The ADAC GT Masters competitors met for the sixth time this season, this time at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz. Lamborghini drivers qualified on the front row for both races. Frank Schmickler (ARGO Racing) managed this feat in first qualifying, Christopher Haase (team flatex reiter) in second qualifying.
The fourth round of the ADAC GT Masters in Assen, Holland, would bring the best results this year to date for team flatex-reiter. Two Lamborghini Gallardo GT3s were fielded by Team Boss Hans Reiter. Christopher Haase / Albert von Thurn und Taxis formed the duo with the start number 1; Jan Lammers and Marius Ritskes were at the wheel of the number 11 car.
Success and failure were never far apart during the first ever street race on the ADAC GT Masters calendar held at the Norisring. While Christopher Haase and Albert von Thurn und Taxis retired from the first race due to driver error in their #1 flatex team reiter Lamborghini Gallardo, team mates Jan Lammers and Marius Ritskes took advantage of this misfortune by taking 2nd position and their first podium finish with their Lamborghini Gallardo.
From the start of the weekend, the Lamborghini showed their potential at the famous Nürburgring. They would be the cars to beat. So after the first qualifying three Gallardo were in the first three places on the grid for race one. Frank Schmickler (ARGO Racing) drove the fastest lap in 1.45,623 minutes, followed by Harald Becker (also ARGO Racing) and Roman Rusinov (team flatex-reiter). With Albert von Thurn und Taxis (team flatex-reiter) a further Gallardo driver was within the Top 10 (6th on the grid).
A full grid greeted the opening round of the ADAC GT Masters at Oschersleben. The Lamborghini Gallardo drivers narrowly missed podium finishes in both the 60 minute races. In the first race on Saturday afternoon defending Champion Christopher Haase and last year’s runnerup Albert von Thurn und Taxis were fourth in the Reiter Engineering Lamborghini Gallardo followed by Frank Schmickler / Sebastian Asch (ARGO Racing) and Harald Becker / Frank Kechele (ARGO Racing). Two further Lamborghini Gallardo driven by Mike Hezemans / Marius Ritskes (Reiter Engineering) and Rainer Stiefel / Michael Raja (MRP Motorsport) were classified in the topten.
