Overview

• Team boss Gottfried Grasser said David Grabengießer will miss the weekend due to an IMSA commitment with Pfaff Motorsport in the United States.
• GT3 engineer Nils Henning, who worked with Abt on Ricardo Feller’s car last year, will run Jordan Pepper’s garage at the Sachsenring.
• Pepper set the fastest time in Friday’s first practice at 1:17.967 and had been second quickest in last Sunday’s test behind Jules Gounon.
• Grasser Racing reported useful gains from the limited recent test program after having managed only two DTM test days this season because of GT World Challenge Europe duties.
• Grabengießer previously engineered Mirko Bortolotti to the SSR-Performance DTM title, underscoring the significance of his absence during an active title fight.