and two with Oliver Gavin, who split the season alongside Keilwitz. Rast and van der Linde won three races during the season, while van Lagen won two with Kévin Estre. HTP Motorsport and Pixum Team Schubert also won two races, with their respective pairings of Maximilian Buhk and Maximilian Götz, and Dominik Baumann and Claudia Hürtgen, while the other race victory was taken by the RWT, with Sven Barth and David Jahn prevailing at the Nürburgring.
The teams' championship was also won by Prosperia C. Abt Racing, with two other entries also scoring points towards the championship besides the car of Rast and van der Linde. The team finished four points clear of Callaway Competition, who had entered four cars, with Pixum Team Schubert finishing a further four points behind. Herbert Handlos was the winner of the Gentlemen Drivers' Cup, finishing 72.5 points clear of his nearest rival, Dominic Jöst.
Team | Car | Driver | Rounds | |
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Callaway Competition[2] | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | 1 | Daniel Keilwitz[3] | All |
Oliver Gavin | 1, 3–4 | |||
Andreas Wirth | 2, 5–8 | |||
2 | Patrick Assenheimer[4] | All | ||
Diego Alessi | All | |||
17 | Remo Lips | All | ||
Lennart Marioneck | All | |||
18 | Toni Seiler | All | ||
Jeroen Bleekemolen | 1–4, 6 | |||
Andreas Simonsen | 5, 8 | |||
Sebastiaan Bleekemolen | 7 | |||
GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport[5] | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 3 | Jaap van Lagen | All |
Christian Engelhart | 1, 4–8 | |||
Kévin Estre | 2 | |||
Martin Ragginger | 3 | |||
4 | Antonios Wossos | All | ||
Wolf Nathan | All | |||
Farnbacher Racing[6] | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 5 | Nathan Morcom | All |
Mario Farnbacher | 1–4, 6 | |||
Alex Riberas | 5 | |||
Robert Lukas[7] | 7–8 | |||
6 | Sebastian Asch | All | ||
Philipp Frommenwiler | All | |||
Tonino Team Herberth | Porsche 911 GT3 R | 7 | Alfred Renauer | All |
Herbert Handlos | All | |||
8 | Robert Renauer | All | ||
Norbert Siedler | 1–6 | |||
Dominik Schwager | 7 | |||
Martin Ragginger[8] | 8 | |||
9 | Dominik Jöst | All | ||
Florian Scholze | 1–3, 5–8 | |||
Stefan Wackerbauer | 4 | |||
Prosperia C. Abt Racing[9] | Audi R8 LMS ultra | 10 | Kelvin van der Linde[10] | All |
René Rast | All | |||
11 | Fabian Hamprecht | All | ||
Nicki Thiim | All | |||
12 | Markus Winkelhock | 1–3, 5–6 | ||
Stefan Wackerbauer | 1 | |||
Christer Jöns | 2, 6 | |||
Sébastien Ogier[11] | 3 | |||
Nikolaus Mayr-Melnhof | 5 | |||
RWT Racing[12] | Corvette Z06.R GT3 | 13 | Sven Barth | All |
David Jahn | All | |||
MRS GT-Racing[13] | McLaren MP4-12C GT3 | 14 | Florian Spengler | All |
Ryan Sharp | 1 | |||
Marko Asmer | 2–6 | |||
Christopher Brück | 7 | |||
Álvaro Parente | 8 | |||
Yaco Racing[14] | Audi R8 LMS ultra | 16 | Philip Geipel | All |
Rahel Frey[15] | 1–6, 8 | |||
Markus Winkelhock | 7 | |||
PIXUM Team Schubert[16] | BMW Z4 GT3 | 19 | Claudia Hürtgen | All |
Dominik Baumann | All | |||
20 | Max Sandritter | All | ||
Jens Klingmann | All | |||
BKK Mobil Oil Racing Team Zakspeed[17] | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 21 | Luca Ludwig | All |
Alon Day | 1–7 | |||
Harald Schlegelmilch | 8 | |||
Rowe Racing[18] | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 22 | Jaime Alguersuari[19] | 3–8 |
Nico Bastian | 3–8 | |||
23 | Jan Seyffarth[20] | All | ||
Maro Engel | All | |||
Reiter Engineering[21] | Chevrolet Camaro GT3 | 24 | Albert von Thurn und Taxis | All |
Tomáš Enge | 1, 3–8 | |||
Peter Kox | 2 | |||
Blancpain Racing | Lamborghini Gallardo FL2 | 25 | Marc A. Hayek | 1 |
Peter Kox | 1 | |||
HTP Motorsport[22] | Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 | 26 | Maximilian Götz | 1–6 |
Maximilian Buhk | 1–5 | |||
Renger van der Zande[23] | 6 | |||
27 | Luca Stolz | All | ||
Heinz-Harald Frentzen[24] | 1–4 | |||
Mathias Lauda[25] | 5–6 | |||
Maximilian Götz | 7–8 | |||
GRT Grasser Racing Team[26] | Lamborghini Gallardo FL2 | 31 | Sandro Bickel | 4 |
Sascha Halek | 4 | |||
32 | Gerhard Tweraser | 4–5 | ||
Harald Proczyk | 4 | |||
Tomas Pivoda | 5 | |||
Dupré Engineering Motorsport | Audi R8 LMS ultra | 33 | Christoph Dupré | 8 |
Thomas Schöffler | 8 | |||
kfzteile24 APR Motorsport[27] | Audi R8 LMS ultra | 100 | Daniel Dobitsch | All |
Florian Stoll | All |
The eight-event calendar for the 2014 season was announced on 25 November 2013.[1]