Temperatures are rising at the Red Bull Ring, as is the tension. Dominik Baumann and Jens Klingmann in the BMW Z4 GT3 (BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert) finished on top in the second ADAC GT Masters practice session, as the mercury hit 30 degrees and more. The BMW duo secured the best lap time of 1:30.878 minutes with a slim lead of 0.040 seconds on the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 of Hari Proczyk/Andreas Simonsen (HP Racing). Racing was close not just at the top with supercars from five different marques ranked in the top five, the fastest 18 cars also crossed the line tightly bunched, finishing within one second of one another, as at the end of the first session.

Daniel Keilwitz, who has taken his Corvette Z06.R GT3 (Callaway Competition) to victory in the last four races in Austria, was third along with Andreas Wirth, coming home ahead of the Audi R8 LMS ultra with Andreas Weishaupt/Christer Jöns (C Abt Racing) and the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 driven by Dominic Jöst / Florian Scholze (MRS GT-Racing).

Daniel Dobitsch and winner of the 24-Hours of Nürburgring Edward Sandström improved in the Audi R8 LMS ultra (kfzteile24 MS Racing) to take sixth place from Clemens Schmid and Fabian Hamprecht who had finished as fastest Bentley duo earlier in the morning in the Bentley Continental GT3 (Bentley Team HTP).

Remo Lips/Sven Barth in their Corvette Z06.R GT3 (RWT Racing) placed eighth in front of the fastest Lamborghini, the Gallardo R-EX of Tomas Enge/David Russell (Reiter Engineering), and the second Bentley with the winners of the Oschersleben round, Luca Stolz/Jeroen Bleekemolen (Team Bentley HTP) at the wheel.

The second session did not go brilliantly well for Austrian driver Klaus Bachler and Philipp Eng in the Porsche 911 GT3 R (GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport). The local duo missed most of the session after sliding off track in the Porsche in the final turn, causing a 16-minute break in proceedings. Damage after an accident in first practice led to Marc Gassner and Florian Strauss completely missing the second session in the Nissan GT-R NISMO GT3 (MRS GT-Racing).