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ADAC GT Masters Slovakia Ring

15th September 2013

Event report

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Since the ELMS race in Hungaroring was held on Saturday, it was an easy choice to alter slightly our journey on the way home and make a stop at Slovakiaring, where just ADAC GT Master series was in the middle of its programme. Our main target was to get photos of all cars and collect entire field chassis number reference and enjoy the interesting track layout in Slovakia. Unfortunately the artificial chicane was installed once again as it became a standard was GT3 racing. But it was always removed for any other support race.

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We were lucky to catch the warm up, which was planned very early on Sunday morning, at 8 o'clock. It would be a problem as we were at the track by midnight. But the accreditation process was scheduled to start at the same time. Fortunately nice girls that were in charge of accreditation arrived sooner and when I explained the situation, they did they best to prepare everything in time. And with ever present shuttle buses - unlike on many other circuits, where they are not always easy to meet when needed - it was not a problem catch entire warm up session.

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There were really not many cars, only 23. Some entry list that was published elsewhere listed a lot of guest but none of them was actually present. We also hope to meet the Jürgen Barth but unfortunately his reply was that he is no longer involved in the organisation (and as a result of that the series is down to 23 from 46 a year ago). On the other side, it was pleasant to meet there a Czech famous commentator Martin Straka, who is involved in many Eurosport or other TV live motorsport broadcasting and now more and more appear at the races directly. Martin became a bit famous also for his photos, especially the burning Ludwig's Porsche 956 in Most 1986 and especially the burnt down Chris Hodgett's Tiga C1 in Brno 1988. Series of photos that was published in local magazines were probably not well known abroad. At least until recently, as Chris Hodgetts just contacted Martin Straka through facebook that he could finally see any photos from that terrible incident that destroyed definitely one of the most rare C1 cars of the 1988 season, if not of all time.

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Back to the race which was by the way the 100th race of the modern era of ADAC GT racing. Original German GT series was held since 1993 until 1997 and was called ADAC GT Cup. The new series was restarted under the ADAC GT Masters name six year ago and is in its seventh season. There was a notable difference between the manufacturers’ presence in ADAC GT and the ELMS GTC class, which both basically run under FIA GT3 rules and homologation. While in ELMS it was a completely Ferraris dominance with Lambo and BMW added to the mix, in the German series there was not a single Italian car in the field so only BMW Z4 made anything in common between the two GT3 races. In ADAC GT the Corvettes are still a very popular choice and one of them by the way won the Race 2 that we followed mainly from the photographer's perspective. It was being caught by number of German Audis R8 LMS and couple of Mercedes-Benz followed by several Porsches, i.e. cars not seen in ELMS at all and some BMWs.

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There were also some more obscure GT3 entries, namely Ford GT of team Lambda and also angrily looking dark black Camaro. Unfortunately both of them ran at the end of the field and both were out by the middle of the race for some mechanical woes.

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Enjoy the photos, which were all taken on Sunday and are ordered by the time they were taken. We also recommend you to see the results section for checking the chassis number which are not likely to be published anywhere else.

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