SSR Performance fought for points at the Lausitzring

Michael Ammermüller (GER) and Mathieu Jaminet (FRA) faced some challenges at Lausitzring. In the end, the team was credited with seven points.

• 13th place in the first race
• 12th place in the second race
• SSR Performance collects 7 points at the Lausitzring

Race 1

The strong field of drivers in the ADAC GT Masters was close together in qualifying at the Lausitzring. Michael Ammermüller drove the Porsche 911 GT3 R to the seventh starting position. It was already action packed on the second lap of the race. Contact with another Porsche led to a spin and the German had to line up at the back of the field to start catching up again. A drive-through penalty made this project even more difficult. Mathieu Jaminet took the wheel in 21st place and was able to make up a few positions when the red flag was waved. After the race resumed, the Porsche factory driver managed to move up to 13th and claimed three points for the championship.

Race 2

While the team had to be content with starting from the seventh row in the second qualifying, Mathieu Jaminet managed to move up to ninth place by the time the pit stop was on. Exciting duels should be rewarded with important points for the championship. Some expensive mistakes prevented the top 10. In the end, the SSR Performance Porsche crossed the finish line on twelfth place.

The fifth ADAC GT Masters weekend will take place from October 1st to 3rd at the Sachsenring.

Wolfgang Hatz, Team Principal SSR Performance

“It was not an easy weekend and it was certainly not planned that way. We are now 18 points away from the leader, but we will continue to fight. The deficit can be made up.”

Stefan Schlund, Team Owner SSR Performance

“We don’t need to fool ourselves, the weekend was crap. In the next few days we have to analyze what it was and leave it behind us quickly. Our focus is now on the Sachsenring.”

Michael Ammermüller, SSR Performance driver

“The weekend went pretty bad for us. We had a lot of bad luck in the race on Saturday, but luckily we scored a few more points. In the second race I made a mistake and lost a lot of time as a result. We have to analyze the weekend and get more pace. Hopefully that was our worst result. I am confident that everything is still possible.”

Mathieu Jaminet, SSR Performance driver

“It was a tough race weekend. Qualifying on Saturday was okay, but the race turned out to be difficult. Things went a lot better on Sunday, but we still lost positions. In the end we were unfortunately only able to score a few points and the competition is now ahead. We are the hunters now and will do our best.”

Results race one ADAC GT Masters Lausitzring (GER):

1. Ricardo Feller/Christopher Mies, Montaplast by Land Motorsport, Audi R8 LMS GT3
2. Luca Stolz/Maro Engel, Mercedes-AMG Team Toksport WRT, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
3. Mirko Bortolotti/Albert Costa Balboa, GRT GRASSER RACING TEAM, Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO
4. Michael Ammermüller/Mathieu Jaminet, SSR Performance, Porsche 911 GT3 R

Results race two ADAC GT Masters Lausitzring (GER):

1. Igor Jakob Walilko/Jules Gounon, Team Zakspeed Mobil Krankenkasse Racing, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
2. Luca Stolz/Maro Engel, Mercedes-AMG Team Toksport WRT, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
3. Raffaele Marciello/Maximilan Buhk, MANN-FILTER Team LANDGRAF – HTP/WWR, Mercedes-AMG GT3 EVO
4. Michael Ammermüller/Mathieu Jaminet, SSR Performance, Porsche 911 GT3 R

About SSR Performance
The young and dynamic Munich based SSR Performance GmbH was founded by a car and motorsport enthusiast. The exclusive automobile company has had an exciting start to 2020. After moving to a new High Performance Automotive Center in the north of the Bavarian metropolis, which has seven floors and around 10,000 square meters of floor space, the motorsport department at SSR Performance had its first full season in the ADAC GT Masters 2020 on the program ended with Michael Ammermüller and Christian Engelhart winning the driver and team classification as well as the title in the team championship.

For SSR Performance GmbH, which takes care of repairs, maintenance and service of sports cars and vintage cars of all brands in their day-to-day business, motorsport is an integral part of the still young group of companies.

Stefan Schlund, CEO of SSR Performance GmbH from Munich emphasizes: “For us, our involvement in races with GT sports cars offers an excellent platform to demonstrate our competence in motorsport and the sports car sector derived from it.”

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