Premiere at the Sachsenring: Porsche drivers Mathieu Jaminet (26 / F) and Michael Ammermüller (35 / Rotthalmünster, both SSR Performance) not only drove to their third win of the season in the Saturday race of the German GT Championship at the Sachsenring, but also ensured the first Porsche victory on the demanding mountain and valley track in the ADAC GT Masters. Luca Stolz (26 / Brachbach) and Maro Engel (36 / Monte Carlo, both Mercedes-AMG Team Toksport WRT) worked their way closer to the top of the table with third, second place in a row, while Audi drivers and championship leader Ricardo Feller (21 / CH) and Christopher Mies (31 / Düsseldorf, both Montaplast by Land-Motorsport) continued to present themselves strongly with third place in the battle for the title. “It's great that we achieved our first victory for Porsche here,” said Mathieu Jaminet. “It was a perfect day: thanks to pole position and victory, we scored 28 points. They are very important in the title fight, because this year it is again very close to several vehicles. "

Jaminet stays ahead

After Porsche works driver Jaminet had already shown his speed in qualifying with his second Pirelli Pole Position Award of the season, he was also the measure of all things in the first half of the race: the Frenchman stayed ahead at the start and then had a lead of around two and a half seconds Chase Luca Stolz out in the Mercedes-AMG. The Mercedes-AMG works driver came to the compulsory pit stop one lap earlier in the middle of the race, but that didn't pay off. Jaminet's partner Ammermüller stayed in front and in the end won with 2.102 seconds ahead of Maro Engel, who had taken over from Stolz. For ex-champion Jaminet and defending champion Ammermüller it was the third win of the season after Oschersleben and Red Bull Ring. They improved to second place overall.

Third place went to championship leaders Ricardo Feller and Christopher Mies in the best Audi, just under five seconds behind. Feller also won the Pirelli Junior classification. In the overall standings they now lead with six points to Jaminet / Ammermüller and Raffaele Marciello (26 / I) and Maximilian Buhk (28 / Hamburg, both Mann-Filter Team Landgraf - HTP / WWR), who with their Mercedes-AMG GT3 Evo put pressure on the third-placed Audi from Feller / Mies in the final phase, but had to be content with fourth place.

Thomas Preining (23 / A) and defending champion Christian Engelhart (34 / Starnberg, both Küs Team Bernhard) made up five positions in their Porsche in the race and achieved their best result of the season so far in fifth. Charles Weerts (20 / B) and Dries Vanthoor (22 / B, both Team WRT) came in sixth with their Audi, followed by Klaus Bachler (30 / A) and Simona De Silvestro (33 / CH, both Precote Herberth Motorsport) ) in another Porsche. Local hero Maximilian Paul (21 / Dresden) and Marco Mapelli (34 / I) finished eighth and scored important points for the Dresden team T3 Motorsport in the best Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo at the home game. Igor Waliłko (24 / PL) and Jules Gounon (26 / F, both Team Zakspeed Mobil Krankenkasse Racing), who started the race from the front row with their Mercedes-AMG, came ninth. but had to complete a penalty lap due to an offense at the start. Nick Yelloly (29 / GB) and Jesse Krohn (31 / FIN, both Schubert Motorsport) completed the top 10 in the only BMW M6 GT3 in the field.

Victory in the Pirelli Trophy classification for non-professional drivers went to Florian Spengler (33 / Ellwangen), who took turns in the Audi R8 LMS from Car Collection Motorsport with ex-Formula 1 driver Markus Winkelhock (41 / Zdiměřice) .

The previous championship thirds Mirko Bortolotti (31 / I) and Albert Costa Balboa (31 / E, both GRT Grasser Racing Team) had bad luck, who rolled out in third place on lap 18 with a technical problem.

Voices of the winners

Mathieu Jaminet: “To be at the front here is a big advantage because you lose a lot of abrasion in the fast corners when you are following someone. I tried to drive out the largest possible gap and then hand it over to Michael. Our goal today was to win because we couldn't afford another bad weekend like at the Lausitzring in the title fight. Hence the motto was 'All in'. We are getting closer and closer to the top of the table. It will be interesting in the title fight. "

Michael Ammermüller: “We are still in the race for the championship. Today was an important day for us. Mathieu did a great job in qualifying and in the first stint. We both got the most out of the car. In the end it got tight again - as always in the ADAC GT Masters. Our goal is to become champions again, with our performance today it looks pretty good. Hopefully it will continue like this. That was a perfect race for us today. "