Van der Linde wins German ADAC race - Independent Online
Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany: ADAC GT Masters defending champion Kelvin van der Linde has broken a long dry spell with his first win of the 2015 season. In temperatures of over 30 degrees - which must have reminded him of his home in Johannesburg - at the Sachsenring in eastern Germany, he and new team-mate Stefan Wackerbauer took their Audi R8 LMS Ultra to a cliff-hanger finish, just 0. 636sec... Klaus Bachler and Martin Raginger finished third in a Porsche 911 GT3 R, just 12 seconds down after 80 minutes and 41 laps of the 3. 645km circuit. That took them back up to second in the championship standings and threw the 2015 GT Masters title wide open again, reducing their deficit to just 23 points with four races still to be run, after championship leaders Sebastian Asch and Luca Ludwig... At the start Van der Linde slotted into third behind Bachler's Porsche and Hamprecht in the Bentley - and stayed out a lap longer when the leaders went in for their mandatory driver change. A very slick pit stop by the C. Abt Racing pit crew had the red Audi ready to go before either of them and Wackerbauer got back on the circuit just ahead of Schmid in the Bentley and Ragginger, taking the second shift in the Porsche. Source: www.iol.co.za
