The 2015 ADAC GT Masters season is over, but the winter break is still a distant prospect for many Super Sports Car League teams and drivers. Notes about the ADAC GT Masters in October.

Presenter Julia Josten and Patrick Simon, resident pundit on live TV broadcasts from the ADAC GT Masters for SPORT1, returned to Hockenheim two weeks after the ADAC GT Masters finale. Simon drove as a guest entrant in the Audi TT Cup at the DTM finale and placed 16th and 15th. Josten was there to interview Audi DTM drivers during the autograph-signing session.

One week after the ADAC GT Masters finale at Hockenheim, HP Racing and Senkyr Motorsport took part in another endurance event with the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 and the BMW Z4 GT3, racing in the 12-Hours of Brno in the Czech Republic. While the HP gullwing took the chequered flag in fifth place, the BMW driven by Lennart Marioneck among others, booked P7.

ADAC GT Masters champion Sebastian Asch had to put celebrations on hold after the end of the season. Asch was also competing in a Mercedes-Benz in Brno and finished fourth. He lined up last weekend in a Porsche 911 RSR in the finale of the European Le Mans Series in Estoril/Portugal but had no luck there.

Asch raced in Portugal for Team Proton Competition, managed by Christian Ried. Asch's title rival Klaus Bachler is now also back in the FIA WEC world sports car championship with the team from south-west Germany. The Austrian still has the two final world championship races in China and Bahrain on his schedule. Bachler had decided not to line up as planned in three world championship races, preferring to focus on the ADAC GT Masters title fight.

2014 ADAC GT Masters champion Kelvin van der Linde took part in his maiden race at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife at the end of the season. Van der Linde shared a Porsche Cayman with Le Mans winner Earl Bamber last weekend, achieving a victory in class at his first attempt.

Anyone who wants to play at being Kelvin van der Linde or René Rast now has the chance on the slotcar circuit. Racetrack manufacturer Carrera has brought out a 1:24 scale model of the 2014 winning car, the Audi R8 LMS ultra prepared by C.Abt Racing and driven by van der Linde & Rast.

You can even buy a full-size Audi R8 LMS ultra, as fielded by Christian Abt's team, and not just a 1:24 model. At the end of the season, the Audi squad put both the R8 with which Andreas Weishaupt won the Gentlemen title and the car driven by Pepper & Thiim that won at Hockenheim up for sale. GW IT Racing Team Schütz Motorsport are also parting company with their two Porsche 911 GT3 Rs as the season draws to a close.

The car that won the 2011 ADAC GT Masters, the BMW ALPINA B6 GT3, has a major event in the offing this weekend in Florida. ALPINA boss and 24-hour Nürburgring winner Andreas Bovensiepen will compete alongside motor racing legend Dieter Quester from Austria in a historic event in Daytona/USA. The 2011 championship winning car has been specially liveried in Red Bull colours for the B6 GT3's US premiere in the Daytona 24-hour classic.

An American racing legend might join the ADAC GT Masters next year. US automotive company Wheelen is the new partner of Callaway Competition in the new Corvette C7 GT3 R. The Americans are sending former NASCAR driver Boris Said and Eric Curran to Europe to race the Corvette next year. Inveterate GT fans will remember Said well. The tall American lined up back in 1993 in a couple of races of what used to be the ADAC GT Cup in the legendary black Lemon Soda Corvette C4 prepared by Callaway Competition, causing quite a sensation.