DTM support champ Green gets GT3 ride

Reigning DTM Trophy champion Ben Green is stepping up to Germany’s fiercely contested ADAC GT Masters series this season with leading BMW squad Schubert Motorsport.

The 24-year-old from Essex won the Gt4-based series on the DTM undercard last season at the wheel of a BMW M4 GT4, and now steps into the

Munich marque’s new GT3 version of the M4 model. He will partner German teenager Niklas Krutten, who in his first season out of single-seaters claimed runner-up in the LMP3 class of the European Le Mans Series in 2021.

It represents a return to GT3 for Green, who raced an M6 in the top class of the British GT Championship in 2019 before switching his career focus to Germany.

“We want to give these talented young drivers the opportunity to establish themselves in a professional environment on the GT3 scene,” said Schubert team manager Marcel Schmidt.

The team’s sister M4 will be raced by long-time BMW leading lights Nicky Catsburg and Jesse Krohn, but they will have to miss the first round at Oschersleben on 23-24 April due to delays with the car’s delivery.