Fans in the stands once again enjoyed warm summer temperatures and hot motorsport action on the asphalt in second free practice. The ADAC GT Masters super sports car delighted fans with their sheer competitiveness, as the fastest 24 GT3 racing cars of all the manufacturers represented in the field finished within a second of one another. There was a real ding-dong of a battle for position at the end of the one-hour session. The fastest qualifier from the morning, Marco Holzer (27, DEU, Bentley Team ABT), was again on top until a few minutes before the end when Nikolaj Rogivue (20, CH, AMG Team Zakspeed) managed to set the fastest lap time of 1:28.674 minutes in the AMG Mercedes GT3. However, with just a few seconds to go before the end of practice, Holzer countered yet again with a 1:28.636 which was also the day's best time.

The BMW M6 GT3 of Jesse Krohn (25, FIN) and António Félix da Costa (24, P, both Schubert Motorsport) impressed as it had done previously in first practice by finishing third behind Holzer in the Bentley Continental GT3 he shares with Andreas Weishaupt (43, DEU), and the Mercedes of Nikolaj Rogivue, Nicolai Sylvest (19, DK). Two Corvette C7 GT3 Rs driven by Jules Gounon (21, F) & Daniel Keilwitz (26, DEU, both Callaway Competition), who are currently second overall, and Patrick Assenheimer (24, DEU & Dominik Schwager 39, DEU, both Callaway Competition) followed them home in fourth and fifth place.

The best of the three Porsche 911 GT3-Rs was driven to a sixth-place finish by David Jahn (25, DEU) and Kévin Estre (27, F, both KÜS TEAM75 Bernhard). The Bentley of Jordan Pepper (19, ZA) and Daniel Abt (23, DEU, both Bentley Team ABT) placed seventh. Defending champions Sebastian Asch (30, DEU) and Luca Ludwig (27, DEU, both AMG Team Zakspeed) in another Mercedes, Florian Stoll (35, DEU) and Laurens Vanthoor (25, B, both kfzteile24 April Motorsport) in the best-placed Audi R8 LMS and the Porsche driver pairing of Robert Renauer (31, DEU) & Martin Ragginger (28, A, both Precote Herberth Motorsport) completed the Top Ten.

Teams and drivers will really get down to business in a twenty-minute qualifying session on Saturday morning when the jockeying for a position on the grid in the first race gets underway at 09:15. Race 1 will feature live and in its entirety on SPORT1 free-to-air TV at 13:00.