Grasser Racing lines up with Lamborghini in the ADAC GT Masters

Austrian team Grasser Racing will line up in the ADAC GT Masters with a brand-new Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2. This marks the return of one of the most successful teams in the history of the series, as Grasser Racing starts in the popular GT3 series alongside its DTM programme. The team will contest every race this season, starting with the opening round, which forms part of the “Festival of Dreams” in Hockenheim on 10th June. Benjamin Hites from Chile is looking forward to his debut season in the ADAC GT Masters. The youngster will start alongside Italian Lamborghini works driver Marco Mapelli. TV partner Sport1 will broadcast all twelve of this season’s races live, bringing all the action straight to your living room. 

“The return to the ADAC GT Masters is an affair of the heart for us. As a team, we took our first steps in GT racing here and have been through all the highs and lows. As the organiser of the DTM and the ADAC GT Masters, the ADAC has managed to establish positive synergies, making it possible to efficiently plan an involvement in both series,” says team principal Gottfried Grasser. The team from the Styria region of Austria is based not far from the Red Bull Ring and has celebrated twelve wins and 19 podiums since making its debut in 2011. Grasser and his team will also run two Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo2 in the DTM. 

Hites will face the challenge of the ADAC GT Masters for the first time in 2023, and is excited about his new venture: “I am very happy to be racing in another series with GRT this year. Since I have been driving in Europe, it has been my goal to one day test myself in the ADAC GT Masters. The sprint format is very attractive.” The 24-year-old was at the wheel of Lamborghini’s latest GT3 model for the Grasser Racing Team at the opening round of this season’s GT World Challenge Europe in Monza, Italy. 

Mapelli will alternate with the youngster at the wheel of the Italian super sports car. The 35-year-old has already won two races in the ADAC’s iconic GT3 series with the Grasser Racing Team. The last time he climbed onto the top step of the podium was at the Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg in 2021. “I am really looking forward to the season with GRT and to working with Benjamin. I think we have a good package, with which we can challenge at the front in the ADAC GT Masters,” says Mapelli.