Audi driver Christopher Mies did not have much luck during 2012 in the ADAC GT Masters, but now the 23-year-old can celebrate after a more than successful season finale. In northern Spain, the 2010 ADAC GT Masters runner-up shared the honours in the European Blancpain Endurance Championship at the wheel of an Audi R8 LMS ultra, along with the ADAC GT Masters first champion and the most successful contestant in the history of the series, Christopher Haase, and Stéphane Ortelli from Monaco.

Mies and his team-mates were placed second in the series as they travelled to the finale. The German driver's main rivals in the title fight were a fellow competitor from the Super Sports Car League, Belgian driver Maxime Martin, who finished fourth in the 2012 ADAC GT Masters, and his team-mates Bas Leinders/Markus Palttala, who battled Haase/Mies/Ortelli for the title in a BMW Z4 GT3.

The Audi trio managed to turn the tables in the title fight on the home stretch of the championship in Navarra, where they were awarded second place in Race Two, two positions ahead of the BMW drivers, when torrential rain led to the race being abandoned; that was enough to give them the title by three points. In 2009, the two ADAC GT Masters drivers Mies and Haase jointly won the FIA GT3 European Championship.

"It's incredible. I'm over the moon about this title. We believed in ourselves all season and worked hard to succeed. We'll really going to party tonight," said a jubilant Mies after the title win.