At the annual Mercedes-AMG end-of-season gala under the motto ‘Champions United’, GetSpeed was named the world’s most successful of 66 GT3 customer teams in the 2024 season as part of the brand’s internal Customer Racing Championship. Team Principal Adam Osieka accepted the €50,000 award on stage from Stefan Wendl, Head of Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing. All outings from the 2024 season in which GetSpeed did not compete as a Mercedes-AMG Performance Team were included in the classification.

“We completed a mammoth program in 2024 and celebrated great successes,” says Team Principal Adam Osieka. “The fact that this effort has now been crowned with us being Mercedes-AMG’s most successful GT3 customer team at the end of the year is the reward for many hours of hard work. My big thanks go to our customers who rely on us for their racing commitments. We appreciate this loyalty. In addition, of course, to all GetSpeed employees who made this success possible in the first place. Without a top team in the background, our drivers would not be able to celebrate these brilliant moments.”

In the 2024 season, the team from the Nürburgring business park competed in the Endurance Cup of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Europe Powered by AWS, the International GT Open, the Asian Le Mans Series and the Road to Le Mans race in the run-up to the endurance classic. Among the greatest successes were the class victories at the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa in the Gold and Silver Cups.

After a short winter break, the race continues seamlessly in January. From January 23 to 26, the team from the Nürburgring business park will compete in the ‘Rolex 24 at Daytona’ for the first time. One week before the actual race, the so-called ‘Roar before the Rolex 24’ will take place from January 17 to 19 as a prologue to the race.

GetSpeed will make the step across the pond next season. The team will compete in the Rolex 24 at Daytona for the first time from January 23 to 26, 2025. Together with Bartone Bros, GetSpeed will enter a Mercedes-AMG GT3 in the first round of the IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship.

“We have contested 24-hour races at the Nürburgring, Spa-Francorchamps and in Dubai, and now the next big step is on the agenda for us,” says Team Principal Adam Osieka. “The race in Daytona is an interesting field for us with its mix of prototypes and GT3 sports cars. We have already been successful in this segment in the Asian Le Mans Series and the ‘Road to Le Mans’ race.”

The 24-hour race in Daytona has a special flair, as the 5.73-kilometer street circuit leads over parts of the legendary Trioval in the south of the United States of America. This year, the GT3 winner completed 733 laps, i.e. around 4,200 kilometers at an average speed of 175 km/h.

One week before the actual race, the so-called ‘Roar before the Rolex 24’ takes place from January 17 to 19 as a prologue to the race. Here, the teams have three days to prepare for the traditional endurance race in the USA, which has been held since 1966. The list of winners of the 24 Hours of Daytona reads like a who’s who of international motorsport. Legends such as Rolf Stommelen, Hans Herrmann, Jacky Ickx, Mario Andretti, Bob Wollek, Thierry Boutsen and Al Unser.

The lineup for GetSpeed’s premiere at the Rolex 24h at Daytona (January 23-26, 2025) is set. In addition to the previously announced drivers Anthony Bartone, Fabian Schiller and Luca Stolz, Mercedes-AMG newcomer Maxime Martin will line up in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 for the racing team from the Nürburgring business park.

“Maxime is the perfect addition for us. It’s great that he is now part of the AMG family,” says Team Principal Adam Osieka. “As the winner of the 24 Hours of Spa in 2016 and class winner at Le Mans in 2020, he is predestined for our race in the USA. I am convinced that he will be a great asset to the team.”

Martin says: “I know Daytona very well, the rest is new. But this is my new role now and I’m definitely looking forward to my first Mercedes-AMG race at Daytona with GetSpeed. The team is extremely experienced, we have a perfect car and we have a great line-up. So I’m counting down the days until my personal roll-out.”

One week before the actual race, the so-called ‘Roar before the Rolex 24’ will take place from January 17 to 19 as a prologue to the race. Here, the teams have three days to prepare for the traditional endurance race in the USA, which has been held since 1966.